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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

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has won a third term, the country’s electoral authority has said – despite several exit polls which had pointed to an opposition win. The head of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, said Mr Maduro had secured 51% of the vote, beating his opponent Edmundo Gonzalez, who won 44%. He said

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has said it raised $200m (£156m) in the week since she became a presidential candidate. The US vice president‘s deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said 66% of the funds were raised from new donors, while the campaign has signed up 170,000 new volunteers. US President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the

Lebanon is once again on tenterhooks. Indeed, the whole region is. And there are very few who will bet against yet more bloodshed in the coming days and weeks. But will Saturday’s deadly strike on a football pitch in the occupied Golan Heights be what tips the region into all-out war? Middle East latest: ‘All-out

The Israeli military says it has struck Hezbollah targets “deep inside” Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon. “Overnight, the IAF struck a series of Hezbollah terror targets both deep inside Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon, including weapons caches and terrorist infrastructure in the areas of Chabriha, Borj El Chmali, and Beqaa, Kfarkela, Rab El

A massive wildfire in California is spreading rapidly at a rate of eight square miles an hour, threatening thousands of homes and forcing people to flee. More than 130 homes have already been destroyed by the Park Fire, the state’s largest wildfire of the year so far, which covered 480sq miles (1,243sq km) on Friday

When it comes to artistic swimming, Russia is an Olympic powerhouse. The national team has won every single event – team and duet – for the last six games in a row. But they won’t be taking any gold medals home from Paris. As a nation, Russia has been banned following its invasion of Ukraine.

Audiences for Veep, the TV series broadcast on Sky, have shot up since Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for the White House. Like Selina Meyer, the fictional vice president in the show, she is closer than ever to becoming the first woman president. The prospect is tantalising for Harris but the omens are not

Donald Trump hosted Benjamin Netanyahu at his Florida resort as he dismissed reports of tensions between the pair and attacked Kamala Harris’s “disrespectful” comments about the Gaza war. The former US president welcomed the Israeli prime minister to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach for their first meeting since September 2020. The Republican presidential nominee

Former president Barack Obama told Kamala Harris he “couldn’t be prouder” as he endorsed her to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for the US election. Mr Obama had so far remained quiet after other top Democrats gave the US vice president their backing in the days after Mr Biden pulled out of the

Kamala Harris’s step-daughter has pushed back against JD Vance after a clip resurfaced of him calling the vice president one of the Democrats’ “childless cat ladies”. The Republican nominee for vice president – picked by Donald Trump as his running mate earlier this month – attacked Ms Harris and other Democrats for being “a bunch

It may be the smallest planet in the solar system but Mercury could be hiding a big secret.  A layer of diamond beneath the crust of Mercury could be up to 10 miles (18km) thick, new research suggests. Scientists from China and Belgium used data collected by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft between 2004 and 2015 to

At least 25 people have been killed in landslides and massive flooding after a typhoon swept through Taiwan and worsened monsoon rains in the Philippines. A Tanzania-flagged freighter has sunk off the southern coast of Taiwan in the storm, with its nine crew members now missing. Searches are ongoing for the crew, who are all