STORY: Escorted by security, Blinken came out to the street to meet with protesters after meeting families of hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. The crowd chanted their thanks to U.S. President Joe Biden and Blinken.
Blinken on Wednesday kicked off a series of meetings with Israeli leaders, on his seventh visit to the region which has seen an escalation of violence since Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked Israel.
By rights, this should be the moment that the humanitarian case against Israel’s campaign in Gaza goes into terminal collapse. From now on, there can be no equivocation. Those who persist in opposing the war based on the number of civilian casualties are either ignorant or arguing in bad faith. Or both.
The BBC has apologised after one of its senior presenters suggested Tel Aviv was Israel’s capital, contradicting its own guidelines.
The prosecution in Trump’s hush money trial made a significant error announcing they were resting their case after calling Michael Cohen as their final witness and not having a key witness to corroborate Cohen’s claims, writes attorney Stacy Schneider.
Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesDonald Trump followed up his endorsement by the National Rifle Association on Saturday with a speech stoking fears of the government under Joe Biden “coming for your guns,” and a bizarre monologue set to dramatic music resembling a song favored by QAnon.Addressing thousands of members of the NRA at their annual meeting in Texas, the former president stuck to his usual talking points, hailing the reversal of Roe v. Wade as an “amazing thing,” comparing himself to Al Ca
Donald Trump’s defence lawyer won plaudits for his aggressive handling this week of Michael Cohen, one of the key witnesses in the ongoing “hush money” case against the former president.
It was only a matter of time before the call came. Now Labour MPs, including Sam Tarry and Jess Phillips, are agitating for Britain to take in Palestinians fleeing Gaza.
Former president and first lady attended ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida after judge overseeing Trump’s criminal trial granted permission for him to be there
A member of Israel's three-man war cabinet has threatened to resign from the government if it does not adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza. The move by Benny Gantz escalates a divide within Israel's leadership more than seven months into the war. Israel is yet to accomplish its stated goals of dismantling Hamas and returning scores of hostages abducted during the attack on 7 October.
Gene Rossi and Leslie Ellis join The Lead
The former PM has had a humour upgrade
Russian President Vladimir Putin's war machine looks different today than it did at the start of the conflict.
The military’s most secretive unit is on a recruitment drive to select more men and women to carry out undercover operations, The Telegraph can reveal.
Russia has launched a propaganda drive targeting German speakers for its army, and for its Wagner mercenary force, in the latest case of Vladimir Putin seeking ethnic minorities for cannon fodder.
At a rally in Essex on Thursday, Sir Keir Starmer set out his six pledges to the British public ahead of an election that could return a Labour government. Now we have found out just how much one could cost. Based on Treasury costings of 50 Labour policies, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned that a Starmer administration would plunge Britain’s finances into a £38 billion black hole, suggesting that Sir Keir would need to raise taxes to fill the gap.
A German politician said the Western defense of Israel from Iran is a blueprint for protecting Ukraine.
Fraudsters have stolen almost £1 billion from the Ministry of Defence since 2010, official figures show.
Former President Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has a net worth of $7.5 billion, according to a May 2024 Forbes estimate.
Isolationism is a good instinct but a bad policy. The difference between home and everywhere else is vital to the human psyche and to national existence. Logically, it leads to respect for others: they have their homes, too, so neither should interfere with the other.
Chants of “intifada revolution” rang out and a smoke bomb was set off at a large pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London on Saturday.
The Conservative Government is presumably about to be ejected from office. This is being treated as a judgment on their record of 14 years in power, their general incompetence and their failure to deliver what voters believe is needed.
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