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<p>Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in north Gaza

Scrambling over sand banks and craters, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to Nedal Hamdouna inside Gaza and Bel Trew

<p>A member of the M23 armed group walks alongside residents through a street of the Keshero neighborhood in Goma on Monday</p>
Africa

Dead bodies on streets as rebels battle government in DR Congo’s Goma

Tech

Doomsday Clock ticks one second closer to total apocalypse

<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets soldiers who took part in a training in North Korea last March </p>
Europe

North Korea troops partially withdraw from front in Russia’s Kursk

Just in

<p>A Siberian tiger at the Beijing Zoo </p>
China

Zoo under fire for selling tiger urine at £5 a pop

<p>The experiment bay at facility in Mianyang is 50% larger than U.S. NIF, researcher says</p><p></p>
China

Satellite images ‘show China building secret fusion research facility’

<p>File. A man reads news of social media platform X blockade on a computer in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 21 February 2024</p>
South Asia

Bill jailing people for 3 years over disinformation passed in Pakistan

<p>The dog adopted by Princess Siribha Chudabhorn</p>
Southeast Asia

Thai princess adopts dog that went viral for mourning dead owner

<p>DeepSeek logo is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China</p>
Tech

The questions China’s new DeepSeek AI refuses to answer

<p>Representational</p>
Tech

OpenAI moves to block Indian media groups joining copyright lawsuit

<p>Bangladesh train strikes 2025 </p>
South Asia

Trains cancelled across Bangladesh as rail union goes on strike

<p>Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi in Beijing</p>
India

India and China agree to resume direct flights after five years

<p>Giorgia Meloni has been placed under criminal investigation </p>
Europe

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni investigated for releasing Libyan warlord

Europe

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni investigated for releasing Libyan warlord

<p>Giorgia Meloni has been placed under criminal investigation </p>
WHO Top Donors
Europe

Who funds the World Health Organization? A list of its biggest donors

<p>Italian navy ship Cassiopea, carrying migrants as part of a deal with Italy to process thousands of asylum-seekers caught near Italian waters</p>
Europe

Italian ship drops off 49 migrants in Albania despite court rejections

<p>Gibraltar is British but the waters are disputed</p>
Home News

After five years, Brexit is still causing tensions in Gibraltar

<p>Serbian prime minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation in a press conference on Tuesday</p>
Europe

Serbian PM Milos Vucevic resigns as corruption protests sweep country

<p>Serbian prime minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation in a press conference on Tuesday</p>
Europe

Serbian PM Milos Vucevic resigns as corruption protests sweep country

<p>A still image taken from a handout video provided by the Russian Defence Ministry shows Russian servicemen waving flags on the roof of a building in Velyka Novosilka, Donetsk region</p>
Europe

Where Russian forces are making gains in eastern Ukraine: Mapped

<p>A Ukrainian serviceman shows children drones piloting skills in Kyiv amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine</p>
LiveEurope

Ukraine war: Donald Trump aid freeze threatens troop support

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Middle East

<p>President of Ireland Michael D Higgins’s speech was met with protests by Jews (Niall Carson/PA)</p>
Middle East

Israeli minister’s fears for Jews in Ireland after president’s speech

<p>Tens of thousands have been killed inside Gaza following Israel’s siege of the strip</p>
Middle East

How a year of war in Gaza has unfolded as hostages released

<p>A drone view shows Palestinians, who were displaced to the south at Israel’s order during the war, making their way back to their homes in northern Gaza</p>
Middle East

200,000 Palestinians trek home to northern Gaza as part of ceasefire

<p>Displaced Palestinians inspect the ruins of their home, which was destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

Israel says eight hostages due for release by Hamas are dead

<p>IDF soldiers walk ahead of Palestinians displaced by an Israeli military operation and evacuating from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday 23 January 2025 </p>
Middle East

Gaza has a ceasefire – but war could be starting in the West Bank

<p>Civilians were seen heading for their homes in northern Gaza on Monday morning </p>
Middle East

Trump’s idea to clean out Gaza is ‘frightening trick’, locals warn

<p>Displaced Palestinians inspect the ruins of their home, which was destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip</p>
Middle East

Israel says eight hostages due for release by Hamas are dead

<p>IDF soldiers walk ahead of Palestinians displaced by an Israeli military operation and evacuating from the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday 23 January 2025 </p>
Middle East

Gaza has a ceasefire – but war could be starting in the West Bank

<p>Civilians were seen heading for their homes in northern Gaza on Monday morning </p>
Middle East

Trump’s idea to clean out Gaza is ‘frightening trick’, locals warn

<p>President Donald Trump (pictured with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2020) called for Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations to increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting after the Hamas-Israel war. Trump said he wants enough take so ‘we can just clean out’ Gaza </p>
US politics

Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza and move Palestinians

US politics

Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza and move Palestinians

<p>President Donald Trump (pictured with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2020) called for Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations to increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting after the Hamas-Israel war. Trump said he wants enough take so ‘we can just clean out’ Gaza </p>
News

Families of released Israeli hostages thank Donald Trump

<p>Palestinians gather near a roadblock on the al Rashid Street as they wait to return to their destroyed homes in northern Gaza on 26 January 2025</p>
Middle East

Palestinians start returning home to destroyed northern Gaza

<p>Thousands of Palestinians have been gathering as they wait to be allowed home to northern Gaza </p>
Middle East

Deal made to release Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians home

<p>Relatives, friends and supporters of the hostages gather in Hostage Square on Saturday </p>
Middle East

Gaza hostage families say ceasefire only chance to get relatives home

<p>Relatives, friends and supporters of the hostages gather in Hostage Square on Saturday </p>
Middle East

Gaza hostage families say ceasefire only chance to get relatives home

<p>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been blocked from returning to Gaza after Israel accused Hamas of breaching the fragile week-old ceasefire</p>
Middle East

Israel claims Hamas breaches truce as Palestinians blocked from Gaza

<p>Hamas has handed over four female Israeli soldiers held in Gaza in the second release of a fragile ceasefire</p>
Middle East

Four female Israeli soldier hostages released by Hamas under ceasefire

US

<p>Lord Mandelson appears set to become the next UK ambassador to the US (Yui Mok/PA)</p>
UK Politics

White House confirms Mandelson to be accepted as ambassador

<p>Real America’s Voice host Brian Glenn gushes over how “great” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt looks at her first briefing.</p>
US politics

MTG’s boyfriend gushes over how ‘great’ Trump spox looks at briefing

<p>Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (left) speaks to reporters. Her country is set to raise its military spending in the Arctic - while U.S. President Donald Trump talks about acquiring Greenland </p>
US politics

Denmark to increase military spending in Arctic by $2 billion

<p>The aftermath of a house fire in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.</p>
US Crime News

Mom started house fire that killed her daughter, cops say

<p>New Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held her first press conference on Tuesday. There, she echoed some of President Donald Trump’s strongest claims and pushed his ideas - even taking time to attack former president Joe Biden </p>
US politics

Karoline Leavitt echoes Trump’s talking points during first briefing

<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds her first news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 28, 2025</p>
LiveUS politics

White House defends Trump’s funding freeze in first briefing: Live

<p>Students receiving federal financial aid to attend college won’t be impacted by President Donald Trump’s recent pause on federal loans and grants</p>
US politics

Will Trump’s pause on federal loans and grants impact my student aid?

<p>A man has been arrested after allegedly targeting key Trump officials in an attack this week </p>
US Crime News

Man charged with bringing Molotov cocktails into Capitol

<p>Heather ‘Razzlekhan’ Morgan raps in a music video for her song ‘Versace Bedouin.’ Days before she begins her prison sentence, she wants to set the record straight about who she really is </p>
US Crime News

Crypto thief says she’s misunderstood as she starts prison sentence

US Crime News

Crypto thief says she’s misunderstood as she starts prison sentence

<p>Heather ‘Razzlekhan’ Morgan raps in a music video for her song ‘Versace Bedouin.’ Days before she begins her prison sentence, she wants to set the record straight about who she really is </p>
<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivers remarks during her first daily briefing, at the White House</p>
US politics

Trump’s funding freeze pushes Democrats over the edge

<p>Donald Trump signed an executive order that opens the door for the Pentagon to begin removing openly transgender troops from the nation’s armed forces </p>
US politics

Transgender military service members sue Trump over executive order

<p>The Trump die-hard and pillow hawker is getting raked over the coals in court</p>
Americas

Mike Lindell’s bid to evade huge debt is ‘preposterous,’ lender says

<p>Snow covers a mountain range in a view from Mt. Wilson after a series of storms in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles on Monday. More snow is forecast in the Southwest this week as the storm system shifts eastward </p>
Americas

Next major winter storm in the US set to blast millions

<p>Snow covers a mountain range in a view from Mt. Wilson after a series of storms in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles on Monday. More snow is forecast in the Southwest this week as the storm system shifts eastward </p>
Americas

Next major winter storm in the US set to blast millions

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza
Americas

Middle East latest: Palestinians return to their homes in northern Gaza for a second day

<p>President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One. His administration has issued a freeze on all government loans and grants </p>
US politics

Trump issued a pause on grants and loans. Here’s what it means for you

Europe

<p>Brigitte Hoess called her father a loving and kind man and as a child lived in the house next door to the death camp where more than a million innocent people were sent to their deaths </p>
Europe

What really happened inside the home of the monster of Auschwitz

<p>A Ukrainian serviceman of Azov brigade stands atop of a self-propelled howitzer Dita after firing towards Russian positions at frontline in Donetsk region</p>
Europe

Why Ukraine-Russia peace talks are not as simple as Trump makes out

<p>Crew members aboard a French Navy Atlantique 2 surveillance plane patrolling over the Baltic Sea</p>
Europe

Cables under the Baltic Sea keep getting damaged - what is Nato doing?

