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Boxer Imane Khelif has said winning an Olympic gold medal would be the “best response” to the wave of scrutiny she has faced over misconceptions about her gender. The 25-year-old Algerian is set to fight in the women’s 66kg semi-finals on Tuesday where she will take home a medal even if she loses. But her

Iran has said it is not seeking to escalate the conflict in the Middle East but its arch-enemy Israel must be “punished”, the country’s foreign ministry said. Amid widespread fears of the conflict between Israel and Iran-backed militant groups, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, spreading, Iran claimed on Monday it was not

Belgium has pulled out of the Olympic mixed relay triathlon after an athlete who swam in the River Seine fell ill. Claire Michel “is unfortunately ill and will have to withdraw from the competition,” the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee said on Sunday. Michel, 35, was taken to a clinic in the Olympic Village and

A Russian submarine has been sunk in Crimea, according to the Ukrainian military. Kyiv’s defence ministry said Ukraine had sunk the sub in Russian-controlled Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea, in an attack on Saturday. The B-237 Rostov-on-Don attack submarine was sent “to the bottom of the Black Sea,” Ukrainian forces added. They also said

US President Joe Biden has said he hopes Iran will back down from threats of retaliation against Israel to avert a serious war in the Middle East. Tensions are rising in the region after Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Iran has pledged to avenge his death, with its

Imane Khelif, one of the boxers at the centre of a gender row at the Paris Olympics, is set to win at least a bronze medal following her successful quarter final fight. Khelif secured a second successive victory in the women’s 66kg bout against Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori. She now advances to the semi-finals where,

At least 32 people have been killed and 63 others injured in a terrorist bomb attack on a beach in Somalia. The emergency services expect the number of casualties to rise following the explosion, which took place as people swam at a popular resort in the capital Mogadishu late on Friday. Videos posted on social

Angela Carini says she wants to apologise to Imane Khelif after quitting their Olympic boxing match, triggering a row over gender eligibility rules. Carini told the Italian publication, Gazzetta dello Sport, she respects the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to allow Khelif to take part in the Paris 2024 boxing tournament. Algerian Khelif, 25, won her

Italy’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Albania is expected to begin within a few weeks, following many delays and strong criticism. The deal was initially announced by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama last November in Rome. The agreement allows up to 36,000 migrants – rescued by Italian ships

Access to Instagram was blocked in Turkey on Friday, in the latest example of a clampdown on websites in the country. The bar on access was in response to Instagram removing posts from Turkish users expressing condolences over the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, it has been reported. The Information and Communication Technologies

An American woman found chained to a tree in a forest in India said she had been tied there by her husband and left for “40 days without food”.  Lalita Kayi Kumar, 50, was emaciated and unable to speak when she was found by rescuers in the Sindhudurg district, about 290 miles south of Mumbai.

A boxer who was previously banned from competing in the world championships because she failed testosterone and gender eligibility tests has won her opening Olympic bout after her opponent quit. Algeria’s Imane Khelif won in just 46 seconds after the Italian Angela Carini quit in the 66kg category. The pair had only a few punch

The body of one of Hezbollah’s most senior commanders has been found in rubble in the southern Beirut suburb attacked by Israel, two Lebanese security sources said, Reuters reports. Hezbollah previously refused to confirm Israel’s claim that it had killed Fuad Shukr, described as ‘the right-hand man’ of their leader Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday night.

A Team USA gymnast dubbed the “Clark Kent of the pommel horse” and “pommel horse guy” is vying for a place as the internet’s favourite Olympian. Stephen Nedoroscik qualified for the Olympic team solely on the strength of his pommel horse routine and helped the men’s gymnastics team secure their first medal in 16 years.

US vice president Kamala Harris is now the only candidate seeking the presidential nomination, after a deadline passed with no one else qualifying. Some 99% of delegates signed Ms Harris’s nominating petition, according to the Democratic National Committee. It cements her position as the Democratic frontrunner for the 5 November election after President Joe Biden

The Israeli military targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in retaliatory strikes in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. In a statement, the Israel Defence Forces claimed the commander of the armed group was “responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams” – referring to the strike on a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights

Microsoft’s cloud service has been hit by another outage, weeks after an IT failure in the company’s services ground the world to a halt. In a post on X, Cambridge Water said some of its services were down this afternoon. “Due to worldwide issues with Microsoft Azure, a problem with our website is affecting several

Greece has banned the movement of goats and sheep from their farms to combat a deadly outbreak of “goat plague”. The minister of agriculture and rural development, Costas Tsiaras, announced the ban on the commercial slaughter of goats and sheep as well as movement for reproduction throughout the country. The move expanded measures already in

For the first time, finance leaders from every G20 country have agreed to tax the world’s billionaires. Treasury ministers and central bankers from the group of 20 major economies agreed to reference fair taxation of “ultra-high-net-worth individuals” in joint statements after meetings in Brazil. But an agreement to team up on taxing the world’s richest

Hundreds of ardent Hezbollah supporters gathered in Beirut late Sunday afternoon amid promises of revenge attacks from a range of Israeli politicians, who blame the Lebanese group for the massacre of young football players in the Golan. “We don’t fear death,” one Hezbollah loyalist told us. “We don’t care even if we all die. We