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  • Parliament House protest

    Four pro-Palestine protesters arrested after scaling roof of Australia’s Parliament House to unfurl banners criticising Gaza war

    Review launched into security breach after parliament partly locked down as activists climbed on to roof
  • Palestinians ride a cart past near buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardments in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip

    About 90% of people in Gaza displaced since war began, says UN agency

  • Displaced Palestinians in east Khan Younis.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel reportedly kills senior Hezbollah commander in drone strike – as it happened

  • Mohamed Ould Ghazouani standing in a car waving to supporters.

    Three people die after arrests at election protests in Mauritania

  • A hand posting a vote into a ballot box

    ‘It’s irrelevant’: Iran’s record low election turnout shows little faith in process

  • Palestinians, who fled the eastern part of Khan Younis, walk after they were ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate their neighbourhoods. Follow live for latest updates in the Israel-Gaza war.

    Middle East crisis live
    Fresh strikes on Khan Younis as UN secretary general says ‘no place safe in Gaza’ – as it happened

  • Palestinians carrying belongings cross road in front of vehicles

    Palestinians flee Khan Younis as eight reported dead after Israeli strikes

  • A brass sign reading Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office shows a reflection of a brick building.

    From conflict to the climate – what are the UK parties’ international plans?

  • A motorbike drives past buildings destroyed during previous Israeli military fire on the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab, near the border with northern Israel.

    Israel risking disastrous war against Hezbollah for political reasons, says former US official

  • The Mother of All Lies review – pursuing the truth of Morocco’s brutal dictatorship years

  • In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban

  • Freed Gaza hospital director accuses Israel of torture during detention – video

    The head of the Gaza Strip's biggest hospital alleges Israel tortured him across seven months of detention without charge
  • Mohammed Abu Salmiya is reunited with a relative amid a throng of greeters and photographers

    Freed Gaza hospital head accuses Israel of repeated torture

    Al-Shifa’s Mohammed Abu Salmiya alleges Israel tortured him across seven months of detention without charge
    • Middle East crisis live
      Israel-Gaza war: al-Shifa hospital director release sparks row in Israel; army needs 10,000 soldiers, Israel defence minister says – as it happened

    • Surge in Palestinians applying for protection while in Australia prompts calls to create ‘emergency uplift’ visa

    • ‘As complicit as Saddam’: people on BA flight held hostage in Kuwait sue UK government

June 2024

  • Israeli soldiers stand guard near the Israeli-Gaza border overlooking the Shujaiya neighbourhood near Gaza City

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Israeli and Palestinian forces fighting ‘above and below ground’ in northern Gaza – as it happened

  • People form a line

    Sudan on precipice of famine ‘beyond imagination’, says outgoing UN aid chief

  • Neither the hardliner Saeed Jalili nor reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian secured 50% of the first vote

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    Iran to hold presidential runoff election on 5 July, says interior ministry – video

  • Supporters of Iran-backed Hezbollah chant slogans in Beirut.

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Iran sounds warning on Israeli ‘aggression’ in Lebanon – as it happened

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