Lebanon

Israel has claimed that it is not responsible for an airstrike on the al Alhi Hospital in Gaza which killed at least 500 people, with Israeli officials instead placing blame on the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Credit: Getty Images)

Israel denies responsibility for deadly Gaza hospital blast

Sylvester Namo in action during the World Cup. (Photo: Allan McKenzie / www.photosport.nz)

'Run hard, tackle hard' - Namo makes pledge after completing Castleford switch

Elie El-Zakhem during last year's World Cup. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

Castleford land Lebanon international to continue 2024 recruitment drive

A H-IIA rocket carrying a small lunar surface probe and other objects lifts off from the Tanegashima Space Centre on Tanegashima island, Kagoshima on September 7, 2023. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP via Getty Images)

Tim Marshall on how politics and power are playing out in the space race

Charbel Tasipale scores a try against Jamaica at last year's World Cup. (Photo: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)

Castleford Tigers confirm signing of international forward

Josh Addo-Carr poses with the Cazoo player of the match award. (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images for RLWC)

Australia far too strong for Lebanon in flat start to World Cup knockout rounds

Ian Watson in action for Wales. (Picture: Chris Mangnall/Swpix.com)

Ian Watson recalls Australia's last World Cup visit to Huddersfield

Tom Burgess, Marc Sneyd and Jack Welsby celebrate England's victory over Greece. (Picture: Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com)

Guide to World Cup knockout rounds - Teams, dates, venues and favourites

Jared Waerea-Hargreaves steps off the bus as New Zealand arrive to play Lebanon. (Photo: Allan McKenzie / www.photosport.nz)

'Too expensive' - New Zealand star hits out at World Cup ticket prices

Ged Corcoran looks on following the game against Jamaica. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images for RLWC)

'Bad blood' - Ireland boss stokes fire ahead of crunch clash with Lebanon

Simon Ferris, who founded Flat Stan First Aid

How West Yorkshire's Flat Stan First Aid is teaching children vital life skills

Matilda Willow, who worked in Lebanon after the Beirut blast when Covid-19 cases were rising.

How facing Covid-19 on the frontline in Lebanon has changed this Yorkshire nurse

Lella Halloum, a sixth-form pupil at Harrogate Grammar School, was recognised along with 300 other young people aged 9-25, after she founded zStudents, a virtual program to motivate students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Photo: Helen Halloum

Harrogate teenager honoured with prestigious Diana Award

Justine Greening, the then International Development Secretary, during a tour of the Bourj Hammoud School, a mixed school teaching Lebanese and Syrian children in Beirut, Lebanon, to see how the UK's response and aid was helping the refugee crisis in 2016.

How refugee camp visit revealed education’s global importance – Justine Greening

The live export of farm animals continues to prompt debate.

Stop inhumane export trade in live animals – Yorkshire Post Letters

Local Boys in Bradford, 1972. (Credit: Don McCullin).

With a retrospective on at Tate Liverpool, Sir Don McCullin talks about Vietnam,...

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Popular Yorkshire bar which traded for 10 years 'unlikely to reopen'

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

A day after a massive explosion occurred, people walk past a boat that received damages at the port on Aug. 5, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Daniel Carde/Getty Images)

UK must help Lebanon in its hour of need - The Yorkshire Post says

An explosion which shook the Lebanon capital is said to have been caused by ammonium nitrate (Getty Images)

This is what Ammonium Nitrate is used for - and why it caused a devastating expl...

Alex Walmsley, in action against Lebanon. Picture: NRL Photos/Gregg Porteous

World Cup: '˜Proud' Alex Walmsley prepares to face the ultimate test against Aus...
ALEX WALMSLEY admits it is 'surreal' knowing he will play in the World Cup final with England '“ after thinking he was destined to never even pull on the shirt.

England's head coach Wayne Bennett talks to the media after thw win over France (Picture: Daniel Carson/SWpix./PhotoSportNZ).

England's recurring flaw '˜can be fixed', insists Bennett

Jermaine McGillvary. Picture: Daniel Carson/SWpix.com/PhotosportNZ

It felt like I was about to choke, reveals Jermaine McGillvary after World Cup b...

Jermaine McGillvray

McGillvray '˜bite' allegation puts dampener on England's victory

ON THE WAY: Luke Gale gets an England move goin against Lebanon in Sydney on Saturday. Picture: David Neilson/SWpix.com/PhotosportN

World Cup - England win over Lebanon overshadowed by biting claims against McGil...

England's Kallum Watkins scores at the Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney.

England 29 Lebanon 10: Ryan Hall and Jermaine McGilivary score as England get up...

Alex Walmsley: Ready to make World Cup debut.

Rugby League World Cup: Alex Walmsley backed to impress Down Under

Alex Walmsley.

Walmsley set to make Test debut against the Cedars

World leaders meeting at the United Nations last week, but will there be any end to the suffering in the Middle East?

YP Letters: Face to face with suffering in refugee camps

Laptops banned from inbound aircraft cabins

Head coach Wayne Bennett will see his England side play a match against Lebanon for the first time in Pool A of the 2017 World Cup (Picture: PA Wire).

England up against new and old foes in World Cup

The lesser whitethroat will only be heard for a fortnight before skulking away. Pic: Michael Flowers

Birdwatch: Masked males burst into song to break their secretive cover
If you want to see a lesser whitethroat this spring then be quick. When the males first return this month and early next they often become quite visible as they perform their rattling song from the scrub canopy.

A woman holds a placard as a vessel transporting migrants from Greek island of Lesbos arrives to dock in Dikili port, Turkey, on Monday.

YP Letters: Aid to refugee crisis raises moral questions

Unicef UK ambassador Michael Sheen meeting children in 1st- 3rd Grade Classes at a Unicef supported- primary school in Za'atari refugee camp in Jordant

Sheen's heartbreak at Syrian refugee plight

Syrian refugee Imad pictured with his son Reda, aged 3, at City Square, Leeds. Picture by Simon Hulme.

First Syrian refugee family says ‘Thank you, Leeds’

Mary Creagh: We owe it to refugees to act

Maggie Tookey: Refugees’ plight has moved me to tears

Israeli strikes may be illegal, UN chief says

Assad’s forces recapture Crusader castle from rebels

Four die as suicide car bombing hits Beirut

Pictures verify success of weapons clearance

Review: The Lebanese Rocket Society (PG)

30 killed in suicide bombing at Syrian government checkpoint

UN launches £3bn Syria relief appeal

Rescue call over injured trapped on Syria border

Arm us, Syrian rebels  urge EU

Israel targets missiles shipment in airstrikes around Damascus

Hostage Waite returns to Lebanon

Firm has astonishing success with exports

Syria provokes Israeli retaliation

UK troops ‘could play role aiding civilians in Syria’

Thousands flee Syria as Assad says ‘I have no regrets’

Eight killed as Beirut rocked by car bomb

Help end grim trail of death, the Pope urges pilgrims

Tight security as Pope arrives in Lebanon with message of peace

Syrian children ‘murdered, abused and used as human shields’

Assad forces retake rebel area after bloody battle

Hague calls on Russia to help end carnage in Syria

Battles as Syrian crisis spills into Lebanon

Violence in Syria spreads across borders