- Hezbollah launches 100 rockets into Israel, IDF soldiers killed in drone attack The Jerusalem Post
- Updates: New strikes on Beirut, Hezbollah says Israeli troops killed Al Jazeera English
- Firefighters working to put out blazes in north caused by Lebanon rockets The Times of Israel
- Netanyahu rushed to shelter after missiles reach Keisarya residence Al Mayadeen English
- Hezbollah says targeted Israeli troops with explosives Al Arabiya English
Iran Refuses To Back Down As Its Proxies Endure Unprecedented Attacks – Forbes
- Iran Refuses To Back Down As Its Proxies Endure Unprecedented Attacks Forbes
- Khamenei says Iran ‘won’t back down, Israel won’t last long’; hails Hamas Oct. 7 massacre The Times of Israel
- Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei defends strikes on Israel in Tehran speech BBC.com
- Iranian supreme leader praises missile attack on Israel, saying Iran will do it again if necessary The Associated Press
- Iran's supreme leader makes new threats against Israel NBC News
Iranian FM pledges ‘stronger’ retaliation if Israel strikes Iran – Al Jazeera English
- Iranian FM pledges ‘stronger’ retaliation if Israel strikes Iran Al Jazeera English
- Iranian FM Abbas Araqchi announces support for a ceasefire in Lebanon amid Beirut visit The Jerusalem Post
- Iranian foreign minister visits Beirut as Gulf states declare neutrality Middle East Eye
- Iran FM says backs efforts for simultaneous Gaza-Lebanon ceasefire The Times of Israel
- Live Updates: Iran’s FM in Lebanon as Israel deepens its assault on Beirut's southern suburbs Al-Monitor
Iranian FM pledges ‘stronger’ retaliation if Israel strikes Iran
In Beirut, Abbas Araghchi says Tehran supports an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, contingent on a simultaneous truce in Gaza.
More than 100 people missing after being forced off boats in Djibouti
Nearly 50 people dead and 108 unaccounted for after smugglers apparently force passengers into the water
More than 100 people are still missing after smugglers apparently forced migrants to leave their boats and swim in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration has said.
Forty-eight people have so far been confirmed dead after the incident on Monday, which involved two boats that had left Yemen for Djibouti with a total of 310 people onboard, said Frantz Celestin, a regional director at the UN agency. “Unfortunately, we have yet to account for about 108 of the migrants,” he said.
Continue reading...Israel cuts off main Lebanon-Syria road
An Israel airstrike hit Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing with Syria.
Dutch feminists campaign for national monument to ‘witches’
Thousands have been raised for site to commemorate victims of Satanic panic in 15th to 17th centuries
Three feminist campaigners in the Netherlands want to reclaim the insult “witch” and recognise the innocent victims of Dutch witch-hunts from the 15th to the 17th centuries with a national monument.
Susan Smit, Bregje Hofstede and Manja Bedner, the chair and board members of the National Witches Monument foundation, have raised €35,000 (£29,000) for an official site of memory for about 70,000 people who died during a Satanic panic that swept Europe and the Americas.
Continue reading...Gisèle Pelicot: Judge rules public can view French mass rape trial video evidence – BBC.com
- Gisèle Pelicot: Judge rules public can view French mass rape trial video evidence BBC.com
- Not All Men, but Any Man The Atlantic
- A harrowing rape trial in France has revived debate about consent The Economist
- 'Monster of Avignon' Rape Scandal: Is It France's #MeToo Moment? Newsweek
- French mass rape trial: Public and press allowed to see video evidence Le Monde
2 IDF soldiers killed, 24 wounded in Iraq drone attack on Golan Heights base – The Times of Israel
- 2 IDF soldiers killed, 24 wounded in Iraq drone attack on Golan Heights base The Times of Israel
- Israeli Soldiers Killed by Drone From Iraq Newsweek
- Iraqi drone kills two IDF soldiers, wounds several others The Jerusalem Post
- Two soldiers killed, 24 wounded in Iraq drone attack on Golan Heights base The Times of Israel
- Two Israeli soldiers killed in combat, military says Reuters
Visas for Palestinians taking average of four months, data shows, not 24 hours as Coalition claimed
Exclusive: Guardian Australia found Coalition politicians cited the 24-hour figure in interviews on at least 12 occasions in August
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It was one of the most potent talking points during the Coalition’s campaign against “rushed” visas to Palestinians fleeing Gaza.
