Live world news feed — headlines and images as they publish
Live headlines from top outlets — open a card for a preview, then read on the publisher’s site.
16 stories · Live feed
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has downplayed accounts of recent extremist attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank amid the annual olive harvest.
Aaron Boxerman and Adam RasgonIsraeli SettlementsPalestinians
Gulf ministers urge action against Houthis as fighting displaces more than 233,000 people across Yemen.
News
Assault on European delegation in West Bank exposes government’s response to violence even when those targeted represent Israel’s alliesHours after Israeli militants attacked a delegation of European diplomats, French clerics and a visiting mayor in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, responded by questioning the delegation’s account of the assault.“Serious accusations require serious evidence” was the all-caps headline of a social media post from the office of the prime minister. As news of the attack spread globally there was no pledge to find those accountable and bring them to justice. Continue reading...
Emma Graham-Harrison in JerusalemWest BankIsrael
Israeli settlers attacked an EU delegation in the occupied West Bank while it was visiting olive harvesters near Taybeh.
Show Types
Capt Smit Machchhar said he screamed for help as he reached to open the cockpit door on flight FZ1073The captain of a flydubai flight who was attacked by a co-pilot who intended to crash the plane has described blocking axe blows to his head and screaming for help as he reached to open the cockpit door.Capt Smit Machchhar has been hailed as a hero for his role in averting disaster on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last month, helping to thwart what the UAE attorney general has said was an attempted suicide attack by the co-pilot who had intended to crash the plane into Ben Gurion airport. Continue reading...
ReutersFlydubai plane incidentIsrael
Mike Huckabee calls for arrest and prosecution of those responsible as Heidi Levine, 63, recovers in hospital in IsraelThe US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left the Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a “despicable act of terror” and called for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible.Levine, 63, an award-winning journalist who lives in Israel, was set upon last Friday by masked Israeli settlers who used clubs and other weapons to attack Palestinian people attempting to harvest their olives in occupied West Bank towns. Continue reading...
Sam Jones and agenciesWest BankMike Huckabee
Bernard Baudoux, Mayor of the French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries, says masked settlers attacked him in occupied West Bank.
Show Types
At least one person was killed in the strikes, which also hit a data centre used by Russia's equivalent of Facebook.
EU demands accountability after settlers attack European diplomats amid violence against Palestinian olive farmers.
News
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi had called on Egyptian lawmakers to authorize military assistance to the kingdom, saying any support would be defensive.
Euan WardUS and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)Defense and Military Forces
Settler pogroms have escalated, coinciding with the annual olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank.
News
Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenantThe development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft pulled out of the project over concerns about power supplies.The development by the British company Nscale, heralded by ministers as the country’s largest AI datacentre when it was announced in 2025, was planned to open at Loughton in Essex next year. Continue reading...
Gwyn TophamDatacentres - UKMicrosoft
The Israeli military condemns the violence but the prime minister's office says it is part of a "smear" campaign.
Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial systemRogue French fridges were an unlikely talking point for the world’s leading economists, central bankers and finance chiefs meeting in a sultry Bangkok last week – helping to underline the spiralling cost of cyber-attacks.Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, seized on news that supermarket chains across France had to chuck out piles of spoiled food after hackers accessed their fridge controls and turned up the temperature to 50C. Continue reading...
Heather StewartCybercrimeInternational Monetary Fund (IMF)
Extremists assaulted residents and broke a European diplomatic vehicle’s window, witnesses said, as settler violence surges in the territory during the olive harvest.
Aaron Boxerman and Adam RasgonWest BankIsraeli Settlements
As civil war has left their country in ruins, many young Sudanese have turned to artisanal mining. An airstrike on a mine last week killed more than 100 and has provoked anger against Egypt, seen as the most likely suspectTorches still fixed on their heads but tools cast aside, the Sudanese goldminers of the North Valley had already mounted an impromptu rescue operation by the time Ammar* arrived at the site of a suspected Egyptian airstrike.At least 114 were killed, according to the Sudanese rights group Emergency Lawyers, in the strike on Saturday 10 October on an artisanal goldmine brimming with young Sudanese trying to eke out a living in a country where the economy has been shattered by three years of war. Continue reading...
Kaamil AhmedGlobal developmentGold
You’re caught up for now.