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UK joins US in strike on Houthi target in Yemen for first time since Donald Trump re-elected

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed the strikes took place on Tuesday as part of the government's response to Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

People in Spain and Portugal tell us what got them through a day with no electricity.

Israel's foreign minister slammed the United Nations on Monday as the organization's court opened a hearing on Israel's legal responsibilities in Gaza.
Gidon Sa’ar said that the U.N. is a “rotten, anti-Israel, and antisemitic body,” which ought to be on trial for covering up terror affiliates within the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), who he said participated in the attacks of Oct. 7 2023. “The U.N. must answer for these crimes,” Sa’ar said.
He told reporters that Israel had decided “not to take part in this circus,” which is intended to deprive Israel of its “most basic right to defend itself.”
OFFICIALS IN BIDEN ADMIN WORKED TO UNDERMINE NETANYAHU AFTER CEASEFIRE TALKS COLLAPSED, FORMER AIDE SAYS
“Secretary-General [Antonio] Guterres is personally accountable. He knew what was going on in UNRWA. He knew very well and he knows very well. Israel repeatedly warned him. He did nothing. He went out of his..

The BBC speaks to Romanian influencers, implicated in the unprecedented cancellation of an EU election

Government warned it is setting country up for ‘disaster’ unless it better prepares UK for heavy flooding and intense heat

After deadly flooding in Valencia and fierce LA wildfires, climate advisers in the UK have issued a stark warning the country is unprepared to cope with a hotter world.

Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.

Three people killed after shooting in Sweden

Witnesses told Swedish media they heard five gunshots and saw people in the area running to take cover. A murder investigation has since been launched by police after the incident in the city of Uppsala.

Crush fly-tippers’ vans, government tells councils

Labour claims the last Conservative administration let fly-tipping get “out of control” – while the Tories say Labour is mismanaging waste in areas where it runs local authorities.

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is giving the armed forces near complete freedom of action to respond following a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region on April 22 that saw 26 people killed by terrorists. India and Pakistan have exchanged fire every day since the attack along the Line of Control that separates the Indian and Pakistani areas of Kashmir.
The Times of India reported on Tuesday that Modi has given the military the operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets, and timing of the response to the attack in Kashmir.
PAKISTAN FEARS INDIA INCURSION 'IMMINENT' AMID HEIGHTENED TENSIONS FOLLOWING TERROR ATTACK
Modi is set to convene another meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday to coordinate India’s next moves.
The move comes as Pakistan's Minister for information and broadcasting claimed on X that his country has “credible intelligence that India intends carrying out military action again..

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US voters divided over Trump’s first 100 days – 10 out of 10, or a lack of grace and empathy?

After an exhaustive first 100 days, US citizens are becoming unusually reluctant to voice their opinions, concerned about the risk of becoming identified with one political side or the other in a sharply-divided country.