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EPA It is not known how Shiri, Kfir and his brother Ariel – if confirmed – died Hamas is to transfer to Israel the bodies of four hostages who have been held in Gaza since being taken alive in the […]

Israel has pulled its forces from southern Lebanon apart from five positions, Lebanon’s state news agency says. Israel’s withdrawal is a key part of the ceasefire which ended a year-long conflict with Shia militant group Hezbollah. Israeli ministers said some

Air strikes are reported to have hit the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the port city of Hudaydah on the Red Sea. AFP news agency reports that Houthi TV called the strikes “Israeli aggression”. Israel has not commented. The scale of

A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip. They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists

Pope Francis has called for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to end the war triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In his traditional Christmas Day address, the Pope said “boldness [was] needed to open the door” to dialogue

A court in Turkey has sentenced the owner and architect of a hotel which collapsed in an earthquake in 2023, killing 72 people, to jail. The owner of the Isias Grand, Ahmet Bozkurt, and architect Erdem Yilmaz, were each given

Two former Israeli intelligence agents have revealed how members of the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah used Israeli made walkie-talkies booby-trapped with explosives for 10 years before they were detonated in a surprise attack in September this year. The two

Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing “acts of genocide” in Gaza by deliberately depriving Palestinian civilians there of adequate access to water. It says Israel’s actions include intentionally damaging water and sanitation infrastructure. The campaign group says this

Reuters Thousands of people are reported to have begun returning to their homes in Lebanon The Israeli military has warned Lebanese citizens not to return to 60 villages in the south of the country, three days into a ceasefire after

An Israeli citizen has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a plot by Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, Israel’s security services say. Israeli police and domestic intelligence said the man was smuggled