3 d. ago US appears to confirm fresh strikes on Yemen; Israel issues fresh calls to evacuate northern Gaza – Middle East crisis live

US attacks target Houthis in a bid to regain control of international shipping lanes; IDF tells people to head towards ‘known shelters’ At least five people have been killed in Israeli shelling of the southern Syrian province of Daraa, local authorities said.In a post on Telegram, provincial authorities reported a provisional toll of “five people killed in the Israeli bombardment of the town of Kuwayya... west of Daraa”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Inside horror of bombed Gaza hospital after boy recovering from surgery killed in his bed

Feroze Sidhwa tells The Independent of the destruction bomb wrought on Nasser Hospital – which Israel says was targeting senior Hamas leader

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5 d. ago Trump reveals who he thinks killed JFK in bombshell interview with Clay Travis after releasing new assassination files

President Donald Trump has shared his thoughts about who killed former President John F. Kennedy in a wide-ranging interview with Outkick founder Clay Travis onboard Air Force One on Saturday.

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5 d. ago Ukrainian girl, five, and her father killed in Putin night of terror as Russian bombards Kyiv with drone attacks while peace deal begins to look further away then ever

Vladimir Putin inflicted a night of drone terror on Ukrainian capital Kyiv killing a girl aged five and her father.

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7 d. ago Man entered UK hospital with 'pressure cooker bomb' to 'kill as many nurses as possible'

He was found by an inpatient, Nathan Newby, with the bomb, knives and an imitation firearm, but luckily he was able to calm and divert Farooq before seeing police help

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7 d. ago Police consider fresh Stephen Lawrence probe after killer's bombshell confession

Scotland Yard is 'urgently assessing' an admission by David Norris that he was part of the gang that killed the 18-year-old student Stephen Lawrence at a bus stop in 1993

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7 d. ago Man who wanted to 'kill as many nurses as possible' with hospital bomb jailed for 37 years

He took a home-made bomb into St James Hospital in Leeds in January 2023

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7 d. ago Leeds hospital pressure bomb plotter jailed for life over bid 'to kill as many nurses as possible'

Mohammad Farooq was today told he will serve a minimum of 37 years in prison after taking a pressure cooker bomb into St James’s Hospital in Leeds

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8 d. ago Netanyahu is waging war on Gaza and on us – his ‘enemies within’. It’s the path to autocracy | Aluf Benn

Israel’s PM wants to ‘transfer’ Palestinians from Gaza, purge his traditional domestic rivals – and keep the right wing in power for everAluf Benn is the editor-in-chief of HaaretzTurmoil has hit the streets of Israel once again, as thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu’s dual effort to rekindle the war in Gaza, risking the lives of Israeli hostages there, and to dismiss senior civil servants who are struggling to halt Israel’s slide to autocracy.Early on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister ordered the bombing of Gaza, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas and killing hundreds of Palestinians in the midst of Ramadan.Aluf Benn is the editor-in-chief of HaaretzDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Hamas launches barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv in first revenge strike after 'hundreds killed' in Israel's new Gaza bombing campaign

Hamas said it fired rockets at Tel Aviv on Thursday in its first military response to the growing civilian death toll from Israel's resumption of air and ground operations in Gaza.

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8 d. ago Israel threatens Hamas with 'total destruction' and pounds Gaza with 'dozens more killed' overnight as Brit bomb disposal expert, 51, is injured at bombed

Israeli airstrikes overnight and into Thursday struck several homes and killed at least 58 people across the Gaza Strip, according to three hospitals.

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9 d. ago REVEALED: Hospital chiefs missed 14 chances to stop Lucy Letby killing babies, says bombshell report leaked to Mail's new podcast. Now listen to The Trial to find out more

Mail podcast uncovers bombshell report, ordered by Dr Susan Gilby, reveals babies' lives would have been saved if hospital bosses had acted sooner to remove the killer nurse Lucy Letby from working.

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1 week ago For Palestinians, this was never a ceasefire | Dalia Hartuqa

Even before this brutal attack, Israel has acted with impunity – safe in the knowledge that yet again, its allies will do nothingIn less than 24 hours, heavy Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip has killed more than 4oo Palestinians, according to Palestinian health authorities, marking the end of a ceasefire that was announced in name only between Hamas and Israel on 15 January and took effect four days later. Even after months of negotiations led by the US, Qatar and Egypt, those observing Palestinian-Israeli affairs knew the ceasefire never really meant Israel ceased its fire on the besieged coastal territory.Between 22 January and 11 March, at least 700 Palestinians were either killed by the Israeli military or their bodies were retrieved from areas medics could not previously access, according to ministry of health in Gaza as reported by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In the past two months, Israel has also reneged on the terms of the truce,...

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1 week ago Israel shatters Gaza ceasefire – Today in Focus Extra – podcast

Israeli military forces carried out strikes on dozens of targets across Gaza early on Tuesday, leaving more than 400 people dead. Emma Graham-Harrison reportsOn Tuesday, Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on Gaza, killing more than 400 people. This bombardment brings the fragile ceasefire, which began in mid-January, to an end.Israel also issued evacuation orders for the northern town of Beit Hanoun and other communities further south, which suggests that Israeli troops may launch a renewed ground operation. Continue reading...

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1 week ago In bombing Gaza, Netanyahu has chosen domestic politics over hostages

Israel’s overnight bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 400 people, shattering hopes of a long-term peace and the return of Israel’s hostages, writes Chief International Correspondent Bel Trew

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1 week ago Israel bombards Gaza with airstrikes killing 'more than 400' Palestinians including children

‘Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength,’ Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says

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1 week ago Israel bombards Gaza with airstrikes killing 'more than 300 Palestinians' including children

‘Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength,’ Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says

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1 week ago Suicide car bomber hits buses carrying security forces, killing 5 in southwestern Pakistan

At least five Pakistani officers have been killed and 10 wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of buses carrying security forces in restive Balochistan province

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1 week ago At least 16 killed after unexploded bomb from civil war goes off in Syria

Blast in coastal Latakia city reportedly occurred when a scrap dealer unknowingly handled old bomb

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1 week ago Five killed in bombing of bus carrying Pakistani security forces

At least 10 security personnel injured in attack in restive Balochistan province

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