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As we stare at a bullet-ridden wall, two young Palestinian boys stand behind us on a stoop and look on in fearful awe."It's the military," one boy in a beige hoodie tells his friend. His friend stares at the wall with wide eyes and gives a little nod.Balata camp in Nablus, the commercial centre of the West Bank, has just come out of a two-day Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raid […]

A memorial service has taken place in Magdeburg, Germany, for the victims of a Christmas market attack.At least five people were killed and more than 200 others injured when a car ploughed into crowds shopping on Friday evening. Image: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) at the memorial service. Pic: AP Among those attending the service in the city's cathedral was Chancellor Olaf Scholz, interior minister […]

Syrian and Russian forces unleashed all they could on eastern Aleppo. For four years they battled to bring Syria's second city under Bashar al Assad's full control.By December 2016 when the regime finally ceased fire after a devastating siege and bombardment, civilian life there was all but extinguished. Dr Obeid Diab wants to show us what it looks like when a barrel bomb hits.We bump into him on the street, […]

The US says it has killed Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Yusif in Syria.US Central Command Forces (Centcom) said it carried out an airstrike targeting Yusif - who also goes by Mahmud - in the eastern province of Deir ez Zor. They said the area was previously controlled by the Syrian regime and Russian forces before the recent fall of Bashar al Assad.Another IS operative was also killed in the […]

The doors of the white van are thrown open. Dozens of armed French police jump on board, their colleagues on the ground form a human chain and get to work.The van is carrying precious cargo. Water. Small plastic bottles stacked roof high and van deep. It's chaotic.Orders are being shouted in French and Chimaore, the language spoken by Mayotte's African community.Security is high. The gendarmes are backed up by armed […]

The moment the suspect in a fatal attack on a German Christmas market was arrested has been captured on video by a passer-by.At least two people were killed, including a small child, and dozens of others injured when a car was "driven at speed" into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, according to local officials.Officials say the suspect is a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who first came to Germany […]

At least one person has been killed after a car was driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany, local media reports.News agency dpa said the driver had been arrested following the incident in the eastern city of Magdeburg. Public broadcaster MDR said at least one person had been killed.It quoted local government spokesperson Matthias Schuppe as saying it was an attack.Police said on X that "extensive operations" […]

A "blob-headed" fish and a semi-aquatic mouse are among 27 newly discovered species found in a remote region of the Amazon rainforest in Peru.Scientists also encountered a new species of dwarf squirrel, salamander and short-tailed fruit bat during their expedition to the remote forest of Alto Mayo, according to the findings published by Conservation International. The protected area in northern Peru is home to several ecosystems, indigenous territories and villages.Among […]

For days the world has been told how Cyclone Chido has laid waste to the small Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. But few can truly understand just how devastating the most powerful cyclone to hit this region has been.The few pictures leaving Mayotte struggle to show the true scale of the crisis. The island is remote, cut off completely from the rest of the region except for the French military […]