<p>Just two North Koreans soldiers have been captured alive by the Ukrainians</p>
Europe

The extremes North Korean soldiers will go to avoid capture in Ukraine

<p>Poland Auschwitz 80th Anniversary</p>
Europe

Auschwitz survivors return to camp on 80th anniversary of liberation

<p>Rescue workers pull a small boat after the storm Herminia has unleashed downpours on the region</p>
Europe

Residents rescued from flooded homes as Storm Herminia batters France

NY: Concert For America Benefit
Europe

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 2-8

<p>Alicia Ortstad first started feeling pain in her left knee in summer 2023</p>
Europe

Student dismissed by doctors later found to have rare bone cancer

<p>Russian president Vladimir Putin </p>
Europe

Russian spy ships are coming into our waters and we must respond

Europe

Russian spy ships are coming into our waters and we must respond

<p>Russian president Vladimir Putin </p>
<p>The north of spain and Western France have had heavy rain and wind during Storm Herminia (file photo)</p>
Europe

Urgent search for Briton missing at sea after empty life raft found

<p>Thieves use explosives to blow up museum door and steal historical gold artefacts in Netherlands.</p>
News

Thieves use explosives to blow up museum door and steal gold artefacts

<p>Volodymyr Zelensky has stated his belief that a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could be made under Donald Trump’s presidency but demanded Kyiv be included in any peace talks</p>
Europe

Zelensky believes Trump could end war but only if Ukraine is in talks

<p>Ukrainian people’s deputy David Arakhamia</p>
Europe

Ukraine’s plan to convince Trump to support war against Putin

<p>Ukrainian people’s deputy David Arakhamia</p>
Europe

Ukraine’s plan to convince Trump to support war against Putin

<p>Tech billionaire Elon Musk speaks live via a video transmission during the election campaign launch rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party on Saturday </p>
Europe

Elon Musk makes surprise appearance for Germany’s AfD election event

Germany Stabbing
Europe

German officials, residents attend commemoration of 2 people killed in knife attack

Africa

Africa

Rwanda-backed rebels claim takeover of eastern Congo’s largest city

Africa

Rwanda-backed rebels claim takeover of eastern Congo’s largest city

<p>M23 rebels stand with theirs weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo in this file photo from December 2022</p>
Africa

What is happening in east Congo? And who are the M23 rebels?

<p>FILE PHOTO: Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan</p>
Africa

Drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 70

<p>David Lammy with UN officials at the Adre crossing between Sudan and Chad</p>
Africa

Lammy warns against hierarchy of suffering as Sudan crisis forgotten

<p>Employees walk after work, outside the new building of Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), east of Cairo, Egypt</p>
Africa

Fears new law will force doctors to leave Egypt

<p>Employees walk after work, outside the new building of Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in the New Administrative Capital (NAC), east of Cairo, Egypt</p>
Africa

Fears new law will force doctors to leave Egypt

<p>Reconstruction of Tameryraptor markgrafi </p>
Science

Giant dinosaur discovered in Egypt after fossils destroyed in WW2

<p>File: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses a press conference on the Marburg virus outbreak at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda</p>
Africa

Tanzania confirms outbreak of highly infectious Ebola-like virus

<p>An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa</p>
Africa

Hunt for gang leader ‘Tiger’ who escaped South African death mine

<p>South Africa Miners Horrors</p>
Africa

Miner describes horrors as people starved to death underground

<p>Forensic workers at the site of the abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Wednesday</p>
Africa

What did 87 people die trapped in South Africa goldmine?

<p>File. A medical worker carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg virus</p>
Africa

Bleeding eye disease kills eight after outbreak in new country

<p>Families of miners and activist protest as South Africa's Police minister Senzo Mchunu visit the gold mine</p>
Africa

78 dead in illegal South Africa gold mine, with hundreds still trapped

<p> The government of the Republic of South Africa launch a rescue operation to extract the illegal workers at the abandoned Stilfontein mine in North West, South Africa</p>
Africa

Hundreds of miners were stuck underground. Police blocked their supply

<p>A miner is assisted by rescue workers after being pulled from below ground</p>
Africa

Rescuers pull survivors from South Africa mine as hundreds trapped

<p> Police officers and private security personnel stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft</p>
Africa

Hundreds dead gold mine as urgent rescue mission launched

Asia

<p>File. Donald Trump with Narendra Modi in New Delhi on 25 February 2020</p>
Americas

India’s Modi set to be one of first world leaders to visit Trump

Business

DeepSeek AI launch sees $1tn wiped off world’s biggest tech companies

<p>Photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing </p>
Tech

What is China’s DeepSeek AI that beats OpenAI against all odds?

