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Up on the roof of the St Therese Hospital, you can see just how close this war has come. Right over the street is Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut which is controlled by Hezbollah. About 200 metres away, smoke still rises from an airstrike last Saturday. A block of flats has been levelled. And it was not even the closest place to have been hit recently. Image: A smoking building in Dahieh Image: Hospital director Elie Hachem says St Therese has taken a lot of damage "These are huge bombs," says Elie Hachem, the hospital's director."So, even though the hospital isn't being targeted directly, it's taking a lot of damage." One strike that hit on 3 October ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on the UK and other Ukrainian allies to stop "watching" and provide long-range weapons to strike North Korean troops in Russia before they enter combat.The "first thousands of soldiers from North Korea are near the Ukrainian border" and Ukrainians "will be forced to defend themselves against them", the Ukrainian president said in a Telegram video. "And the world will watch again."Mr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had pinpointed every location where North Korean soldiers had been stationed in Russia, but said Kyiv's allies had not supplied the long-range weapons needed to hit them."But instead of such necessary long-range capability, America watches, Britain watches, Germany watches...," he said. "Everyone in the world who truly wants the Russian war against Ukraine n...

From filthy mud-caked bags Isabel picks through the only belongings she has left in the world.Grimy clothes and broken furniture among the remnants left behind by the flood in the Spanish city of Torrent. She picks up some nail varnish."What a disaster," she says.The river to her house filled with water during Tuesday's flash flooding until it smashed through the front door and burst out through the wall. Follow Spain flooding latestThe home to three generations of her family didn't stand a chance. "I didn't have time to grab anything. Not even a backpack with a laptop, clothes nothing," she says. Image: Isabel says she had no chance to grab any belongings before the floods hit Her brother Angel shows us around the wrec...