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A former teacher and member of the US Army National Guard, Tim Walz has gone viral for attacking Donald Trump and JD Vance as “weird” – an insult the Harris campaign has embraced.  But now they have embraced the Minnesota governor entirely and put him on the presidential ticket. Mr Walz may not have the

Simone Biles has missed out on a fourth gold medal of the Paris Olympics after falling during her balance beam routine. The US gymnastics sensation fell off the apparatus midway through her routine in the women’s balance beam final – which was won by Italian Alice D’Amato. Biles, 27, had already secured golds in the

Bangladesh’s prime minister has resigned and fled to India following weeks of deadly protests in the country. Reports of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 76, resigning were confirmed by the army, as well as Bangladesh High Commission Officials in Delhi. According to the country’s leading national paper, she and her sister took a military helicopter to

Fresh violence in Bangladesh has left dozens dead and hundreds injured as internet services are shut down and a nationwide curfew is imposed. Almost 100 people were reportedly killed on Sunday as student protesters calling for the prime minister’s resignation clashed with police and ruling party activists. The country’s leading Bengali-language daily newspaper, Prothom Alo,

About 50 rockets have been fired from southern Lebanon towards upper Galilee, according to Israeli media. Videos showed Israel’s Iron Dome defence system being activated over the area. In a statement, Hezbollah said: “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honourable resistance, and in

US President Joe Biden has said he hopes Iran will back down from threats of retaliation against Israel to avert a serious war in the Middle East. Tensions are rising in the region after Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Iran has pledged to avenge his death, with its

The US defence secretary has revoked a plea deal which would have seen the men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks avoid death sentences. On Wednesday, it was announced that prosecutors had reached a deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi to plead guilty to conspiracy charges. Just two days later,

In Gaza there is only one place left for civilians to go. It is called al Mawasi, a collection of fields, sand dunes and broken buildings that have been overwhelmed by a great blanket of humanity. According to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), around 1.9 million have squeezed themselves into this territory. Israel has designated

A “sleeper cell” couple, prolific cybercriminals and an assassin are among those released in a major prisoner swap with the West. Here’s what they were accused of: Vadim Krasikov Image: Hitman Vadim Krasikov is now back in Russia. Pic: Reuters Krasikov is the most high-profile inmate returned to Russia after being convicted in 2021 of

The sudden disappearance of high-profile prisoners. The mysterious manoeuvres of Russian military jets. The exchange on the tarmac in Turkey. Dissidents, journalists, secret agents, smugglers, even an assassin. It was real Cold War spy movie stuff. But this was no fiction. It was real-life drama, and the result of a complex, delicate act of diplomacy

The grief at the funeral for two young children in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, was palpable. Children weeping, girls clinging to each other, women openly sobbing. The young brother and sister were killed in the Israeli ‘targeted’ assassination of one of Hezbollah’s top commanders Fahd Shukr. Image: A child on a man’s shoulders at a

At the start of the Gaza war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that Israel would go after the leaders of Hamas wherever they were, both inside Gaza and out. Though Israel has not claimed responsibility, the killing of the leader of the political wing of Hamas – Ismail Haniyeh – is a

Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in Iran, the group has confirmed. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were “assassinated” in the capital Tehran, Iranian state media reported. In a statement, Hamas said he was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”. The assassination

The Israeli military targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in retaliatory strikes in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. In a statement, the Israel Defence Forces claimed the commander of the armed group was “responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams” – referring to the strike on a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

At least 50 people have died in a series of landslides triggered by heavy rains in southern India, local officials have said. More than 70 others have been injured, Kerala’s state health minister Veena George said, and many more are likely to have been carried away in the overflowing Chaliyar river, according to the Indian

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term, the country’s electoral authority has said – despite several exit polls which had pointed to an opposition win. The head of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, said Mr Maduro had secured 51% of the vote, beating his opponent Edmundo Gonzalez, who won 44%. He said

Lebanon is once again on tenterhooks. Indeed, the whole region is. And there are very few who will bet against yet more bloodshed in the coming days and weeks. But will Saturday’s deadly strike on a football pitch in the occupied Golan Heights be what tips the region into all-out war? Middle East latest: ‘All-out

What does this attack mean for people in the region – and does it signal a major escalation in the border war that Israel and Hezbollah have been fighting over the Lebanese frontier? Israel was adamant that Iran-backed Hezbollah was responsible for the assault on a football pitch in the community of Majdal Shams. Follow

At least 10 people, including children, have been killed in a rocket attack on a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to an Israeli rescue official. The Israeli military said all of those killed in the Druze village of Majdal Shams were aged between 10 and 20. The attack on the football pitch

Olympics officials have “deeply apologised” for announcing South Korean athletes as North Korean during the opening ceremony of the Paris games on Friday. As South Korean athletes travelled along the River Seine as part of the ceremony on Friday, they were wrongly announced as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – the official name of