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At least 44 people have died after a stampede at a religious festival in Israel resulted in a crush. More than 100 have been injured at the Lag B’Omer celebrations in Mount Meron, northern Israel. The national ambulance service told Sky News that “scores” of people have died, with the death toll continuing to rise.

At least 28 people have been killed after a “disastrous” crush at a religious bonfire festival in Israel. The country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has described the incident as a “heavy disaster”, adding: “We are all praying for the wellbeing of the casualties.” Dozens of people were hurt at the Lag Ba’Omer event in northern

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has appeared in public for the first time since going on hunger strike – via video link during a court hearing. The 44-year-old Russian opposition leader, who told the court he looks like a “creepy skeleton”, was arrested earlier this year and is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a prison some

Russian and Chinese media are trying to sow mistrust in western COVID-19 vaccines, according to a European report. The report says that between December and April, the two countries’ state media outlets published fake news online in a number of languages. They sensationalised vaccine safety concerns, publicised unfounded links between vaccines and deaths in Europe,

The number of people who have died with coronavirus in India has passed 200,000. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare gave an updated official figure of 201,187, although many believe the real figure is much higher. This means there were 3,293 deaths reported in the most recent 24-hour period, as the world’s second-largest country

There’s growing concern that India’s official tally of coronavirus deaths does not match what grieving relatives and others are seeing on the ground. India has continued to post alarmingly high global record numbers of coronavirus cases, with more than 300,000 every day for the past week. But its deaths are still low in comparison to

A major new report by Human Rights Watch has concluded that Israel is presiding over a system of apartheid in the Palestinian Territories which amount to “crimes against humanity”. The controversial 213-page document, produced over two years and titled A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, accuses Israel of methodically

India’s hospitals are already full to bursting, but doctors in Delhi are warning there could be even worse to come. Hard to imagine just how much worse it could get when the country’s citizens are begging in the street for air; people are collapsing and dying on hospital doorsteps and administrators are saying oxygen is

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been sentenced to another year in prison on charges of “propaganda activities against the regime” in Iran, according to reports. The UK-Iranian national is also banned from leaving the country for one year, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Emtedad news website. “Nazanin Zaghari was sentenced to one year in prison and one

The frantic hunt for oxygen is an ugly one at the epicentre of the world’s coronavirus pandemic. There’s shouting. There’s pleading. There’s crying. And there’s death. Dozens of vehicles were crammed into a narrow road outside a Sikh temple in the east of the Indian capital, New Delhi. Image: The situation in the Indian capital

Ventilators are among 600 pieces of life-saving medical equipment being sent from the UK to India as the country battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to “stand side by side” with India as it struggles with its highest numbers of new daily coronavirus cases to date since the pandemic

The heat is intense. The grief is palpable. Fires just do not stop burning in the Indian capital, Delhi, right now. The coronavirus dead are piled up in vehicles and ambulances and rickshaws – as India continues to set daily global records for new infections. Image: An crematorium in Delhi cremating people who have died

The oxygen supply for the 53 crew members of an Indonesian navy submarine missing in waters off Bali is believed to have run out, with no sign of the vessel. Rescue teams from several countries have been battling against time to find the KRI Nanggala 402 which went missing during a training exercise in waters

People were dying on the pavement outside one of the biggest hospitals in the Indian capital, Delhi, as doctors struggled to cope with the country’s dwindling supplies of oxygen amid a massive second surge in coronavirus cases. India is now the world’s fastest-growing coronavirus crisis and for the second day running it set a record

A French police officer has been stabbed to death inside her police station and her attacker shot and killed nearby, authorities have said. A police source said the woman was stabbed in the throat during the attack just inside the station in Rambouillet, a town southwest of Paris home to a former royal estate. The

In his neat flat in the Polish town of Rybnik, Emil Nagalewski sips a coffee, strokes his cat and then asks if we want to see how he stops his family being poisoned by the air around us. We are taken to a small anteroom, where Emil shows us the silver pipes leading into the