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Israeli troops have been pulling out of the Palestinian city of Jenin following one of their biggest West Bank operations in years. Convoys of military vehicles were seen leaving less than 48 hours after the offensive started. Despite the withdrawal, explosions could still be heard amid unconfirmed reports of a gunfight near a hospital. At
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Greek police are investigating the deaths of two Irish teenagers who were celebrating the end of their school exams on the island of Ios. The bodies of Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall, both 18, were discovered on Sunday, and it is believed that the teenagers died in separate incidents. Andrew O’Donnell went missing after a
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Dissatisfaction over Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, underlined by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s armed mutiny, has created a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity for the US to recruit spies, the director of the CIA has said. William Burns said the aborted mutiny was a challenge to the Russian state that showed the corrosive effect of Mr Putin’s war
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Australia has become the first country to allow psychiatrists to prescribe psychedelics to patients with depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). From Saturday, Australian physicians can prescribe doses of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, for PTSD. Psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in so called “magic” mushrooms, can also be given to people who have hard-to-treat depression.
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President Putin is directing a major “damage limitation” exercise in Russia to re-impose his authority and purge those responsible for the potential coup attempt, following Yevgeny Prigozhin’s abortive “march for justice” towards the Russian capital last weekend. But what of Prigozhin? Is he a dead man walking, or is his exile to Belarus simply an
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The number of Russian personnel at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is gradually being reduced, according to Ukraine. Its military intelligence agency announced the apparent drawdown on Telegram, but Russia has so far not commented. There have been ongoing fears about a potential disaster at the facility in southern Ukraine since the Russians took it
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Protests and riots over the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Paris have continued for a second night – and spread to other cities in France. The suburb of Nanterre, where the 17-year-old delivery driver was killed following a traffic stop, saw another night of violence on Wednesday as police fired tear gas and protesters
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