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Rare footage obtained by Al Jazeera offers a look at the life of former Hamas military commander, Mohammed Deif.

Speaking at a campaign rally, Donald Trump told voters to send Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed ‘back to where he came from’.

Home Minister Amit Shah has challenged Rahul Gandhi to debate electoral irregularity allegations in Parliament, ahead of a major opposition rally against the election chief in Delhi. DW has more.

Two vessels carrying Indian crew members have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two days as Iran steps up attacks on shipping. DW has more.

A tanker with a crew of 27 Indians caught fire after being struck by limpet mines near Oman. The attack marks the first known successful use of the explosives in the waterway since the US-Iran war began. DW has more.

Deal would be one of the most significant steps to supply defensive weapons to Kyiv since ​Trump took office in 2025.

Liren Lai and Yuance Chen admitted to facilitating 'dead drop' cash payments worth at least $30,000 to people in the US.

What does Joseph Kabila launching a new rebel movement mean for DR Congo?

President Karol Nawrocki seen struggling to gain entry to court building in Warsaw amid long-running row over the court’s legitimacy Riot police were locked in a tense standoff with protesters outside Poland’s constitutional court on Friday night after its top judge was suspended in the latest escalation in a decade-long dispute over the court’s legal status. The clashes followed a controversial decision by a group of government-appointed judges to suspend the court’s contested president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and his deputy, Bartłomiej Sochański, amid disagreements over the bench’s legitimacy. Continue reading...

The mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Western Sahara will expire on October 31. The UN Security Council could not agree on a resolution to extend the mission.

The former vice premier was one of just six women to have served on the Chinese Communist Party’s elite Politburo, though she was excluded from the top ranks of power.

Mangione pleaded guilty in August in federal case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson Luigi Mangione’s lawyers filed paperwork on Friday once again pushing for dismissal of his state-level case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson following his federal guilty plea. Mangione pleaded guilty on 14 August to federal charges in Thompson’s grisly death outside a Manhattan hotel on 4 December 2024. The shocking plea came less than a month before his state murder and weapons trial, which had been scheduled for 8 September. Continue reading...

A 500-day campaign to find and identify fallen soldiers has unearthed hundreds of bodies, but not everyone gets a chance at closure.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says four tankers have caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pike, 50, is being held in solitary confinement and faces an uncertain future after surviving a failed lethal injection.

The premier’s comments represent a major change in British policy, but they are unlikely to satisfy those who hoped that reparations would follow.

Russia’s most prominent investigative newspaper is closing, with staff accusing the government of killing it off.

The MV Odyssey was billed as the ultimate escape from Donald Trump. Instead, the oil shock caused by his war has left passengers unceremoniously dumped in Cambodia The idea was a never-ending retirement at sea, a continuous voyage around the globe. The promise to the passengers of the MV Odyssey cruise ship – many approaching the autumn of their lives – was that on the open seas they could cut loose from the troubles of the world. But the world had other ideas. The end came in an announcement as stark as it was brief: they had seven hours to get off. They were going no further than Cambodia. Continue reading...

Authorities ​are struggling to find a way to control the ⁠outbreak, with no approved treatments or vaccines.

Hundreds have been evacuated from Russia-occupied Oleshky under a localised ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump.