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While Israel’s prime minister is still waiting for a phone call from President Biden, so are the King and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released from jail yesterday, in what may have been a token offering to Washington. Her family thanked Mr Biden, who has placed human…

We spoke to Ohad Zemet, who is a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in London. We asked him – given that international law prohibits moving people in occupied territory against their will – why Israel is carrying out these removals?

Israel has been demolishing a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, bulldozing tents on land where people have lived for a generation. Israel claims that residents were living there illegally, but human rights groups say it’s an attempt to drive an entire Palestinian community from the area. And the international community is speaking…

Donald Trump’s impeachment trial has resumed again in the US Senate, after the Democrats released disturbing new footage last night showing the mob rampaging through the Capitol, searching for top politicians. Vice-President Mike Pence and his family are seen being evacuated from a room near the chamber, while other footage shows a police officer leading…

The prominent Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul has been freed after more than 1,000 days in prison.

The EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has admitted that Europe has made mistakes over its vaccine strategy, amid criticism of the slow rollout across the continent.

Donald Trump’s legal team have begun setting out his defence in the Senate impeachment trial which begins tomorrow.

We spoke to Prof Elena Korosteleva, who’s chair of international politics at Kent University and is from Belarus.

This report from inside Belarus looks at what’s happening now to the country’s opposition.

Rescuers in northern India are still trying to reach dozens of power plant workers who are trapped in an underground tunnel.

With the latest trial beginning tomorrow, Donald Trump stands accused of something completely unique and unimaginable: that he incited an attack on the US Capitol, an impeachable offense of historic proportions.

It has all the hallmarks of a Hollywood blockbuster – a heroic reporter, exotic locations – and a heinous killing by a hit squad allegedly ordered by the highest echelons of a nation’s royal family. But the new documentary The Dissident has nothing to do with fiction – it tells the true story of the…

Rescue teams in northern India are searching for around 140 people who are still missing after part of a Himalayan glacier broke away – triggering sudden, and massive floods. At least nine people have been killed. Most of the missing had been working at a hydroelectric plant which was almost completely swept away.

A near-total internet blackout is now in force in Myanmar, where the leaders of a military coup are facing a rising tide of protests. The streets of the city of Yangon were filled with angry demonstrators, demanding the release of the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi who was detained following the army take-over…

Joe Biden has given his first foreign policy speech since becoming US President