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Israeli strikes in the West Bank have killed at least nine people overnight, according to Palestinian officials.The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have launched raids across the occupied West Bank and sealed off the city of Jenin.Israeli forces surrounded the city, blocking off exit and entry points and access to hospitals, the governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu al Rub, said on Palestinian radio. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible […]

Donald Trump has confirmed he will debate Kamala Harris on 10 September, while the vice president has agreed to her first joint interview since Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 election.The former president has been flip-flopping on whether he will debate the Democrat nominee after initially confirming he would, asking "why am I doing it?" at a campaign stop on Monday. In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, however, Mr […]

A Major League Baseball (MLB) player has made history by being the first to bat for two different teams in the same game.Danny Jansen, 29, was signed to the Toronto Blue Jays when they faced off against the Boston Red Sox on 26 June, but the game was called off and rescheduled due to heavy rain. Up batting for the Canadian side, Jansen only saw one pitch from Boston's Kutter […]

Scientists are "working blindly" in Africa to track and tackle mpox, an infectious disease expert, who also chairs the WHO's mpox emergency committee, has said.Experts studying the virus said it has spread out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it. That has resulted in several unknowns about the virus itself, its severity and how it is transmitting, […]

An Austrian surgeon allegedly let his teenage daughter drill a hole in a patient's skull.Following a forestry accident in January, a 33-year-old man was flown by air ambulance to Graz University Hospital, Styria, southeastern Austria, with serious head injuries, according to Kronen Zeitung, an Austrian newspaper. He needed emergency surgery, but the doctor allegedly let his 13-year-old daughter take part in operating on him.The newspaper reported that she even drilled […]

Donald Trump has suggested he might back out of a scheduled debate with rival presidential hopeful Kamala Harris - as he says the network it is scheduled to be on is "hostile" to Republicans.Speaking inside a Vietnamese restaurant in Virginia, Trump said he watched ABC's This Week on Sunday and did not like how how Republican senator Tom Cotton was treated. "When I looked at the hostility of that, I […]

At least 30 people have been killed after a dam collapsed in Sudan, with the homes of 50,000 residents destroyed, the UN has said.People are trapped in vehicles in the floodwater, which has hit 20 villages, one local told Al Jazeera. "There were seven lorries carrying families, elderly and children," Ali Issa said. "We came to see what had happened but were not able to get to the dam."In a […]

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has died at the age of 76, his family has said.Eriksson had pancreatic cancer and at the beginning of 2024 revealed he only had a year to live "at best"."Sven-Goran Eriksson has passed away," his family said in a statement. "After a long illness, SGE died during the morning at home surrounded by family."The closest mourners are daughter Lina; son Johan with wife Amana and […]

One of the most secret weapons to combat Russia's invasion of Ukraine has started to raise its profile.A new video posted on social media seeks to promote the covert activities of a network of Ukrainian civilians, living - and fighting - behind Russian lines. Run by the Ukrainian special forces, this resistance movement is growing, according to its commander, who said any adult - old, young, male, female - can […]