How are US presidential candidates approaching the final campaign stretch? | US Election 2024

How are US presidential candidates approaching the final campaign stretch? | US Election 2024

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck and neck in the polls with three weeks to go until the presidential election. If the polls are to be believed, few United States presidential elections have been as close as this one. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck and neck, but pollsters say the result may … Read more

Live updates: Israel army base attack by Hezbollah drone kills 4 soldiers, injures dozens

Live updates: Israel army base attack by Hezbollah drone kills 4 soldiers, injures dozens

As Israel investigates how a Hezbollah drone evaded its air defenses and killed four soldiers in an attack on a military base on Sunday, experts say the Iran-backed Lebanese group is hoping to overwhelm the Jewish state by pelting it with cheap, hard-to-detect suicide drones. Relatively cheap to produce and easy to operate, drones are … Read more

Italy sends the first ship with migrants to Albania

Italy sends the first ship with migrants to Albania

ROME (AP) — Italy is transferring the first group of migrants to Albania, the Interior Ministry said Monday, as part of a contentious plan to process thousands of asylum-seekers outside its borders. A naval ship departed from the island of Lampedusa with 16 men — 10 from Bangladesh and six from Egypt — who were … Read more

Scottish MP defiant after party sacks him over ‘abhorrent’ Gaza remark

Scottish MP defiant after party sacks him over ‘abhorrent’ Gaza remark

John Mason says he would be ‘happy’ to repeat comment that if Israel wanted to commit Gaza genocide, it would have killed 10 times more. The ruling political party in Scotland has expelled an outspoken member and lawmaker over “utterly abhorrent”, “flippant” and “completely unacceptable” comments about Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. John Mason … Read more

Deadly Israeli strike on hospital tent camp in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Deadly Israeli strike on hospital tent camp in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

An Israeli air strike on a hospital courtyard in the Gaza Strip has killed at least four people and sent flames sweeping through a packed tent camp for people displaced by the war, leaving dozens with severe burns, according to Palestinian medics. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir el-Balah was already struggling … Read more

Inquiry into Novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess to start

Inquiry into Novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess to start

BBC Dawn Sturgess, 44, did not know the perfume she was spraying herself with was a lethal nerve agent A public inquiry is to begin later in Salisbury, to examine how a woman from Wiltshire was killed by a 2018 poisoning blamed on Russian agents. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after coming into contact with Novichok … Read more

Iceland PM calls new election as coalition government collapses

Iceland PM calls new election as coalition government collapses

Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson calls election for November, cites policy disagreements as responsible for government collapse. Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has dissolved the country’s three-party coalition government and called for a new election to take place in November. In a press conference on Sunday, Benediktsson said problems had mounted within the left-right coalition on … Read more

Ukraine rights envoy urges response to alleged execution of captured troops

Ukraine rights envoy urges response to alleged execution of captured troops

Dmytro Lubinets says he sent letters to the United Nations and the International Red Cross regarding alleged killings. Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman has urged international organisations to respond to an allegation that several Ukrainian prisoners of war were executed in Russia’s Kursk region. DeepState, a Ukrainian battlefield analysis site close to Ukraine’s Defence Ministry, said … Read more

Shoppers killed as Khartoum air strikes hit busy market

Shoppers killed as Khartoum air strikes hit busy market

Sudanese army air strikes have killed at least 23 people and injured more than 40 others in the south of the capital, Khartoum. Saturday’s airstrikes targeted the main camp occupied by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in southern Khartoum, hitting the central market and a nearby residential area. Traders, shoppers and local residents were among … Read more

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 961

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 961

As the war enters its 961st day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Sunday, October 13, 2024. Fighting Kyiv said Russian attacks killed two people in the eastern Donetsk region: a 19-year-old travelling in a civilian car and an 84-year-old pensioner. One person was killed when a Ukrainian drone struck the … Read more

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