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Venezuela election: Maduro declared winner by government-controlled authority

Result with 80% of votes is immediately challenged by opposition and several governments

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Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

The UK has dropped its opposition to an international arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, removing a key hurdle to one being issued and underlining the tougher stance being taken towards Israel by the new Labour government.

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Netanyahu tells Congress Israel’s ‘fight is your fight’ amid boycotts and protests

Benjamin Netanyahu lauded US support for Israel’s war in Gaza but offered few details on ceasefire negotiations as he addressed a raucous joint session of US Congress that was boycotted by dozens of Democratic lawmakers and protested by thousands outside the US Capitol.

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Israel-Gaza war live: Close to 40,000 Palestinians killed by military offensive in Gaza, health ministry says

Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 39,145 Palestinians and wounded 90,257 since 7 October, the Palestinian health ministry said on Wednesday. A total of 55 Palestinians have been killed and 110 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement.

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Scores killed in Israeli attacks, medics say, after IDF orders evacuation of Gaza humanitarian zone

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Draft Israeli law to limit academic speech labelled ‘McCarthyite’

Israel’s education minister and the country’s national union of students are backing a draft law to limit academic speech in the country, which the heads of leading universities have attacked as “McCarthyite” and fundamentally undemocratic.

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First Thing: Biden struggles and Trump lies in first debate

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Israel-Gaza war live: Israel warns it could take Lebanon ‘back to the Stone Age’ as defence minister wraps up Washington trip

Israel has started to deploy extra troops to its northern border in preparation for potential full-scale war with the powerful Lebanese group, Hezbollah.

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Haitians wary as Kenyan police arrive on latest US-backed mission

Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti as part of a US-backed security intervention aiming to rescue the Caribbean country from a criminal insurrection that toppled the prime minister and brought death and chaos to the streets.

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Julian Assange plea deal live: WikiLeaks founder will seek US pardon after accepting plea deal to go free, wife says