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All flights at Luton Airport have been suspended until the afternoon after a huge fire ripped through a terminal car park on Tuesday evening. Flights have been halted until 15:00 BST after the fire at the multi-storey caused the building to suffer a “significant structural collapse”. About 1,500 vehicles may have been in the car park and subsequently damaged, Bedfordshire Fire Service said. Four firefighters and an airport staff member were taken to hospital. They had been suffering from the effects of breathing in smoke. Another patient was treated at the scene, although no serious injuries have been reported. Vehicle…

The EU has warned Elon Musk that X is being used to spread “disinformation” after Hamas’ attack on Israel. In a post on the site formerly known as Twitter, the bloc’s industry chief said “violent and terrorist content” had not been taken down, despite warnings – as is required by EU law. Mr Musk said his company had taken action, including by removing newly-created Hamas-affiliated accounts. He asked the EU to list the alleged violations. Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market of the European Union, did not give details on the disinformation he was referring to in his letter…

A hurricane described as “extremely dangerous” has made landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Hurricane Lidia hit Mexico as a Category 4 storm, bringing wind speeds of up to 140mph (220km/h). But the storm has weakened after moving inland, with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgrading it to Category 2 status. Authorities in the state of Nayarit said a man was killed when a tree fell on the van he was driving. Lidia made landfall by the small beach town of Las Penitas just before 18:00 local time (00:00 GMT). It hit as a Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson…

India’s financial crimes agency has arrested a Chinese employee of smartphone maker Vivo, the firm said. Indian officials have not commented yet but Vivo said it “will exercise all available legal options” on behalf of its employee, Andrew Kuang. Authorities raided Vivo’s office last year, accusing it of illegal remittances from India to China. It is the second-biggest smartphone brand in India, after Samsung, according to industry data. Vivo has denied any wrongdoing and said it complies with Indian law. The arrest comes on the back of a widening rift between India and China. Last week, Reuters reported that Indian police…

Another earthquake has hit western Afghanistan just days after two large quakes in the same region killed more than 1,000 people. The new 6.3 magnitude quake struck at around 05:10 local time (00:40 GMT) on Wednesday, 28km (17 miles) north of the city of Herat. More than 100 were injured and sent to hospital, health officials said. The wider impact is not yet clear, but many were sleeping in the open after their homes were destroyed on Saturday. Aid agencies have said there is also a shortage of blankets, food and other supplies. An eyewitness in central Herat, where some…

Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find disturbing Kibbutz Kfar Aza is a microcosm of the first few days of this war, and also a glimpse of what might come next. Until Tuesday morning, fighting was still going on in the kibbutz, which is one of the Israeli communities along the border with Gaza. That’s why only now are they collecting the bodies of its Israeli residents who were killed when Hamas broke through the border wire from Gaza early on Saturday morning. Soldiers who spent much of the day in the ruins recovering bodies of civilians…

Journalist Cheng Lei has returned home to Australia after more than three years of detention in China. “She was met at the airport by the Foreign Minister Penny Wong,” Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, announcing her release. Cheng Lei, 48, was working as a business reporter for China’s state-run English language TV station CGTN when she was arrested on 13 August 2020. She was later accused of “illegally supplying state secrets overseas”. Her charges were never made public. Ms Cheng was freed as frosty relations between Canberra and Beijing appear to be thawing. Tensions between the two countries deepened…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sees better odds that central banks will manage to tame inflation without tipping the global economy into recession, but it warned Tuesday that growth remained weak and patchy. The agency said it expected the world’s economy to expand by 3% this year, in line with its July forecast, as stronger-than-expected growth in the United States offset downgrades to the outlook for China and Europe. It shaved its forecast for growth in 2024 by 0.1 percentage point to 2.9%. IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas told journalists it was too early to assess how the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas — which has now claimed…

Two of the United States’ closest Arab allies are asking the Biden administration to formalize their military relationship with a wide-ranging agreement as Washington becomes uneasy about China’s growing role in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the US’ closest military partners in the Arab world, have called for more security support from Washington of late, and both have indicated that in an increasingly multipolar world, their options aren’t limited to the US. “They (the Americans) don’t want to see Saudi Arabia shifting their armament from America to another place,” Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) told…

Major corporations like Apple and Disney will be forced to disclose their carbon emissions under a new Californian law approved on Monday. Governor Gavin Newsom signed bill – passed by the state legislature – requiring companies with more than $1bn (£817m) in annual revenue to report greenhouse gas emissions. Similar efforts are moving slowly at the federal level. Mr Newsom praised the law’s aims, but questioned how it will be carried out. “This important policy, once again, demonstrates California’s continued leadership with bold responses to the climate crisis,” Mr Newsom wrote in a signing statement. “However, the implementation deadlines in…