Ukraine denounces Russia’s reported execution of captured troops
Kyiv's human rights ombudsman has written to the UN, after reports that Russia executed Ukrainian PoWs.
Sudan military’s strike on market in capital kills at least 23: Rescuers – Al Jazeera English
- Sudan military’s strike on market in capital kills at least 23: Rescuers Al Jazeera English
- Shoppers killed in Sudan as air strikes hit busy market BBC.com
- Sudanese army advances in Khartoum, gains ground in Omdurman Sudan Tribune
- Smoke billows during air strikes in central Khartoum as the Sudanese Armed Forces attack positions held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) throughout the Sudanese capital, about 18 months into their civil war Islander News.com
- Sudan: Over 20 killed in army strike on Khartoum — rescuers DW (English)
Sudan military’s strike on market in capital kills at least 23: Rescuers
Market is near one of the main camps in the Sudanese capital where the paramilitary RSF has been fighting the military.
Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again – The Economist
- Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again The Economist
- Tributes paid to Alex Salmond’s ‘colossal contribution’ to Scottish and UK politics The Guardian
- Alex Salmond, former Scottish first minister who nearly got Scotland’s independence from UK, dies at 69 PBS NewsHour
- Alex Salmond, Scotland’s Champion of Independence, Dies at 69 Bloomberg
- Alex Salmond, Scottish first minister and independence champion, 1954-2024 Financial Times
Haryana man held for Baba Siddiques murder has criminal history – The Tribune India
- Haryana man held for Baba Siddiques murder has criminal history The Tribune India
- Photos, pepper spray, firecrackers and a plan: How Baba Siddique’s shooters carried out assassination The Times of India
- Bereaved Salman Khan Pays His Last Respects To Baba Siddique At His Residence NDTV Movies
- Baba Siddique killing Highlights: Baba Siddique cremated at Bada Qabrastan, Mumbai with full state honours The Hindu
- Indian politician known for his close ties with Bollywood is killed in Mumbai The Associated Press
Palestine’s UN envoy says ‘genocide within genocide’ going on in north Gaza
Hamas representative in Lebanon says Israel has prevented entry of food supplies into Jabalia camp for the last 10 days.
Israeli attacks destroy Ottoman-era market in Lebanon – Al Jazeera English
- Israeli attacks destroy Ottoman-era market in Lebanon Al Jazeera English
- Civilians feel nowhere is safe as Israel expands and intensifies strikes in Lebanon PBS NewsHour
- Netanyahu's Vision of Endless War Is Becoming Israel's Reality Haaretz
- A once humming city, Lebanon’s Tyre is emptied by airstrikes and fear The Washington Post
- ‘Apocalyptic’: Israel destroys mosque, bombs market in southern Lebanon Al Jazeera English
Israeli attacks destroy Ottoman-era market in Lebanon
A market in Lebanon which dates back to 1910 was destroyed by Israeli attacks in the southern city of Nabatieh.
The Floating Doctors: Mobile medicine comes to Panama’s jungles
A team of medical volunteers from around the globe travel to people and places where medicine does not reach.
Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says
Claim raises idea explorer was from community expelled by his Spanish patrons, but experts view it with caution
A 20-year genetic investigation of the remains of Christopher Columbus has turned conventional historical wisdom on its head by concluding that the explorer whose voyage to the New World changed the course of global history may have been a Spanish Jew rather than a son of Genoa.
The claim raises the intriguing prospect that the man who played a central part in the creation of Spain’s mighty empire hailed from the very community that his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, expelled from their kingdom in the same year Columbus reached the Americas.
Continue reading...Israel orders more evacuations in Lebanon and threatens medics who treat Hezbollah members
Military spokesperson demands that medics ‘avoid dealing with Hezbollah operatives’ and claims ambulances used to transport weapons
Israel has ordered more evacuations in southern Lebanon and threatened to target ambulances, as a fifth UN peacekeeper was wounded in Israel’s escalating conflict with the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Israel’s military on Saturday ordered people in 23 southern Lebanese villages to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River, which flows from the western Bekaa valley into the Mediterranean.
