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Tesla is being investigated by the US government after reports the firm’s self-driving cars had broken traffic laws, including driving on the wrong side of the road and not stopping for red lights. It said it was aware of 58 reports where the electric cars had committed such violations, according to a filing from the…

GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO/EPA/Shutterstock Gisèle Pelicot told the court in Nîmes this week she was the “only victim” of rape A court in southern France has increased by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot. The 72-year-old retired grandmother was drugged unconscious by her then-husband Dominique for…

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that a boat recently bombed by the US was “Colombian with Colombian citizens inside”, an allegation the White House called “baseless”. The US has struck at least four vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, killing 21 people. The US government has said the strikes in international waters were…

Palestinians in Gaza have celebrated the agreement of a ceasefire and hostage release deal – but many fear confronting the grief that has built up over two years of war. “This morning, when we heard the news about the truce, it brought both joy and pain,” 38-year-old Umm Hassan, who lost his 16-year-old son during…

At least 13 people have been killed after an attack on one of the last remaining hospitals in el-Fasher, a Sudanese city trapped under siege. Sixteen others, including a doctor and nurse, were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled Saudi hospital several times on Tuesday night, a source there told the BBC.…

A Dutch beekeeper has spoken of his shock after his 10 beehives were burned down in a park in the central city of Almere, with the loss of an estimated half a million bees. Harold Stringer said each hive had a colony of 40-60,000 bees, and the thought that anyone could kill them was horrific.…

Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent Anadolu via Getty Images More than 90% of Gaza’s housing has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN It is a major moment in this most grievous Gaza war. Most of all, it is a human moment. The first sparks tell this story: the dancing in the dark in Tel…

Watch: Israelis celebrate deal to return hostages US President Donald Trump’s announcement of an agreement which is expected to result in the release of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip for more than two years has caused delight and relief across Israel. The Hostages Families Forum, an organisation that has advocated for the return…

Peter HoskinsBusiness reporter Bloomberg via Getty Images Neodymium is used to make the strong magnets used in loudspeakers, computer hard drives, electric car motors and jet engines China has tightened its rules on the export of rare earths – the elements that are crucial to the manufacture of many high-tech products. New regulations announced by…

Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack. The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached.…