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While a full ceasefire in the Gaza Strip still looks a long way off, there are fresh signs that a new pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas could be possible.However, that would require a shift in Hamas's public position. It has consistently said that it will only free more Israeli hostages...
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A group of South Korean students are suing the government because their college admission examination ended 90 seconds earlier than scheduled.They are asking for 20 million won ($15,400; £12,000) each - the cost of a year's studying to retake the exam.The error affected the rest of the stu...
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Colorado's Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for president next year in the state, citing a constitutional insurrection clause.The court ruled 4-3 that Mr Trump was not an eligible candidate because he had engaged in an insurrection over the US Capitol riot nearly three years ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India will "definitely look into" any evidence provided on its alleged links to an assassination plot in the US.In November, the US charged an Indian man of conspiring to murder a Sikh separatist leader in New York.Mr Modi told the Financial Times...
Flash floods have inundated parts of northern Queensland - with the heavy rain thwarting attempts to evacuate a settlement hit by rising water.Extreme weather driven by tropical cyclone Jasper has dumped a year's worth of rain on some areas.Images show planes stuck on Cairns airport runway, and ...
Civilians trapped in a church in Gaza City are living in an "unreal" sense of fear, a relative of one of those confined there has said.Fifi Saba, whose sister is trapped inside the Holy Family Church, said people were scared to move out of fear of being shot.Two women were killed inside th...
A dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales in 1985 has been sold at auction for 11 times its estimated price.The black, ballerina-length velvet evening dress was sold at Julien's Auctions in Hollywood for a total of $1,148,080 (£904,262).It has broken a new fashion record as the most expensi...
India's Kerala state has asked people to stay cautious but urged them not to panic after an increase in Covid cases.The southern state has witnessed the increase after the detection of JN.1, a sub-variant of Covid-19.It has been previously found in several countries, including the US and China.T...
Scientists now have good numbers to describe the true scale of the world's biggest iceberg, A23a.Satellite measurements show the frozen block has a total average thickness of just over 280m (920ft).Combined with its known area of 3,900 sq km (1,500 sq miles), this gives a volume of roughly 1,100...
A 17-year-old English boy from Oldham who went missing in Spain in 2017 has been found in France, authorities say.The teenager, answering to the name of Alex Batty, was found in the town of Revel east of Toulouse early on Wednesday morning.Six years ago, Alex, then 11, was on holiday with his mother...
Fifteen Indian opposition MPs have been suspended after they protested against a security breach in the parliament.At least four people were arrested after two intruders shouted slogans and set off coloured smoke inside parliament. Their motive remains unclear.The federal home ministry has ordered a...
The teenage twins of jailed Iranian activist NargesMohammadi have accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf.MsMohammadi - who is serving a 10-year jail term in Tehran - won this year's prize for her work fighting against the oppression of women in Iran.In a speech smuggled from prison and rea...
The UN climate talks start haggling over how to protect the oceans on Saturday - and one woman will be closely watching.Mervina Paueli, 25, has come to Dubai to negotiate a future for her home, Tuvalu - a group of low-lying Pacific islands.We owe the oceans a lot - by absorbing heat, they protect us...
At least 85 civilians were killed in Kaduna state, north-west Nigeria, in an air strike during a Muslim religious celebration on Sunday, the local emergency management authority said.The civilians were killed in a "bombing mishap", President Bola Tinubu said without giving a death toll. St...
The president of the ongoing UN climate talks Sultan al-Jaber has hit back at claims that he denies a core part of climate science.It follows his earlier comments that there was "no science" behind requiring the end of fossil fuels in order to limit temperature rise to 1.5C."We very m...
A man has died and two others, including a British man, have been injured in a knife and hammer attack on a street in central Paris.The attack occurred near the Eiffel Tower shortly before 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Saturday.A 26-year-old French national known to security services has been arre...
Four people, including two children, have been killed and three others injured following a stabbing in Queens, New York.Police called to the Far Rockaway neighbourhood in the early hours of Sunday found the victims in a home that had been set on fire.The male suspect stabbed two police officers befo...
Three Israelis were killed and 16 injured after two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a crowded bus stop in West Jerusalem, Israeli police say.Video showed the attackers getting out of a car on a highway and shooting at people with a rifle and a pistol.Off-duty soldiers and a civilian at the scene k...
At least 24 people have been killed in lightning strikes and rain in India during intense storms, officials said.The rain damaged houses and killed livestock across western Gujarat state.Storms are unusual in Gujarat during winter, meteorologists said, and the fierce downpour caught many off guard.F...
A 48-year-old man has been arrested over the shooting of three US students of Palestinian descent in Vermont and will appear in court on Monday.Jason J Eaton was taken into custody after a search of his home, according to CBS News, BBC's partner in the US.HishamAwartani, Tahseen Ahmed and K...
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