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Parking charges for some SUV cars in Paris are set to triple, after a landmark vote passed on Sunday evening.Some 54.5% of Parisians voted to increase the price of parking passes for cars weighing more than 1.6 tonnes from outside the city. Just 5.7% of voters turned out in the referendum, which asked if voters were "for or against the creation of a specific rate for the parking of heavy, […]

The father of nine-year-old Emily Hand, the Irish-Israeli girl held hostage by Hamas for 50 days, said she was threatened with a knife during her ordeal.Emily, who was released in November after her capture on 7 October, suffers from panic attacks and often speaks in whispers, her father said in an interview with Israeli station Channel 12. Thomas Hand, who is originally from Dublin, said Emily talks "very little" about […]

Raging wildfires in Chile have killed at least 51 people and the number of dead is likely to keep rising as emergency workers battle the flames threatening urban areas.Thousands of people have been forced to flee and hundreds of homes have been destroyed by the blazes which have sent black smoke billowing over many parts of the central Valparaiso region and caused power cuts. Four hospitals and three old people's […]

Namibia's President Hage Geingob has died aged 82.Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba announced Mr Geingob's death in the early hours of Sunday morning. "At his side was his dear wife Madame Monica Geingos and his children," Mr Mbumba said in a statement.He had been diagnosed with cancer and publicly revealed his diagnosis last month.His office announced he would be travelling to the US for treatment, but would return to Namibia on 2 […]

The US and Britain have launched a fresh wave of strikes against 36 Houthi targets in Yemen.The further wave of assaults on 13 locations are designed to further disable Iran-backed groups that have attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, according to US officials. Launched by ships and fighter jets, these strikes on Yemen follow a US air assault on targets in Iraq and Syria […]

Some might have thought that support for these marches would have waned by now.They've been going for nearly four months and this is the eighth one. But on today's evidence, those perceptions would be very wide of the mark.Follow live: Iraq warns of 'disastrous' consequences after US strikesFor 25 minutes, we watched as a continuous crowd passed us on Regent Street. We started our clock when the front of the […]

North Korea says it has tested cruise missiles fitted with new "super-large" warheads - as well as a new type of anti-aircraft missile.The tests, reported by North Korean state media on Saturday, mark the regime's fourth round of launches so far in 2024. It comes a day after South Korea's military said it detected the North launching multiple cruise missiles into waters off its western coast.North Korean photos of the […]

The US is trying to hit Iranian targets in the Middle East hard enough to stop attacks against American forces but not so hard that it triggers wider escalation or even direct war with Iran. Experts in recent days have dubbed the strategy the "Goldilocks" approach because it needs to be just right. Joe Biden made clear that a response was coming from the moment he accused "radical Iran-backed militant […]

A dangerous new phase in the Middle East conflict has begun with a major US military action targeting multiple locations in Syria and Iraq.Seeking to both to punish and deter Iran and its Iraq-based proxies after an Iranian-backed militia killed three US service personnel in Jordan, manned and unmanned aircraft hit multiple locations with 125 specialised munitions, according US military's central command.This was a calculated response, not a knee-jerk reaction, […]