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Israel's prime minister says he will "respond with force" after Hezbollah fired towards an Israeli military post in disputed territory in Lebanon.Two projectiles fell in open areas and no injuries were reported. Israel said they had been launched toward Mount Dov, a disputed Israeli-held territory known as Shebaa Farms in Lebanon, where the borders of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel meet. Image: Members of Imam al-Mahdi scouts clean rubble and debris […]

Pictures and videos have revealed new, specialised hunting techniques used by killer whales to attack the world's largest fish, according to scientists.On four occasions caught on video, a group of orcas preyed on whale sharks in the Gulf of California. The orcas would work together to hit the whale shark until it turned upside down. Image: A killer whale hits the ventral side of the whale shark. Pic: Kelsey Williamson […]

President Joe Biden has issued a "full and unconditional" pardon for his son Hunter - just weeks before he was set to be sentenced.Hunter, 54, was convicted of three firearm charges in June, marking the first criminal prosecution of a sitting US president's child. Then, two months later, Hunter pleaded guilty to federal tax charges, having been due to stand trial on criminal charges of failing to pay $1.4m (£1.06m).In […]

Violence has broken out in Georgia for a fourth night in a row - with fireworks fired at police who hit back with tear gas and water cannon.The unrest - over the freezing of talks to join the EU - also appears to be spreading beyond the capital Tbilisi. People turned out again on Sunday evening on central Rustaveli Avenue, some wearing gas masks and others carrying Georgia and EU […]

A British man has died after being found at the bottom of a lift shaft while on holiday in Turkey.Tyler Kerry, 20, a labourer from Basildon in Essex, was found on Friday at the hotel he was staying at in Antalya. His uncle, Alex Price, said his nephew was discovered at 7am local time (4am UK time)."I got a phone call from my sister and she just said that Tyler […]

Syria's president has said his country will "defend its stability and territorial integrity" after rebels reportedly took control of most of the country's second-largest city Aleppo.In his first public comments since the start of the offensive, late on Saturday night Bashar al Assad said the regime would defeat the "terrorists and their supporters".In comments released by the state news agency SANA, he added that Syria is able to defeat them […]

Donald Trump promised retribution on the campaign trail and his nomination of ultra-loyalist Kash Patel to FBI director is a sure-fire sign that he plans to deliver on it.That bodes ill for a huge cast of characters, across the US's top law enforcement agency and the Department of Justice, who have sought to investigate the president-elect on a litany of criminal charges, now dropped or on hold due to the […]

The crowds came, weeping in the dark, to a bombsite and a shrine. The crater was huge, with twisted rods of steel and mounds of earth and rubble on its side. This is where Hassan Nasrallah, the former leader of Hezbollah was killed, in a massive Israeli airstrike, on 27 September. Those dirt mounds were covered in small candles, the surrounding buildings were lit in red and, at the bottom of […]

Levan is sitting in his very old car smiling at us through the snow, his eyes twinkling, amused by our discomfort. Not many people come to visit this corner of Georgia, and today the snow is billowing around us. It is biting cold and there is a large stray dog staring at us with a slight air of menace. Welcome to Brotsleti. We are just a few kilometres from one […]