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At least 44 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza in the last 24 hours.  A strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut killed at least 31 people including three children and seven women, the country’s health minister Firas Abiad said. Fifteen of the 68 wounded in the attack remain in hospital.

A New Zealand pilot has been released after a year and a half of being held hostage in Indonesia’s Papua region. Phillip Mehrtens was captured by separatist rebels the West Papua Liberation Army after he landed a commercial plane on 7 February last year. He was due to pick up 15 construction workers who had

The Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut came as the Lebanese caretaker government was having an emergency meeting to discuss the previous two days of pager and radio explosions. It caused yet more shock in a nation which considers itself battle-hardened after years of strife, disaster and wars. But Lebanon has been truly

The unscheduled speech by the Hezbollah leader was revealing as much as it was defiant. It came after back-to-back days of booby-trapped communication devices exploding across Lebanon. Dozens have been killed – fighters and supporters as well as women and at least two children. This was the first time his fighting group was to hear

Hezbollah’s leader has accused Israel of carrying out “massacres” with pager and walkie-talkie explosions, saying it wanted to kill “5,000 people in two minutes”. Lebanon has blamed Israel for the blasts on Tuesday and Wednesday which have killed 37 and injured thousands. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the “unprecedented” explosions “could be called a declaration

There’s raw anger and real fear on the streets of Lebanon after two days of multiple explosions involving communication devices. Less than 24 hours after the country was plunged into a major emergency with more than a dozen killed and nearly three thousand casualties being admitted to 90 hospitals, there was panic and deaths again.

Blasts have been heard in Beirut a day after 12 people were killed by pager explosions across Lebanon. Reuters have cited a security source and a witness as saying communications devices used by Hezbollah have detonated in the country’s south and in the southern suburbs of the capital. Follow live: Blasts heard in Beirut At

A firm in Hungary’s capital has been linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon in an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah militants, killing 12 people and seriously injuring thousands. Images of the destroyed devices showed a format and stickers consistent with the AR-924 model of pagers with Gold Apollo branding – a Taiwan-based

It really is like something out of a Hollywood spy movie. The pagers of Hezbollah officials simultaneously exploding in a southern Beirut suburb, causing hundreds of injuries and immense embarrassment. Israel hasn’t claimed responsibility, but all fingers will point to the Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence agency famed for inventive and audacious attacks on its enemies.

The man accused of drugging his wife and letting at least 50 men rape her while she was sedated has told a French court: “I am a rapist.” Warning: This story contains details that readers may find distressing Dominique Pelicot appeared in court today as he gave evidence in the case that has shocked France.

One of the final messages from the Titan submersible crew said they were “all good here” before it imploded, killing all five on board. British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood died alongside OceanGate Expeditions’ chief executive Stockton Rush and Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The five of them had been communicating

Germany has started checks at borders with five more European countries in an effort to crack down on “irregular” migration and guard against Islamist threats. Police are now checking vehicles at the land frontier with France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The checks are due to last six months and follow similar inspections, in

Donald Trump has been the subject of an “apparent assassination attempt” at his Florida golf club. The Republican presidential nominee said he was “safe and well” after gunshots were heard in his vicinity while he was playing at his Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach just after 1.30pm local time on Sunday. An

Israel has been left on high alert after a ballistic missile fired from more than 1,000 miles away in Yemen reached the centre of the country for the first time People were seen rushing to shelters as air raid sirens were sounded in central regions of the country at around 6.30am local time on Sunday,

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more than 200 prisoners of war, officials have announced. In a deal mediated by the United Arab Emirates, each side released 103 prisoners – including Russians captured since Ukraine‘s incursion in the Kursk region began in August. Both sides released images of soldiers being released, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Rafah is now a wasteland. The city in Gaza has been totally flattened by months of war. The rubble in places is many metres high, the buildings that are still standing are hollow shells, their dark, empty windows like vacant souls in a horror show. Image: Sky News visited what remains of Rafah – a

A British citizen is among 37 people who have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after being found guilty of an attempted coup in the central African country. A foreign office spokesperson told Sky News they are giving consular assistance to “a British man detained in DRC” and are in

Six British diplomats have been expelled from Russia after being accused of “spying and sabotage”. The country’s FSB security service said they worked in the “political department” of the British embassy in Moscow. A Whitehall source told Sky News the diplomats were kicked out in August as part of a wave of tit-for-tat expulsions. The

President Vladimir Putin has warned that allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles would put NATO “at war” with Russia. The Russian president said it would “significantly change” the nature of the Ukraine conflict and amount to “nothing less than direct involvement of NATO countries”. Ukrainian officials have been pleading for months

Almost 200 people have died and more than 125 are missing in Vietnam in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi, according to local media. Yagi was the strongest typhoon to hit the Southeast Asian country in decades, making landfall on Saturday with winds of up to 92mph (149kph) and causing flash floods and landslides. Some 197