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Benjamin Netanyahu stood in front of a giant digital map, that mysteriously erased the West Bank and explained why Israeli forces wouldn’t be leaving Gaza anytime soon. He has shied away from engaging with Israeli media during the war but was forced to do this press conference under pressure from the huge protests on the

Vladimir Putin has arrived in Mongolia on his first visit to a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since it issued a warrant for his arrest nearly 18 months ago on charges of war crimes in Ukraine. The Russian president is due to meet Mongolian leader Ukhnaa Khurelsukh on Tuesday. Ukraine wants Mongolia to

The international influence of Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), a branch of the Islamic State, has been on the rise. The group has been linked to numerous attacks and planned attacks in 2024. The highest profile plots include a deadly attack on a concert hall in Moscow, foiled plans to disrupt three Taylor Swift concerts in

A far-right party is on track to win a regional election in Germany for the first time since the Second World War. Alternative for Germany (AfD), founded in 2013 with an anti-migration and eurosceptic agenda, picked up the most votes in the eastern state of Thuringia, according to exit polls. The party was on course

Six Israeli hostages in Gaza have been confirmed dead by their families, hours after Israel’s army said it had found bodies in the territory. The bodies of Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Ori Danino were brought back to Israel, the Israeli military said in a statement. All were abducted

Seven people have been killed and dozens more injured after a bus crash in Mississippi. A six-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister were among those who died when the bus overturned on a major motorway near Bovina in Warren County just before 1am on Saturday morning. Pictures from the scene showed the extremely damaged red

At least 15 Islamic State militants have been killed in a coordinated attack by US and Iraqi forces, according to US Central Command. Soldiers raided an area in western Iraq in the early hours of Thursday morning and seven US troops were injured. “The [IS] element was armed with numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’

An Egyptian worker has been seriously injured after a fight broke out involving tourists, according to local media. The fracas reportedly started after four tourists did not pay for services that were used at a hotel in the town of Taba, Egypt‘s state-affiliated Al-Qahera News TV said on Friday. One of the tourists reportedly verbally

Abba has become the third musical act this month to complain about its music being used in Donald Trump’s campaign. The Swedish group have demanded the campaign immediately remove videos featuring the “unauthorised” use of their hit songs including Dancing Queen at a recent rally. Last weekend, the Foo Fighters said they did not and

There’s a great power rivalry playing out in the Pacific, and it stretches across vast swathes of ocean and small island countries. The competition is between China and the West, which is represented by the US, Australia, New Zealand and France. This week the leaders of 18 Pacific Island countries have met in Tonga, wearing

Hundreds of thousands of dead fish have blanketed a Greek tourist port, leaving authorities scrambling to clean up. Last year, the fish were displaced from their usual freshwater habitats after flooding forced them into the sea, which experts believe killed them. Their bodies poured into the port of the central city of Volos this week.

A dolphin thought to be responsible for nearly 50 attacks on humans in recent years may be lashing out because it is lonely, experts have said. There have been 18 attacks on swimmers at a seaside town in southern Japan since 21 July, all believed to have been carried out by the same male bottlenose

Police hunting for a murder suspect found him after he fell through the ceiling. Around a month after the shooting of Troy Cunningham, in April, in Memphis, Tennessee, federal officers in the US issued an arrest warrant for Deario Wilkerson. On 26 August, officers travelled to a home, also in Memphis, where they suspected the

A Major League Baseball (MLB) player has made history by being the first to bat for two different teams in the same game. Danny Jansen, 29, was signed to the Toronto Blue Jays when they faced off against the Boston Red Sox on 26 June, but the game was called off and rescheduled due to

Donald Trump has suggested he might back out of a scheduled debate with rival presidential hopeful Kamala Harris – as he says the network it is scheduled to be on is “hostile” to Republicans. Speaking inside a Vietnamese restaurant in Virginia, Trump said he watched ABC’s This Week on Sunday and did not like how