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Negotiations stall over Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand for an Israeli presence on Egypt-Gaza border

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Israel launches air strikes "in self-defence" - and Hezbollah says it has fired drones into Israel.

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Russia and Ukraine exchanged over 100 prisoners of war on Saturday as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow's full-scale invasion.

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Britain is a world leader in fixed coastal installations. But in the deep open sea, where wind speeds are higher, a new generation of farms will be required

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Former head of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease is expected to make a full recovery

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Hospitality venues across the Netherlands partake in a new scheme to combat high rates of deadly melanoma

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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian "drone missile" on Saturday that he said would take the war back to Russia and scornfully derided Russia's Vladimir Putin as a "sick old man from Red Square".

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The demand from Britain’s second biggest union will test truce with Labour at next month’s TUC conference

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Deaths reported by Gaza health workers come as delegations gather in Egypt for ceasefire talks

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The group said in a statement published on its Amaq news site that the attacker targeted Christians, 'to avenge Muslims in Palestine and everywhere.'

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When a Russian prisoner swap hit headlines recently, a jailed musician’s fatal hunger strike went unnoticed.

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Aid begins to trickle in but it is far too little, too late, says analyst Alex de Waal.

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The French president described Saturday morning's attack as "an act of terror". About 200 police officers had been hunting for the suspect.

The United States unveiled sweeping sanctions Friday against almost 400 individuals and companies tied to Russia's war in Ukraine, expanding existing measures to curb Moscow over the invasion of its neighbor.

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Sicilian prosecutors said Saturday they were investigating possible manslaughter after a superyacht sank killing seven people, as it emerged that trapped passengers scrambled for air pockets after it went down.

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Beekeepers across France say it has been a disastrous year for honey, with bees starving to death and production plummeting by up to 80 percent.

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Conservationists said Saturday that they plan to bomb a remote South African island with tons of pesticide-laced pellets to kill mice that are eating albatrosses and other seabirds alive.

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suspending his campaign and saying he is throwing his support to former President Donald Trump.

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Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight

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Approvals for new coal-fired power plants have dropped sharply in China after a flurry of permits in the previous two years raised concern about the government’s commitment to limiting climate change.

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It’s not just “Uncommitted” activists who are pressuring Kamala Harris on Gaza policy. Her own delegates are speaking out.

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At the DNC, progressives and moderates came together to support Kamala Harris by largely ignoring the most pressing moral issue of our time.

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How generations of extremist settlers have terrorized Palestinians with impunity.

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The Rohingya ethnic minority have become embroiled in an ongoing power struggle between the ruling junta and ethnic rebel groups in Myanmar's Rakhine State.

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Government pledges to step up efforts to tackle problem as figures show number of deaths rose to 1,172 in 2023

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