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Two Labour MPs have been denied entry to Israel and deported.Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed were rejected because they were suspected of plans to "document the activities of security forces and spread anti-Israel hatred", according to a statement from the Israeli immigration ministry. Ms Yang, who represents Earley and Woodley, and Ms Mohamed, the MP for Sheffield Central, both flew to the country from Luton on Saturday.According to a statement […]

The IDF has admitted to mistakenly identifying a convoy of aid workers as a threat – following the emergence of a video which proved their ambulances were clearly marked when Israeli troops opened fire on them. The bodies of 15 aid workers - including eight medics working for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) - were found in a "mass grave" after the incident, according to the head of the […]

Kim Jong Un has been pictured firing a "new sniper rifle" as he watched special forces training at a military base.The North Korean leader, 41, test-fired the weapon, which will be supplied to such units and was developed using the country's technology, according to state media. It said he learned about the rifle's results and expressed satisfaction over its performance and power.Mr Kim was also seen pointing at a hole […]

Donald Trump's baseline tariff of 10% on products from all countries worldwide has taken effect.The blanket tariff was announced by the US president on Wednesday evening, when his speech on so-called "Liberation Day" sent shockwaves across the global stock market as he unleashed sweeping taxes on imports. Much higher tariffs against what Mr Trump branded as the "worst offenders", such as a 20% rate for the EU and a 34% […]

Gaza's health ministry has removed 1,852 people from its official list of fatalities since October, after finding that some had died of natural causes or were alive but had been imprisoned.The list of deaths currently stands at 50,609 following the removals.Almost all of the names removed (97%) had initially been submitted through an online form which allows families to record the deaths of loved ones where the body is missing.The […]

Global financial markets gave a clear vote of no-confidence in President Trump's economic policy.The damage it will do is obvious: costs for companies will rise, hitting their earnings. The consequences will ripple throughout the global economy, with economists now raising their expectations for a recession, not only in the US, but across the world.Tariffs latest: FTSE 100 suffers biggest daily drop since COVIDFinancial investors had been gradually re-calibrating their expectations […]

US President Donald Trump has described an embezzlement case against Marine Le Pen as a "witch hunt".It comes as the French far-right leader called for protests this weekend over her conviction. Ms Le Pen was handed a five-year ban on running for office after a court found her and two dozen figures from her National Rally (RN) party guilty of embezzling EU funds.The conviction will prevent her from running in […]

South Korea's constitutional court has confirmed the dismissal of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached in December after declaring martial law.His decision to send troops onto the streets led to the country's worst political crisis in decades. The court ruled to uphold the impeachment saying the conservative leader "violated his duty as commander-in-chief by mobilising troops" when he declared martial law.The president was also said to have taken actions "beyond […]

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting Gaza, including 27 sheltering at a school, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City. Hamas condemned the strike on the school, calling it a "heinous massacre" of innocent civilians. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it struck a "Hamas command and […]