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The Mets make another splash, acquiring All-Star starter Freddy Peralta and swingman Tobias Myers from the Brewers for prospects Jett Williams andBrandon Sproat. The teams announced the blockbuster trade on Wednesday night. New York designated right-handerCooper Criswell for assignment in a corresponding move. After losing out on Kyle Tucker, the Mets have signed Bo Bichette read more

Bushra MohamedBBC World Service Corbis/Getty Images Siad Barre died in exile in Nigeria four years after fleeing Somalia Exactly 31 years ago to the day, two Kenyan pilots, Hussein Mohamed Anshuur and Mohamed Adan, received an unexpected visitor at their office at Wilson Airport near the capital, Nairobi. It was a Nigerian diplomat, who drew read more

Sammy AwamiBBC Africa, Kampala BBC Mirembe Tracy says she struggled to pay the rent during the internet blackout Mobile money agent Mirembe Tracy laments that her business in Uganda’s bustling capital Kampala was paralysed when the government shut the internet during last week’s fiercely contested general election. “All withdrawals were disconnected,” she tells the BBC, read more

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Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondent, Johannesburg SA National Defence Force The participation of warships from China, Iran and Russia in military exercises hosted by South Africa could further strain the country’s relationship with the US, which are already at an all-time low. A News24 report suggesting South Africa is hoping to persuade Iran to become an observer read more

Getty Images With his charisma, tenacity and everyman appeal, music star Bobi Wine has shaken up Ugandan politics. Since his career pivot a decade ago, the 43-year-old has become a major thorn in the side of President Yoweri Museveni, an 81-year-old who has been in power for 40 years. Bobi Wine has enchanted legions of read more

Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Jason Garcia Nevi Bergeron and her Suzuki Cappuccino mini sports car America is known as the land of big cars and even bigger SUVs but Donald Trump has an idea that could change that. The president wants to bring to the US tiny vehicles, like those commonly seen on the streets of read more

David Grittenand Rachel Hagan EPA Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the White House in November Seven countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt say they will join US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a joint statement. They will join Israel, which also publicly confirmed its participation earlier. On Wednesday evening read more

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A police officer accused of dangerous driving after killing a driver during a high-speed pursuit of a suspect broke down in tears as he was cleared of wrongdoing. Matthew Pike, 40, was accused of causing the death of Keryl Johnson by dangerous driving, as well as causing death by careless driving, in 2021. However, after read more

Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, researchers say, to create a claw-like motif which indicates an early leap in symbolic imagination. The painting has read more

BBC News The Aida Youth Centre’s pitch sits next to the barrier separating the occupied West Bank from Israel Israel has postponed the demolition of a Palestinian children’s football club in the city of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. It said the Aida Youth Centre’s pitch was constructed without the necessary permits. It said read more

Meanwhile, 10 members of the 19-strong executive committee of Mali’s football federation (Femafoot) have resigned, plunging the administration of the game in the West African country into a leadership crisis. The resignations came after the Eagles reached the quarter-finals in North Africa, matching their performance in Ivory Coast two years ago. However, Femafoot has moved read more

James Waterhousein Córdoba, Spain BBC/Moose Campbell Yamilei’s brother-in-law Victor was among the victims of Sunday night’s crash Eduardo Morán, a doctor at Córdoba’s Reina Sofía Hospital, suspected it was serious. He and his wife, also a medic, had been asked to head to work after reports that two high speed trains had collided nearby. “We read more

US President Donald Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where the issue of Greenland will be front and centre. Trump’s long-running fixation on acquiring Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark, has escalated into a transatlantic imbroglio, with threats of sweeping new tariffs and read more

A Toby Carvery restaurant is facing eviction from its north London site over the partial felling of an oak tree which was believed to be up to 500 years old. The remains of the trunk, surrounded by its severed branches, were discovered by council workers last April in Whitewebbs Park, Enfield. Residents said they were read more

Guy Hedgecoein Adamuz, southern Spain Reuters Spain’s King Felipe (far right) visited the crash site with Queen Letizia on Tuesday Sunday’s high-speed train crash in southern Spain, the worst in over a decade, has been a devastating tragedy for the country, with the loss of at least 42 lives. And amid the grief, many are read more

Getty Images The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant has the world’s largest installed capacity Japan has restarted operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster forced the country to shut all of its reactors. The decision to restart reactor number 6 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa north-west of Tokyo was read more

BBC/Getty Images Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have been at loggerheads since starring together in It Ends With Us Blake Lively referred to Justin Baldoni as a “doofus director” and a “clown”, according to newly unsealed court documents from the actress’s legal case. The pair starred together in It Ends With Us, but Lively sued read more

Since moving to Liverpool in 2017, Salah has won every major club trophy on offer, including the Premier League twice and the Champions League. But it is continental kingship the 33-year-old has spent the twilight years of his career chasing. “Nobody, even in Egypt, wants to win this trophy more than me,” said Salah after read more