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of basic necessities, like water and electricity. results from wednesdays election show the anc winning around 40% of the vote, while former president jacob zumas newly—formed mk party exceeded expectations to finish third. but the party says it is considering challenging the results in court. and so begins a new era in south african politics as well as new challenges for president cyril ramaphosa, who himself helped negotiate the end of apartheid. the bbc�*s africa correspondent, ...

the ukrainian president has accused china of prolonging the war in his country by supporting russia. speaking at the shangri la security gathering in singapore, volodymy zelensky complained that beijing was discouraging other countries from attending a summit scheduled in switzerland in mid—june. china has denied taking sides in the war. sura njana tewari reports. ukraines president desperately needs help to forge his path to peace. the russian offensive in kharkiv has battered the n...

he was responding to a peace plan proposed by the us presidentjoe biden last night. hamas said it would engage with any proposals offering a permanent ceasefire and for israel to withdraw completely from gaza. vincent mcaviney reports. after almost eight months of israeli response to the 7th october attacks by hamas, gaza lays largely in ruins, with the lives of palestinians who call it home turned upside down. more than 36,000 have been killed across the region, according to the hamas...

earlier this week, the hacking group, shinyhunters, said it had hacked the personal details of more than half a billion ticketmaster customers. with me is our business reporter simon browning. iamjust i am just staggered, it is 500 million ticketmaster customers. you sate perfectly- _ million ticketmaster customers. 7m. sate perfectly. this million ticketmaster customers. 7m, sate perfectly. this is a massive attack. a significant, significant and a huge hike. firstly, ticketmaster, a ...

hello, im anna.. —— anna foster. south africas governing party has two weeks to form a coalition, after losing its outright majority for the first time in 30 years. with virtually all the votes now counted from wednesdays election, the anc stands at around 40% — a sharp drop from almost 58% in 2019. the anc say the result has been a wake—up call for the party. the anc has accepted the result and, as the anc, what is foremost now in our mind are two things. one is the fact that ...

indicated it is willing to discuss a new plan to end the war in gaza unveiled by us presidentjoe biden. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has again insisted that the war will end only once hamas is destroyed. the opposition leader, yair lapid, has urged the prime minister to accept the proposal. speaking earlier, mr lapid suggested that if right—wing members of benjamin netanyahus coalition resigned in protest, his party would continue to support the government in its e...

rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re—elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. its on its inaugural campaignjourney. and theres a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didnt have conservative branding. didn...

newly—formed mk party exceeded expectations to finish third. but the party says it is considering challenging the results in court. and so begins a new era in south african politics, as well as new challenges for president cyril ramaphosa, who himself helped negotiate the end of apartheid. the bbc�*s africa correspondent, barbara plett usher, reports. it had been a slow and steady day, and then...this. the former president, now the head of the upstart mk party, an unexpected challe...

for this war to end" hamas issued a statement saying it was ready to deal positively with any proposal offering a permanent ceasefire and a complete israeli withdrawal. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the plan was in line with israels demands that the war would not end until its hostages were released and hamas no longer ruled gaza or posed a military threat. vincent mcaviney reports. after almost eight months of israeli response to the 7th october attacks by hamas, ...

previously. robert english, is director of central european studies at the university of southern california, who specialises in the politics of russia. russias investigative committee has reportedly said it had launched an investigation over "acts of terror". he outlined what that tells us. it tells us they havent cut the suspects yet. they were local militants. this was a knot and organise attack carried out by the islamic state like in moscow, but something more local and so my spon...