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Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza have killed at least 20 people, including five journalists, according to the Gaza health ministry and the media organisations the journalists worked for. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was struck twice on Monday in what has been described as a “double-tap” attack. The initial strike hit the

It is an innocuous term for a horrible tactic. A “double tap” sounds so innocent and unthreatening. In fact, it is a term saved for a particularly brutal kind of attack. And so it seems was the fate of those who died in the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. First one strike hit the

It was Donald Trump’s first meeting with the new president of South Korea. A highly unconventional platform for glowing words about the North Korean one. As he sat across from Lee Jae Myung, Mr Trump said he got along “great” with Kim Jong Un and would like to meet him again “this year”. He said

A manhunt is under way for a gunman who shot and killed two officers and seriously injured another at a rural property in a remote part of Australia, police have said. The wounded officer was “shot in the lower body” in the incident near Porepunkah, a town of around 1,000 people roughly 300km (190 miles)

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Iran of organising two antisemitic attacks in Australia. Mr Albanese said the Australian security intelligence organisation (ASIO) found that the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on a kosher food company in Sydney and on a Melbourne synagogue in October and December last year. “Iran has sought to

Three people have been killed and at least 13 others injured in a typhoon in Vietnam, authorities said. Typhoon Kajiki hit Vietnam‘s north central coast on Monday, damaging nearly 7,000 homes, felling 18,000 trees and flooding thousands of hectares of rice plantings. Among the three victims are a 90-year-old man whose house collapsed in the

A 16-year-old has been convicted in Germany for supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year. The teenager, named Mohammad A, who cannot be fully identified under Germany’s privacy laws, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad. He was handed

A hospital in Gaza that was hit in an Israeli strike, killing 20 people including five journalists, has rejected the Israeli military’s claim it struck the facility because it was targeting what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera as well as people identified as militants. The statement was part of the military’s initial inquiry

Nadav is tired, frustrated and haunted, yet he smiles when we meet. For 690 days, he has been waiting for the world to change, and he’s still waiting, and hoping. Back on 7 October 2023, his father Tal was seized by Hamas and taken to Gaza. Tal is now dead – it’s not clear when

Blindfolded and under armed guard, a captured ISIS fighter is brought before us. When the blindfold is removed, he doesn’t look surprised to see a camera crew and several counterterrorism officers, one of whom interrogated him when he was first caught. The 24-year-old militant is on death row in Somalia awaiting execution by firing squad,

Why is Donald Trump threatening to impose sanctions, or tariffs, or maybe both, on India in relation to the Ukraine war? The short answer is that India has established itself as one of the single most important customers for one of the single most important products made in Russia: crude oil. You only have to

The family of a father who disappeared with his three children nearly four years ago in New Zealand have broken their silence to appeal for him to return home. In December 2021, Tom Phillips vanished into the wilderness with his two daughters and son – but his family have said they still remain hopeful “today

Tourists have been warned not to enter the sea on the Costa Blanca in southern Spain after a poisonous sea creature was spotted. Swimming was banned along a seven-mile stretch of coast around Guardamar del Segura area just north of Torrevieja following the appearance of so-called blue dragons. Jose Luis Saez, the mayor of Guardamar

Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines, Germany’s prosecutor general said on Thursday. The suspect, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy laws, was part of a group of people who planted devices on the pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm in September 2022,

Gaza City residents say Israel carried out intense overnight bombardments as it prepares a controversial offensive to take control of the area. Sixty-thousand reservists are being called up after Benjamin Netanyahu‘s security cabinet approved the plan earlier this month. UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned of more “death and destruction” if Israel tries to seize