Eight killed in Ukraine explosion

" Rescue teams are working in the rubble of an apartment building in southern Ukraine, where an explosion has killed at least eight people. Local officials in Yevpatoria, in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, say as many as 30 other people may have been buried under the debris. ...

Hostility envelops wider region

As so often in the Middle East, text and sub-text are inextricably bound up. Thus a crisis that at first sight pits Israel against Hamas and Hezbollah, inevitably reaches out to involve Syria and Iran, both strong supporters of the Lebanese-based Shia movement.This is what...