​ Police officers among seven arrested over deadly Haiti stampede. 43 minutes ago. Kathryn Armstrong. Getty Images. Seven people have been arrested in connection with a deadly stampede at a popular tourist destination in Haiti, the country’s national police force says.. The incident took place on Saturday during an annual cultural festivity at the Laferrière Citadel, a Unesco World Heritage site in northern Haiti.. The authorities initially reported that 30 people had been killed but this number has been revised down to 25.. Those arrested include five local police officers and two employees of the country’s National Heritage Preservation Institute (ISPAN), which oversees the preservation of Haiti’s major landmarks. They are currently in custody pending further legal action, police said.. An investigation into what happened has been launched but Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé said on Saturday that the stampede happened “during a tourist event attended by many young people” at the site, in the town of Milot.. He added that three days of national mourning for the victims would begin on Tuesday.. Milot Mayor Wesner Joseph told the Magik9 radio station on Monday that his administration was not aware of any activity planned at the citadel on Saturday, and that they had later found out that a local DJ had invited people there via TikTok.. Jean-Hérold Pérard, the site’s engineer and a former ISPAN director, told the Haitian Times that one of the site’s two entrances had been closed so that local security officials could collect visitors’ fees.. He said people began trying to force their way in as it started raining and alleged that gunshots were fired into the air and teargas was used – it was not clear by whom.. “People were pushing each other and some died of asphyxiation especially after they threw tear gas,” Pérard said.. Citadelle Laferrière, also known as Citadelle Henry, was built by revolutionary Henri Christophe shortly after Haiti gained independence from France.. The stronghold took more than a decade to construct and was a crucial part of a network of fortifications to protect the new Caribbean island nation against attacks. The site has since become a symbol of Haitian independence.. The deadly stampede comes as Haiti grapples with widespread gang violence that has led to thousands being killed.. At least 30 feared dead in crush at Haitian tourist site. Haiti  

​ South Korea jails 90-year-old woman for laundering son’s drug money. 4 hours ago. Kelly Ng. Getty Images. A 90-year-old woman in South Korea has been sentenced to a year in jail for helping her son to launder profits from drug trafficking.. The woman, unnamed in local media reports, received a total of 386m won ($260,800; £192,800) over nine occasions between April 2020 and February 2022, which she transferred to a designated account at her son’s direction, an Incheon court heard.. Her son, known as Song in the reports, has been imprisoned in Cambodia since 2020, after he was convicted of trafficking methamphetamine into the country.. Given that Song’s mother visited Cambodia five times in 2019 and knew when her son was detained, she would be aware that she was dealing with illicit funds, the court heard on Monday.. “Her actions made it harder to trace illicit profits and contributed to the spread of narcotics, rendering the offence particularly serious,” judge Wi Eun-suk of an Incheon district court said on Monday.. The court took the woman’s age into account in deciding her sentence, as well as the fact that she did not have any prior drug-related convictions.. South Korean authorities are seeking to extract Song from Cambodia, according to local reports.. Song, who is in his 60s, allegedly implicated his daughter as well, Seoul-based Kyunghyang newspaper reported.. His daughter was brought to trial on charges of receiving more than 600m won of illicit funds and transferring 274m of it.. But she was later acquitted of money laundering as the court found there was insufficient evidence to conclude she had knowledge that the money was derived from drug trafficking.. Asia. South Korea  

​ ‘I don’t know why they’re coming’: Australians on Harry and Meghan’s visit. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in Australia this week for a four-day tour, seven years after their first trip to the country when they were still senior members of the Royal Family.. The BBC spoke to people in Sydney about what they think of Harry and Meghan’s visit.. 9 hours ago. UK Royal Family. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. Australia. Surfers and swimmers pay tribute to victims of Bondi shooting. Hundreds paddle out at Bondi beach to commemorate the shooting victims from Sunday’s attack.. Australia. Mourning outside funeral of the youngest victim of the Bondi shooting. Matilda, 10, was mourned by family, friends, and the community in Sydney after she was killed in the Bondi shooting on Sunday.. Australia. Family gives emotional eulogy for Bondi victim Rabbi Eli Schlanger. Rabbi Ulman, the father-in-law of British-born Rabbi Eli Schlanger, said he hoped his son-in-law knew how loved he was.. Australia. ‘It’s just a nightmare’: Ten-year-old victim’s mum speaks at Bondi memorial. The mother of 10-year-old Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach attack, paid tribute to her daughter at a flower memorial on Tuesday evening.. Australia. Mourners pay tribute to Rabbi Schlanger during funeral. His death was described as an “unspeakable loss” in a service held at the Chabad of Bondi.. Australia. Mourners gather for Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s funeral. The first funerals are being held for victims of Sunday’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach.. Australia. Jewish Australians on why Bondi is a ‘sanctuary’ for them. The BBC spoke to Jewish people at Bondi Beach about why the suburb is significant to their community.. Australia. New footage reveals how people tried to stop Bondi Beach shooting. Eleven minutes of video captures the moment Australia’s iconic beach turns into a scene of horror.. Australia. Mountain of flowers at Bondi as Sydney mourns attack victims. Crowds of people have left flowers and candles as a tribute to the 15 people who were killed in the attack in Sydney.. Australia. ‘All we can do’: Sydney residents donate blood en masse after Bondi attack. Wait times to donate blood were up to seven hours in Sydney the day after the fatal Bondi beach terror attack.. Australia. Watch: BBC at the scene of Bondi Beach shooting. The BBC’s Katy Watson is at Bondi Beach as police continue to investigate a mass shooting targeting the Jewish community at a Hanukkah event.. Australia. BBC reports from Bondi gunmen’s suburban house. BBC News Australia correspondent Katy Watson visited the house in the Sydney suburb of Bonnyrigg.. Australia. How Bondi Beach shooting unfolded minute by minute. Correspondent Joe Inwood pieces together what verified footage reveals about how Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly three decades unfolded.. Australia. Drone footage shows Bondi Beach gunmen on bridge. Aerial footage appears to show a gunman firing fro  

​ Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in undercover filming. 11 hours ago. Ghazal Abbasi, Seamus Mirodan and Mohammad Zubair KhanBBC Eye, Punjab, Pakistan. BBC. Warning: This story contains details that readers may find distressing. Mohammed Amin was eight when he died shortly after testing positive for HIV.. His fevers were so bad that he insisted on sleeping in the rain, and he writhed in pain “like he’d been thrown in hot oil”, says his mother, Sughra.. “He used to fight with me, but he also loved me,” 10-year-old Asma says as she kneels at her younger brother’s graveside.. Not long after her brother contracted the virus, Asma was also diagnosed with HIV. Her family believe both children contracted it from injections with contaminated needles during routine medical treatment at a government hospital in Taunsa, in the province of Punjab, Pakistan.. They are two of the 331 children that BBC Eye has identified as testing positive for HIV in the city between November 2024 and October 2025.. After a doctor at a private clinic linked the outbreak to the hospital, called THQ Taunsa, in late 2024, local authorities promised a “massive crackdown” and suspended the hospital’s medical superintendent in March 2025 – but a BBC Eye investigation can now reveal that dangerous injection practices continued months later.. During 32 hours of undercover filming at THQ Taunsa in late 2025, we witnessed syringes being reused on multi-dose vials of medicine on 10 separate occasions, potentially contaminating the drugs inside.. In four of these cases we saw medicine from the same vial given to a different child. We do not know if any of the children were HIV-positive but this practice creates a clear risk of viral transmission.. “Even if they have attached a new needle, the back part, which we call the syringe body, has the virus in it, so it will transfer even with a new needle,” said Dr Altaf Ahmed, a consultant microbiologist and one of Pakistan’s leading infectious disease experts, after watching our undercover footage.. Despite signs on the hospital walls showing safe injection practice we filmed staff – including a doctor – injecting patients without sterile gloves 66 times, and a different expert told us our footage highlighted broader weaknesses in infection control training in Pakistan.. We also watched a nurse rummage through a medical waste disposal box without sterile gloves. “She is violating every principle of injecting medicine,” said Ahmed.. But when we showed our footage to the hospital’s new medical superintendent, Dr Qasim Buzdar, he refused to acknowledge it was genuine. He claimed it could have been recorded before he took over or that “this footage could also be staged”, and insisted his hospital was safe for children.. Dr Gul Qaisrani, a doctor at a local private clinic, was the first to spot the outbreak in late 2024 after noticing a rise in the number of children going through his clinic who tested positive f  

​ Lebanon seeks peace, but Hezbollah needs to be convinced first. 11 hours ago. Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent, Beirut. BBC. With Lebanon, again, engulfed by war, I remember a meeting I had with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Palace, a modernist building at the top of a hill overlooking Beirut last August.. Aoun, a former army chief, took office after a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia and political party that is backed by Iran. At that point, Hezbollah had been weakened and was isolated at home and Aoun had vowed to disarm it. The seemingly intractable issue over Hezbollah’s weapons has long divided Lebanon, but Aoun appeared to believe he could solve it. “I was born an optimist,” he told me.. At the time we met, a fragile ceasefire was in place in Lebanon. This deal had ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah in November 2024, but Israel was carrying out near-daily attacks on what it described as people and targets linked to the group. In some parts of the country, the conflict had never stopped. Even from my home in east Beirut I could occasionally hear the buzz of Israeli drones circling overhead.. Reuters. For Hezbollah’s supporters, the group is their only protection against Israel, which they see as an enemy intent on capturing Lebanese land. Opponents accuse Hezbollah, which is a Shia Muslim group, of defending the interests of its Iranian patron, dragging the country into unwanted and unnecessary wars.. When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, was killed in a strike on the first day of the US-Israeli bombardment of Tehran in February, Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel. The group said this was in retaliation for his death and the constant Israeli bombing during the ceasefire; Israel responded with air strikes and another ground invasion of southern Lebanon.. Getty Images. President Aoun, hoping to stop the bloodshed, proposed to negotiate directly with Israel, a significant step for two countries that do not have diplomatic relations. Israel ignored the offer until last week, after the US agreed a ceasefire with Iran and Israel carried out widespread air strikes that killed more than 300 people in just one day in Lebanon.. A meeting between ambassadors from both countries, expected to focus on a ceasefire here, is scheduled to take place later on Tuesday in Washington. With very limited influence over Hezbollah, what can the Lebanese government do? And what are the chances of finding lasting peace?. Forged in conflict. Hezbollah, or Party of God in Arabic, was created in the 1980s during Israel’s occupation of Lebanon in the Lebanese Civil War. From its beginning, the group has been financed, trained and armed by Iran, and the destruction of Israel remains one of its official goals.. In 1989, the Taif Agreement that ended Lebanon’s conflict mandated the disarmament of all militias and introduced a power-sharing deal between sects in a country that is multi-cultural and multi-f