Palestinian leader Abbas welcomes growing international pressure on Israelpublished at 16:48 British Summer Time
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has welcomed growing international pressure…
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has welcomed growing international pressure…

The details will follow in the Budget this autumn. But make no mistake, this is a U-turn.
The decision to means-test the winter fuel allowance was one of the first announcements made by Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves almost a year ago.
It was…
This joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) highlights a Russian state-sponsored cyber campaign targeting Western logistics entities and technology companies. This includes those involved in the coordination, transport,…

“The state’s current policy on the issue of the hijab is not to follow strict rules,” Ali Motahari, a conservative Iranian politician, told journalists last week on the fringes of the International Book Fair in Tehran.
He added that the police…

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Sandro GromenFour British former special forces soldiers have set a record by climbing Mount Everest in under…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the “heartbreaking” toll on its people, as he presided over his first general audience…
The United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told the BBC on Tuesday that 14,000 Gazan babies could die in the next 48 hours unless aid reaches them, a statement that was seemingly retracted soon after by other UN…

A former leading Ukrainian official has been shot dead outside an American school in the Spanish capital Madrid, reports say.
The 51-year-old man, named by Ukrainian and Spanish sources as Andriy Portnov, had just dropped his children off at the…