Global News Podcast
The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.
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- The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.
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- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-18 04:29
- last episode published
- 2025-01-18 00:00
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- 0.68 days
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- BBC World Service
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| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-18 |
Israeli government approves Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal Israel’s cabinet has given its final approval to a Gaza ceasefire deal, despite some ministers’ opposition. It will begin on Sunday with a hostage-for-prisoner exchange. Also: The US Supreme Court upholds a ban on TikTok. |
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| 2025-01-17 | Some Israeli ministers have threatened to resign over the agreement. Also: Imran Khan is sentenced to a further 14 years in prison. And a Russian court jails Alexei Navalny's three lawyers. |
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| 2025-01-16 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delayed a vote to approve the Gaza ceasefire deal, accusing Hamas of seeking last-minute changes to the agreement. |
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| 2025-01-16 | Vote by Israeli cabinet on Gaza ceasefire delayed, as Israel continues to carry out strikes; S Korea's arrested president refuses to take part in more questioning, and Pakistan’s national airline accused of bad taste. |
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| 2025-01-16 | Israelis and Gazans welcome the ceasefire but express concern it won't end the conflict. Also: Trump's secretary of state pick, Marco Rubio, stresses the US First agenda, and rethinking women's roles in ancient Britain. |
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| 2025-01-15 | A Gaza ceasefire, which involves a full withdrawal of Israeli forces and the release of all the hostages, has been agreed by Israel and Hamas. The announcement was made by the PM of Qatar, which helped broker the deal. |
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| 2025-01-15 |
South Korea's impeached president arrested after police scale walls In custody Yoon Suk Yeol defended his decision to impose martial law last month. Also: dozens of bodies have been pulled from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, and how to stay motivated and not give up on your New Year's resolutions. |
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| 2025-01-15 | Hopes remain high that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is very close. Also: South Korean investigators again try to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol; and why Starbucks says you can’t stay unless you pay. |
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| 2025-01-14 | Qatari mediators say major differences have been overcome in Gaza negotiations. Also: US Justice Department report says Donald Trump engaged in an unprecedented criminal effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat. |
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| 2025-01-14 |
Negotiators close to securing Gaza ceasefire deal - White House President Biden says a Gaza ceasefire deal is "on the brink" of coming to fruition. Also: Oliviero Toscani, Benetton's controversial photographer, dies aged 82, and a Scottish island finally celebrates New Year. |
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