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The latest updates from the Israel Hamas war. Humanitarian aid begins flowing from Egypt to Gaza – Red Crescent Humanitarian aid trucks have begun crossing the Rafah terminal on the Egyptian side towards the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, a security source and an Egyptian Red Crescent official told AFP. Egyptian state television showed several trucks […]

The European Union could be breaching international rules by using aid intended to promote development in Africa to stem migration into Europe, according to a new report by Oxfam. The report published Thursday reveals that six out of 16 EU-funded migration actions in Niger, Libya and Tunisia worth a total €667 million potentially breach the aid rules […]

MPs will be given a vote on whether to launch an investigation into claims that Boris Johnson misled Parliament over the partygate saga. Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle approved an unprecedented application from Labour and other opposition MPs, which allows them to table a motion for debate on Thursday. The PM is under growing pressure after police […]

Boris Johnson put on a defiant Commons display with his political future hanging in the balance. The prime minister faced a grilling during Prime Minister’s Questions on what could prove to be a decisive day of his premiership and with the country potentially on the cusp of entering a new political crisis. Boris Johnson put on […]

Families should get their vaccines as an act of Christmas giving, Boris Johnson has said in his annual Christmas message. In a Covid-focused address recorded in Downing Street, the prime minister said getting the jab is a ‘wonderful thing you can give your family and the whole country’ and would be key to saving next Christmas from […]

Madagascar’s policing minister survived a helicopter crash by swimming for 12 hours to reach the shoreline. Serge Gelle was miraculously unhurt after the aircraft plunged into the sea off the island’s northeastern coast on Monday. Serge Gelle said ‘my time to die has not come yet’ after his dramatic rescue  He and a fellow policeman […]

At least five people have been killed and more than 40 injured after an SUV plowed through a crowded Christmas parade in Wisconsin. The horrific incident was captured on numerous cameras and mobile phones, with footage showing onlookers screaming ‘Oh my God’ as dozens of people were struck by the vehicle in the city of […]

The suspect in the Liverpool bombing was able to exploit the UK’s ‘dysfunctional’ asylum system to remain in the country, Priti Patel has claimed. Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, was the only person to die in the Liverpool terror attack on Sunday (Picture: Rex/Getty) The suspect in the Liverpool bombing was able to exploit the UK’s ‘dysfunctional’ asylum system […]

A huge caravan of people desperate to reach Europe is massed on the Polish border. Thousands are passing through Belarus, which has been accused of allowing the migrants to reach the border in retaliation for economic sanctions. Poland has mobilised its territorial defence force to help border control prevent the group entering the EU as […]

 “Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach,” scientist Valérie Masson-Delmotte told reporters as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a monumental new report on Monday. Flames leap from trees as the Dixie Fire jumps Highway 89 north of Greenville in […]