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Shortly before 9pm on Tuesday evening, a Hamas fighter tried to kill an Israeli soldier with a knife. The attack took place at Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel, about four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the border with Gaza. The man was shot dead by another soldier. What is remarkable is that the would-be assassin had

The US has sent a team of technical experts to Israel to assist in hostage recovery , according to official sources. The team are there to advise and work the Israelis on how to free people who are being held hostage, the official said. Hamas is believed to have taken more than 100 hostages during

From destroyed homes I watched stretcher bearers bringing out the body of a small child.    Without saying a word, the men carried the body and loaded it onto a truck alongside the bodies of other members of the community murdered as they hid or tried to defend themselves. We were taken to the Kfar

Hamas’s armed wing has warned people living in the Israeli city of Ashkelon that they have until 5pm local time to leave. The al Qassam Brigades, as the group is known, posted on social media that its warning to leave by 3pm UK time was in response to the “crime of the enemy”. The statement

Families seized and separated. Men, women and children hauled off to captivity, some of them shot on the way, girls raped, their belongings ransacked and looted. It is a catalogue of atrocities that recalls some of the darkest moments in Jewish history and yet it has happened in the 21st century in a country that

At least 260 bodies were found after Hamas targeted a music festival in Israel as part of its incursion, rescuers have said. Those killed at the Supernova festival near Re’im in southern Israel are among 700 dead across the country so far. The number dead at the music event in the desert region of Negev

A British-Israeli citizen and his wife have told of their 12 hour ordeal locked in a bomb-proof safe room as Hamas militants set their house on fire and gunfights erupted around them.  At times, they were just inches from the militants and were forced to stay put as Hamas fighters engaged Israeli Defence Force (IDF)

It was 2.30am in Washington DC when White House officials were first alerted to a situation which will come to represent a truly bloody turning point. Throughout the remainder of the night, the phone lines were hot. Israel’s most important ally was in constant contact with military officials in Tel Aviv and the political leaders

Thousands of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in a surprise attack by the Hamas militant group on Saturday morning. Large plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from a number of Israeli towns. Images on social media show cars on fire and some buildings damaged, and the Israeli ambulance

Rishi Sunak pledged the UK government’s continued commitment to Ukraine during his speech at the Conservative Party conference. Joe Biden has also reaffirmed US support for “as long as it takes”. However, beyond the political rhetoric, public support for the conflict is waning, and democratic elections will – inevitably – impact Western support. Is this

At least 40 people have been killed in flooding in the Indian Himalayan region, officials have said. The flood began on Wednesday when the waters of the glacial South Lhonak lake breached a hydroelectric dam. That triggered flash flooding in the mountainous Sikkim state of northeastern India, impacting towns and villages along the Teesta River

Hand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of victims of a plane crash that killed former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Prigozhin was reportedly in a plane crash north of Moscow on 23 August, two months to the day after he led a failed mutiny against top Russian officials.

We are standing on the side of a flyover, looking over the edge, and it is a fearful sight. Behind us, the traffic is pounding past, slowing slightly to take in the scene of northern Italy’s worst road accident. And ahead of us is the reason why so many people perished here, just a couple

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was once considered mighty but with a growing threat from Ukrainian attacks, Moscow has turned to a First World War strategy to protect it. Despite not having a navy itself, Ukraine has managed to carry out a series of successful attacks including strikes on Russia’s Black Sea navy HQ in Sevastopol

FIFA is looking at ending Russia’s blanket ban from international football, Sky News understands. The decision could be taken during a FIFA Council meeting later today to allow Russian teams to play in the Under-17s World Cups if they qualify, sources say. The ban has been in place since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was

At least 21 people have died in a coach crash near Venice in northern Italy, according to authorities. Another 40 people are believed to be injured in the crash on Tuesday evening, while Venice prefect, Michele Di Bari, said there were 15 survivors. The president of the region of Veneto, Luca Zaia, said 21 have

A 14-year-old has been arrested after three people were killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in Thailand. Hundreds of people were seen fleeing the Siam Paragon Mall – a luxury shopping centre in Bangkok. Emergency services said three people had been killed and three wounded, while Thai police said the suspect is just

The family of a British man have said “we don’t know what to believe” over the circumstances of his death during a holiday in Vietnam. Darren Blair was a “happy-go-lucky chappy” who enjoyed sightseeing and had visited 44 countries – but his family in Nottingham said “there have been different stories going around” over the

The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to two scientists for their research which led to the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The accolade, among the most prestigious in the scientific world, went to Katalin Kariko, from Hungary, and Drew Weissman, from the United States. “Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally

Turkey has carried out an airstrike in northern Iraq after a suicide bombing attack in capital Ankara, its defence ministry said. The airstrike destroyed 20 targets belonging to the Kurdish militant group PKK, which claimed responsibility for the bombing. Earlier on Sunday, two police officers were injured in an attack in Ankara, hours before parliament