Under the buzzing of Israeli drones and warplanes, Jihan Abu Mandeel watched her five young children play with toy animals in their tiny, makeshift tent in Deir Balah, Gaza. It was a brief moment of childhood amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in…
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Live updates: Gaza ceasefire talks resume in Egypt as Israel intercepts another aid flotilla
Arab nations have condemned far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir after he prayed at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site today, despite a decades-old…
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Analysing video of alleged assassination attempt of Ecuador’s president
Some tips to spot AI generated videospublished at 12:50 BST
Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalistWe’ve been seeing social media videos showing agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and protests against…
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Hamas says ‘optimism prevails’ in Gaza talks with Israel
Jordan court sentences suspects in rocket, drone plots targeting national security
AMMAN: Jordan’s State Security Court on Wednesday handed down prison sentences to several…Continue Reading
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Inside one battle-scarred Gaza building, displaced families tell the story of war
Lucy WilliamsonMiddle East correspondent, Jerusalem
BBC
The Skeik building, in a quiet road off Omar al-Mukhtar Street in western Gaza City, was a familiar sight to Gaza’s lovers.
The tree-lined street that ran beside it was once a favourite place…
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France’s crisis takes an unexpected turn as Macron’s allies defy him
President of France Emmanuel Macron prepares to deliver a speech during a state banquet at Guildhall on July 9, 2025 in London, England. President Emmanuel Macron and Mrs Brigitte Macron are in the U.K. for the first visit state visit made by…
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Israel intercepts Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessels en route to Gaza | Gaza News
The Israeli military has intercepted and boarded several boats sailing towards Gaza.
Published On 8 Oct 2025
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) says the Israeli military attacked its convoy…
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Israel halts another Gaza aid flotilla as MEPs demand activists’ release | Gaza flotilla
A Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla aimed at breaking Israel’s naval blockade has been intercepted by the Israeli military, days after the detention of activists on an earlier flotilla led to international outrage and widespread protests.
Nine…
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Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’ | Nobel prizes
The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water.
Susumu Kitagawa,…
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Chemistry Nobel awarded to three scientists for their work on metal organic frameworks
Professor Kitagawa works at Kyoto University in Japan, Professor Richard Robson is at University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor Omar M Yaghi is at the University of California, US.
The three winners will share prize money of 11 million…
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