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Three Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by soldiers in Gaza on Friday had used leftover food to write signs pleading for help, Israel says. The men had been staying at the building next to where they were shot “for some period of time”, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Meanwhile the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says Israeli air strikes killed at least 90 people in the Jabalia refugee camp on Sunday. The BBC was unable to confirm the toll. The strikes hit a residential block housing two families, the ministry said. About 120 hostages are believed to be still in…

A boss at a leading US stock exchange says the trend of UK companies going to New York to raise funds will continue. Karen Snow, global head of listings at Nasdaq, helped lure Cambridge-based chip designer Arm Holdings to float on that exchange and told the BBC that other UK tech firms will follow. Arm raised $4.87bn (£3.8bn) on Nasdaq in September, despite heavy lobbying to list its shares in London instead. The Nasdaq raised $13bn in 2023 while the London Stock Exchange raised $972m. Although there has always been a significant gap between the two exchanges, this year looks set…

Fourteen people have been killed after a storm brought heavy rain and winds of 150km/h (93mph) to eastern Argentina. The storm hit the port city of Bahia Blanca, around 570km (355 miles) south of Buenos Aires, on Saturday, damaging buildings and causing power outages before moving towards the capital on Sunday. It comes just a week after new president Javier Milei assumed office. Another two people were killed in neighbouring Uruguay. Officials said that, after landing in Bahia Blanca, the storm caused part of the roof of a sports centre to collapse during a roller skating competition, killing 13 people. A further…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has claimed victory in snap parliamentary elections, saying his party is heading for an absolute majority. His Serbian Progressive Party, or SNS, is set to win almost 47% of the vote, according to projections. Opposition parties under the Serbia Against Violence banner were well behind with 23.1%. Their biggest hope is in challenging the president’s party in Belgrade in Sunday’s local elections. Results overnight from Serbia’s 8,273 polling stations confirmed the ruling party’s lead, although projections in the capital itself gave it a far narrower margin of victory of four points. Mr Vucic declared that his…

“The last time I was able to buy milk for my baby was two months ago. Normally I just fill the [feeding] bottle with tea. Or I soak bread in tea and then feed it to her,” Sohaila Niyazi says, sitting on the floor of her mud brick home up a hill in eastern Kabul. There are no roads to her house – you have to walk up steep mud tracks with sewage flowing by the side of them. Sohaila is a widow. She has six children, her youngest a 15-month-old girl named Husna Fakeeri. The tea that Sohaila refers…

Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s long-awaited trial over charges that he “colluded with foreign forces” has begun in Hong Kong. The 76-year-old, who has been behind bars since December 2020, could be jailed for life if he is found guilty. Mr Lai was arrested under the National Security Law, which China has been accused of wielding to crush dissent. His case has drawn international uproar and is widely seen as a test of Hong Kong’s judicial independence. Beijing, which introduced the NSL in 2020 in response to massive pro-democracy protests, insists that the law is necessary to quell unrest. It…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said peace with Ukraine will only take place “when we achieve our objectives”. He was fielding questions from journalists and ordinary Russians in his first marathon news conference since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022. Much of the largely choreographed event focused on what he calls the “special military operation in Ukraine”. He insisted the situation was improving throughout the front line. The hours-long “direct line” programme, televised by most major channels , began with President Putin telling Russians: “The existence of our country without sovereignty is impossible. It will simply not…

The father, stepmother and uncle of a 10-year-old girl whose body was found at her Surrey home have pleaded not guilty to her murder. Urfan Sharif, 42, Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan’s brother, Faisal Malik, 28, are accused of killing Sara Sharif, who was found dead in Woking on 10 August. All three have also denied causing or allowing the death of a child. The defendants, who lived with Sara before she died, appeared by video link at the Old Bailey to enter their pleas. Mr Sharif, Ms Batool and Mr Malik travelled to Islamabad, Pakistan, with Sara’s five brothers…

Actress Sienna Miller has described the “judgement” over being pregnant at the age of 41 and having a 14-year age gap with her partner as “double standards”. The star discussed comments about her being “the older woman” and expecting a baby with 27-year-old actor Oli Green. People “are comfortable with a way of living that has existed for many years, which is very misogynistic and patriarchal”, she told Vogue’s podcast. Miller’s second daughter is due this month, the magazine said. She continued: “Me being the older woman in a partnership with a younger person, or being pregnant over 40 – and…

A woman in Australia has been charged with stealing a delivery van packed with 10,000 Krispy Kreme doughnuts. The van went missing from a petrol station in a Sydney suburb in the early hours of 29 November. Police found the vehicle abandoned a week later – along with thousands of spoiled doughnuts – at a car park. They arrested the woman, 28, on Thursday. She was refused bail and faces charges including vehicle theft and driving while disqualified. CCTV footage of the incident allegedly shows the woman lingering at the service station at around 04:00 local time (17:00 GMT on 28 November)…