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The world’s richest man and one of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices are set for a showdown with Elon Musk’s social media platform X facing a ban in the world’s fourth largest economy. Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes issued an order on Wednesday for X to appoint a new legal representative within 24 hours or

Israel and Hamas have tentatively agreed to a series of brief ceasefires in parts of Gaza so that the polio vaccine can be safely distributed, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The pauses will begin on Sunday and will take place in three phases covering central Gaza first, then the south and finally the

Flights have been grounded and police officers were forced to communicate by text while on duty as a network outage at the Dutch ministry of defence caused major IT failures across the country. The extent and cause of the problems are not yet known, but a spokesperson for the Dutch defence ministry confirmed the issue

An Austrian surgeon allegedly let his teenage daughter drill a hole in a patient’s skull. Following a forestry accident in January, a 33-year-old man was been flown by air ambulance to Graz University Hospital, Styria, southeastern Austria, with serious head injuries, according to Kronen Zeitung, an Austrian newspaper. He needed emergency surgery, but the doctor

In a dusty square at the centre of the small Chadian town of Tiné, four aid trucks are crammed with medicine and food. Supplies sent to relieve civilians trapped in a besieged and famine-ridden area of North Darfur, Sudan – just across a narrow valley border – have been sitting in the sun for weeks.

German prosecutors have named the man suspected of carrying out a knife attack at a festival that killed three people and injured eight. The Syrian national Issa Al H is accused of being “a member of a terrorist organisation abroad”, saying he shares the “ideology of Islamic State” (IS). He has also been charged with

Israel has launched “pre-emptive” airstrikes in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah – as the militant group said it had fired drones and hundreds of rockets. Warning sirens sounded in northern Israel and explosions were heard as the military’s Iron Dome aerial defence system shot down missiles from southern Lebanon. Flights to and from Tel Aviv’s Ben

Police have arrested the person suspected of carrying out the stabbing attack at a festival in Germany. A 56-year-old woman and two men, aged 56 and 67, died following the attack in the city of Solingen on Friday. Eight people were injured, four seriously, while “many other people have suffered mental stress”. The state internal

A volcano has erupted in Iceland, forcing the evacuation of nearby homes. Red-hot lava can be seen shooting up from the ground on the Reykjanes Peninsula. It is the sixth time in the last eight months that the area has seen an eruption. The nearby town of Grindavik has been largely abandoned since late last

Vladimir Putin has paid his first visit to Chechnya in 13 years to visit military volunteers – who he hailed for making Russia “invincible”. Mr Putin’s visit came against the backdrop of Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk region, which shows no signs of abating. But elsewhere in the war – which started after Mr Putin

The British mother who says she held her baby daughter above the waves as the yacht sank near Sicily was sleeping on deck as the storm hit, an Italian doctor has said. Charlotte Golunski was among 22 people on board the Bayesian when a tornado struck on Monday morning, with one dead and another six

The Kremlin’s threats of retaliation are a bluff, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed, with his country’s forces now said to be in control of 90 settlements in the Russian border region of Kursk. The Ukrainian president told a gathering of diplomats that troops have gained over 1,250 square kilometres in Russia since the surprise

One person is dead and six are missing after a superyacht carrying mostly British people was caught in a tornado and sank off the coast of Palermo, according to Italian media. Fifteen people were rescued from the 49-meter (160-foot) sailboat after the disaster, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for the Italian fire rescue service. The

At least six people have been killed by an Israeli strike in Lebanon, the health ministry there has said. Officials said the strike, in which three others were wounded, hit a residential building in the city of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, early on Saturday. Tensions have soared in the region in recent weeks, after a deadly

A key Russian bridge has been destroyed by Ukraine’s air force, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying Kyiv is “strengthening” its positions in the Kursk region. Ukrainian air force commander Mykola Oleschuk shared a video of the moment when a bridge was hit by “high precision strikes” on Telegram. The bridge – which crosses the River Seym

A key ally of Vladimir Putin has urged Ukraine and Russia to negotiate an end to the conflict, as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s troops had captured a key Russian town. The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with Russian state television amid Ukraine‘s ongoing incursion on

The black box recording from a Brazilian plane which crashed, killing all 62 people on board, features the co-pilot saying the aircraft needed “more power”, according to local media. The plane was travelling from Cascavel to Sao Paulo when it crashed in a gated community around 80km away from its destination. Nobody on the ground

Hospital services have been disrupted in several Indian cities following nationwide doctor protests over the rape and murder of a trainee medic. Thousands of doctors marched on Monday in Kolkata and the surrounding West Bengal state to denounce the killing at a government-run hospital. Protesters are demanding better security and justice for the 31-year-old doctor,

Russia has begun to thwart a week-long Ukrainian incursion into its Kursk region, Moscow has claimed. Russian army units – including fresh reserves, aircraft, drone teams and artillery forces – have stopped Ukrainian troops from gaining further territory near the settlements of Obshchy Kolodez, Snagost, Kauchuk and Alexeyevsky, the Russian defence ministry said. The influx

At least 24 people have now died after a mountain of rubbish collapsed in Uganda. Rescuers continue to dig through the rubble in the capital, Kampala, days after disaster struck at the Kiteezi landfill on Friday. At least four children are among the dead, police said. Image: It is not known how many people remain