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An Italian master painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam has been spotted on the website of an estate agent selling a house in Argentina, more than 80 years after it was taken.

A photo shows Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi hanging above a sofa inside a property near Buenos Aires once owned by a senior Nazi official who moved to South America after the Second World War.

The painting, which features on a database of lost wartime art, was traced when the house was put up for sale by the official's daughter, Dutch newspaper AD reports.

The artwork is among hundreds looted from art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who helped other Jews escape during the war.

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The Golden snub-nosed monkey was nearly wiped out following widespread deforestation in the remote mountains of central China.

But, the species is now seeing a bounce back thanks to a preservation plan

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The big push on preservation came in 2005 when the now Professor Yang is the director of the Shennongjia National Park Scientific Research Institute and a small group of others formed a specialist study team.

Although it has been hard to get numbers up, the 500 monkeys figure has now become more than 1,600 and they are hoping that this will pass 2,000 within 10 years.

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Two children, aged eight and 10, have been killed and 17 other people are injured following a school shooting in Minneapolis, police said.

The attack happened at Annunciation Catholic School during morning Mass, Police Chief Brian O'Hara said, calling it a "deliberate act of violence against children and worshippers".

The gunman was armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol and shot through the church windows, police said, adding that he then turned a gun on himself.

Of those injured, 14 are children, and two are in a critical condition, police said.

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Rescuers are rushing to evacuate residents as floods devastate parts of Pakistan's Punjab province.

One city, Sialkot, has seen more rainfall in 24 hours than the highest record in the past 49 years.

Scenes like this are not new in Pakistan. Since June alone, monsoon rains have killed about 800 people across the country.

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Fresh off the back of Monday’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky last week, Donald Trump indicated that the US could offer Ukraine some form of security guarantee in the event of a peace deal with Russia.

While the details of any security guarantee are yet to be confirmed, it has prompted fear and uncertainty within parts of the president’s MAGA base, who view the prospect of a security guarantee as a precursor to a messy U.S entanglement in European affairs. Will they give him the benefit of the doubt over his handling of peace negotiations?

Meanwhile, the Trump administration said a Nobel Peace Prize is “well past time” for the “peacemaker-in-chief” after Donald Trump’s claim that he has ended six (possibly seven) wars. We unpack which conflicts he was referring to and what role he played in stopping them.

A surprising issue that came up in the aftermath of Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin was the subject of voting by mail. Trump claimed that in their meeting, the Russian president told him that the 2020 U.S presidential election was rigged because of mail-in voting, a claim long made by Donald Trump without proof. Is the president even allowed to ban the practice?

We also take a look at Dana White’s plans to host a UFC fight at the White House next year, and why Donald Trump is so keen to host the event.

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The UN has said "there needs to be justice" following Israel's double strike on a Gaza hospital which killed at least 20 people, as an initial Israeli military probe said the strike had targeted a "camera positioned by Hamas".

The Israeli attack on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis on Monday saw an initial strike kill at least one person, a Reuters cameraman who was operating a live TV feed from a staircase on the side of the hospital building. A second strike in the same location about 10 minutes later hit journalists and rescuers who were attending the scene.

Condemnation of the attack, whose victims included five journalists and four health workers, has been mounting, with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer describing it as "completely indefensible".

On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released its initial inquiry, which identified several "gaps" for further investigation.

In its statement, the IDF said it identified a camera positioned by Hamas in the area of the hospital "used to observe the activity of IDF troops", without providing evidence.

"The troops operated to remove the threat by striking and dismantling the camera," the statement said. It alleged that six of those killed were "terrorists". A military spokesperson later said that journalists working for Reuters and the Associated Press had not been a target.

The IDF report appears to be a shift in tone from Prime Minister Netanyahu's statement on Monday evening, which characterised the incident as a "tragic mishap".

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Donald Trump's steep 50% tariffs on India have kicked in, weeks after the US president issued an executive order imposing an additional 25% penalty on India over its purchases of Russian oil and weapons.

This makes India - one of the US's strongest partners in the Indo-Pacific - among the countries hit with the highest tariffs in the world. This could deal a blow to exports and growth in the world's fifth largest economy, given that the US was, until recently, India's largest trading partner.

Earlier this month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a promise to cut taxes to mitigate the economic impact of Trump's tariffs. He has also urged domestic self-reliance.

He said that a Diwali gift in the form of a "massive tax bonanza" was on its way for the common man and the millions of small businesses that power Asia's third largest economy.

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The UK political party Reform UK has set out a five-year plan to detain and deport all migrants who arrive in the UK without permission and suggested 600,000 people could be sent back over five years.

Under the plan, named Operation Restoring Justice, Reform UK would bar anyone who comes to the UK on small boats from claiming asylum, and strike deals with countries to return those people. The proposals could face legal challenges and political opposition, with Labour branding it unworkable and the Conservatives accusing Reform UK of recycling their ideas.

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There is evidence a renewables revolution could be beginning to take hold in Africa.

The global energy think tank Ember suggests that imports of solar panels are up by 60% over the 12 months to June, compared with the previous year.

The data shows 20 African nations set new records for solar panel imports over the period, including Algeria, Zambia, Botswana and Sudan.

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Families of hostages held by Hamas have been protesting across Israel, a day after double Israeli strikes hit a hospital in Gaza.

The marches, rallies and demonstrations are aimed to pressure the government into securing a deal with Hamas to release all of the hostages.

The protests come amid international condemnation of the Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza which killed at least 20 people.

About 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken to Gaza as hostages in Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack - there are 50 hostages remaining inside Gaza, of whom 20 are believed to be alive.

Israel responded with a massive military offensive, which has since killed 62,819 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

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