Tuesday evening news briefing: Exploding pagers kill eight and injure 3,000 in suspected Israeli attack on Hezbollah
Hezbollah has accused Israel of being behind an exploding pager attack which injured almost 3,000 Hezbollah members and paramedics across Lebanon.
“The enemy [Israel] stands behind this security incident,” a Hezbollah official said. Another official said the detonation of the devices marked the “biggest security breach” since the terror group began attacking Israel on October 8. Follow the latest on this story here.
‘I never raped you,’ Dominique Pélicot tells daughter in court standoff
Dominique Pélicot, the French pensioner accused of drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her, told his daughter he “never” targeted her in the decade of abuse.
Pélicot also insisted he never made any “inappropriate gestures” towards his grandchildren despite allegations he asked his school-aged granddaughters to pose naked for him.
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Healthy 27-year-old died after NHS wrongly gave him AstraZeneca Covid jab
Jack Last, from Stowmarket in Suffolk, died because of a combination of “system shortcomings, human error and tragic unfortunate timing” after he suffered a rare side effect to the vaccine, an independent report into his death has found.
The review discovered that Last was wrongly given the Covid vaccination and that there were failures in his care once he had been admitted to hospital after suffering an adverse reaction.
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Coffee like dishwater and supermarket soup: The reality of life inside No 10
Being prime minister is one of the most powerful positions in the world – but it can be far from glamorous, as the Starmers are finding out.
“No 10 is a threadbare place and most prime ministers are petrified of spending money on it,” says historian and author Sir Anthony Seldon. George Chesterton explores the reality of life behind the iconic black door.