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Deep under the northern Israeli city of Haifa, there’s a vast underground hospital. Hundreds and hundreds of beds are lined up within its concrete walls.There are operating theatres, a maternity ward, and medical supplies stacked up in corners. But there are no patients – yet.Rambam Medi...
US President Joe Biden met his senior national security team on Monday as concerns of a possible Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel grew.Mr Biden said he had been briefed on preparations to support Israel should it be attacked, while Secretary of State Antony Blinken said officials were working &q...
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Sheikh Hasina will not make a political comeback, says her son and former official adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy.Speaking to Newshour on the BBC World Service, Joy said his mother had been considering resigning from Sunday and had left Bangladesh for her own safety at the insistence of her family.“...
Several countries have urged their nationals to leave Lebanon, as fears grow of a wider conflict in the Middle East.Iran has vowed “severe” retaliation against Israel, which it blames for the death of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday. Israel has not commented.H...
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has appealed for protests to end after “bloodshed” during three days of demonstrations over a deepening cost of living crisis.At least seven people have died and more than 700 have been arrested since Nigerians nationwide rallied on Thursday for the first o...
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US sprint star Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100m title by five-thousandths of a second from Jamaica's Kishane Thompson in a dramatic photo finish at Paris 2024.Showman Lyles overhauled his rivals in the second half of the race to triumph by the finest of margins in a personal best 9.79 seconds.Tha...
Several countries have urged their nationals to leave Lebanon as fears grow of a wider conflict in the Middle East.The US said they should do so on “any ticket available”.Iran has vowed “severe” retaliation against Israel, which it blames for the death of Hamas political chie...
Ukraine's military says it attacked and destroyed a Russian submarine while it was anchored at a port in the occupied Crimean Peninsula.The Rostov-on-Don, a kilo-class attack submarine launched in 2014, sank after it was struck in a missile attack on the port city of Sevastopol on Friday, Ukrain...
France's Leon Marchand won a sensational fourth Olympic gold in the Paris pool, beating Duncan Scott into second place, moments after Ben Proud also won a superb silver for Team Great Britain.With French President Emmanuel Macron in the crowd, home superstar Marchand led from the start of the 20...
The US will deploy additional warships and fighter jets to the Middle East to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies, the Pentagon said.Tensions remain high in the region over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and a key commander of the Lebanese milit...
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a pre-trial agreement reached with men accused of plotting the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.In a memo on Friday, Mr Austin also said he was revoking the authority of the officer overseeing the military court who signed the agreement on Wednesday.T...
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Iran on Wednesday, has been buried in a muslim ceremony in Qatar.Funeral prayers were held at Qatar’s Imam Muhammed bin Abdul Wahhab mosque - the largest in the country - before his body was taken in a coffin draped in the Palestinian flag fo...
US chip-maker Intel has said it plans to cut more than 15,000 job cuts as it seeks to revive the business and catch up with competitors.Shares in the company plunged by up to 20% after it announced the measures, and also reported falling sales.The news from Intel also hit other shares in other tech ...
Hopes of finding more survivors are fading as rescue operations continue in Kerala, where massive landslides have killed 182 people, according to officials.Nearly 200 people are still missing after Mundakkai and Chooralmala areas in Wayanad district were flattened by thick torrents of mud and water ...
The death toll from the massive landslides that have hit the southern Indian state of Kerala has now crossed 158, with officials saying more than 220 people are still missing.Rescue workers say they are searching under collapsed roofs and debris of destroyed houses for possible survivors.Thick torre...
A loud noise shook Ajay Ghosh awake at his home in the southern Indian state of Kerala in the early hours of Tuesday.At first, the salesman, who lives in Wayanad district’s Mundakkai village, did not quite understand what caused the sound.But when he looked out and saw an enormous amount of mu...
A third child has died after a knife attack at a dance studio on Merseyside in which two other children were killed.The nine-year-old girl died in hospital early on Tuesday morning after the stabbing on Hart Street in Southport on Monday. Five other children and two adults remain in a critical condi...
France's Leon Marchand delighted a raucous home crowd by setting a new Olympic record to dominate the 400m individual medley and win gold at his home Games.The first of what the rising star hopes will be four individual golds in Paris was secured by a margin of 5.67 seconds over Japan's Tomo...
Divers Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mew Jensen won Team GB's first medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics with a dramatic bronze in the women's synchronised 3m springboard.The pair were in tears at the end of the competition as they snatched Britain’s first female diving medal at an Olympics f...
Barack Obama has endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic presidential nominee, ending days of speculation over whether he would support her.Former President Obama and ex-First Lady Michelle Obama said in a joint statement that they believe Ms Harris has the “vision, the char...
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