The director of Gaza’s largest hospital has been arrested, the Hamas-run health ministry has said. Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, who heads al Shifa hospital in Gaza...
A temporary truce period between Israel and Hamas has begun – with the first group of Israeli women and children due to be released later today....
Thirteen women and children hostages held by militants in Gaza will be the first to be released – as the the temporary truce in Gaza between...
Police in Dublin are dealing with a “serious incident” after a stabbing involving several children in the city centre. Police say a number of people including...
Shane MacGowan’s wife has said The Pogues singer is out of hospital. MacGowan, 65, is believed to have been in intensive care for the past few...
Rescuers are facing a 17-hour mission to reach 41 workers who have now been trapped inside a tunnel in India for 11 days. Crews have been...
The World Health Organisation has asked China for more detailed information about an outbreak of a respiratory illness and reported clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children....
A temporary truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, lasting at least four days, is set to begin on Thursday morning with the war now in...
Two people have died after the vehicle they were in exploded on a bridge connecting the US and Canada. The car crashed into a checkpoint on...
Israel’s government has agreed to back a deal with Hamas for the release of some hostages in Gaza and a temporary pause in the fighting. The...
The hostage release deal has been delicately structured after weeks of negotiation and many false starts. After ratification by Israel’s war cabinet, security cabinet and full...
There’s a makeshift shrine like none other outside the Ayoub family home in southern Lebanon. Underneath a large picture of three little girls and their grandmother...
Yemen’s Houthis rebels have released a video showing armed men seizing a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea. The video from Yemeni Military Media shows...
Joe Biden got Britney Spears muddled up with Taylor Swift in his latest gaffe in front of reporters. The US president, who turned 81 today, was...
A first group of prematurely-born babies have arrived in Egypt for treatment after they were evacuated from Gaza’s biggest hospital. The 28 infants were transported from...
Over 200 gang members have been sentenced to a total of more than 2,200 years after one of the biggest mafia trials in Italian history. Some...
Israel’s latest evidence is the most convincing yet of Hamas military activity at al Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest. Thus far, it falls short of proving there...
Hamas could release a significant number of Israeli hostages “in coming days”, Israel’s ambassador to the US has said. Around 240 hostages were taken during Hamas’s...
Gaza is on the “precipice of major disease outbreaks”, the World Health Organisation has said With 800,000 people crammed into overcrowded schools and other “collective centres”,...
An Israeli-linked cargo ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route has been seized by Houthi rebels, according to Israel – which claims Iran was behind...