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Tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets of Tbilisi, kicking off a week of rolling protests against a Putinesque new law threatening press and civic freedoms.Massive crowds lined both embankments of the Kura River and the streets and parks beyond. The demonstrators see their country at a crossroads.They oppose a new "foreign agents" bill being pushed through parliament.The law would brand organisations with 20% or more of funding […]

Flames and black smoke chugged from the windows of a two-storey apartment block in a frontline Ukrainian town.Residents said a Russian missile or bomb had punched a large crater into the soil in front of the building, devastating their homes. The attack had only happened a short while ago and the scene on Saturday morning was still chaotic, with people worried the fire would spread to a row of apartments […]

Tennis star Novak Djokovic showed himself to be a good sport after being hit on the head by a metal water bottle - wearing a cycling helmet as he signed autographs for fans while training at the Italian Open.The world number one poked fun at himself a day after he fell to the floor when the container slipped out of a spectator's backpack and struck him following his second round […]

Israel has called on residents from more areas of Rafah in the Gaza Strip to evacuate and head to the "expanded humanitarian area" as it prepares to ramp up its military assault.Despite heavy US pressure, Israel has said it will proceed with an assault on the southern city, where more than 1.4 million people have taken refuge from the fighting - around half of them children - and Israeli forces […]

The European Hospital, in southern Gaza, is a dangerous place to be. The facility is the only remaining hospital east of the city of Rafah and an Israeli military operation has come perilously close to its doors.It was a hazardous time then, for three British medics to begin a short placement, arriving at the hospital just a few days before the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) began its campaign.Now they are unable […]

Hundreds of protesters wanting to stop the expansion of a Tesla factory near Germany's capital of Berlin were blocked by police as they attempted to storm the site.Crowds of demonstrators gathered near the Grunheide factory, Tesla's only European production base, on Friday carrying banners complaining about water consumption at the plant and advocating for public transport over private cars. The protests against water consumption and the felling of trees to […]

The Netherlands' Eurovision entry Joost Klein is under investigation by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) due to an unexplained "incident" - and will not be rehearsing again until "further notice".The Dutch singer, 26, missed his slot in the show's penultimate dress rehearsal in Malmo, Sweden, on Friday, where he had been due to perform his track Europapa in fifth place, ahead of Israel's Eden Golan, 20, with her song Hurricane. […]

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are set to start a three-day visit to Nigeria on the invitation of the country's chief of defence staff.Meghan and Harry will arrive in the west African country later today after the duke spent much of the week in London. They are due to visit a school before the duke meets injured service members at a military hospital.The couple will also attend […]

We are rushing down the beach. In the gloom just before dawn, people are waiting by the seashore, a few hundred metres away.We can see a dinghy out at sea. And then a voice rings out, in Kurdish. "Whose passengers are you?"In the half-light, the people smuggler thinks we are customers here to clamber onto the boat, and wants to know who we had paid.We tell him we're journalists. "Keep […]