Abdiwahab Ahmed

Few voices have shaped humanity’s understanding of the living world like David Attenborough’s, and on his 100th birthday the veteran British naturalist is being celebrated as both a broadcasting icon and one of the most influential environmental campaigners of the modern era. Across more than 70 years of filmmaking, Mr Attenborough’s unmistakable narration has become inseparable from the way nature is seen, heard and understood. Even now, he remains at the forefront of the fight to protect the planet, delivering some of the…

A sudden eruption at Indonesia’s Mount Dukono has killed three hikers, authorities said, turning a trek on Halmahera island into a deadly disaster. The blast hurled an ash plume about 10km into the sky. Officials said no towns or villages were close enough to face an immediate danger. Twenty hikers were on the volcano’s slopes when the eruption struck, a local police chief told reporters at a volcano monitoring station in Mamuya village. He said nine were from Singapore and the others were Indonesian. A tour guide who was…

Keir Starmer has vowed to stay on as British prime minister even after his Labour party was hammered in local elections, a bruising result that has intensified questions over his leadership. He conceded Labour had endured a "tough" night, but said that "days like this don't weaken my resolve to deliver the change that I promised". Nigel Farage’s Reform UK surged in contests across the country, with hundreds of Labour councillors losing their seats and piling fresh pressure on Mr Starmer. More damaging results could still lie…

President Donald Trump has set a Fourth of July deadline for the European Union to ratify its trade agreement with the United States, warning that failure to do so will trigger "much higher" tariffs after European officials stopped short of finalising the pact. Mr Trump said he had spoken with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and "agreed to give her until our Country's 250th Birthday or, unfortunately, their Tariffs would immediately jump to much higher levels." This year's Fourth of July marks 250 years since the American…

The war’s reach hit Hamas’ leadership circle again when an Israeli airstrike killed the son of the group’s chief negotiator in US-mediated talks on Gaza’s future, a senior Hamas official said, as Hamas leaders gathered in Cairo to try to shore up their fragile truce with Israel. Azzam Al-Hayya, the son of Khalil Al-Hayya, died of wounds sustained in an Israeli strike overnight, according to health officials and Hamas officials. He was the fourth son of Hamas’ exiled Gaza chief to be killed in Israeli attacks. The Israeli…

President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned countries friendly with Moscow against sending representatives to Russia’s 9 May World War II Victory Day parade, as the Kremlin intensified threats of a strike on Kyiv that same day. Russia has unilaterally announced a ceasefire in its war on Ukraine from 8 to 10 May, yet the Russian military has simultaneously urged people to leave Kyiv amid the prospect of what it described as a retaliatory attack. "We have also received messages from some states close to Russia, saying that their…

A newly released court document has cast fresh light on the final weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death: a federal judge in the US has unsealed a handwritten note described as a suicide note purportedly written by the jailed financier. Epstein, the disgraced financier, convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019. Authorities ruled the death a suicide. The handwritten note was said to have been discovered by Epstein’s former cellmate, convicted murderer and former…

Millions of voters are heading to polling stations in a pivotal electoral test for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with Labour braced for what forecasters say could be a bruising night. Polling expert Robert Hayward has predicted Mr Starmer's Labour Party could lose around 1,850 council seats across England, underlining the scale of the challenge confronting the prime minister. Labour is also expected to suffer in Wales, where the party in government could lose the national vote for the first time in more than 100…

Ahead of Moscow’s World War II Victory Day celebrations, Russia has warned foreign diplomats in Kyiv that the Ukrainian capital could come under attack if Ukraine disrupts this weekend’s events, underscoring how the war is spilling into one of the Kremlin’s most symbolic dates. Russian officials gave no further detail about the warning, and there was no immediate response from Ukraine. The threat came as both countries exchanged fresh strikes, with officials reporting 13 people wounded in the Russian border city of Bryansk…

From Sydney to the centre of the country, Australians came together to mourn a five-year-old girl whose alleged abduction and murder stunned the nation and set off riots in the Outback town of Alice Springs. The vigils were held a week after authorities found Kumanjayi Little Baby dead, ending a five-day search that drew hundreds of volunteers and police into the effort. The arrest of a man accused of abducting and murdering her then ignited violent unrest in Alice Springs, where a crowd of 400 Indigenous people gathered and…