Israeli settlers set fire to two mosques in separate attacks across the occupied West Bank, causing significant damage and leaving racist graffiti. Palestinian officials say at least 45 mosques have been vandalised or burned by settlers since 2025.
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Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthis have warned shipping companies that their tankers risk being attacked if they use Saudi Arabian ports, as the militia moved quickly to enforce a blockade announced the previous day. The Houthi warning for the Red Sea, coming on top of Iran’s threat to shipping on the other side of the Arabian peninsular…
Hundreds gather near the border as coalition figures push to rebuild communities evacuated in 2005. Published On 19 Jul 202619 Jul 2026 Israeli cabinet members and parliamentarians have joined a march towards Gaza to call for the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in the besieged Palestinian territory. The march on Sunday defied a military order that…
The outgoing president has called for protests as he continues to dispute the results of last month’s election. Published On 20 Jul 202620 Jul 2026 Outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro is set to deliver a public farewell address on Monday after calling for nationwide protests, as tensions continue over last month’s disputed presidential election and…
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s sons tell lawmakers their father worked hard ‘to protect and provide’ for his family. Published On 25 Jul 202625 Jul 2026 Two sons of a man shot dead by US immigration authorities have demanded a transparent investigation into the incident in an emotional hearing with legislators. Speaking at a Houston hearing with…
The leading US senator Elizabeth Warren has called for urgent answers from Barclays over what she claimed was its “apparent failure to meaningfully investigate” ties between the bank’s former boss, Jes Staley, and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter sent privately to Barclays’s chair, Nigel Higgins, and seen by the Guardian, Warren…
A woman in her 60s is recovering after being bitten by a two-metre-long eastern brown snake that had become entangled in her bike chain in regional Australia. She was riding on the northern rivers rail trail near Burringbar, in the Tweed shire in northern New South Wales, when she ran over the snake. Paramedics were…