Months of extreme hunger have already killed many Palestinians in Gaza and caused permanent damage to children through malnutrition, two new food security reports have found, even before famine is officially declared. The US-based famine early warning system network (Fews Net) said it was “possible,…

From 3 Jun 2024 09.03 EDT Biden only published a partial version of the Gaza ceasefire proposal, Netanyahu says Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that the US president, Joe Biden, in advancing a plan to wind down the war in Gaza, had published only some of the details. “The war…

Just a few days after arriving at a hospital outside Rafah in the Gaza Strip, Dr Omar El-Taji – a urologist who usually works in Manchester – was woken up at 2am to operate on an urgent case. “A man in his 30s was brought in after his entire building was bombed,” he says. “He had an open wound to…

China holds military drills around Taiwan as 'strong punishment' 23 May 2024 Kelly Ng in Singapore and Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in TaipeiBBC News Reuters China has called its drills around Taiwan a "strong punishment" for "separatist acts" China has started two days of military exercises around…

The UN’s top court has ordered Israel to halt its assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah in a ruling that will ratchet up the pressure on the increasingly isolated country. The president of the international court of justice, Nawaf Salam, said the humanitarian situation in Rafah had deteriorated…

Eagles that have migratory routes through Ukraine have shifted their flight paths to avoid areas affected by the conflict, researchers have found. GPS data has revealed that greater spotted eagles not only made large detours after the invasion began, but also curtailed pitstops to rest and refuel,…

Individual members of Israel’s security forces are tipping off far-right activists and settlers to the location of aid trucks delivering vital supplies to Gaza, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, according to multiple sources. Settlers intercepting the vital humanitarian…

The US says it is “reasonable to assess” that the weapons it has provided to Israel have been used in ways that are “inconsistent” with international human rights law, but that there is not enough con

Israel accused of possible war crime over killing of West Bank boy 2 May 2024 BBC Adam, eight, was shot in the head as he ran away from Israeli armoured vehicles In the early afternoon of 29 November

Ukraine’s foreign minister has enthusiastically praised US politicians for approving a long-delayed $61bn military aid package for Ukraine, but said western allies needed to recognise that “the era of

The mass use of “drop-and-forget” guided bombs containing foreign components is driving Russian advances in Ukraine, with up to 500 now being fired a week, according to a Ukrainian government analysis

Ukraine launched 35 drones at targets across Russia including in the capital region, sparking a fire at an oil refinery and disrupting electricity supplies in several border areas but causing no direc

Ukraine has sunk a Russian warship near the Kerch strait in occupied Crimea in a further blow to Moscow’s naval power and its control over the Black Sea, as The Hague accused two senior Russian comman

China’s coast guard has boarded a Taiwanese tourist vessel, as tensions continue to escalate in the waters between China’s mainland and Taiwan’s Kinmen islands after a capsizing killed two people last

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Here's what to know: Israeli forces have surrounded other hospitals in an advance on Gaza City, according to videos verified by The Washington Post. MSF urged the protection of hospitals and called on

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Watch 5 November 2023 BBC News The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf on the scene of the damage at the al-Maghazi refugee camp The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 45 people have been killed in what it sai

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The Kremlin said Monday there was a “high risk” of a third party entering the conflict between Israel and Palestinian terror group Hamas after the US moved warships closer to the Jewish state. US Pres

Watch 26 August 2023 Getty Images Some trains were brought to a standstill for a few hours Polish intelligence services are investigating a hacking attack on the country's railways, Polish media say.

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commander Dmitry Utkin were on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow, according to Russia's civil aviation authority. Eight bodies have so far been found at

Advertisement Watch 23 July 2023 Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Unilever has said it will let Russian employees be conscripted to be sent to Ukraine if they are called up. The consumer goods

A Russian serviceman guards the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in in southeastern Ukraine in May 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has placed devices that look like explosive