Tensions rise amidst already fragile ceasefire deal and US vice-president visit
• Oct 22, 2025, 10:20 AM
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Israeli protesters are asking for the US to make sure the Gaza peace deal, which plans for the return of all hostage bodies detained by Hamas, is honoured. The call comes as tensions over said return rose between the group and Israeli authorities, and an increase in Israeli settler violence in the West Bank against Palestinian oliver harvesters and activists.
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Live: EU leaders prepare to rally behind Ukraine at Brussels summit
• 5:30 AM
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European leaders meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday aim to shore up support for Ukraine by approving sanctions against Moscow and advancing a plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund a massive “reparation loan” for Kyiv. Follow our live blo
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Russian court releases French endurance cyclist Sofiane Sehili
• 5:29 AM
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A Russian court on Thursday freed French endurance cyclist Sofiane Sehili after finding him guilty of illegally crossing the Russian border, state news agency RIA reported. Sehili was arrested in early September.
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Marseille drop points with last-minute defeat in Lisbon
• 5:22 AM
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Despite a valiant second half, Marseille were caught off guard by Sporting Portugal in the dying moments. "It's scandalous," said Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, OM's Gabonese striker. Marseille had been on such a high after a first half that was almost perfe
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Bialowieza Forest at threat from military tensions along the Poland-Belarus border
• 5:17 AM
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Poland’s militarisation of the border zone with Belarus is threatening the exceptional biodiversity of Europe’s last primeval forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979. Human relationships with nature may also be impacted by the fortification of th
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Former French president Sarkozy hit with death threats in prison
• 1:34 AM
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French prosecutors have launched an investigation after a video surfaced showing an inmate at Paris' La Santé prison making death threats against former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who began serving a five-year sentence there this week for illegal campaig
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Iranian woman accused of promoting terrorism freed in France
• 12:09 AM
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Iranian citizen Mahdieh Esfandiari, detained in France since February on charges of promoting terrorism online, was conditionally released Wednesday under judicial supervision, as Tehran pushes for her return in a potential exchange for two French nation
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