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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.
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- Todaynarrative27 min5-min read
US soldier arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for Russia
This edition of the BBC's Global News Podcast, hosted by Alex Ritson, delivers a dense roundup of international news: a US soldier arrested in Britain for allegedly spying for Russia, the failure of Republican efforts to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, an El Salvadoran strike on a Haitian gang headquarters, a landmark UK court ruling decriminalising same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago, a frontline report from Ukraine's drone war, the death of French Resistance heroine Solange Alexandre, Donald Trump's defamation suit against the BBC advancing, and the Skims advent calendar backlash.
- Todaynarrative28 min7-min read
How US model agencies helped Epstein access victims
This edition of the BBC's Global News Podcast, presented by Oliver Conway, weaves together a major BBC Eye investigation into the fashion industry's role in enabling Jeffrey Epstein, Washington's impeachment drama around Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, the closure of Russia's flagship independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Abu Dhabi, death sentences for Congolese soldiers, a hypnotism experiment at a Dutch cinema, a stranded round-the-world cruise, and the reveal of the 2026 BBC World Service Women's Footballer of the Year nominees.
- Yesterdaynarrative27 min7-min read
Trump backs Hegseth as he faces impeachment push
A fast-moving BBC Global News Podcast news roundup anchored by Alex Ritson, covering a Republican impeachment push against Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, France formally accusing Iran's Revolutionary Guards of a cyber attack on supermarket refrigeration, Russell Brand's conviction and sentencing for rape, the Nvidia scandal implicating CEO Jensen Huang with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset, the Hafter family's $2 billion reconstruction of Dernah in Libya, the discovery of a temporary second 'mini moon', Oxford's return of Naga ancestral remains, and 81-year-old M John Harrison winning the Booker Prize. The episode lands because it pairs hard geopolitical and legal reporting with human-scale stories of loss, restitution and literary recognition.
- 2 days agonarrative29 min7-min read
China denies spying on Nvidia boss
A wide-ranging BBC Global News Podcast edition covering the alleged honey trap and espionage scandal engulfing NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, a BBC investigation into France's DZ Mafia recruiting teenage killers, the opening of the COP31 climate summit in Turkey, David Warner breaking his silence on Sandpapergate, Sheikh Hasina's attempt to return to Bangladesh, Pope Leo's rebuke of Argentina's president, the Lobito mineral corridor in Angola, and experimental vibrating-mattress research on Alzheimer's.
- 2 days agonarrative27 min6-min read
Nvidia investigates CEO's affair with suspected Chinese spy
This edition of the BBC World Service's Global News Podcast, presented by Alex Ritson, delivers a fast-moving roundup of the day's major international stories, led by an extraordinary scandal at Nvidia, where CEO Jensen Huang has admitted an affair with a woman suspected by US intelligence of spying for China, prompting an independent board investigation. The episode also covers a deadly far-right-inspired terror attack in Krakow, a fatal train crash in Egypt, Europe's push for digital sovereignty, South Africa's historic electoral shift, Delhi's Diwali pollution crisis, California's rejected billionaire tax, and a miraculous ocean rescue.
- 2 days agonarrative27 min4-min read
The Global Story: They fled Russia. The US sent them back
This episode of The Global Story investigates the alarming trend of Western governments, including the United States and several European nations, deporting Russian dissidents, anti-war activists, and refugees back to Russia, raising serious questions about the West's commitment to protecting those who oppose the Kremlin.
- 3 days agonarrative27 min6-min read
Poland in shock as six killed in shooting
This edition of the BBC's Global News Podcast, hosted by Will Chalk, weaves together a day's major international stories: a deadly mass shooting in Krakow, a potential political turning point in Israel, flooding in Gaza, pre-election unrest in Spain, a banking scandal in Paraguay, and lighter closing items on super socks and the Boston accent. It lands as a brisk, authoritative world news briefing that balances hard-hitting reporting with human voices on the ground.
- 4 days agonarrative26 min5-min read
The Happy Pod: Celebrating the wedding that never happened
This edition of the BBC World Service's Happy Pod, hosted by Holly Gibbs, is a collection of uplifting human-interest stories: a heartbroken bride-to-be who celebrated her cancelled wedding with eleven internet strangers, a Slovak cancer survivor turned water-purification scientist, a family who relocated to Britain's most remote inhabited island, the global phenomenon of 'wind phones' for grieving, Lagos's first cat cafe, and Washington DC's annual High Heel Race.
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