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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...

A French senator is being investigated over allegations he drugged an MP with the intention of sexually abusing her. Joel Guerriau is a member...

Australian says divers were injured after the Chinese navy used sonar while they were in the water clearing fishing nets. Australia’s defence minister Richard...

Biting the hand of friendship took on a literal meaning during an official visit by Austria’s president to Moldova when the country’s “first dog”...

Fears over the safety of Palestinian civilians are growing as Israel suggests its bombardment of Gaza will shift to southern areas, having destroyed swathes...

At the end of a sixth week of war, a day of burials and death but also signs the conflict is deepening. In the...

Israeli troops are continuing their operation at Gaza’s biggest hospital, al Shifa, which has been a primary target of the ground assault. The Israel...

The murderer of Irish teacher Ashling Murphy “should never see the light of day again”, her mother has said as he was sentenced to...

Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is doing all it can to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza but had “not been successful”. The Israeli prime...

To see the column of people up close was quite something. Several hundred Palestinians, young and elderly, in a thin line facing south on...