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Ratan Tata, the former chair of India’s oldest conglomerate, and of Tata Steel and Jaguar Land Rover, has died aged 86. Tata Sons chair Natarajan Chandrasekaran confirmed Mr Tata had died and described him as his “friend, mentor, and guide” in a statement. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Mr Tata was “a visionary business
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A generation of children and young adults in Gaza are coping with devastating amputations after a year of brutal war.  It’s left a terrible legacy, with thousands – many of them babies – coping with missing limbs. Warning: This story contains images and descriptions readers may find distressing Those in Gaza like Jihad have absolutely
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The mass of Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers was impossible to hide. Dozens of beige-coloured military vehicles had amassed in a dirt field in northern Israel, a few miles away from the border with Lebanon. Follow latest: Frontrunner to replace Hezbollah leader ‘unreachable’ – reports They appeared overnight earlier in the week but were
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Russian forces launched a major attack across 15 Ukrainian regions overnight, authorities said, damaging energy infrastructure and residential buildings. Drones hit power lines in the Kyiv, Odesa and Ivano-Frankivsk regions over the past day, Ukraine‘s energy ministry clamed, causing power cuts in the southern Odesa region. The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 78
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Despite mounting calls from allies to cease fire, Israel’s march across its border into Lebanon felt like the inevitable next step after days of punishing air strikes.  The military has described its operation against Hezbollah as “limited, localised and targeted”. Israeli forces will surely want to avoid a full-scale invasion given their last ground war
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The far-right Freedom Party has won the general election in Austria. Led by Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister who was dismissed over the country’s Ibiza scandal, the party finished first ahead of the ruling conservatives, with the centre-left Social Democrats in third place. However, despite this, the party’s chances of actually governing remain unclear.
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The world’s oldest piece of cheese has been discovered – found laid across a mummy’s neck. A 3,600-year-old coffin was opened in the Xiaohe Cemetery in Xinjiang, China, during an excavation in 2003, where a substance was draped across the neck of a mummified young woman. Despite seeming like a piece of jewellery at the
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