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Ultra-Orthodox rabbi’s anti-Zionist remarks stir Israel election row 

07 October 2026

Comments by one of Israel’s most senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis postulating that Jews may have been better off without a...

Over 100 arrested in Belgium student protests over education costs 

07 October 2026

Police in Belgium have detained more than 100 people after demonstrations in the city of Liege against the rising cost o...

Spanish unions call general strike over housing before snap election 

07 October 2026

Trade unions in Spain have announced a nationwide general ⁠strike over housing issues for November 11, a few weeks bef...

More than 200,000 displaced as fighting escalates in Yemen, UN says 

07 October 2026

More than 200,000 people have been displaced from their homes since fighting in Yemen escalated in recent weeks, accordi...

Germany’s Merz vows to fight ‘extremism’ after AfD, far-left election gains 

07 October 2026

Chancellor ⁠Friedrich Merz has hit out at what he called political “extremism” in Germany after recent stinging de...

How Israel’s genocide in Gaza pulled Britons into the Palestine movement 

07 October 2026

London, United Kingdom – Claire, 52, lives in the Scottish countryside, not far from Edinburgh. She describes her work...

Why Paramount-Warner merger has sparked fears about press freedom 

07 October 2026

Paramount Skydance has completed its takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, bringing CNN and CBS News under the same corpora...

Millions of Pakistanis get government fuel relief but some miss out 

07 October 2026

Islamabad, Pakistan – More than 9.5 million people have received subsidised petrol under a special fuel relief scheme ...

Ex-German spy chief arrested: A history of spooks working for enemy powers 

07 October 2026

Germany’s former spy chief, August Hanning, has been arrested on suspicion of passing state secrets to a foreign intel...

Henri Kagan, Kenso Soai win chemistry Nobel for ‘mirror image’ breakthrough 

07 October 2026

Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a longstanding riddle of as...