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How an immigration raid on a Chicago apartment block unfolded People living in a Chicago apartment block targeted in a big immigration raid have described seeing armed agents and a helicopter landing on the roof.

We went to the #Chicago apartment block targeted in a massive raid on suspected illegal immigrants.

The operation was trumpeted by the Trump administration - in a glossy Hollywood-style video.

One US-born resident told us his hands were zip-tied by officers.

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

09.10.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What’s the possible impact of the US government shutdown?

With the BBC Verify team here in DC, l've been looking into who and what will be affected.

02.10.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Verify looked into some of the startling claims made by President Trump during his speech at the United Nations.

Some were simply not true.

24.09.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump says museums in DC are too 'woke' - We ask visitors President Donald Trump has called for a review of Smithsonian museums, saying they focus too much on

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21.08.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How many wars has President Trump ended? US President Donald Trump claims to have ended seven wars - is that true?

How many wars has President Trump really ended?

(Short answer - not as many as the 7 he claims)

www.bbc.com/news/article...

20.08.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

President Trump says he’ll meet President Putin in Alaska next Friday

08.08.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to be in #washingtondc for a while - as we bring BBC Verify to the USA.

Our first piece here - Trump's Friday deadline to Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine.

08.08.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EU's 27 countries struggle to find a united voice on Gaza EU foreign policy decisions have to be unanimous, so one objection can block the EU from taking action.

100+ NGOs have called for the EU to suspend its treaty with Israel - because of Gaza.

But the EU is divided - and the economic weight of this bloc of 450 million people is not translating to a coherent or unified voice.

With @brunoboelpaep.bsky.social

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26.06.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Latest on the Israel- Iran war:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

23.06.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's now a 3rd month of Israel blocking medicine & food from entering Gaza.

Israel's said to want to use private companies to give out supplies in the future - something the UN calls "a deliberate attempt to weaponise aid".

We've been looking at the aid situation in Gaza:

07.05.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spain-Portugal power outage latest: 'We slept on the floor like dogs' say passengers, as officials investigate power cut cause Passengers spent the night in train stations and sports halls, as power outages disrupted transport in Spain and Portugal.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

29.04.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cocaine-smuggling submarine reveals Europe's drug crisis One secret boat took three men and $150m (Β£121m) of drugs from the Amazon rainforest to Spain.

It joins the dots to reporting done by @nickbeake.bsky.social on Europe's cocaine crisis as the contintent struggles to deal with South American imports - watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt-Y... and read: bbc.com/news/world-e...

09.04.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Myanmar earthquake: How the scale of loss is clearer one week on More than 3,000 people have been confirmed dead after last week's earthquake and the toll is expected to rise.

How the scale of Myanmar's loss is clearer one week after the quake:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

04.04.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC World Service - Global News Podcast, Israel expands offensive in Gaza The defence minister said large areas of the territory would be seized

Here's Wednesday pm's #GlobalNewsPod www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

#Gaza; @nickbeake.bsky.social in #Myanmar; #ValKilmer #Ancelotti #rhinos and vertical drama

02.04.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Verify: Satellite images show Myanmar earthquake destruction Myanmar's military government says at least 2,000 people were killed in last week's 7.7 magnitude quake.

We’ve been talking to earthquake survivors on the ground in Myanmar… and combining their accounts with new satellite images.

We’re trying build a picture of the damage in some of the worst-hit places we know of. #BBCVerify

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

01.04.2025 05:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Live from @BBCNews with some thoughts on the Burmese military - and how they operate in a parallel universe.

I lived in and reported from #Myanmar for 2 years - and this huge earthquake has exposed, once again, how the junta can be totally divorced from reality & outside world.

01.04.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Incredible rescues.

But - ultimately - huge loss after the #Myanmar earthquake.

More pain for a people who have suffered so much.

Producer: @thanyarat.bsky.social
πŸŽ₯: Natalie Thomas

30.03.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Satellite images reveal how South Korea wildfires spread BBC Verify looks at how Korean wildfires spread so rapidly

We've been looking at how - and why - the #SouthKorea wildfires have spread so quickly.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

27.03.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’ve been looking at two key factors that made the Pulse nightclub fire in #NorthMacedonia so deadly.

19.03.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Verify: Mapping Israel's wave of strikes in Gaza More than 400 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. BBC Verify’s Nick Beake has been assessing footage of the strikes and building a picture o...

400+ people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Israel's military says it's hitting "terror targets". More than half the dead are reported to be women & children.

BBC Verify has been assessing footage of the strikes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

18.03.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Some of the great characters we met in #Copenhagen.

Many people told us they feel unsettled, upset and betrayed by #Trump β€˜s demand to take #Greenland.

Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

#Denmark
#TheGlobalStory

11.03.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In Copenhagen, we met Afghanistan army veteran SΓΈren who was awarded the US's Bronze Star Medal for his service alongside American troops.

Now he's one of many Danes who feel betrayed, insulted & angry at Trump's desire to take Greenland.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

08.03.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leaked recordings challenge Greek account of deadly shipwreck Hundreds are thought to have died when the Adriana sank in international waters two years ago.

650 people were feared drowned when the β€˜Adriana' sank.

Greek coastguards always claimed migrants onboard said - freely - they wanted to reach Italy.

But new recording shows Greek operator ordered skipper of boat to say: "We do not want to go to Greece."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

27.02.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Victims of Swedish school shooting were seven women and three men, police say Families have been identifying victims of the attack - all between 28 and 68 years old.

Swedish school shooting victims were seven women and three men www.bbc.com/news/article...

08.02.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reporting from Sweden's worst-ever mass shooting.

The gunman killed 10 people at a college where lots of students were immigrants learning
Swedish.

Police haven't given a motive, but many told us they fear there was a strong racial element to the attack.

07.02.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s hostage handover in Gaza was highly choreographed by Hamas. Big contrast with last weekend.

25.01.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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French mayors call for UK immigration deal to be scrapped because of Calais migrant crisis A coalition of officials from along the northern French coast are calling for UK immigration checks at Calais to be scrapped because they say the migrant crisis has reached an unbearable level. Small

Our full BBC report from northern #France, where officials told us they wanted UK immigration checks at Calais scrapped - because "hypocritical" Britain is failing to deal with the small boats crisis

Producers:@kostaskallergis.bsky.social & @leontinegls.bsky.social

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25.11.2024 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Images from #Valencia - following the floods πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ

20.11.2024 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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