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At least six journalists are dead and two are reported missing even as Israel continues to scale up its offensive in Gaza. Three of these journalists died on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike, in an area housing press offices in West Gaza’s Rimal district according to The Independent. 

Survivors of a rave in the desert near the Gaza border when Hamas bombs struck and militants seized dozens of hostages tell Bel Trew and Natalie Lisbona how they fled in fear

A set of delicate and unwritten rules of engagement has ensured no major conflict between Israel and Hezbollah since 2006. But those rules are now being tested, Richard Hall writes.

The enclave’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, is already said ‘at capacity’ as only power plant also believed to be on brink of shutdown

‘Black Barbie’ had its world premiere at this year’s SXSW film festival

A man was pronounced dead after his car plunged off a cliff after hitting two communication poles

Bringing Russia back onto the UN’s top human rights body will ‘signify a dangerous global drift into untrammelled violence against most vulnerable and innocent’, experts warn

Medics in Gaza warn of ‘catastrophic’ consequences of water, power, food and fuel being blocked for two million civilians

Survivors of a rave in the desert near the Gaza border when Hamas bombs struck and militants seized dozens of hostages tell Bel Trew and Natalie Lisbona how they fled in fear

Robert F Kennedy Jr believes he can upend hundreds of years of two-party rule by running a no labels-style, populist campaign. Bevan Hurley reports from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall

In an exclusive interview, Sheryl Sandberg talks to Sheila Flynn about how Claudia Goldin, the Harvard economics professor who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, has spent decades doing work on women’s labor that “really matters”