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Israel has rejected a statement from Hamas saying the armed group is ready for a “comprehensive deal” to end the Gaza war and free all its hostages. “This is more spin by Hamas that has nothing new,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said. It insisted the war would end only once the 48 hostages –…

During the span of his career, the Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani developed a cult following with big names including Beyoncé and Liam Neeson. Back in 2007, Beyoncé described how she felt “fabulous” at 16 wearing her first Armani. “It’s a girl’s dream ,” she said at the time. Model Naomi Campbell had praised the…

Sweden has accused Russia of being behind a significant rise in instances of GPS signal jamming recorded over the Baltic Sea, raising concerns for aviation in the region. The Swedish Transport Agency (STA) said reports of disruptions have risen over the past few years, but had now become an almost daily occurrence. It recorded 733…

A federal appeals court has overturned a legal order requiring Florida and US President Donald Trump’s administration to shut Alligator Alcatraz, allowing the immigration detention centre to stay open. In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted a request from the state of Florida and the US homeland security…

The moment a funicular railway carriage was involved in a fatal crash in Lisbon, Portugal, has been heard in a video filmed by a passenger in a second carriage. The crash killed 16 people and injured more than 20 others. Rasha Abdo was in the carriage at the bottom of the hill when she felt…

Robert F Kennedy Jr faced questions on Covid deaths, vaccines and his record as the US health secretary during an often heated Senate hearing. When asked whether he accepts that one million Americans died from Covid, he responded: “I don’t know how many died… I don’t think anybody knows”. Last week the director of the…

Alice CuddySenior international reporter, in Lisbon Reuters There is a palpable sense of shock on the faces of people gathering at the site of a major funicular crash in the Portuguese capital as they hear of how a three-year-old German boy was pulled alive from the wreckage – a lucky survivor of Wednesday’s terrible crash…

Canadian police say one person has died and at least six were injured in a mass stabbing attack in a First Nations community in the province of Manitoba. On Thursday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the suspect in the stabbing had also died. The incident, described by police as a “mass casualty” event,…

At least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country’s health ministry has said. The presence of the virus had been confirmed in a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was admitted to hospital last month after showing symptoms that included a high fever and…

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Getty Images Ukraine’s president joined France’s Emmanuel Macron for the summit at the Élysée Palace UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told a summit of about 30 Western countries that they had an “unbreakable pledge” to Ukraine that was backed by the US, and now had to press Russia to…