France to recognize Palestine as a state, says Macron, prompting criticism from Netanyahu – Middle East crisis live

25/07/2025 00:43 The Guardian

French president says ‘no alternative’ amid ‘urgent need to end the war in Gaza’; Israel’s prime minister claims announcement ‘rewards terror’France to recognise Palestinian state at UN general assembly, Macron saysPalestinian health officials said Thursday that two Palestinian teenage boys were killed by Israeli fire on Wednesday night in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.Israel’s military said its forces had fired at Palestinians throwing molotov cocktails toward a highway, killing two near the West Bank town of Al-Khader. Continue reading...

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Troubled New Orleans jail apologizes after releasing detainee by mistake

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France’s top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad

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25/07/2025 16:05 The Guardian

Thailand-Cambodia dispute: 130,000 Thai civilians evacuated amid second day of clashes

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25/07/2025 15:00 The Guardian

US politics live updates: Trump administration reportedly seeks fines from universities including Harvard

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Thailand-Cambodia border clashes: acting Thai PM says fighting ‘could develop into war’ – as it happened

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Middle East crisis live: a quarter of Gaza’s children seen at Médecins Sans Frontières clinics are malnourished, says organisation

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‘City of singles’: cosmopolitan prewar Paris’s ‘crazy years’ brought to life

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Under-fire DoJ forms ‘strike force’ to investigate Obama amid Epstein scandal

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