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French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved France’s National Assembly and called a snap election after his party suffered a calamitous result in elections to the European Parliament. Marine le Pen’s hard right National Rally party won about 32% of the vote – a 10 point increase on the last EU election in 2019. It is

Israel’s war cabinet minister has resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government. Benny Gantz said leaving his post was a “complex and painful decision” to make but Mr Netanyahu was “preventing real victory” over Hamas, the militant group Israel has been fighting in Gaza for the past eight months. Mr Gantz, one of Israel’s

More than 200 Palestinians were killed as Israel raided Gaza to free four hostages, Hamas claims, in one of the bloodiest days of the war. During the mission, hailed as “heroic” in Israel, the military said it freed the hostages under heavy fire and responded with strikes “from the air and from the street”. But

Israel says it has rescued four hostages from Gaza. They are in a good medical condition, Israeli authorities said, and are receiving medical checks at Sheba hospital, where they will spend the night. The hostages, who were captured by Hamas from the Nova music festival in October, were named as Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir

At least 11 people have died and dozens are missing after two ships were wrecked off the coast of southern Italy. A rescue ship run by a German aid group picked up 51 people, thought to be migrants, from a sinking wooden vessel in the first of two shipwrecks. The RESQSHIP group said two of

Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen has been attacked in central Copenhagen. Ms Frederiksen was in shock after being hit by someone, the Danish news agency Ritzau said, citing the police and the prime minister’s office. A man has been arrested. It is unclear whether the PM has been left injured by the attack. This breaking

Two police officers in the US are under investigation after they were filmed beating a man on the ground with their batons at a bus stop. Footage posted online showed the officers repeatedly hitting the man with truncheons in Seattle last Friday. During the 40-second clip, one of the officers appeared to grab the man’s

This was the day the world made a journey to towns across Normandy – those remarkable stories of bravery and acts of patriotism that have cemented D-Day in our consciousness, touching so many different nations. From the 13 countries that made up those Allied troops for the landings, thousands of people gathered onto those wide

Amanda Knox has insisted she is a “victim” and did not slander anyone after she lost her bid to overturn the conviction in Italy this week. In an exclusive interview with Sky TG24, Sky News’ sister channel in Italy, Knox said she had “nothing to hide”, adding: “I’ve had to spend my whole life fighting

Royalty and world leaders will gather with veterans in Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. The King and Queen will pay tribute to fallen soldiers at the UK’s national commemoration event at the British Normandy Memorial, in Ver-sur-Mer. They will be joined by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Sir Keir

Amanda Knox has lost her bid to overturn a slander conviction in Italy. The American woman was eventually cleared of the brutal 2007 murder of her flatmate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in the apartment they shared in the Italian university town of Perugia. But she was only released, in 2011, after four years in prison in

Kareem saw the tanks and yelled. His mother and sister ran outside to find him, and then the tank fired. The pain was so excruciating that Kareem begged the doctors to amputate his leg. Because of the war, they had to do it without an anaesthetic. His screams were so loud that people on the

Early counting in India’s election suggests the party of Narendra Modi may get fewer votes than expected. A total of 272 seats are needed for a majority in the country’s lower house of parliament – but his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is ahead only in 242 seats so far. However, if it is unable to

It was a moment of horror from Gaza which went viral – a video of an amputation on a dining table. No anaesthetic. No bandages. Just a bucket, some soap and a kitchen knife. It was 19 December 2023, and the war in Gaza was in its third month. Israel’s bombardment of the northern part

Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s election and is set to become the country’s first woman president, according to an official quick count. The ruling party candidate had between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote – an unassailable lead, a statistical sample showed, according to the National Electoral Institute. Opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez, a female rival

South Africa is entering a new political period after the African National Congress (ANC) lost the parliamentary majority it has held for 30 years. Official results announced on Sunday showed it had taken 40.2% of the vote in the country’s general election – down from 57.5% in 2019. It means the party of Nelson Mandela