Tag Archives: BBC News

By Kelly Ng  BBC News, Singapore A deadly stampede outside a passport office that took two lives and unending lines outside embassies – these are just some examples of what has been happening in Myanmar since the announcement of mandatory conscription into the military.  Myanmar’s military government is facing increasingly effective opposition to its rule and has lost large areas ...

By Kayla Epstein BBC News A ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos are considered children, and that a person could be held liable for accidentally destroying them, has opened up a new front in the US battle over reproductive medicine. The decision has thrown the future of IVF treatments in the state into doubt, with a host ...

By Kyle Zeeman BBC News, Johannesburg A 13-year-old school boy in South Africa, arrested after allegedly shooting and injuring his principal, may be tried as an adult, the prosecuting authority says. The boy, who has not been named, has been charged with attempted murder. His alleged 51-year-old victim is currently recovering in intensive care in hospital. The shooting has shocked ...

By Frances Mao BBC News South Korea’s government has ordered more than 1,000 junior doctors to return to work after many staged walk-outs in protest of plans to increase the number of doctors in the system. More than 6,000 interns and residents had resigned on Monday, said officials. South Korea has one of the lowest doctor-per-patient ratios among OECD countries ...

By Tiffanie Turnbull & Kelly Ng in Sydney and Singapore At least 64 people have died in an ambush in Papua New Guinea’s remote Highlands region. The victims were shot dead during a tribal dispute in the Enga province over the weekend, a national police spokesman told the BBC. The Highlands area has long struggled with violence, but these killings ...

By Nadine Yousif & Mike Wendling BBC News One person has died and 21 people were wounded in a shooting in Missouri at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. Officials said they treated eight victims who were in immediately life-threatening condition and seven others who had suffered injuries that could prove life-threatening. Nine children were ...

By Mansur Abubakar BBC News, Abuja As the rising cost of living continues to bite, many in northern Nigeria are turning to rice grains that millers once either normally rejected after processing or sold to farmers to feed their fish.  These are referred to in the Hausa language, widely spoken in the north, as afafata, which means “battling” because they ...

By Chloe Kim BBC News A woman clad in a trench coat and accompanied by a child opened fire in a crowded Texas megachurch before she was gunned down by security, officials say. The suspect, named by police as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, was with her seven-year-old son, who was critically injured in the Houston shootout. Investigators said the attacker ...

By Lipika Pelham BBC News The co-founder of Access Bank, one of the largest banks in Nigeria, was among six people killed in a helicopter crash in California on Friday.  Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son, and a former president of the Nigerian stock exchange were all killed in the crash. President Bola Tinubu described the death of Mr Wigwe as ...

https://bbc.com/africalive The king of Ghana’s traditional Asante kingdom – known as the Asantehene – has received seven royal artefacts that had been looted from the kingdom nearly 150 years ago. The items were handed over to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, during a ceremony on Thursday, after they were repatriated from the Fowler Museum, based at the University of ...