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A tropical cyclone, made stronger by climate change causing rising ocean temperatures, has killed hundreds of people in Mayotte, a French department in the Indian Ocean. The island’s top government official told the local broadcaster that the death toll may yet rise to near 1,000.

We spoke to Natia Seskuria, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services think tank.

A former Premier League footballer has been chosen as the new President of Georgia – though not by its people.

Foreign ministers from the Middle East, Europe and the US have been meeting today in Jordan to try to hammer out a united approach to diplomacy with the Islamist rebel forces now in charge in Syria.

The Home Secretary has declined to directly comment on the case of a Chinese businessman, accused of being a spy, who was invited to Buckingham Palace by Prince Andrew, according to The Times newspaper.

The South Korean parliament has voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, who tried, briefly, to impose martial law on his country.

After a brief lull while it turned its attention to Syria, Israel’s military has resumed its bombing of Gaza.

While many Syrians celebrate, others continue their desperate search for loved ones disappeared by Assad’s brutal regime.

It’s been a day of celebration across Syria.

National Rally have branded Francois Bayrou a “dummy of Macronism” and will choose their moment to once again wield their guillotine.

He was the Syrian activist who became a symbol of the Assad regime’s brutality. Mazen Al-Hamada was one of tens of thousands detained and tortured after the 2011 uprising against Assad’s rule.

It’s been called the poor man’s cocaine. Captagon: the drug that funded Bashar al-Assad’s brutal rule in Syria.

We spoke to Khaled Alkordi, a Syrian activist who was detained by the Assad regime and was a friend of Mazen al-Hamada.

He was the Syrian activist who became a symbol of the Assad regime’s brutality. Mazen Al-Hamada was one of tens of thousands detained and tortured after the 2011 uprising against Assad’s rule.

The UN says humanitarian needs are growing in Syria – with thousands of people displaced across the country following the collapse of the regime.