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Sebastia, a 3,000-year-old site, faces threats as Israel intensifies plans for land seizures and settlement expansions.

Israeli settlers have set fire to a mosque in the West Bank village of Qusra, and continued violent attacks.

Settler attacks are not isolated incidents. They are all part of a strategy to grab land and colonise.

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Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities Jodrell Bank Observatory, which runs a world-leading network of radio telescopes, is…

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.