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Israel targeted the home of the most senior Hamas leader in Gaza as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to push on "forcefully" with a week-long offensive against Palestinian militants despite growing concern about civilian deaths.

A grieving Palestinian father has said his children were killed "without any warning" after an Israeli bombardment struck a house in Gaza City.

British troops have battled a sandstorm and temperatures higher than 50C (122F) to seize a cache of weapons from Islamic State terrorists in Mali, the Ministry of Defence has said.

Tennis ace Roger Federer has called on organisers of the Tokyo Olympics to tell athletes if the event is still going ahead, adding he is still in two minds as to whether to compete.

China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time, becoming the third country to arrive on the Red Planet.

The funeral of a British woman killed in the presence of her baby daughter in Greece has taken place in front of hundreds of mourners.

A Palestinian rap artist and a Jewish mother of seven live in the same, mixed neighbourhood in the Israeli city of Lod.

In a week dominated by violence in Israel and Gaza, you could be forgiven for missing a lot of other news.

If the new Indian variant does install itself as the main variant of COVID-19 in this country; if it does lead to more cases and in turn more deaths - and both of those remain big ifs - the question of how this happened is likely to focus on three days in April.

A bomb ripped through a mosque in Kabul during Friday prayers, killing 12 worshippers including the imam, Afghan police have said.