Lebanon

Israeli police stand around a car involved in an attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Two British-Israeli sisters die in gun attack in surge in West Bank violence

Emergency response teams, isolation centres and treatment tents have been set up by the Ugandan health authorities around the central Mubende district after 17 recorded deaths and 48 confirmed cases from an outbreak of the Ebola virus. The first death from this outbreak of the Ebola-Sudan strain of the virus was announced on 19 September and as yet, there is no vaccine for this strain.

UNCHR unable to supply soap to prevent Ebola spread due to funding gap

This satellite photo provided by Planet Labs PBC shows the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni, center with white masts, docked at the port in Odesa, Ukraine. Picture: Planet Labs PBC via AP

First grain ship leaves Ukrainian port of Odesa under Russia deal

Suzan al-Daher, from Syria, has been separated from her two adult daughters and grandchildren.

Refugees in Scotland: ‘We just want to be together again'

Joe Bilan carried out over 30 structural inspections in two weeks in Beirut.

Helping to rebuild devastated Beirut - Joe Bilan

Rabaha is a divorced mother of three from Lebanon, who lives with her children in Nabaa, Beirut. She was injured in the blast.

Scottish aid in Lebanon: 'They send us pictures of their empty kitchen shelves'

Basama Hamaedh with husband Azzam Al Hussain and children Fatima, Hoda, Aisha and Abbas came to Edinburgh a year ago.

Refugee family: ‘Scotland is our second home’

Maggie Tookey and Nabil Khallouf at Edinburgh Direct Aid's workshop in Beirut.

The Scots charity and the Syrian refugees helping to rebuild Beirut

Beirut falls silent to remember those killed in explosion

Organisations like the Lebanese Red Cross are helping victims in Beruit. (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how you can help victims of the devastating Beirut explosion

(Photo by Daniel Carde/Getty Images)

UK offers aid to Beirut

The Beirut explosions is believed to have been caused by ammonium nitrate (Getty Images)

What is Ammonium Nitrate? The substance that caused Beirut explosion explained -...

Pressure grows on Assad as interior minister is forced to flee Lebanon

Thirty thousand flee in two days after Iraqis in exile are targeted

Analysis: Hezbollah slow to warm to Arab Spring

Fork has appeared in Iran's road to Damascus

Potent victory for Iran's president

Joyce MacMillan: British reaction to foreign cultures can be immature – and pot...

'Ayatollah, we will do our best…' - Lebanon's scout masters drill shock troops o...

New film probes Israel's involved in the 1982 Lebanon masacre

Lebanon is given a £4bn breathing space

Three killed as general strike hits Lebanon

Ministers break ranks on Middle East

Israel signals a staggered end to Lebanon blockade

Hours after UN ceasefire, rockets rain down and Israel carries on offensive

Over 100 Labour MPs demand a recall of parliament

Chilling threat as Syria offer to join with Hezbollah

Blair admits Cabinet is split over Middle East

Beirut bombed after 100 rockets fired at Israel

Plan folds for UN Lebanon peacekeepers

15,000 extra Israeli troops as al-Qaeda steps in

Growing anger over US Middle East policy

Al-Qaida chief warns Israel over attacks

Israeli strike 'kills four UN observers' as Rice leaves

British attack Israeli tactics in Lebanon

'We feel the world has left us to be slaughtered'

Return to violence feared after bomb blast in Lebanon

Nul points as Lebanon quits contest

Muslims join huge Beirut protest to pile pressure on Syria

A girls' guide to organising a shoot

Trade hit as transport network is crippled

Wife No2 - and only surviving son - are alive and wealthy in Lebanon

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Deadly cladding was identified in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Picture: PA

Minister must outline details of cladding deal with housebuilders in Holyrood

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to announce the party's net zero energy strategy during a visit to Scotland's oil and gas heartland in Aberdeen next month. Picture: Robert Perry/PA

Labour plan to ban new North Sea oil and gas branded ‘pie in the sky’

Dunoon Grammar School has been hailed as a model for other schools (Picture: Dunoon Grammar School/PA Wire)

Why one secondary school is being hailed as a model for others