• Reuters

    Lebanese farmers dig for answers on Israel's white phosphorus use

    The last time Lebanese farmer Zakaria Farah stepped onto his fields outside the southern town of Qlayaa was in January - but it was not to plant. After bagging up the earth, Farah, 30, sent half-a-dozen samples to a laboratory at the American University of Beirut (AUB) to be tested for residues of white phosphorus from Israeli shelling, hoping he'd learn whether he can plant his fields once hostilities end. Farah told Reuters he fears his fields have been poisoned by the Israeli military's use of white phosphorus since October, when exchanges of fire erupted between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah in parallel with the Gaza war.

  • Evening Standard

    When is the next UK general election? Britain set to head for the polls

    Voters will head to the polls this week for the first general election in almost five years

  • The Independent

    Jamaica braces for Hurricane Beryl as death toll rises to seven: Live updates

    Hurricane Beryl is on a path to Jamaica after leaving a trail of destruction in Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines