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Israeli killings of Gaza civilians during raid may be war crimes: UN

Palestinian officials say Israeli forces killed 274 people during the operation to rescue four captives held in Gaza.The United Nations human rights office says...

Tourists are evacuated from Palace of Versailles as fire breaks out in roof

A fire has broken out at France's historic Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of Paris, prompting staff to order a mass evacuation of...

The nationalist Right has created a pan-European identity

The Right is on the march across the continent, declared worried liberals and ecstatic conservatives alike as the results of the elections to the...

UN ‘shocked’ at Israeli hostage rescue’s impact on Gaza civilians

3 hours agoBy David Gritten, BBC NewsAFPMr Laurence noted that the UN human rights office’s ability to verify the casualty reports was limited because of access...

Ukraine ‘hits missile launch sites in Russia’

The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has said that the situation there has been "calmer" since Russian missile launchers shelling it were...

American teachers stabbed in China in park rampage

Chinese police said a suspect, a 55-year-old man surnamed Cui, had been...

Blinken says Hamas signoff still needed on Gaza ceasefire resolution

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said endorsement of the UN security council’s ceasefire resolution by Hamas officials was a “hopeful sign”, but...

Putin’s warships & sub pass US coast in echo of Cuban Missile Crisis

VLADIMIR Putin’s warships and nuclear submarine are passing just 25 miles from the United States in a chilling echo of the Cuban Missile Crisis.Footage...

Ukraine seeks air defence boost to protect battered energy grid

The Ukrainian leader asks for help in repelling air attacks, warning Russia has destroyed half of Ukraine’s power production capacity.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called...

Gaza war: Blinken says fate of ceasefire plan down to Hamas

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that if a ceasefire plan backed by the US and UN does not progress, Hamas will...

Beaten and tortured: the north African children paying a bloody price for Europe’s insatiable appetite for cocaine

Maddalena Chiarenza never quite knows what state the children will be in when they arrive at her door. She has seen terrible injuries. Black...

Revealed: drug cartels force migrant children to work as foot soldiers in Europe’s booming cocaine trade

Hundreds of unaccompanied child migrants across Europe are being forced to work as soldiers for increasingly powerful drug cartels to meet the continent’s soaring...

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