Video taken from northern Israel has captured flares and explosions on the border with Lebanon on Monday night and into Tuesday morning. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation is under way against Hezbollah in southern
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is heading for an unprecedented general election victory under leader Herbert Kickl, projections say. The projections, based on initial results, give Kickl’s party 29.1% – almost three points ahead of the conservative People’s Party on 26.2%, but far
The Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson has demanded that Ukraine fire its ambassador to Washington, as a feud between the Republican Party and Volodymyr Zelensky escalates. Johnson’s intervention comes after President Zelensky visited an arms factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania –
The BBC has witnessed Israeli airstrikes around the city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon. Correspondent Orla Guerin visited the usually crowded holiday destination, and said it is now “basically deserted”, apart from people fleeing intense Israeli airstrikes in nearby towns. Israel is
A suspected gunman arrested near Donald Trump’s golf-course wrote a note months earlier saying he intended to kill the former president, a court filing shows. “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,” the note says. In documents filed on Monday, prosecutors
Israel’s military has launched an investigation after its soldiers were filmed throwing the bodies of three dead Palestinians off a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank. Footage of the incident, filmed in the northern town of Qabatiya, near Jenin,
Storm Boris is battering the north-east and central regions of Italy, days after causing widespread flooding in central Europe. More than 1,000 residents in the north-eastern region of Emilia Romagna have been evacuated, while towns in the central region of Marche of
Israel has scored a significant tactical triumph in this operation – the sort of spectacular coup you would read about in a thriller. Undoubtedly it’s a humiliation for Hezbollah, which will increase their insecurity and be bad for their morale. However there
Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start. Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old man accused of drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over 10 years, has admitted to all the charges against him in
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world’s first commercial spacewalk. The Dragon capsule made splashdown off the coast of Florida shortly after 03:37 local time (07:37 GMT), in an