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Seven killed in Russian drone attack on Odesa apartment block

A Russian drone attack on an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa has killed at least…

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Trump wins Republican caucuses in Michigan, Missouri, Idaho

Former United States President Donald Trump has cruised to victory in Republican caucuses in Michigan, Missouri and Idaho, gaining huge…

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Can US strikes on Yemen’s Houthis be justified as ‘self-defence’?

Israel has used it as justification for the slaughter of more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza – with thousands more…

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Conservatives dominate Iran’s parliament, assembly elections

A range of conservative candidates have swept the parliamentary and religious assembly elections in Iran as the country faces political and economic…

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Israeli air raid on Rafah kills 14 Palestinians, many of them children

Israeli forces have bombed a residential building in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to a witness and…

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Are snakebites rising in South Asia — and what’s responsible?

In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s…

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Hero to homeless: House of Muslim man behind India tunnel rescue demolished

Wakeel Hasan had to climb his neighbour’s 1.8-metre (six-foot) wall to enter the rubble-filled plot of land where his house…

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Every minute counts’ as hunger kills in Gaza

UNICEF chief Catherine Russell has called for a “ceasefire now”, saying that “every minute counts” for children in Gaza facing…

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