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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. ‌Kennedy Jr. fired the chair and vice chair of the influential task force that decides what preventive medical care should be provided at no cost to patients, according to letters sent earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

France and Italy are among the countries that have criticised a video showing Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting dozens of activists detained at an Israeli port.

Tracking data shows several flights by US Navy reconnaissance jets and drones during the last week.

The Trump administration is planning ​to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities that the U.S. would have available ‌to assist the alliance's European nations in a major crisis, three sources familiar with the matter said.

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he ​was restrained outside a Dublin department store, an incident that has shocked ‌the country's small Congolese community.

The Philippine Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Senator Ronald dela Rosa for a temporary restraining order ​to prevent his arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court.

The health minister has acknowledged that medics are playing catch-up with the virus after being slow to detect it.

President Donald Trump said on Monday ‌there was a “very good chance” the United States could reach an agreement with Iran ​to prevent Tehran from obtaining ​a nuclear weapon, hours after saying ⁠he had postponed a planned military ​attack to allow negotiations to continue.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he ​had paused a planned attack against Iran to allow for negotiations to take place on a deal to end the U.S.-Israeli war, after Iran sent a ‌new peace proposal to Washington.

In Afghanistan today, a staggering three in four people cannot meet their basic needs.

A Sudanese paramilitary commander who was arrested late last year following global outrage over videos of him executing unarmed people in al-Fashir has been released from prison and returned to active duty on the battlefield, nine sources told Reuters.

Fresh from his summit in Beijing, the US president warned against a formal declaration of independence by the island.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella travelled to the northern city of Modena on ​Sunday, a day after several people were injured in a car-ramming incident that ‌was the first of its kind in the country.

BBC Verify has examined dozens of videos of fibre-optic drone attacks carried out by the Lebanese armed group.

An outbreak in DR Congo has been declared a health emergency, with almost 250 suspected cases reported.

Charges could come as soon as next week in a case reportedly focused on Cuba's downing of two planes in 1996.

President Donald Trump said the operation eliminated "the most active terrorist in the world", Abu-Bilal al-Minuki.

A man drove a car into a ​crowd in the northern Italian city of Modena, injuring at ‌least eight people, four of whom are in serious condition, police said.

The court has ordered a new trial over the June 2021 killings of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh.

Trump said Xi Jinping had asked directly if the US would defend Taiwan, and he had responded, "I don't talk about that".