Bosnia hit by heavy floods and landslides, killing at least 16 people
Floods from torrential rain kill several people across Jablanica, authorities say, while more are missing.
Mike Lynch died from drowning, Bayesian yacht inquest hears
Tycoon’s daughter’s cause of death still under investigation after vessel sank in August
The millionaire tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s cause of death has been recorded as drowning after the Bayesian superyacht disaster but his daughter’s cause of death is still under investigation, an inquest has heard.
Seven of the 22 people onboard the Bayesian died when it sank in a storm in August. On Friday, inquests into the deaths of the four British nationals – 59-year-old Lynch, his daughter, Hannah, 18, and Judy and Jonathan Bloomer, 71 and 70 – were opened and adjourned at Ipswich coroner’s court.
Continue reading...Was Bruce Willis right? Could a nuclear blast save us from killer asteroid?
Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.
‘It didn’t have to happen’: Wife of man killed at Trump rally struggles with loss
Corey Comperatore was killed in the Trump rally assassination attempt. His wife is furious at the security failures that led to his death.
Israel launches intense attacks on Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut’s south
Reports suggest strikes were targeting Hashem Safieddine, seen as most likely candidate to replace Hassan Nasrallah
The Israeli military launched a series of strikes on southern Beirut on Thursday night, in one of the most intense bombardments on the city since the campaign began last week as Hezbollah continued to attack northern Israel.
The raids came as Israel also cut off a key road near to Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing with Syria that has been used by hundreds of thousands of people to flee Israeli bombardments in recent days.
Continue reading...No place for foreign workers being displaced in Lebanon
Some of them were born and raised in Lebanon, but in war they have no place in the authorities' support programmes.
BBC crew run for cover after gunfire heard across Lebanon-Israel border
They were filming on the Israeli side of the border, close to where clashes had been reported.
Khamenei says Iran and its allies will not back down from Israeli attacks
Supreme leader defends Iran’s attack on Israel as 'legitimate', and calls on Muslim countries to unite.
Intense Israeli attacks on south Beirut leave carnage and terror
Consecutive Israeli attacks devastate areas in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs.
Russia takes Vuhledar, protecting supply line; Ukraine closes firepower gap – Al Jazeera English
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Ros Atkins on… unanswered questions as Trump returns to where he was shot
The BBC's analysis editor examines the security failures that led to the former president being shot at during a rally in July.
Russia takes Vuhledar, protecting supply line; Ukraine closes firepower gap
Ukraine will produce two million drones this year and at least four million next year, while allies open joint ventures.
Boris Johnson calls for referendum on leaving ECHR
Move over European convention on human rights likely to put pressure on Tory leadership candidates to follow suit
Boris Johnson has called for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European convention on human rights, a move likely to increase pressure on those vying for the Conservative leadership to follow suit.
The former prime minister told the Daily Telegraph there was a “strong case” for a vote on the ECHR, which some Tories blame for hampering their efforts to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Continue reading...Ukraine kills Russian official at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in car bomb
The attack is the latest killing of a pro-Russian figure during the war in Ukraine.
At least 78 dead and dozens missing after ferry disaster in DR Congo
Overcrowded boat on Lake Kivu capsizes as it was about to dock near Goma, with death toll likely to rise significantly
At least 78 people have drowned and many more are missing after a boat belived to be carrying 278 passengers capsized on Thursday morning just a few hundred metres from the shore of Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The accident happened just as the vessel, MV Merdy, was about to dock at the port of Kituku, just outside the city of Goma, after crossing the lake from the town of Minova.
Continue reading...A year after October 7: How Hamas’s attack and Israel’s response broke the world – Vox.com
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How much impact could Iran’s regional allies have in a war with Israel?
Yemen's Houthis and armed groups in Iraq have continued to target Israel, amid escalation between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
UK Palestinians on the nightmare of watching war unfold from afar
One year on, we speak to those who have lost more than 50 relatives and who call some ministers’ support for the Israeli government ‘shameful’
In September 2023, 45-year-old Mohammed Ghalayini travelled to Gaza from Manchester, where he had lived since 2004, to visit family. He was still there on 7 October when Hamas’s attack on Israel killed 1,200 people. In Israel’s subsequent bombardment of Gaza – which to date has killed more than 41,000 people – he and his family were displaced multiple times, faced shortages of food and water, and endured the relentless sound of drones.
Ghalayini is now back in the north of England, but nearly a year into Israel’s war in Gaza, he says every day still brings bad news – whether from family members in WhatsApp messages, or in updates on Facebook, which has become like an “obituary page”. Ghalayini said he feels helpless.
Continue reading...Three men shot by police in unrelated Sydney and Melbourne incidents, two in critical condition
NSW police fired at two men in a car allegedly driven at them, while in Hillside, Victoria police shot a man allegedly armed with a knife at scene of stabbing
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Three men have been shot by police in two separate and unrelated incidents – with two fighting for their lives in hospital – in Sydney and Melbourne.
Acting assistant commissioner Paul Dunstan said at about 12.10pm on Friday, officers responding to a report of a stolen car in a Wentworthville car park in Sydney’s west, fired their guns at the vehicle after it was allegedly driven at them.
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Continue reading...Israel rocks Beirut with huge attack and cuts off main Lebanon-Syria road
Israel hits Beirut's southern suburbs with its largest attack yet and cuts off a vital escape route into Syria.