By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News The US Navy detected sounds “consistent with an implosion” shortly after OceanGate’s Titan submersible lost contact, a navy official has said. Five people were aboard the vessel when it went missing during a dive to the Titanic wreck on Sunday. The loss of the sub was confirmed after a huge
By Oliver Slow BBC News More than 30 migrants may have drowned after their boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, two charities have said. Walking Borders and Alarm Phone said the boat was carrying around 60 people. Spanish authorities said rescue workers found the bodies of a minor and a man
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News The five people who died on the Titan submersible were “true explorers”, the company who operated the dive has said. The men “shared a distinct spirit of adventure,” said OceanGate in a statement. The men died in what the US Coast Guard believes was a catastrophic implosion. Five parts
BBC-News Nigerian President BOLA TINUBU has arrived in Paris, France to participate in the summit for the new global financial pact, which begins tomorrow. President TINUBU will join other world leaders to review and sign a new global financial pact that places vulnerable countries on priority list for support and investment, following devastating impact of
By Derek Cai BBC News US President Joe Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator at a fundraising event in California. His remarks came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Mr Xi for talks in Beijing, which were aimed at easing tensions between the two superpowers. Mr Biden also
Richard Hamilton BBC World Service newsroom The latest temporary ceasefire between Sudan’s rival military factions appears to have brought a lull in the fighting, following battles and air strikes overnight. A resident in the capital, Khartoum, said the situation was calm and expressed hope that the truce might be the beginning of the end of the
By Charlene Anne Rodrigues BBC News Seventeen people – five children – have been killed in an air strike in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, officials say. Twenty-five homes were destroyed in Saturday’s strike in the densely populated Yarmouk district. It came a day after a top army general threatened to step up attacks against the paramilitary
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