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Climate leader Greta Thunberg was among at least 27 people arrested in London on Tuesday at a rally against the Energy Intelligence Forum, where fossil fuel CEOs rubbed elbows with policymakers including British Energy Minister Graham Stuart and, as one campaigner said, continued "hijacking our politics to keep us hooked on their dirty fuel."

Thunberg gathered with advocates from Fossil Free London, which organized the direct action, and others outside the Intercontinental Hotel for the first of three days of protests.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday that at least 15 reporters and photographers have been killed in the 10 days since Hamas' deadly attack on Israel, which was met with a massive bombing campaign in the occupied Gaza Strip.

Among the 15 journalists killed in just over a week of war, according to CPJ, 11 were Palestinian, three were Israeli, and one was Lebanese. CPJ published the names of the killed journalists on its website.

Michelle Yeoh said she had wanted to be an Olympian before becoming a movie star, after she was voted onto the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday.

The first Asian woman to win an Academy Award -- when she scooped best actress for "Everything Everywhere All at Once" earlier this year -- Yeoh added she hoped to use her new role to continue her work with refugees.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Tuesday that "no one can stop" forces opposed to Israel if it keeps up its bombardment of Gaza in response to the surprise attack by Hamas.

The Islamic republic has maintained close contacts with its allies across the region since Hamas militants stormed across the Gaza border with Israel and killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians.

A 45-year-old Tunisian suspected of killing two Swedish football fans in Brussels has died after being shot by police in a cafe on Tuesday, Belgian media said.

The man, who was shot in the chest, died in hospital from his wounds, media said. There was no immediate official confirmation of his death. The shooting comes at a time of heightened security concerns in some European countries linked to the Israel-Hamas conflict, though a Belgian federal prosecutor said there was no evidence that the attacker had any link to the recent renewed conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants.

India's top court declined on Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriages but said the country had a duty to acknowledge LGBTQ relationships and to protect them from discrimination.

A five-judge constitutional bench -- set up to consider important questions of law -- began hearing submissions seeking the legalisation of same-sex marriages in April, with arguments completed in May.

Ecuador's 35-year-old president-elect, banana empire heir Daniel Noboa, joins a growing group of world leaders who were elected to the top job before they turned 40.

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French prosecutors on Monday launched a preliminary investigation into a top-flight footballer on suspicion of glorifying terrorism after he reposted an allegedly anti-Semitic message on social media relating to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Youcef Atal, an Algerian international who plays for Ligue 1 club Nice, is suspected of sharing a video from a Palestinian preacher on Instagram purportedly calling for violence against Jewish people.

Former President Donald Trump is suing former MI6 officer Christopher Steele in British court over the infamous dossier he compiled in the course of campaign consultancy for the 2016 presidential election.

Trump is alleging that the report was false, "extremely distressing" to the former president, and caused him unfair "reputational" damage, reported The Washington Post on Monday.

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Israel's former prime minister Ehud Barak said that Israel had no choice but to launch a ground offensive in Gaza if it wants to defeat Hamas definitively. Barak also claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had neither the trust of the Israeli people nor that of the army.

Barak said that a ground invasion of Gaza would take weeks, perhaps even several months, after which he suggested control of Gaza should be gradually handed to the Palestinian Authority.

A huge show of 115 works by Mark Rothko opens in Paris this week. His son says he combined a "European soul" with "the freedom of America" to become an icon of 20th-century art.

The show at the Louis Vuitton Foundation spans Rothko's entire career, from the more traditional figurative pictures to the huge rectangles of brooding color for which he is best remembered.