“It is not appropriate to give 3,000 tourist visas to people leaving a war zone controlled by a terrorist organisation in an average of 24 hours,” the Liberal senator James Paterson told Sky News on 20 August.
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Continue reading...Former army lawyer David McBride appeals conviction claiming duty to disclose military secrets
McBride has appealed his jail sentence of five years and eight months claiming he ‘blew the whistle on the unequal application of the law’ by the ADF
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The former army lawyer David McBride has lodged his appeal in the ACT supreme court almost five months after he was sentenced to a maximum of five years and eight months in jail.
McBride pleaded guilty to three charges in November 2023 after the court upheld a commonwealth intervention to withhold key evidence the government argued had the potential to jeopardise “the security and defence of Australia”. The charges included stealing commonwealth information and passing that on to journalists at the ABC.
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Continue reading...‘It’s doing social harm’: Albanese asks states and territories to work together on a social media ban for kids
PM is seeking input on the impacts of phone bans in schools and ideas to maintain the social connection of kids
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Anthony Albanese has written to the nation’s first ministers asking for their support in implementing a nationwide minimum age for social media.
After South Australia’s Labor government announced it would be moving forward with plans to ban children under 14 from accessing social media, Albanese announced the federal government would introduce legislation addressing the same concerns by the end of the year.
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Continue reading...Legendary film track voted best noughties Bollywood song
Stars from the world of Bollywood have been reacting to BBC Asian Network's top 50 noughties songs.
Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius? – Al Jazeera English
- Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius? Al Jazeera English
- Britain cedes disputed islands to Mauritius, securing key U.S. military base NBC News
- Starmer defends UK ceding control of Chagos Islands amid Tory criticism The Guardian
- Department Press Briefing – October 3, 2024 Department of State
- Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? BBC.com
EU court rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women asylum
ECJ ruling follows Afghan women’s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee status
The European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that gender and nationality alone are sufficient grounds for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply curtailed women’s rights.
Authorities in Austria refused refugee status to two Afghan women after they applied for asylum in 2015 and 2020. The women challenged the refusal before the Austrian supreme administrative court, which in turn requested a ruling from the ECJ, the top European Union court.
Continue reading...Why is the UK handing the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius?
An agreement between the UK and Mauritian governments could see thousands of exiled Chagossians resettled again.
As communist China turns 75 can Xi fix its economy? – BBC.com
- As communist China turns 75 can Xi fix its economy? BBC.com
- Chinese Communist Party marks 75 years of rule as economic, security threats persist Fox News
- 'No challenges can stop China's progress' Xi Jinping says in 75th anniversary speech CNBC
- In break from past, China receives no formal statement from US on National Day South China Morning Post
- China’s Communist Party has ruled for 75 years. Will it make it to 100? The Associated Press
Argentina’s Javier Milei accused of plagiarising UN speech from West Wing
Populist leader alleged to have ‘copied word for word’ a monologue by TV show’s fictional president Jed Bartlet
Argentina’s rightwing populist president, Javier Milei, has been accused of plagiarising a chunk of his recent speech to the United Nations general assembly from the political drama The West Wing.
“It seems like fiction, but it isn’t,” the left-leaning Buenos Aires newspaper Página 12 reported on Friday, claiming Milei had “copied, word for word, a monologue” by the television show’s fictional president, Josiah “Jed” Bartlet.
Continue reading...Russian “spy whale” cause of death revealed by police in Norway – CBS News
- Russian "spy whale" cause of death revealed by police in Norway CBS News
- Post-Mortem Results for Hvaldimir Confirm Likely Cause of Death The Fishing Daily
- ‘Russian Spy’ Whale Likely Died of Infection – Norwegian Police The Moscow Times
- Russian ‘Spy Whale’ Hvaldimir Likely Died From Infection In Norway, Not Gunshot Outlook India
- ‘Russian spy’ whale likely died of infection: Norway police Arab News
UN rejects Israel’s request to evacuate blue helmets monitoring the border with Lebanon – EL PAÍS USA
- UN rejects Israel’s request to evacuate blue helmets monitoring the border with Lebanon EL PAÍS USA
- UN peacekeepers stay on Lebanon’s border despite Israeli ground incursion The Associated Press
- UN mission in Lebanon rejects Israeli request to leave DW (English)
- UNIFIL reaffirms peacekeepers staying put in south Lebanon The Times of Israel
- Civilians bear brunt in 'catastrophic' Lebanon conflict, UN official says Reuters