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Paris prosecutors announced Friday that police have launched a hate speech investigation after Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the Olympics opening ceremony, reported receiving death threats and public insults and being defamed. Jolly filed the complaint following backlash over a controversial scene in the ceremony some saw as a…

Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh was buried in Qatar on Friday following his killing in the Iranian capital of Tehran, and his possible succcessor told mourners his death would only make the Palestinian militant group more determined in its struggle against Israel. Haniyeh's assassination has heightened regional tensions as the…

Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter sentenced to 16 years in Russia on disputed espionage charges, was released Thursday in a major multinational prisoner swap after spending more than a year behind bars. Originally from Russia, the journalist returned in 2017 to the country of his parents, Soviet Jews…

Russia freed US journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan on Thursday, according to the Turkish presidency. Their releases were part of the largest East-West prisoner exchanges since the end of the Cold War.

An explosion on a football pitch in a Druze village in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the Lebanese border killed 12 people on July 27, all of them children. This region has been the theatre of military conflict between Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a close ally of Hamas and Iran, and Israel…

Paris Olympics organisers' ambition to cut the carbon footprint of catering at this year's eco-friendly Games has run into a problem: the appetites of meat-loving athletes.

Lebanese Hezbollah's head Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Thursday to respond to Israel's killing of the group's top military commander, Fuad Shukr, saying its decades-old foe had "crossed red lines". Nasrallah spoke after the Israeli military said it had confirmation that Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif was killed in an air…

Following widespread calls from global leaders to verify the results of Sunday's presidential election, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro tasked the country's top court with auditing the election. Initial results showed Maduro winning another term, but many expressed doubts about the legitimacy of the elections and the court's ability to be…

Iranian leaders called for revenge on Thursday during a funeral ceremony following the assassination of Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday. The killing came just hours after Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, in a strike in the south of Lebanon's capital Beirut, raising fears…