Continue reading...Israel says 4 soldiers killed by Hezbollah drone attack while Israeli strike in Gaza leaves 20 dead – The Associated Press
- Israel says 4 soldiers killed by Hezbollah drone attack while Israeli strike in Gaza leaves 20 dead The Associated Press
- Live updates: Hezbollah drone attack kills 4 Israeli soldiers CNN
- Hezbollah Drone Attack in Israel Kills Four Soldiers, IDF Says Bloomberg
- Four soldiers killed, seven seriously hurt in Hezbollah drone strike on military base The Times of Israel
- How Hezbollah’s Mirsad-1 drone breached Israeli defenses in Binyamina - explainer The Jerusalem Post
Empty bars and bookshops: How Israeli strikes transformed Lebanon’s buzzing capital
There's no music or dancing in central Beirut bars as fear spreads and displaced people fill the streets.
‘We have your location’: The Taliban death threats hounding this Afghan woman – CNN
- ‘We have your location’: The Taliban death threats hounding this Afghan woman CNN
- Afghanistan's First Female Mayor Speaks Out as Others Can't | Opinion Newsweek
- What is gender apartheid – and can anything be done to stop it? The Guardian
- 'The situation is very difficult for Afghan women' BBC.com
- UN mourns ban on Afghan girls’ education on international girl child day VOA Asia
Muslim politician in India’s Maharashtra shot dead weeks before state polls
Two suspects are in custody after Baba Siddique was shot multiple times outside his legislator son's office in Mumbai.
BHP to face 620,000 claimants in Mariana dam collapse trial in London
Claimants seeking damages from Anglo-Australian mining company over 2015 environmental disaster in Brazil
The mother of a seven-year-old boy who was torn from the arms of his grandmother and drowned in one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters is among more than 620,000 claimants who will have their case heard this month in the largest group claim in English legal history.
Gelvana Aparecida Rodrigues da Silva, 37, lost her son Thiago on 5 November 2015 when the Fundão dam, near Mariana in eastern Brazil, collapsed, releasing about 50m cubic metres of toxic waste.
Continue reading...UK government must say what Brussels ‘reset’ means, says EU delegation head
Sandro Gozi calls for detail from Labour administration and says ‘new phase in bilateral relationship’ is possible
Keir Starmer’s government must spell out what it wants from a reset of Britain’s relationship with the EU, the European parliament’s lead MEP on the UK has said.
In his first interview since being elected chair of the European parliament’s delegation to the EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly earlier this month, Sandro Gozi, an Italian former European affairs minister, said there was potential for a reset with the Starmer government, which had shown “a change in attitude”.
Continue reading...Family of British woman who fell to her death in Spain call on Met to investigate
Guardia Civil report on Piia Hokkanen indicates Spanish detectives believe cause of death was suicide
The family and friends of a British IT executive who fell to her death from an apartment block in Spain on the evening of her 50th birthday have called on the Metropolitan police to intervene in a Spanish police investigation into the fatality.
Piia Hokkanen, who at the time of her death had borrowed her sister’s holiday home for a three-day mini-break in Torrevieja, near Alicante, was found lifeless after falling from a communal window on to a neighbour’s patio shortly after midnight on 4 September.
Continue reading...‘Vengeful’ Trump withheld disaster aid and will do so again, ex-officials warn
Former administration officials say Trump deliberately denied funds to states he deemed politically hostile
Donald Trump deliberately withheld disaster aid to states he deemed politically hostile to him as US president and will do so again unimpeded if he returns to the White House, several former Trump administration officials have warned.
As Hurricane Helene and then Hurricane Milton have ravaged much of the south-eastern US in the past two weeks, Trump has sought to pin blame upon Joe Biden’s administration for a ponderous response to the disasters, even suggesting that this was deliberate due to the number of Republican voters affected by the storms.
Continue reading...Cieco: A blind dog’s journey from Nabatieh to Beirut, fleeing Israeli bombs
Cieco could neither hear nor see the explosions, he could only feel what he must have known was encroaching danger.