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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, de...
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British MP's warned of 'relentless' China spying campaign
British politicians have been warned by the security services that they face a significant risk of espionage from the Chinese state, after an MI5 aler...
UN backs Trump's Gaza peace plan
The UN Security Council has approved a US-drafted resolution to move to the next stage of Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan. It aims to set up a transiti...
Ex-Bangladesh leader sentenced to death
Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. A tribunal in Dhaka found sh...
Ecuadorian drug lord arrested
Ecuador's Los Lobos drug cartel leader, Wilmer "Pipo" Chavarria, has been captured in Spain. He'd been hiding in Europe after faking his own death. Th...
The Global Story; The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia
Donald Trump has spent this year trying to negotiate a deal to end the war in Ukraine. So far, Vladimir Putin doesn’t seem interested in the US’s prop...
Protests at COP30
Thousands of indigenous people and activists demonstrate against global warming in the Amazonian city of Belém, where COP30 is taking place. It's the...
The Happy Pod: Saving a drowning man changed me
We speak to a woman who saved the life of a kayaker, after spotting him floating face down in Idaho's Snake River. Rachelle Ruffing says knowing CPR a...
Trump to sue BBC for 'up to $5bn'
The US President has said he will begin legal action against the BBC within the next few days after receiving an apology but no financial compensation...
Russia hits Ukraine in deadly strikes
Russian drones and missiles hit an apartment block in eastern Kyiv, killing at least six people. President Zelensky has accused Moscow of deliberately...
BBC refuses to pay Trump compensation
The BBC has sent a letter of apology to Donald Trump, saying it regrets the way a programme spliced together parts of his speech from the day of the C...
France remembers terror attacks ten years on
A series of events are being held in Paris to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the worst attacks on French soil in modern history. The Islamist te...
US ends its longest-ever government shutdown
President Donald Trump said the country has "never been in better shape" as he signed a funding bill re-opening the government. Democrats had said the...
Trump 'spent time' with Epstein 'victim'
Democrats in the US Congress release three emails by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein mentioning Donald Trump. One of the emails says t...
US-Venezuela: Trump's largest warship arrives in Latin America region
One of the world's most advanced aircraft carriers has arrived in the waters off Latin America as President Donald Trump ramps up the US naval presenc...
Suicide bomber blamed for deadly attack in Islamabad
Pakistan's interior minister says a suicide attack has killed 12 people and injured many more near a crowded courthouse in the capital, Islamabad. Moh...
Syria to join US-led coalition fighting IS group
The US says Syria is joining the international coalition to combat the Islamic State group, and Damascus is resuming diplomatic relations with Washing...
Donald Trump threatens to sue BBC
The BBC says it will respond in due course to a threat of legal action over a documentary which misrepresented a speech made by President Trump. The B...
US Senate vote could end government shutdown
The longest-ever government shutdown in the United States looks to be coming to an end after a vote in the Senate. Several Democrats decided to join t...
The Global Story: The rehabilitation of Syria’s ex-jihadist president
After getting the red-carpet treatment at the UN in New York last week, the former al-Qaeda fighter who now leads Syria is about to hold an election....
Water shortages could force evacuation of Iranian capital
Iran says water supplies in Tehran will suffer scheduled cuts, as the country struggles with severe shortages. The announcement came after President M...
The Happy Pod: Atomic bomb survivors campaigning for peace
In this Happy Pod special we're in Munich, Germany for One Young World. We speak to survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and their families as...
US exempts Hungary from Russian oil sanctions
President Trump grants Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions on Russian oil and gas purchases during a visit to the White House by his right...
Sudan government demands international ceasefire guarantees
The Sudanese government calls for international guarantees that RSF rebels will stick by a ceasefire they have signed up to, before it agrees to do th...
Elon Musk, the world's richest person, is set to be richer
Tesla shareholders have approved a record-breaking pay package that could make the electric car company's founder Elon Musk a trillionaire if he can d...
World leaders gather in Brazil for UN climate talks
The leaders of the three greatest producers of carbon emissions — the US, China and India — are staying away from the COP30 summit, which officially s...
US to cut flights if government shutdown continues
The Federal Aviation Administration in the US has said that if the government shutdown continues, it will cut air traffic by ten per-cent across forty...
US Democrats celebrate Mamdani victory
Zohran Mamdani is promising change and a template to defeat Donald Trump after winning the vote to become the New York City mayor. Also: the United Na...
Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral race
Zohran Mamdani has won New York’s mayoral election after defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, making history...
Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney dies
Dick Cheney, who became one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history as George W Bush's number two during 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan a...
US government shutdown forces food aid cuts
The government shutdown in the United States is set to become the longest in the country's history as Democrats and Republicans fail to agree on a new...
Tanzanian president sworn in after election unrest
Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, begins her second term in office following hundreds of reported deaths in violence linked to a contested el...
Trump's military action threat alarms Nigeria
Donald Trump has suggested the US could deploy troops to Nigeria or carry out air strikes to stop what he called the killing of Christians by Islamist...
Nine critically injured in mass UK train stabbing
In the UK, counter-terrorism police are leading an investigation into a mass stabbing on a train near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. Nine people are in...
The Happy Pod: Soldiers' letters from 1916 finally home
Messages in a bottle from two Australian World War One soldiers have been found on a beach and are now back with their relatives. Debra Brown's family...
Tanzania: Hundreds feared dead in post-election violence
Diplomats in Tanzania say there's credible evidence at least five-hundred people have been killed in days of clashes between protesters and security f...
Xi Jinping leads summit after Trump leaves
China's President, Xi Jinping, leads the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in South Korea, which President Trump chose to leave. Chinese media...
King strips Andrew of 'prince' title amid Epstein scandal
Britain's King Charles has begun the process of removing his younger brother's "prince" title and told him to vacate the Royal Lodge in Windsor. It co...
UN condemns attack on key Sudanese city
The UN’s top humanitarian official has said there must be accountability for those carrying out the killings and sexual violence in Sudan's El-Fasher....
Trump and Xi meet to discuss trade war
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have met for the first time since 2019 to discuss a possible truce in the US-China trade war. The leaders of the world's t...
Gaza: 104 reported dead in Israeli strikes
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday night killed more than a hundred people, including a number of chil...