Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister on Monday defended the widely criticized delay in announcing the results of last week’s parliamentary election, saying authorities took only 36 hours to count over 60 million votes while grappling with militant attacks. Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar pointed out that
The BBC has been forced to apologise after it reported claims from Hamas without corroborating them. The broadcaster apologised after it reported that Israeli soldiers had carried out ‘summary executions’ in the Gaza strip during the war with Israel. The report is
Parents have also alleged children who confronted Gareth Mellor were taught in seclusion as punishment. Mellor, 43, was caught by National Crime Agency investigators after making a Bitcoin payment for indecent images of children via an encrypted cloud storage service. He was
The BBC apologised today after a newsreader incorrecly claimed that Israeli soldiers were “targeting medical staff and Arab speakers” at Gaza’s largest hospital. A newsreader had been citing a report by news agency Reuters, stating that the IDF confirmed it would be
A former director of the BBC has said the corporation’s “failures” over its reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict have had “dangerous, real-world consequences” for British Jews. Danny Cohen said institutional “bias and deep-rooted prejudice” had been exposed, referring to its coverage of
A senior member of the BBC News team openly admitted to a significant error made by the corporation in its coverage of the immediate aftermath of a deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza City. The incident, which occurred on Tuesday, shocked
Nigel Farage said the BBC have got themselves into a “terrible mess” over their reporting of the Israel-Hamas conflict. The licence fee-funded corporation has come under fire for refusing to refer to Hamas as a terrorist organisation. The GB News presenter said
An episode of the recent BBC Arabic programme, “Trending”, has been taken down by the broadcaster after it stirred debate over the accuracy of its coverage of the Hamas attack on Kfar Aza kibbutz leading. The attack on October 7 led to
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly became the latest politician to slam the BBC for their absurd reporting of the war against Israel by Hamas, though went one step further by calling them out during a live interview on the channel. The BBC has
A Burmese court has handed down a harsh 20-year prison sentence with forced labor to a photojournalist associated with an underground news agency due to his coverage of the aftermath of a devastating cyclone that struck in May. During this judicial process,