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At least eight killed after car explodes near Delhi's Red Fort6 hours agoShareSaveDoug Faulkner and Vikas Pandey,India editor, DelhiShareSaveWatch: Verified video shows aftermath of car explosion in DelhiAt least eight people have been killed and more injured after a car exploded near Delhi's historic Red Fort, authorities have said.
Delhi City police spokesperson, Sanjay Tyagi confirmed the deaths to the BBC, and said a further 20 people had suffered injuries.
Police are investigating the cause of the explosion and “exploring all possibilities”, Mr Tyagi said.
Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha has told reporters that the incident happened at around 18:52 local time (13:52 GMT), when a slow-moving vehicle stopped at a red light before it exploded, damaging nearby vehicles.
Mr Tyagi told the BBC the explosion happened in a Hyundai i20 car that was moving and carrying three people at the time.
Mumbai, India's financial capital, has been put on high alert, as has the ..

US Senate passes deal aimed at ending longest ever government shutdown12 hours agoShareSaveAna FaguyWashingtonShareSaveEPAUS Senate Majority Leader John Thune helped negtotiate the weekend deal A deal aimed at ending the US government shutdown has passed the Senate, paving the way for the record-breaking impasse to be broken.
After a weekend of negotiations in Washington, a minority of Democrats joined with Republicans and voted in favour of an agreement.
The vote is a procedural first step towards passing a compromise to fund the government since it ran out of money on 1 October.
It will need to clear several more hurdles – including a vote from the House of Representatives – before federal employees and services return, but it is the first serious sign of progress after 40 days of deadlock. The Senate is expected to return for further debate at 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Monday.
Watch: A few of the Dems who backed the GOP shutdown deal in their own wordsThe current shutdown is ..

Philippines hit by 'intense' typhoon as nearly a million evacuate3 hours agoShareSaveKathryn Armstrong, André Rhoden-Paul and Lulu Luo,Aurora, Philippines ShareSaveThe BBC's Jonathan Head says the Philippines is braced for an “absolutely massive storm”Typhoon Fung-wong has made landfall in the Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated and two people have died.
The storm hit as a super typhoon, with sustained winds of around 185 km/h (115mph) and gusts of 230km/h (143mph).
The eye of the storm hit Aurora province in Luzon – the country's most populous island – at 21:10 local time (13:10 GMT). By 02:00, the storm weakened to a typhoon and was over La Union in western Luzon.
The country's meteorological service warned of destructive winds and “high-risk of life-threatening” storm surges from the “very intense” typhoon.
Fung-wong – known locally as Uwan – comes days after earlier storm Kalmaegi left nearly 200 people dead.
Eastern parts of the..

BBC on Luzon Island as super typhoon hits PhilippinesTyphoon Fung-wong has made landfall in the Philippines, where more than 900,000 people have been evacuated.
The storm was upgraded to a super typhoon, with sustained winds around 185 km/h (115mph) and gusts of 230km/h (143mph).
The BBC's Jonathan Head is on Luzon Island, and says there is “debris flying everywhere” and “people are sheltering in any solid building they can find”.
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Six dead as Russia hits energy and residential sites in Ukraine8 hours agoShareSaveJames Landale,Diplomatic correspondent in Kyiv and Alex KleidermanShareSaveReutersTwo people died in a Russian strike on an apartment building in DniproAt least six people have died after Russia launched hundreds of missile and drone attacks on energy infrastructure and residential targets in Ukraine overnight.
A strike on an apartment building in the city of Dnipro killed two people and wounded 12, while three died in Zaporizhzhia.
In all, 25 locations across Ukraine, including the capital city Kyiv, were hit, leaving many areas without electricity and heating. Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on Telegram that major energy facilities were damaged in the Poltava, Kharkiv and Kyiv regions, and work was under way to restore power.
In Russia, the defence ministry said its forces had shot down 79 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched more than 450 exploding bomber..

What Hungary's Orban did – and didn't – get from Trump8 hours agoShareSaveNick ThorpeBudapest, HungaryShareSaveEPA/ShutterstockOn the surface, the Hungarian prime minister's trip was exactly what he went to Washington for: luxuriant praise and an exemption from sanctions on Russian oil, gas and nuclear supplies.
And all that just five months out from a difficult election.
Look closer, however, and the picture is less clear cut. The US side struck a hard trade deal – and an expensive one for Hungary.
And there's no progress on Viktor Orban's biggest headache: ending the war in neighbouring Ukraine, and with it the long shadow the conflict casts over Hungary.
Let's look first at Orban's key win – an exemption from US sanctions, which a White House official told the BBC was time-limited to one year, although Péter Szijjártó, Hungary's foreign minister, said would be indefinite.
The time span is interesting. Trump clearly wants to help his friend wi..