11 h. ago Palestinian doctors ‘tortured into confessions’ in harrowing claims of abuse against Israel’s soldiers

Dr Khaled Al-Serr, a surgeon at Al-Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, claims he was brutally beaten and other inmates told him they had been raped in Sde Teiman military detention centre, southern Israel. Chief International Correspondent Bel Trew reports

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44 h. ago 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands review – war crimes revisited

In the final part of a bravura trilogy detailing the struggle to bring war criminals to account, Sands tracks a former SS commander to Chile, where he found a friend in Augusto PinochetThis is the concluding part of Philippe Sands’s extraordinary trilogy – part history, part moral investigation, part memoir – that documents the legal and personal battles to bring to account Nazi war criminals and their disciples.In East West Street he recounted the plight of Lviv, the city now in Ukraine, whose Jewish population either fled before Nazi occupation or, like many of Sands’s extended family, was thereafter wiped out. Two Jewish lawyers who got out early were instrumental in creating the legal concepts of crimes against humanity and genocide that were introduced at the Nuremberg trials. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Iran threatens to strike US bases and 'blow up' the Middle East if Trump launches military action over nuclear deal

Iran has threatened to strike American bases and 'blow up' the entire Middle East if Donald Trump follows through on his warning of military action in the absence of a new nuclear deal.

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5 d. ago Elton John in 'awful state' over making album while war is going on in Middle East

Sir Elton John has opened up about making his latest album featuring Brandi Carlile but admits his mind was in two places during the recording due to conflict in the Middle East

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5 d. ago Drivers warned as A725 East Kilbride Expressway slip road to close on first day of Easter holidays

Drivers are advised to plan alternative routes to avoid delays.

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6 d. ago 'Super gonorrhoea' warning as health bosses say STI 'could become untreatable'

Drug resistant strains of gonorrhoea are on the rise with many linked to travel to South East Asia - the UKHSA has warned Brits to get tested if they have casual sex

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6 d. ago Cold war chronicler: Thomas Billhardt’s East Germany – in pictures

The photojournalist, who died in January, captured daily life in East Germany as well as Castro and Gorbachev’s visits, the fall of the Berlin Wall and life in Vietnam during the war Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Mastermind in Edinburgh's gang war is 'ex football hooligan' living in Middle East

Neighbourhoods in Edinburgh have been shaken by a wave of horrific shootings and firebombing in recent weeks - violent reprisal attacks for an underworld heist.

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8 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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9 d. ago UK hit by hundreds of lightning strikes on Saturday amid heavy rainfall

It comes after the country saw its warmest spring equinox day since 1972 on Thursday as temperatures reached 21C in some areas.

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1 week ago Hegseth beefs up warship presence in the Middle East and will have 2 aircraft carriers in the region

A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is beefing up the Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ordering two aircraft carriers to be there next month as the U.S. increases strikes on Yemen-based Houthi rebels

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1 week ago Israel orders army to ‘seize more ground’ in Gaza if Hamas does not release hostages

Call from defence minister comes as Supreme Court freezes Benjamin Netanyahu’s sacking of the domestic intelligence chief

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1 week ago Trump provokes a MAGA backlash as he wades into Middle East wars

Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both expressed skepticism over the strikes and prospect of a wider war against Iran.

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2 w. ago Can Tucker Carlson talk Trump down from escalating war with Iran? He’s done it before.

Tucker Carlson is urging the president to not ‘let the propagandists lie to you’ and back away from escalating a military conflict with Iran. The former Fox News host did the same thing after the killing of Qasem Soleimani threatened a regional war in the Middle East.

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2 w. ago Why has Israel launched dozens of strikes on Gaza – and what happens now over the ceasefire?

‘This offensive will continue as long as necessary, and will expand beyond air strikes,’ the Israeli military has said

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2 w. ago The giant warehouse that has become a ‘plague’ on the residents of one quiet English town

Work began last year on a large warehouse the size of six full-size football pitches in Nacton, near Ipswich, towering over nearby gardens at over 21 metres tall.

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2 w. 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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2 w. ago Israel strikes Damascus 'terror HQ' in bid to kill Palestinian jihadi fighters

Israeli warplanes have hit the 'terror HQ' in neighbouring Syria, warning the new regime there is no place to hide for militants amid fears of a fresh outbreak of war in the Middle East

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2 w. ago East Kilbride top 100 Lowland League goals but boss warns title is far from sealed

Mick Kennedy watched his side hit a huge mileston in the fifth tier last week

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3 w. ago Met Office fog warning issued as 'flight delays and travel chaos' on the cards

The yellow fog warning was issued for parts of the North East, North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire today with the Met Office adding there could be 'delays or cancellations' to flights

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