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The World Health Organisation has asked China for more detailed information about an outbreak of a respiratory illness and reported clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia...

A temporary truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, lasting at least four days, is set to begin on Thursday morning with the war...

A vehicle has exploded on a bridge connecting the US and Canada – with the FBI warning that the situation is “very fluid”. The...

Israel’s government has agreed to back a deal with Hamas for the release of some hostages in Gaza and a temporary pause in the...

There’s a makeshift shrine like none other outside the Ayoub family home in southern Lebanon. Underneath a large picture of three little girls and...

Yemen’s Houthis rebels have released a video showing armed men seizing a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea. The video from Yemeni Military...

A first group of prematurely-born babies have arrived in Egypt for treatment after they were evacuated from Gaza’s biggest hospital. The 28 infants were...

Over 200 gang members have been sentenced to a total of more than 2,200 years in prison after one of the biggest mafia trials...

Israel’s latest evidence is the most convincing yet of Hamas military activity at al Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest.  Thus far, it falls short of...

Hamas could release a significant number of Israeli hostages “in coming days”, Israel’s ambassador to the US has said. Around 240 hostages were taken...

Gaza is on the “precipice of major disease outbreaks”, the World Health Organisation has said With 800,000 people crammed into overcrowded schools and other...

Israel’s military has released a video of what it claims is a 55-metre tunnel used by Hamas beneath Gaza’s largest hospital. The footage, published...

Gaza has lost its largest hospital. Al Shifa has been the beating heart of the strip’s medical infrastructure for almost eight decades, but now...

Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix in dramatic fashion on Sunday, on a weekend marred by controversy in Sin City. The Dutchman...

Taylor Swift has postponed a concert in Rio de Janeiro due to “extreme temperatures”. The heat index, which combines temperature and humidity, reached 59.7C...

The Shifa Hospital in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip is a “death zone” with a mass grave at the entrance and a “desperate” situation inside,...

Israel’s beleaguered prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has bowed to pressure after a five-day march by families of hostages taken by Hamas and thousands of...

The Hamas-run health ministry has claimed at least 50 people have been killed in an Israeli attack on a school in northern Gaza. The...