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Huge crowds gathered to protest against President Donald Trump’s policies in cities across the US – among them New York, Washington DC, Chicago and Miami. The No Kings coalition, which organisers describe as comprising roughly 300 groups, first gained prominence in June with nationwide demonstrations on Donald Trump’s birthday that organisers said drew millions. Ahead…

Koh EweSingapore, Tri WahyuniJakarta and Abdul Latief ApriamanLombok Getty Images Indonesia is on a mission to turn Lombok island into another Bali – and put it on a tourist bucket list Damar, one of the best surf guides on the Indonesian island of Lombok, feels right at home taking tourists out to sea. With his…

Reuters Hamas says it has been working to recover the remains of dead hostages beneath the rubble left by Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip The Red Cross has received two bodies in Gaza that Hamas says are hostages, the Israeli military has said. The remains will be transported to Israel and formally identified. Hamas…

Ashitha Nagesh, Sajid Iqbal and Kirstie Brewer US Department of Justice Prosecutors said the weapons found on board Pahlawan’s boat were “some of the most sophisticated” arms Iran produces A weapons smuggler who used a fishing boat to ship ballistic missile parts from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen has been sentenced to 40 years…

Charlie Northcott and Ben Milne BBC It started with a suitcase hidden under a bed. It was 2009, and Antony Easton’s father, Peter, had recently died. As Antony started to engage with the messy business of probate, he came across a small brown leather case in his father’s old flat in the Hampshire town of…

Shohei Ohtani delivered one of the greatest performances in baseball history as defending champions the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers to reach the World Series. Japan’s Ohtani smashed three huge home runs and struck out 10 Brewers batters in a comprehensive 5-1 victory as the Dodgers swept the series 4-0. The 31-year-old’s trifecta…

A pair of British women arrived on Australia’s east coast on Saturday after a gruelling six-month journey rowing across the Pacific Ocean from Peru. Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne crewed their boat in two-hour shifts, catching fish and growing their own vegetables to sustain themselves along the way. The duo say they are the first…

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defence says 11 people were killed, all from the same family, after the bus they were in was hit by an Israeli tank shell in northern Gaza. The family, it said, were trying to reach their home to inspect it when the incident happened in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on…

BBC A large crowd gathered for the players’ funeral on Saturday Afghanistan will no longer take part in an upcoming cricket series after it says three players in a local tournament were killed in an air strike. The Afghan Cricket Board (ACB) said it would withdraw from November’s tri-nation T20 series out of respect for…

The head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has told the BBC the tide is turning on starvation in Gaza, as more aid enters the territory after Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal. Speaking from Gaza City, Tom Fletcher said “hundreds of trucks a day” were now entering the costal enclave,…