Nick Miles
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He did, though, King Abdullah, saying that there will be a united response to the US president's plan, united maybe in the tense of we reject it.
Tom Bateman. Let's move on to some other news now. And the novelist Salman Rushdie has been testifying in the trial of the man accused of attempting to murder him in 2022. A frenzied stabbing attack at a lecture in New York left Mr Rushdie blind in one eye. The author has been subject of a fatwa issued by the then Iranian Supreme Leader since publishing the Satanic Verses back in 1988.
Our correspondent, Neda Torfik, is at the court in New York State.
A billionaire couple have won a court case here in the UK. A judge ruled they'd get most of the fortune that they paid for a London mansion returned to them. Why? Because the place was infested with moths, millions of them, that got into their food, ruined their clothes and even landed on their kids' toothbrushes whilst they were brushing. Stephanie Zachrisson reports.
Honouring England's last climbing boy, the Victorian child, who died after he became stuck up a chimney, triggering national outrage and a change in child labour laws. The White House has announced that an American man, a teacher, Mark Fogel, who'd been held in Russia since 2021 on drugs charges, has now been freed.
The 63-year-old, who once worked as a diplomat at the US embassy in Moscow, was serving a sentence for being caught in possession of what was said to be a small amount of cannabis. In a moment, we'll hear from Mark's sister. But first, Steve Rosenberg, the BBC's Russia editor in Moscow.
Steve Rosenberg. Speaking from the state of Montana, Mark Fogel's sister, Anne Fogel, gave her reaction to my colleague Celia Hatton.
Anne Fogel. How to make money out of artificial intelligence occupies the thoughts of many a tech mogul. How to control it keeps many politicians up at night. Well, now 60 countries, including China, have signed an international agreement to develop what they call inclusive, ethical and sustainable artificial intelligence. It came at the end of the AI Action Summit in Paris.
But two of the biggest players in the sector, the UK and America, refused to sign up to the deal. The US Vice President, J.D. Vance, had this warning to those gathered in Paris.
Later on, though, the French President Emmanuel Macron explained why regulation of the AI sector was necessary.
Dr Stephanie Hare is a broadcaster and writer who specialises in the tech sector. And she was at the conference. So what did she make of the two-day event and has it changed much?
It is being called the most significant blow to the Italian mafia in more than 40 years. Police say that more than 130 members of the group were arrested in and around the Sicilian city of Palermo, known colloquially as the Cosa Nostra. The group terrorised large parts of Italy in the 1980s and 90s. Since then, it's been overtaken as Europe's most powerful mob by the Calabrian Undrangheta.
Our reporter Carla Conti is from Sicily and told me more about this latest strike against the islands group.
You grew up in Palermo, in that part of Sicily. Perhaps people will have mixed feelings about what's happened now. On the one hand, fewer members of the mafia on the streets. On the other, evidence that the mafia is still very strong.
Carla Conti. 150 years ago, a chimney sweep aged just 11 died at work in a building in Cambridgeshire in the southeastern part of England. But George Brewster's tragic tale would help change child labour laws here in Britain. On Tuesday, his short life was finally honoured with a commemorative blue plaque at the building, a former asylum. Joe Black takes up the story.
And that's all from us for now, but there will be a new edition of the Global News Podcast later on. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk. You can also find us on X at BBC World Service using the hashtag at globalnewspod. This edition was mixed by Caroline Driscoll and the producer was Alison Davis.
The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Nick Miles and until next time, goodbye.
Klaus Johannes, who's been in power for two terms, 10 years in power, he was supposed to step down in December when his mandate ran out. But because of that political turmoil, especially the annulment, the very controversial cancellation of the presidential elections to choose a successor for him, that was at the beginning of December. He said he'd stay on until the rescheduled elections in May.
But he has seen... Since then, a wave of anger, especially on the nationalist wing of Hungarian politics, protests on the street against him, calling for him to resign. And I think what's really pushed him to resign now, just still three months before the May elections, is he felt he wasn't receiving the support he wanted from the center of Romanian politics, from the coalition government.
So in a way, he's jumped before he could be pushed.
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