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As fierce fighting continues throughout Gaza – aid groups say the UN’s resolution aimed at rapidly boosting humanitarian supplies “falls painfully short” of what’s needed. 

A quarter of a million people have been forced to flee heavy fighting in a part of Sudan which was supposed to be a safe haven.

Israeli airstrikes have continued to bombard parts of the Gaza strip, as the UN chief warned that humanitarian support was now on the brink of collapse – sparking fears of “devastating” consequences for the whole region. The death of a 25-year-old Israeli hostage has also been confirmed – after reports that a rescue operation by…

After headline speeches from world leaders, attention turns to tough negotiations. The target – which seems to be rapidly melting away – keeping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

We spoke to James Elder who is a spokesperson for Unicef. He’s working in Rafah City in the south of Gaza.

Tributes have poured in for the Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, who has died at the age of 65, after being diagnosed with encephalitis. His unique mix of punk rock and Irish folk created some remarkable music, including his best known hit Fairytale of New York, which became a Christmas classic. 

Two more freed hostages are on their way back to Israel – amid hopes that the truce in Gaza will be extended. Around 161 people are still thought to be held captive by Hamas, which the UK designates as a proscribed terrorist organisation. 

Conditions continue to deteriorate at major hospitals across northern Gaza, cut off by the intense fighting between Israel and Hamas. A Palestinian official says three premature babies have now died at Gaza’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa, because there is no power for incubators. And the second biggest, al-Quds, has suspended operations. Israel continues to bomb supposedly…

Labour says it won’t sack shadow cabinet members who rebel against the party’s position on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Australian voters have emphatically rejected their government’s plans to empower the country’s indigenous people. 

Aid workers are battling to get food and medicine to survivors five days after the floods in Libya that are thought to have killed more than eleven-thousand people. Around ten-thousand people are still missing and Libyans want to know why warnings about the state of Darnah’s dams were not acted upon.

As the death toll grows, so too does the anger – and a country divided by the legacy of civil war is now united in its call for accountability. 

International aid is slowly starting to arrive in eastern Libya – amid fears that tens of thousands are buried under mud and rubble.

Storm Daniel has devastated parts of Libya, as catastrophic flooding has killed thousands.

Thirty years after the teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a racist gang –  a new immersive theatrical experience has just opened, set on the same bus he was waiting for before he was killed.