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Israel at war
Ukraine in focus
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Ukrainian army deserter shot dead as anger grows over recruitment drive
More want peace talks with Russia as reports claim Kyiv is sending medically unfit to front line
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Putin is leading Russia into a demographic catastrophe
‘Moscow can always find more men’, one hears people say, justifying Western inaction. It is simply not true
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Wounded Russian soldiers – some on crutches – used in ‘meat wave’ attacks
Kremlin’s forces seen ‘staggering’ on battlefield and ‘left in positions to die’ while Ukrainian PoWs made to walk ahead as human shields
In focus
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Inside the gleaming developments that made Hamas a $1bn terror group
High-value assets in Turkey ‘form part of a secret global investment portfolio’
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How El Salvador loves its ‘cool dictator’ who shut down the gangs – but at the cost of human rights
Controversial Nayib Bukele is expected to win re-election by a crushing margin in Sunday’s presidential vote
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‘I just prayed they wouldn't be killed’: Families of the Hamas hostages share their stories
Since the Hamas attack on Israel, 203 people are still missing. Their families share their experiences - and wait in hope for their return
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France’s Olympics hijab ban labelled ‘racist gender discrimination’
But the country’s sports minister, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, says the policy is simply born out of a commitment to secularism
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Patrolling soldier stabbed at Paris train station
Suspect arrested after French soldier injured in knife attack at Gare de l’Est station
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Trump picks firebrand senator JD Vance as running mate
Former president chooses ‘Hillbilly’ memoir loyalist as would-be VP as he delivers message of unity after assassination attempt
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How JD Vance went from calling Donald Trump ‘America’s Hitler’ to his running mate
Raised in an unstable home by a drug-addicted mother, the pick for VP couldn’t have come from more different beginnings
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What would have happened if Trump had been assassinated?
Pundits have warned the US was ‘one inch away from civil war’ – rather like the 1960s when civil unrest was triggered by political killings
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Assassinations, near misses and five photos that changed politics forever
The striking image of Donald Trump standing bloodied but unbowed joins a collection of era-defining photographs
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Prostate cancer pill could extend more lives than previously thought
New study brings fresh hope for patients with drug that has fewer side effects than chemotherapy