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Reports of an Israeli raid on a hospital in northern Gaza are "deeply disturbing", the head of the World Health Organisation has said.The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital last night after it was fired upon by tanks, Palestinian officials and medics at the facility have said. Meanwhile, in southern Gaza strikes killed at least 38 people, many of them children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.Raid reports 'deeply disturbing'Nursing director Eid Sabbah told the Reuters news agency the hospital's oxygen stores were hit before troops raided the building and ordered staff and patients to leave. He spoke of the "terrorising of civilians, the injured and children".The IDF said it has been conducting operations in the area of the hospital "based on intelligenc...

An announcement by Israel that it is only striking military targets in Iran is key.The world has been bracing for an Israeli retaliation against the Iranian regime ever since Iran's military launched a barrage of more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel more than three weeks ago in response to Israeli attacks against its proxy forces in the region. The Israeli government had vowed a "hard" response. There had been speculation that this could include the targeting of Iranian nuclear sites, energy infrastructure or even the country's leadership.Middle East latest: IDF confirms airstrikes on TehranHowever, if the attack is restricted to purely military targets, then - depending on the scale of the damage - it could provide an opportunity for a de-escalation in a tit-for-tat missile war that...

An astronaut was taken to hospital shortly after returning to Earth from an extended mission on the International Space Station.The astronaut, who NASA did not name for privacy reasons, is suffering from an undisclosed medical issue. NASA initially said the entire crew was flown to Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola hospital out of precaution, but did not specify whether all or some of the crew had been experiencing issues.The other three crew members have left the hospital and returned to Houston, the space agency said.NASA said: "The one astronaut who remains at Ascension is in stable condition under observation as a precautionary measure." Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin splashed down in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft ...

Several loud explosions have been heard in Iran's capital Tehran and Israel has confirmed it has launched strikes on military targets.The Israeli military said it is conducting "precise strikes" on military targets in Iran in response to what it called "the continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against Israel". An Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) statement added: "Like every other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and the duty to respond."Reports in the US said the White House was warned shortly before the strikes began.Israel has been planning a response to a ballistic-missile barrage carried out by Iran on 1 October - Tehran's second direct attack on Israel in six months. Iranian authorities have warned Israel against launching an attack, saying any strik...

While North Korea has been supplying weapons to Russia for some time, the arrival of troops is a major escalation in its involvement in the war of Ukraine. The first official evidence of large numbers of North Korean troops entering Russia was provided by the South Korean government, who last week published a press release outlining the increasingly close military cooperation between the two states. Image: A map of sites in the Russian far east linked to the reported presence of North Korean soldiers According to the press release, an initial contingent of 1,500 North Korean special forces troops were transported on Russian naval ships to the port city of Vladivostok.The South Koreans provided two high-resolution satellite...