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UK sanctions Israeli ministers over Gaza comments
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News AFP via Getty Images Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich are key members of PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition The UK has sanctioned two Israeli far-right ministers over comments they made on Gaza. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich will both be banned from entering the UK and will have any assets…
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BTS stars RM and V discharged from military as fans await comeback
Two members of K-pop powerhouse BTS have completed their mandatory military service, prompting fan frenzy and anticipation for their comeback. RM and V greeted fans with salutes and a saxophone performance after being discharged on Tuesday. V asked fans to “wait just a little longer” for BTS to reunite. All seven members are set to…
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Newsom says Trump ‘deranged’ as thousands more troops deployed
Watch: Police fire rubber bullets at Los Angeles protesters on Monday US President Donald Trump’s administration has sent thousands more troops to Los Angeles on a fourth day of chaotic protests against immigration raids, as the unrest spread to other US cities. Some 700 US Marines have been deployed to the LA area and the…
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At least nine dead in Austria school shooting
At least nine people have been killed in a school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz, the country’s interior ministry has said. The incident took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city. Police said the gunman was among the dead and Austria’s APA news agency has reported that seven of…
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Syria former prison guard – ‘I showed them no mercy’
Dozens of former officials have spoken to the BBC about their role enforcing the brutality of the Assad regime – including a man who said he tortured detainees, then defected in 2012. The rare first-hand testimony forms part of a BBC investigation into Syria’s notorious prisons under its former president, Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown…
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Palestinians say local gunmen and Israeli forces opened fire near Gaza aid site
Palestinians in Gaza say they were fired on once again as they headed to one of the aid distribution centres run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Monday. Witnesses said that for the first time they were fired on by Palestinian gunmen near the GHF site in the Tal al-Sultan area of…
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China’s electric cars are cheaper, but is there a deeper cost?
Theo Leggett International Business Correspondent BBC Theo will be responding to reader comments about this article between 12pm and 1pm today. Go to the comments section at the bottom of this page to share what you think about the rise of these more affordable EVs. In China, they call it the Seagull, and it has…
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A funky life – in pictures
Getty Images Sly Stone of Sly And The Family Stone poses in London on 16 July 1973. Sly Stone, a funk-rock star who led the group Sly and the Family Stone, has died at the age of 82, his family statement. A statement said he had suffered a “prolongued battle” with the lung disease COPD.…
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RFK Jr fires entire US vaccine committee
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, has removed all 17 members of a committee that issues official government recommendations on immunisations. Announcing the move in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy said that conflicts of interest on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Acip) were responsible for undermining trust…
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One dead in strike on Odesa maternity ward, officials say
Russia has launched a “massive” drone attack on the capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said, while a maternity ward in Odesa has also been targeted. The drone attack on a maternity ward and medical facilities in Odesa killed one and injured four, an official said, according to Agence France-Presse. In the capital, emergency services…
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