40 minutes ago Mozambique opposition figures killed as protest grows over election results

Lawyer Elvino Dias and official Paulo Guambe shot as their party plans a national strike over disputed electionAttackers killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing rounds at a car in which they were travelling on Saturday, ratcheting up tensions before protests against a disputed election result, rights groups said.Mozambique’s new opposition Podemos party and its presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane have rejected provisional results showing a probable win for Frelimo, the party that has ruled Mozambique for half a century. They have called for a nationwide strike on Monday. Continue reading...

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82 minutes ago Israel blames Iran for drone attack assassination bid on Netanyahu's home

The Israeli Defence Forces said three drones were fired from Lebanon into Israel, with two shot down by air defences but a third hitting a building in the upmarket town of Caesarea

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2 hours ago ‘All of this is to displace people’: Nabatieh reels from Israeli attacks on Lebanon

Airstrikes Israel says are targeting Hezbollah have killed the city’s mayor as well as civil defence workersMiddle East crisis: latest news updatesHussein Jaber, the head of Nabatieh’s civil defence station, picked his way through a mess of shattered concrete and twisted metal piled knee high, surveying what was left of the city’s Ottoman open-air market, built in 1910 and destroyed by Israeli airstrikes last Saturday.“When we were kids, everyone would come here to buy their things. This market wasn’t just for Nabatieh, but for all the villages around,” said Jaber, 30, gesturing at the ruined promenade, still smoking five days later. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Palestinian hospital patients burned alive in Israeli air strike should shame Labour into action

Since coming into power, the Labour government has suspended just 30 out of 350 licences to sell arms to Israel

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29 hours ago Death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar will make hostage negotiations 'extremely difficult' and prolong war in the region, experts warn

Hamas' leader in Gaza was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike in the Palestinian enclave, the IDF confirmed today after an extensive study of dental records.

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