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I ndia and Pakistan have accused each other of "violations" hours after the two nations said they had agreed to a ceasefire following days of cross-border military strikes. After sounds of explosions were heard in Indian-administered Kashmir, India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said there had been "repeated violations of the understanding we arrived at". A short while later, Pakistan's foreign ministry said it remained "committed to faithful implementation of a ceasefire...notwithstanding the violations being committed by India in some areas". The fighting between India and Pakistan over the last four days has been the worst military confrontation between the two rivals in decades. The use of drones, missiles and artillery started when India struck targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in response to a deadly militant attack in Pahalgam last month. Pakistan had denied any involvement. After four days of cross-border strikes, Indi...

 R ussian President Vladimir Putin has called for "direct talks" with Ukraine, saying they should "start without delay, as early as 15 May". "We seek serious talks... to remove the root causes of the conflict and start moving towards a lasting, strong peace", he said on Saturday, in a rare televised late-night address from the Kremlin. It came hours after European leaders - including UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron - visited Ukraine and urged Russia to agree to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had said in response that Moscow would "have to think this through" - but warned that "trying to pressure us is quite useless". In his statement, Putin said he would "not rule out" the possibility that the talks - which he proposed should take place in Turkey's largest city Istanbul - could result in Russia and Ukraine agreeing "new ceasefires, a new truce...

  A massive increase in the price of water is just one consequence of a week of aerial attacks on the Red Sea city of Port Sudan. Once seen as a relatively safe haven from Sudan's devastating civil war, Port Sudan is now reeling from days of bombardment from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. After six days of drone attacks, smoke is still rising from three fuel depots which were targeted. Rescue teams are gathered around the destroyed sites, but they are struggling to put the fires out. The conflict, which began as a struggle between the leaders of the RSF and the army more than two years ago, has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and forced more than 12 million people from their homes. One of those who fled to Port Sudan is 26-year-old Mutasim, who did not want his second name published for safety reasons. The BBC spoke to him after he had waited hours for a water vendor to turn up. The vital commodity has become scarce. The explosions at th...

  D onald Trump's administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus - the right of a person to challenge their detention in court - one of the US president's top aides has said. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Friday that the US Constitution allowed for the legal liberty to be suspended in times of "rebellion or invasion". His comments come as judges have sought to challenge some recent detentions made by the Trump administration in an effort to combat illegal immigration, as well as remove dissenting foreign students. "A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not," Miller said. There are several pending civil cases against the Trump administration's deportation of undocumented migrants based on habeaus corpus. Most recently, a federal judge ordered the release of a Turkish university student who had been detained for six weeks after writing an article that was criti...

  P rime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Ukraine where he will join fellow world leaders to put pressure on Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire in the war. Sir Keir travelled by train with President Emmanuel Macron of France and Friedrich Merz, who is making his first trip to Ukraine since becoming Germany's chancellor this week. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is joining them in Kyiv. It is Sir Keir's second visit to Ukraine as prime minister. He and the other leaders are using the visit to urge Russia to "agree a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire" - a proposal initially made by US President Donald Trump. The leaders' decision to travel to Kyiv together is a deliberately symbolic response to the more than 20 leaders who joined President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for Russia's Victory Day commemorations on Friday. The leaders also vowed to "ratchet up pressure on Russia's war machine". During the visit, the four leaders will join...