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The Israeli military said it was looking into whether Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a military operation in Gaza, while an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians killed at least 15 people, including five children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The military said in a statement that three militants were killed during operations in Gaza, without specifying where or elaborating further. It said the identities […]

The wife of a Conservative councillor who used Twitter to stir up racial hatred against asylum seekers on the day of the Southport attacks has been jailed for 31 months. Lucy Connolly, who is married to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, posted a message on July 29 which read: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care… If that makes me racist, […]

Five children were among at least 15 people killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in northern Gaza on Thursday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Israeli military said the strike targeted dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants who had gathered at the site. The strike hit the Abu Hussein school in Jabaliya, an urban refugee camp in northern Gaza where Israel has been waging […]

The X Factor has said Liam Payne will “leave a lasting legacy on the music industry” through his time in One Direction, following his death. The singer rose to stardom at the age of 16 after joining the boy band on the ITV singing competition in 2010 alongside Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan, having returned to the show two years after his first audition. Music stars […]

He's died at the age of 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Local police said the 31-year-old singer fell from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Palermo neighbourhood of Argentina’s capital, before medics confirmed his death. According to police in Buenos Aires, officers were initially […]

Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died at the age of 31, according to local reports. Payne is reported to have died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, local officials said, according to the Associated Press. Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, said on Argentina’s Todo Noticias TV channel that Payne fell into a courtyard of the Casa Sur […]

London Underground workers including drivers are to stage a series of strikes next month in a dispute over pay. Members of Aslef, working as Tube drivers, instructors, management grades, and those in the engineering section will walk out on different days in the first few weeks of November. Finn Brennan, Aslef’s full-time organiser on London Underground, said: “We don’t want to go on strike – we don’t want to make […]

Israeli air strikes have pounded areas across Lebanon, killing at least 25 people, officials said. The deaths include more than a dozen people in a southern town where Israeli bombardments in previous conflicts are seared into local memory. Elsewhere in the south, a city’s mayor was among the dead in a strike that Lebanese officials said targeted a meeting co-ordinating relief efforts. The Israeli military said they were targeting a […]

A seven-year-old boy has died after a house explosion in Newcastle, police have said. Six people were taken to hospital after the incident on a residential street in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Superintendent Darren Adams of Northumbria Police said the boy had died at the scene, and six people had been taken to hospital “with varying injuries”, with a number of others evacuated from their homes. Speaking to […]