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Juicy brown and ripening yellow dates dangle down from the branches of each palm tree at Israeli settler farms in the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank. This year, as Israeli growers get ready for a good harvest, they are also preparing for the impact of new Western sanctions against settlements, which are illegal […]

Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán says 10 Russian diplomats have been ordered to leave Budapest for taking part in “unacceptable” activities. “This decision protects Hungary’s security and sovereignty,” she wrote on social media, without giving details. Hungary was viewed as Russia’s closest ally in the European Union under Viktor Orbán for years, but since his […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a tranche of 170,000 documents that show officials had concerns about air quality in Manhattan soon after the 9/11 attacks, even as the public was told the air was safe. The mayor said the documents reveal asbestos was found “nearly everywhere” they tested near Ground Zero, the site […]

Two paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France. Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer early on Tuesday, seizing four paintings but dropping two of the works in the museum gardens as they escaped, local Mayor Bryan Masson said. The paintings, each […]

At least two people have been killed after Russia resumed airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Tuesday, officials said. The attack came after both countries agreed to halt strikes on each other’s capitals for three days while US Donald Trump’s top envoys visited Moscow and Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on […]

Australia is set to force social media companies to allow users to easily opt in or out of content recommended by algorithms when they log in. The BBC spoke to people in Sydney about how they feel about social media algorithms, and the Australian government’s planned legislation. Read more on the Australian government’s plans here.

The Eiffel Tower was closed on Monday after staff went on strike over female workers being removed for the visit of a Hindu religious group, workers and management said. A delegation of around 100 people linked to the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) group visited the landmark in the French capital on Saturday. Staff […]

An officer in the Indian Administrative Service, Mundhe has more than two decades of experience and has been transferred so often that reports say the number exceeds his years in service, though he declines to confirm it. “I have stopped counting my transfers,” he told the BBC. Admirers see the transfers as evidence of his […]

Two data analytics services, Apptimize and Localytics, were identified as third parties with access to the sensitive data. The claim said a potentially unlimited number of third parties used it to customise advertisements to Grindr’s users. It followed revelations in 2018 that Grindr had been sharing personal data, including the HIV status of its users, […]

Kenya’s trade ministry has warned foreign nationals that visa-free entry into the country does not grant them the right to work, as the government vows to shut down unlicensed small businesses run by foreigners. President William Ruto had set today as the deadline for foreigners operating small-scale businesses to cease work. Ahead of the move, […]