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France has banned Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, after he shared video of himself taunting activists from a flotilla to Gaza.

At least 90 people have been killed following a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China, state media reports.

Despite ongoing negotiations, the US-brokered, month-old ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel has failed to halt fighting between the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shia Muslim armed group.

Three new cases of Ebola have been declared in Uganda, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the current outbreak there to five.

Police in Switzerland are investigating a home invasion in which four-time Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost was reportedly injured.

A US judge has dismissed a criminal case against a man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration last year.

British soldiers are fighting a Russian invasion from a platform on the London Underground in a wargame that reveals the UK must invest much more in defence - or risk defeat.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is "spreading rapidly", the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, as UK scientists work on a new vaccine that could be "months away".

Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of committing a "terrorist attack" after an overnight drone attack on a school killed at least six and injured 39.

In 2012, Africa's oldest surviving political party expelled South African opposition leader Julius Malema for "bringing the party into disrepute" and "sowing internal divisions". Fourteen years on, he has shown he can still throw the African National Congress (ANC) into disarray.