Mobile phone footage of the last moments of some of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers killed by Israeli forces in an incident in Gaza last month appears to contradict the version of events put forward by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The almost seven-minute video, which the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said…

Two people have died after a caravan fire at a holiday park, police have said. Lincolnshire police said they were called to Golden Beach Holiday Park in Ingoldmells at 3.53am on Saturday. The victims were reported to be a 10-year-old girl and a 48-year-old man. A spokesperson said next of kin had been informed and…

Elton John has spoken of his distress at losing his eyesight and how he can no longer watch his young sons playing. John revealed in a social media post last year that a “severe eye infection” had left him “with only limited vision in one eye”. In an interview with the Times, the singer and…

Eighteen people, including nine children, have been killed in a Russian missile strike on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city, a Ukrainian official has said. A further 61 people were injured in the attack on Kryvyi Rih on Friday, including a three-month-old baby and elderly residents, the regional governor, Serhii Lysak, said. Forty remain in hospital, including…

World leaders should be ashamed of their neglect of people whose lives were “hanging by a thread” at a time of surging violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the international charity leader Jan Egeland has said. In a stinging attack on aid cuts and the “nationalistic winds” blowing across Europe and the…

Donald Trump’s 10% tariff on all imports from many countries, including the UK, has come into force after 48 hours of turmoil. US customs agents began collecting the unilateral tariff at US seaports, airports and customs warehouses at 12.01am ET (04:01 GMT), with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start…

The guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam has died aged 70 after an illness, his family said, paying tribute to the Grammy-nominated blind musician. Amadou and his wife, Mariam Doumbia, formed a group whose blend of traditional Malian music with rock guitars and western blues sold millions of…

The Chinese company that controls the Port of Darwin has accused Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton of treating it like “a political football” in the middle of a federal election campaign. Federal Labor and the Coalition have both announced that if elected on 3 May they would end Landbridge’s long-term lease of the Port of…