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Lando Norris kept up the momentum from before the Formula One summer break when he topped both practice sessions for the Dutch Grand Prix after a four-week hiatus. The McLaren driver topped the first session and then posted a day-best 1 minute 9.890 seconds on the 4.259 kilometres Zandvoort track close to the North Sea later in the afternoon. Norris has closed the gap on championship-leading team-mate Oscar Piastri to nine points by winning three of the last four races, and he won last year's Dutch race. Piastri was second and third, respectively, and Aston Martin veteran Fernando Alonso fourt...

The Israeli military is engaged in "preparatory operations" on the outskirts of Gaza City, an army spokesman said on Friday, as Israel appeared ready to begin its planned offensive despite fears of a humanitarian catastrophe. The military is operating "with great intensity" in the outskirts of Gaza City, Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military's Arabic spokesman, wrote on X. Israel is planning to fully capture Gaza City, though it has said it will relocate the roughly 1 million people who are in the city to the southern Gaza Strip. But with Israeli forces appearing to be closing in, aid groups sa...

EU ministers on Friday strongly condemned a wave of heavy airstrikes on Kiev, which killed more than a dozen people including children, and pledged more sanctions on Moscow. "These attacks show that Putin is just mocking any kind of peace efforts that are made," European Union foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said, arriving at a two-day meeting of EU defence and foreign affairs ministers in Copenhagen. All EU members but Hungary backed a joint statement condemning the attack, in which the bloc's diplomatic office in Kiev was damaged. Kremlin-friendly Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has ...

Germany and France on Friday pledged further support for Ukraine's air defence and vowed to further tighten sanctions on Russia in response to deadly Russian airstrikes on Kiev. "Despite intensive international diplomatic efforts, Russia shows no intention to end its war of aggression against Ukraine," the two governments said in a joint declaration after a meeting between Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Emmanuel Macron in southern France. "In light of the massive Russian airstrikes on Ukraine and its population and the consequences for our own security, France and Germany will therefo...