A woman has died in Greece after a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands, police have said. The 38-year-old was carrying the device to place it outside a nearby bank at around 5am on Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. Several storefronts and vehicles were damaged by the explosion, police said.

Will Vernon BBC News Reporting fromWroclaw, Poland BBC Ordinary Poles have been signing up for military training days anticipating a military attack At a military training ground near the city of Wroclaw, ordinary Poles are lining up, waiting to be handed guns and taught how to shoot. “Once the round is loaded, the weapon is

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Getty Images Cross-border and aerial strikes by India have become the new norm Last week’s deadly militant attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, which claimed 26 civilian lives, has reignited a grim sense of déjà vu for India’s security forces and diplomats. This is familiar ground. In 2016, after 19 Indian soldiers were killed in

Emir Nader BBC World Service, London Alaa Daraghmeh BBC Arabic, West Bank BBC Jumaa Zawayda was ordered by Israeli forces to leave his home On the night Israeli forces entered Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and began ordering its 20,000 Palestinian residents to leave their homes, 66-year-old Jumaa Zawayda said he would

WASHINGTON — Secretary of state is a big job. But try piling on top of that acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, acting head of the National Archives and Records Administration and acting national security adviser. That’s Marco Rubio’s resume right now, and it might be that way for a while. Rubio

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Getty Images A black mamba is arguably the world’s deadliest snake The blood of a US man who deliberately injected himself with snake venom for nearly two decades has led to an “unparalleled” antivenom, say scientists. Antibodies found in Tim Friede’s blood have been shown to protect against fatal doses from a wide range of

Paul Seddon Political reporter Getty Images Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has made big gains in English local elections, cementing it as a prime challenger to Britain’s traditional main parties. It won 677 of around 1,600 seats contested on Thursday across a clutch of mainly Tory-held councils last contested in 2021. Reform seized control of eight