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Humanitarian workers have started moving tonnes of aid that had been piled up at a US-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged territory, the United Nations said. The move is an important step as the US…

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has reported Channel 4 to the elections watchdog, claiming the broadcaster used an actor as a “plant” in its undercover investigation into his campaign. The broadcaster has denied that Andrew Parker, who was filmed using a…

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has re-elected its leadership duo at the party’s conference, following its gains in the recent European election. Meanwhile, thousands of people protested outside, with some demonstrators attempting to block roads and clashing with police.…

Mauritanians have gone to the polls to elect their next president, with the incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani widely expected to win after positioning Mauritania as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence. Mr…

The UN cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group’s rule over the area. The…

A woman has been arrested after a video was shared on social media allegedly showing a prison officer having sex with an inmate in a jail cell. The Metropolitan Police said a woman was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in…

Russian shelling of frontline villages in eastern Ukraine has killed four people while rescuers in the city of Dnipro dug through rubble after a Russian attack ripped through a nine-storey residential building, leaving one dead, officials said. The attacks came…

A renewed search for missing teenager Jay Slater is to begin in Tenerife on Saturday after Spanish police appealed for expert volunteers to help. The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared following an attempt to walk back to his accommodation on…

Iran will hold a run-off presidential election to replace the late hard-line president Ebrahim Raisi, an official said, after an initial vote saw the top candidates fail to secure an outright win. The run-off election on Friday will pit reformist…

Bolivian President Luis Arce said on Friday that a former general planned to “take over” the government and become president in a failed coup. He also denied that the Andean nation was in an economic crisis. In an interview with…