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The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare, powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the devastating war in the Palestinian territory. Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, a former dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza, is one of the…

New floods have hit the region of Girona in north-eastern Spain, sweeping away around 30 cars in the town of Cadaqués, according to Spanish media reports. Videos posted by a local journalist showed a torrent of water gushing down the street and a pile of cars blocking a bridge early on Friday. No casualties were…

Getty Images Salman Rushdie’s outspoken views on Islam have made him a target of extremists Is it legal to import Sir Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses in India? This question has been puzzling legal experts since the Delhi High Court suggested this week that the notification banning the novel’s import – issued in 1988 –…

Watch: Secret footage shows COP29’s chief Elnur Soltanov discussing gas and oil deals A senior official at COP29 climate change conference in Azerbaijan appears to have used his role to arrange a meeting to discuss potential fossil fuel deals, the BBC can report. A secret recording shows the chief executive of Azerbaijan’s COP29 team, Elnur…

Getty Images Elon Musk and RFK Jr are among Trump’s most prominent backers, while Susie Wiles (centre) co-managed his election campaign Donald Trump’s transition team is already vetting potential candidates who could serve in his administration when he returns to the White House in January. On Thursday, he made the first announcement, naming his campaign…

Getty Images A car park close to Baalbek’s Unesco-designated Roman ruins was hit in an Israeli air strike For over two millennia, the Roman temples at Baalbek in eastern Lebanon have stood as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture anywhere in the world. On Wednesday, a car park just metres away from the…

Botswana’s new president has told the BBC that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalised by granting them temporary work and residence permits. “They do jobs that would otherwise not get done,” Duma Boko told the BBC Africa Daily podcast before his historic inauguration on Friday. Botswana hosts the world’s second-largest community of Zimbabweans fleeing…

Police are on the hunt for 43 monkeys who escaped from a research facility in South Carolina, after a keeper left their pen open. The rhesus macaque fugitives broke out of Alpha Genesis, a company that breeds primates for medical testing and research, and are on the loose in a part of the state known…

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction star Liam Payne, Argentinian authorities have said. The singer died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires. Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office said one person, who had been accompanying Payne, is accused…

Putin congratulates ‘courageous’ Trump on election win Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, calling him a “courageous man”. Speaking at an event in the Russian city of Sochi, the Russian president said that Trump was “hounded from all sides” during his first term in the White House. Putin also said that…