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An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 17 people in Khan Younis, and comes as the UN said there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape and “sexualised torture” on women in its southern Israel attacks on October 7

As the race for a Republican and Democratic Presidential candidate heats up on Super Tuesday, here's what is stopping former President Donald Trump from winning today

A UN report found there is 'reasonable grounds to believe' Hamas militants committed sexual violence against hostages taken during the October 7 attacks, including rape

Ultra-processed food has been linked to more than 30 damaging and deadly health outcomes, including cancer, heart problems, type 2 diabetes and even depression and anxiety

The six worshippers and teacher, members of the Congregation of Brothers of Sacred Heart, were kidnapped from outside a school in the Haitian capital of Port Au Prince

Former President Donald Trump is set to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference among other leading figures in right-wing politics across the world

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was gifted the £350,000 Russian made Aurus limousine by Vladimir Putin as a show of the two leaders' 'special relationship'

Israel's ultimatum could see over one million Palestinian refugees facing a ground assault on Rafah if all the remaining hostages are not released by Ramadan - in three weeks' time

Experts believe that Disease X could result in 20 times more deaths than Covid - as it appears on WHO's shortlist of priority diseases, along with viruses like SARS, Ebola and Zika

Despite growing alarm from countries including the US, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu insists sending troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah is necessary to eliminate Hamas

Some of the most senior Church of England bishops including the Archbishop of Canterbury have demanded changes to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill in a crunch week in the House of Lords

Professor Jon Yorke, Director of the Centre for Human Rights at Birmingham City University, described the execution of Kenneth Smith as a 'bad day for humanity'

Pentagon chiefs are planning a blitz on Iranian proxy group the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which hit a US outpost called Tower 22 in north east Jordan with a drone, also injuring 40

Kim Kyu-li, who now lives in Morden, south London, managed to escape across the border into China before eventually travelling across the globe to find her new home in the UK.

Three US army soldiers were killed and at least two dozen service personnel injured after an overnight drone attack, which struck the living quarters of a small US outpost in Northeast Jordan, say officials

Ex-UN weapons inspector David Albright said Iran may accelerate its already well developed nuclear weapons programme if the US decides to launch direct strikes on their territory.

The warning came as US president Joe Biden announced today that three US citizens had been killed on a drone strike in Jordan carried out by Iran-backed militias.

The U.N. trade body sounded an alarm that global trade is being disrupted by attacks in the Red Sea, the war in Ukraine, and low water levels in the Panama Canal

UN experts have released a statement and even called on Alabama to halt the execution of a prisoner by the use of nitrogen hypoxia gas, warning that it may cause a 'painful and humiliating' death

As the race for the 2024 Republican candidate got underway with the Iowa caucus on Monday, former President Donald Trump took a lead in the ballots, winning 51 per cent of the votes

Former President Donald Trump was declared the 47th president by a supporter during a speech in Iowa on Monday, where he took a swipe at his family and praised his sons

UK forces are getting ready for any revenge attacks by Iranian backed militia after four RAF Typhoons based in Cyprus took part in the first blitz by US and UK forces on Yemen on Thursday night

Tensions have skyrocketed in the Middle East as the US and UK strike Houthi targets following attacks on trade ships passing through the Red Sea. The Yemeni Houthi rebels have promised a swift response

Expelled former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn branded a case brought to The Hague by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide as a 'historic moment for humanity'

The head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says there were 10,000 Covid deaths during December, jumping by 42 per cent in nearly 50 countries