<p>Fuji TV head Koichi Minato and Fuji Media chairman Shuji Kano at a press conference in Tokyo on 27 January 2025</p>
Japan

Japan TV executives resign after misconduct claims against presenter

<p>People work at the site where an aircraft went off the runway and crashed at the Muan airport in South Korea </p>
News & Advice

Jeju Air crash investigation reveals new evidence for likely cause

<p>The state’s public health department said that one person had died in the city of Solapur and 16 patients were currently on ventilators</p>
India

What is Guillain-Barre syndrome? The deadly disease on rise in India

<p>Fuji TV head Koichi Minato and Fuji Media chairman Shuji Kano at a press conference in Tokyo on 27 January 2025</p>
Japan

Japan TV executives resign after misconduct claims against presenter

<p>People work at the site where an aircraft went off the runway and crashed at the Muan airport in South Korea </p>
News & Advice

Jeju Air crash investigation reveals new evidence for likely cause

<p>The state’s public health department said that one person had died in the city of Solapur and 16 patients were currently on ventilators</p>
India

What is Guillain-Barre syndrome? The deadly disease on rise in India

<p>Huang Ping now regrets his decision not to move</p>
China

Motorway built around grandfather’s house after stubborn refusal

<p>Chinese actor Wang Xing, right, talks with Thai police officers in Mae Sot district, in Thai-Myanmar border</p>
China

China detains suspect involved in kidnapping of Chinese actor

<p>Robot sprints to finish line at 2024 Beijing E-Town Half Marathon</p>
Tech

China to pit humans and humanoid robots in first-of-its kind foot race

<p>File: Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along roadside to ensure security in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, 27 Nov 2024</p>
South Asia

At least 6 killed in gas tanker explosion in Pakistan’s Multan

<p>People in face masks in Bangkok </p>
Southeast Asia

Asian capital makes public transport completely free to combat smog

<p>Supporters of Yoon Suk Yeol at the prison in Uiwang</p>
East Asia

South Korean prosecutors indict president Yoon for insurrection

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East Asia

Cash reward as public asked to help mass cull of iguanas in Taiwan

<p>Supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol attend a rally in Seoul</p>
East Asia

Prosecutors file again to extend Yoon’s detention after court denial

Australasia

<p>Graffitti is seen on England's King George V statue</p>
Australasia

Multiple monuments in Australia defaced to protest national day

Australasia

Multiple monuments in Australia defaced to protest national day

<p>Graffitti is seen on England's King George V statue</p>
<p>Representative image. A doctor measuring a Botox injection</p>
Australasia

Three people hospitalised in Sydney with suspected botulism

<p>US president Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, attend the commander in chief ball in Washington, US, 20 January 2025</p>
Australasia

The Donald Trump lie that upset New Zealanders the most

<p>The explorer paved the way for the British to send its First Fleet to the island in 1788 </p>
Australasia

Captain Cook statue disfigured and painted red ahead of Australia Day

<p>The new funnel-web spider dubbed ‘Big Boy’ or Atrax christenseni</p>
Australasia

Scientists discover new species of one of world’s deadliest spiders

<p>The new funnel-web spider dubbed ‘Big Boy’ or Atrax christenseni</p>
Australasia

Scientists discover new species of one of world’s deadliest spiders

<p>Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced her upcoming memoir which she hopes will help “anyone who ever doubted themselves”</p>
Australasia

Ardern says memoir is for ‘anyone who has ever doubted themselves’

<p>Margo Neas holds her cat Mittens at her home in Melbourne</p>
News & Advice

Mittens the cat takes three flights after being forgotten on plane

<p>Aerial view of Sunbury Ring G</p>
Archaeology

Origin of Australia’s 1,400-year-old mystery rings finally revealed

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Tennis

Djokovic explains why he boycotted Australian Open interview

<p>Gauff frequently has posted on TikTok, often mimicking popular trends</p>
Tennis

Coco Gauff writes ‘RIP TikTok USA’ on TV camera at Australian Open

The woman was arrested south of Brisbane, Australia on Thursday
Australasia

Australian influencer charged with poisoning her baby girl

<p>File. Anthony Albanese</p>
Australasia

Australia calls Russian ambassador over video of captive Melbourne man

Australasia

Mysterious marble-sized balls wash up on Sydney beaches

<p>General view of Southern Sydney Synagogue in Allawah, Sydney</p>
Australasia

Counterterror police take over probe into Sydney synagogue vandalism

<p>General view of the Southern Sydney Synagogue, in Allawah, Sydney</p>
Australasia

Sydney synagogue attack condemned as ‘massive escalation’

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