5 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Latest refinery strike shows ‘no safe places in Russia’s deep rear’

Bashneft oil refinery in Ufa is 1,400km from Ukrainian border; Zelenskyy says Trump can repeat Middle East peace success in Ukraine. What we know on day 1,327Ukrainian drones have struck Russia’s Bashneft oil refinery in Ufa, 1,400km from Ukraine, causing explosions and a fire, a source in Ukraine’s SBU security service told Reuters on Saturday. “This is the third SBU deep strike in Bashkortostan in the last month Such strikes demonstrate that there are no safe places in the deep rear of the Russian Federation.”Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine “[like in] the Middle East” during a phone call on Saturday. “If a war can be stopped in one region, then surely other wars can be stopped as well, including the Russian war,” Zelenskyy said, hailing Trump’s “outstanding” Gaza ceasefire plan and calling for the US president to pressure the Kremlin into negotiations.Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least five people on Saturday and cut power to parts of Ukra...

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11 h. ago Tens of thousands descend on London to mark two years since war in Gaza began

A counter-protest by Stop The Hate was also organised

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11 h. ago Many unresolved questions remain as a ceasefire holds in Gaza

A ceasefire is holding in Gaza between Israel and Hamas after two years of war

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12 h. ago Police use Public Order Act to keep rival protesters apart at London demonstration marking two years since Gaza war began

Police use Public Order Act to keep rival protesters apart at London demonstration marking two years since Gaza war began  Sky News

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15 h. ago Hamas thanks Donald Trump for ceasefire deal but says Tony Blair is NOT welcome in Gaza because he 'destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan'

A Peace plan brokered by the US President came into effect at noon local time (10am BST) on Friday, marking an end to two years of devastating war that has ravaged Gaza.

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15 h. ago Drone footage above Gaza City shows the toll of 2 years of war

New drone footage shows what remains of Gaza City after two years of war as a ceasefire holds in its second day

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16 h. ago Police try to keep rival protesters apart as London demonstration marks two years since Gaza war began

Police try to keep rival protesters apart as London demonstration marks two years since Gaza war began  Sky News

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16 h. ago Police try to keep rival protesters apart as London demonstration marks two years since Gaza war

Police try to keep rival protesters apart as London demonstration marks two years since Gaza war  Sky News

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35 h. ago Returning to ruins: photos of Palestinian families going home

Palestinian families who have been displaced by Israel's two-year war on Hamas have started returning to their destroyed homes in Gaza after the Israeli military announced a ceasefire with Hamas.

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37 h. ago Some Palestinians pack up and move north toward their homes in Gaza after ceasefire goes into effect

Tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza have started moving north toward their homes, or what remains of them, after a ceasefire agreement came into effect

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39 h. ago Israel says Gaza ceasefire has begun as troops pull back and thousands of Palestinians return home

IDF says ceasefire agreement came in at midday local time, with Israeli hostages expected to be released early next week

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41 h. ago Palestinians displaced to southern Gaza begin journey home as ceasefire comes into effect

Thousands walk north along coastal road after Israel-Hamas agreement puts stop to fighting for first time in six monthsGaza ceasefire deal – live updatesThousands of displaced Palestinians have begun to return home from southern Gaza after a ceasefire came into effect and Israeli troops withdrew to an agreed-upon redeployment line – the first time that fighting has stopped in the devastated territory since March.The Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement, which was approved by the Israeli cabinet on Thursday night and begins the first phase of a US-drafted plan to end the war in Gaza, had been activated at noon local time (0900 GMT) on Friday. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – ‘wounded child, no surviving family’ – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after themWithin a few months, the war in Gaza had already made its own addition to the vocabulary of emergency medical assistance with the world’s most heartbreaking acronym: WCNSF, “wounded child, no surviving family”.Over two years of bombardment and famine the problem has worsened, even though in the constant chaos created by Israeli bombing and evacuation orders, which fragment communities and scatter them around the Gaza Strip, it is hard to keep track of children separated from their families. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Israel says ceasefire has begun as troops pull back from some areas of Gaza

IDF says ceasefire agreement came in at midday local time, with Israeli hostages expected to be released early next week

Politics

44 h. ago Israel says ceasefire has begun as troops pulled back from some areas of Gaza

IDF says ceasefire agreement came in at midday local time, with Israeli hostages expected to be released early next week

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45 h. ago Netanyahu has clung on through Israel’s war, but will he survive peace? Experts weigh in on what happens next

With a ceasefire set to take effect, questions loom over whether the Israeli PM can hold together his far-right coalition. But analysts tell Taz Ali that the great survivor of Israeli politics may find a way to carry on

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46 h. ago Yvette Cooper says there are 'no plans' for British troops to join a Gaza peacekeeping force under Donald Trump's proposals

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in the two-year war in Gaza under a deal brokered by the US President.

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46 h. ago Indonesia denies visa to Israeli gymnastics team amid Gaza outcry

Indonesia to bar Israeli athletes from gymnastics world championships in Jakarta

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48 h. ago Israel approves Trump's Gaza ceasefire and hostage release plan as Hamas says war 'over'

Israeli hostages expected to be released early next week and ceasefire begin on Saturday after Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet ratified the peace agreement

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50 h. ago An AP photographer shares the stories behind some of her most poignant Gaza images

AP photographer Fatima Shbair tells the stories behind some of her most poignant images from covering the war in her homeland, Gaza

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