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AT&T is selling its majority stake in DirecTV to private equity firm TPG Partners for 7.6 billion dollars (£5.68 billion), ending the communication giant’s remaining ties to the entertainment industry. The firm said in a filing with the US Securities…

Hezbollah’s deputy leader has vowed to continue fighting Israel, and said the militant group is prepared for a long war despite much of its top command being wiped out, including its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. In his first televised speech since…

The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria, finishing ahead of the governing conservatives. But the party’s chances of governing remain unclear. Preliminary official results showed the Freedom Party finishing first with…

The Israeli military said on Sunday it had killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the killing of its overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The military…

Rescuers in Nepal have recovered dozens of bodies from buses and other vehicles that were buried in landslides near the capital Kathmandu, as the death toll from flooding rose to at least 129 with many still missing. The weather in…

More than 100 Ukrainian drones have been shot down over Russia, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages seen over Russian skies since the start of the war. Russia’s Ministry of Defence…

A man has been arrested after allegedly setting two fires in the western German city of Essen that left 30 people injured, and driving a van into two shops, authorities have said. Emergency services were alerted to two fires in…

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation and Ukraine. Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and long-time campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was “an essential condition to achieving the goals we set”. Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that one of its founding members, who has been linked by Israel to attacks…

Dozens of people have died after Hurricane Helene raced across a wide area of the south-eastern US, with more than three million customers being left without power. Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a category four hurricane…