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Israel’s military says infantry backed by tanks have carried out “localised raids” in the Gaza Strip. It comes ahead of an expected ground operation, with Israel warning more than a million people in the north of Gaza to evacuate to the south. The small raids were carried out to attack Hamas rocket crews and seek

Israeli infantry and tanks have carried out “localised raids” in Gaza – the first hint at a shift to ground assaults. The small raids were carried out to attack Hamas rocket crews and seek information on the location of hostages taken by Palestinian gunmen last Saturday, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. It is the first

A teacher has died and two people have been seriously injured during a knife attack at a school in France, according to local media. The incident took place at the Gambetta secondary school in Arras – a town in northern France, near to the city of Lens. “The perpetrator is in police custody,” French interior

The government has organised flights to get British nationals out of Israel, the Foreign Office has said. The first flight is set to leave Tel Aviv later on Thursday, it added. Airlines and governments are scrambling to evacuate thousands from Israel ahead of a possible ground assault on Gaza. Evacuation efforts come as the combined

The King has expressed his condolences and “deep shock” at the “barbaric” actions by Hamas in a call with Israel’s president – as Prince William said he was “profoundly distressed” by the “horrors” inflicted. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog thanked the King for his support and said his words were an “important statement” which would serve

Israel could be just “hours or days” from launching a ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza, according to Sky’s security and defence analyst Michael Clarke. With more than two million people living in Gaza, which is 25 miles wide, what would Israel consider before such an attack and how could Hamas respond? Here, we look at

Beer quality is on a steady decline and is likely to cost more at the bar because of climate change, a new study has found. Experts said with falling hop yields, British and European drinkers should expect to see the cost of beer increase in the coming years. Researchers highlighted how the increase in agricultural

Hundreds of homes have been flattened as another earthquake shook a part of western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning – just days after more than 2,445 died in an earlier quake. At least 80 were injured in the 6.3 magnitude earthquake in rural parts of Herat province, around 28km (17 miles) outside the region’s capital, Herat.

Israel will be looking at all military options at the moment.  And they don’t look very good – not with 130 or so Israeli hostages imprisoned and dispersed all over Gaza. But after Israel’s current bombing campaign – designed to go after Hamas ammunition supplies and command facilities, most of which are disguised in ostensibly

From destroyed homes I watched stretcher bearers bringing out the body of a small child.    Without saying a word, the men carried the body and loaded it onto a truck alongside the bodies of other members of the community murdered as they hid or tried to defend themselves. We were taken to the Kfar

UK gas prices have reached a six-month high after an Israeli gas field was closed and a Finnish gas pipe was damaged. While the oil price stabilised from Monday morning by returning to below $88 (£71.84) a barrel, UK gas prices rose more than 12% to nearly 123p a therm (122.96) Tuesday afternoon – a

Iran is being widely accused of helping orchestrate Hamas’s attack on Israel. Although Iran has denied direct involvement, the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said it “kisses the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime”. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) has long supported Hamas with both financial and military assistance.

“Where have you been? Where was everybody?” The questions were being screamed at soldiers on a highway by a man stricken with grief.  His brother had had only a week left to go in the army but was killed today in a shootout with Hamas on Israeli soil. The entire country wants those questions answered.

Drivers in Singapore now need to pay £88,000 for the right to own a car – and that doesn’t include the cost of the vehicle itself. The city-state is the most expensive place in the world to be a motorist, with skyrocketing prices putting cars out of reach for most middle-class Singaporeans. Back in 1990,

At least 14 people have died and more than 100 are missing after sudden rain flooded towns in northeastern India. More than 2,000 people were rescued after Wednesday’s deluge, the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority said, adding that authorities have set up 26 relief camps for over 22,000 people affected by the floods. The Press

A picture showing two female Chinese athletes which makes an unintentional reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre appears to have been censored on social media in China. Gold medal winner Lin Yuwei was being embraced by Wu Yanni after the 100m hurdles final at the Asian Games when their race numbers formed ’64’. The number

Scientists say they have discovered planet-like objects in a distant nebula unconnected to any star to orbit – and floating in pairs. Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show the Orion Nebula in the clearest detail yet, and researchers say closer investigations throw up a surprising phenomenon. Around 40 gassy “planets” have been

Apple is blaming a software bug and issues tied to apps like Instagram and Uber for causing its recently released iPhone 15 models to get too hot. The company said over the weekend that it is working on an update to the iOS17 system that powers the iPhone 15 line-up to prevent the devices from

At least 10 female Cuban migrants have died after a truck they were travelling in crashed on a road in southern Mexico on Sunday, officials have said. One of the women who died was under 18 and 17 other women were seriously injured in the crash on a highway near the town of Pijijiapan, close

Turkey has carried out an airstrike in northern Iraq after a suicide bombing attack in capital Ankara, its defence ministry said. The airstrike destroyed 20 targets belonging to the Kurdish militant group PKK, which claimed responsibility for the bombing. Earlier on Sunday, two police officers were injured in an attack in Ankara, hours before parliament