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Global News Podcast
The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, d...
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Saudis to pull out of LIV Golf
Saudi Arabia will withdraw its multi-billion dollar backing of LIV Golf at the end of the season, plunging the future of the series into further doubt...
Bondi inquiry calls for better policing of Jewish events
An Australian inquiry into an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach which killed 15 people has recommended that the authorities should bolster secu...
Russia scales back Moscow Victory Day parade
Russia has announced that its annual military parade in Moscow, which commemorates its victory in World War Two, will be scaled back this year because...
King Charles praises NATO in address to US Congress
President Trump has called the bond between the US and the UK a friendship "unlike any other on Earth" at a state dinner attended by King Charles and...
UAE quits oil cartel Opec after six decades
The United Arab Emirates says quitting the Opec and Opec+ groups of major oil producing nations will provide more flexibility. The move is being seen...
King Charles visits the US to smooth frayed relations
King Charles and Queen Camilla arrive in the US to smooth over frayed relations between Washington and London. President Trump hosts afternoon tea at...
Suspect due in court after shooting at Trump press dinner
The Californian man suspected of trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington attended by President Trump and other senior adm...
Motives of suspected Washington gunman under scrutiny
The suspected gunman at the White House correspondents' dinner, Cole Tomas Allen, is a 31-year-old Californian who reportedly worked as a tutor. Donal...
The Global Story: The global network hunting predators on the internet
Warning: this episode includes discussions of child sexual abuse and upsetting scenes.
The BBC has been following a global team of unde...
Donald Trump evacuated from dinner after shots fired
A person is in custody after shots fired at event with President Trump. He praised the secret service operative who'd intercepted him. The US presiden...
The Happy Pod: I invented a way for my brother to communicate
Ari wanted to help his brother Ben engage with the world after he lost the ability to walk, talk or move his hands. So he designed and built him a bes...
US and Iran travel to Pakistan for peace talks
US and Iran delegations are travelling to Pakistan for further peace talks - but there might not be a direct meeting between the two sides. We ask our...
Spain dismisses reports US wants it suspended from Nato
Nato says there is no provision for members to be suspended - after reports the US is considering trying to suspend Spain over its stance on the Iran...
The Lebanon ceasefire is 'extended by three weeks'
President Trump says the Lebanon ceasefire has been extended for another three weeks, after hosting talks with diplomats from Israel and Lebanon at th...
Lebanon accuses Israel of war crime after journalist killed
The Lebanese president, Joseph Aoun, accuses Israel of deliberately targeting journalists, a day after another reporter, Amal Khalil, was killed in an...
Iran seizes two cargo ships in Strait of Hormuz
Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, says the US blockade is the main obstacle to peace negotiations and accused Washington of using "endless hypocrit...
EU approves $100bn loan to Ukraine
EU ambassadors approve a promised $100bn loan to Ukraine after Hungary dropped its veto, following Viktor Orban's election defeat. Ukraine has now sta...
US announces a ceasefire extension with Iran
President Trump has announced an extension to the ceasefire with Iran until talks come to a conclusion. In a social media post, he said the US blockad...
Trump says US in 'very strong position' for Iran talks
The US-Iran ceasefire deal is set to end on Wednesday but Donald Trump says he does not want to extend the deadline. The US President believes the US...
Uncertainty over US-Iran peace talks
Iran's chief negotiator has cast fresh doubt on whether a second round of peace talks with the United States will go ahead in Pakistan. Mohammed Baghe...
Are insider traders making millions from the Iran war?
The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades on financial markets ahead of public announcements by President Trump, including during the Iran war....
US seizes Iranian-flagged cargo ship
The US military says it has intercepted an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman as part of its naval blockade. Iran has promised to retaliat...
The Global Story: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ to be released to the public
Anthropic - one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms - recently announced that they have built a model which is too dangerous to be released to the pu...
Iran closes Strait of Hormuz a day after declaring it open
Iran says its forces are in full control of the Strait of Hormuz and passage through the vital oil waterway would remain restricted, unless the US rem...
The Happy Pod: Filling the empty chair left by my best friend
We meet the man helping to tackle loneliness by offering strangers somewhere to sit and chat. Dean Perryman started the Empty Chairs project, honourin...
US and Tehran dispute the future of Iran's uranium
President Trump has again insisted that Tehran is ready to hand over its enriched uranium as part of a deal to end the war, despite Iran saying no suc...
Tens of thousands of Lebanese return home after ceasefire
A 10-day pause in the fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah has led to tens of thousands of displaced Lebanese families returning home. Despit...
Ceasefire in Lebanon begins
A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect after it was brokered by the United States. Hezbollah have indicated they will obse...
Pope Leo: 'world ravaged by handful of tyrants'
In unusually forceful political remarks, Pope Leo has said the world is "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants". Addressing a crowd during his visit t...
BBC in Iran as mediation efforts continue
The BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet gains rare access to report from Iran. Residents living under the fragile ceasefire tell her t...
Iran warns it will block Gulf and Red Sea
Iran warns that it will block trade through the Red Sea as well as the Gulf and the Sea of Oman, if the United States continues its own blockade of Ir...
Three years of war in Sudan
Sudan marks the third anniversary of its civil war. The fighting has led to a de facto partition of the country and created the world’s largest humani...
China calls US blockade of Iranian ports 'dangerous'
China has described the US blockade of Iranian ports as "irresponsible and dangerous". The measure came into force on Monday, after peace talks failed...
US Vice President suggests talks with Iran could resume
JD Vance says progress was made in discussions with Iran at the weekend and the ball is in Tehran's court. But he also accuses the Iranians of "econom...
Pope: 'I will not debate war with Trump'
Pope Leo has said he has "no intention to debate" Donald Trump, after the US leader criticised the pontiff's comments about the war in the Middle East...
Péter Magyar wins the Hungarian election by a landslide
Péter Magyar, leader of the Tisza party, has promised closer ties with the European Union - and an anti-corruption drive - after winning the Hungarian...
The Global Story: The medications that can trigger sex and gambling addictions
A BBC investigation has heard from hundreds of people who say they developed sex and gambling addictions after taking a category of prescription drugs...
'Historic' US Iran talks end without deal
Marathon talks between senior US and Iranian officials on ending the Middle East conflict have ended in failure. Speaking after the negotiations in Pa...
The Happy Pod: From a small town, to the moon
The mayor of Ingersoll beams with pride at the Canadian town being represented on Artemis II. Ingersoll is home to 15,000 people, including the astron...
Artemis II splashdown
Nasa's four Artemis astronauts: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen ha...