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Iceland’s minister for children has resigned after admitting she had a child with a teenager more than 30 years ago. Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir said in a media interview she had first started a relationship when the boy was 15 years old, and she was a 22-year-old counsellor at a religious group which he attended. She…

Getty Images Israel’s defence minister has ordered the military to “seize additional areas in Gaza” if Hamas does not free all remaining hostages. Israel Katz said on Friday that the military would continue its ground operation in Gaza “with increasing intensity” until all of the hostages “both living and dead” were returned. It is yet…

The Sudanese army has recaptured the presidential palace in Khartoum from the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, military leaders have said. Video and photographs posted on social media and verified by the BBC show jubilant soldiers waving their guns, cheering, and kneeling to pray. The army appears poised to regain control of the capital two…

Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent Artem Kariakin Artem and his unit would regularly cross into Russia – until last week Until just over a week ago, Artem Kariakin and his unit were making regular trips across Ukraine’s border into the Russian town of Sudzha. He shows me video taken with a phone of their very last…

US Justice Department The aftermath of an arson attack on a Tesla dealership in Oregon, pictured in court documents US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday that three defendants accused of vandalism targeting Elon Musk’s Tesla electric vehicle company could face up to 20 years in prison. Bondi said the damage to Tesla cars, dealerships…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired the head of the nation’s security service over its failure to anticipate the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas. The Israeli cabinet met on Thursday evening to formally approve the early dismissal of Ronen Bar, who was appointed in October 2021 for a five-year term as the Shin…

AFP Musk has described Grok as the “most fun AI in the world!” It all started with one question. A query last week from an X (formerly Twitter) account called Toka was enough to propel Elon Musk’s built in-chatbot called Grok 3 into a viral storm across India’s digital landscape. And no, it wasn’t some…

Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC Watch: President Trump signs order to shut education department ‘once and for all’ US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing officials to begin dismantling the Department of Education, a promise he made on the 2024 campaign trail. “We’re going to shut it down as quickly as…

A US federal judge said the government “evaded its obligations” to answer his questions about this weekend’s deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members. James Boasberg, the top federal judge in Washington DC, gave justice department lawyers a Thursday deadline provide information on the government’s deportation of Venezuelans to El Salvador by plane. They provided a…

Four Canadians were executed in China on drug-related charges earlier this year, Canadian authorities have confirmed. All of them were dual citizens and their identities have been withheld, Canada’s foreign minister Mélanie Joly said. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Canada urged Ottawa to “stop making irresponsible remarks”, as pundits feared a further downturn…