Body of hostage recovered from Gaza, says IDF
The Israeli military said Ron Benjamin was found alongside the bodies of three other hostages.
Israel recovers another slain hostage; pushes into new parts of northern Gaza – NBC News
- Israel recovers another slain hostage; pushes into new parts of northern Gaza NBC News
- Israel's war on Gaza updates: 83 killed in unrelenting Israeli attacks Al Jazeera English
- Israel pushes further into parts of north Gaza; new cracks in Netanyahu coalition Reuters.com
- IDF: Tank forces demolish 100 Hamas terror sites, finds 10 tunnel shafts in Rafah The Times of Israel
- Scores of terrorists killed, anti-aircraft guns captured in eastern Rafah The Jerusalem Post
Israel IDs fourth hostage found dead with 3 others held by Hamas in Gaza – Axios
- Israel IDs fourth hostage found dead with 3 others held by Hamas in Gaza Axios
- IDF recovers hostage’s body from Gaza one day after retrieving three others CNN
- Fighting intensifies in northern Gaza; body of fourth hostage recovered CBS News
- Shani Louk's parents thankful to have a grave after her body was returned from Gaza Reuters.com
- Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival Yahoo! Voices
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds
PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater
Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are ubiquitous in the Great Lakes basin’s air, rain, atmosphere and water, new peer-reviewed research shows.
The first-of-its-kind, comprehensive picture of PFAS levels for the basin, which holds nearly 95% of the nation’s freshwater, also reveals that precipitation is probably a major contributor to the lakes’ contamination.
This story was amended on 18 May 2024 to clarify that Buffalo does not border Lake Ontario.
Continue reading...Police arrest six student protesters at University of Pennsylvania
Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’
More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists, including six students at the University of Pennsylvania, were arrested after attempting to occupy a hall on the university campus late Friday.
The protesters were arrested around 9pm after trying to take over Fisher-Bennett Hall but had been met with a response from university and Philadelphia police, according to reports. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that protesters caused the evacuation of an alumni event at the Penn Museum.
Continue reading...Georgia president vetoes ‘foreign agent’ law
Salome Zourabichvili's said a law that has sparked weeks of protests was "fundamentally Russian".
Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts
As the inquiry publishes its final report, the chancellor is under pressure to find £10bn to put right a longstanding injustice
The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, will come under pressure to stay true to his word and sign off on immediate compensation payments totalling up to £10bn to victims of the contaminated blood scandal when the long-awaited final report on the affair is published on Monday.
The scandal is described as the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, with more than 3,000 people having died as a result of receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. It is estimated that, even today, a person infected during the scandal dies every four days.
Continue reading...Ukrainian forces repelled Russian assault on Chasiv Yar – Zelensky – Ukrinform
- Ukrainian forces repelled Russian assault on Chasiv Yar - Zelensky Ukrinform
- Zelensky recalls deportation of Crimea Tartars, compares to present Yahoo! Voices
- Interview: Crimean Tatar Leader Reflects On Stalin-Era 'Genocide,' Resistance And Resilience Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- Zelenskyy: Free from Russia, Crimea will be one of the best places to live in Europe Ukrainska Pravda
- President Erdoğan commemorates 80th anniversary of Crimean Tatar exile | Daily Sabah Daily Sabah
Bishkek University Reportedly Calm After Mob Violence That Injured At Least 29 People – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- Bishkek University Reportedly Calm After Mob Violence That Injured At Least 29 People Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- What Led To Attack On Kyrgyzstan Hostels Housing Indian, Pak Students NDTV
- 'We Are Scared': Afghan Community, Foreign Students Warned To Stay Off Bishkek Streets Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
- Pakistani nationals studying in Kyrgyzstan asked to stay indoors after mobs attack foreigners, foreign ministry says CBS News
- Kyrgyz govt's request after hostels housing India, Pak students attacked: 'Destructive forces are…' Hindustan Times
Australians stranded in New Caledonia ‘running out of food’ amid civil unrest – Reuters.com
- Australians stranded in New Caledonia 'running out of food' amid civil unrest Reuters.com
- France admits it's lost control of parts of New Caledonia, the world's third-largest producer of critical EV metal nickel Fortune
- New Caledonia ‘under siege’ says local official, as unrest claims another life The Guardian
- Violence rages in New Caledonia as France rushes emergency reinforcements to its Pacific territory The Associated Press
- Deadly Clashes in a French Pacific Territory Raise Fears of Civil War The New York Times
Russian court seizes two European banks’ assets amid Western sanctions
Freezing hundreds of billions of dollars in lenders' assets was part of dispute over gas project halted by sanctions.
Canada wildfires force thousands to evacuate – BBC.com
Aid delivery to Gazans arriving via US-built pier – New York Post
- Aid delivery to Gazans arriving via US-built pier New York Post
- Aid starts flowing into Gaza over U.S. pier NBC News
- Israel-Hamas war: Gaza aid driven across new US-built pier. Challenges remain The Associated Press
- JLOTS, an obscure Army-Navy capability, arrives in Gaza NavyTimes.com
- US military starts delivering aid to Gaza through floating pier. Here’s what we know CNN
Islamic Jihad leader killed in West Bank and 70 targets hit in Gaza, says Israel
IDF says ‘senior terrorist operative’ Islam Khamayseh was killed in strike on the city of Jenin
Israel says its jets have struck 70 targets across Gaza in the past 24 hours, while an airstrike in Jenin killed a “significant” Islamic Jihad figure who operated as the head of logistics for the organisation’s brigade in the city.
The strike, carried out on Friday night by a fighter jet and a helicopter, killed Islam Khamayseh, a “senior terrorist operative in the Jenin camp” who was responsible for a series of attacks in the area, the IDF said.
Continue reading...Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation
Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 people killed in flash floods
At least 60 people have been killed in a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, according to an official.
Dozens others remained missing, said Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesperson for Ghor’s provincial governor, on Saturday. He said the province had suffered significant financial losses, with thousands of homes and properties damaged and hundreds of hectares of agricultural land destroyed in the floods on Friday, including in the province’s capital city, Feroz Koh.
Continue reading...Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots
The cultural sector falls short on other measures of diversity too, with 9o% of workers white, says new report
Six in 10 of all arts and culture workers in the UK now come from middle-class backgrounds, compared with just over 42% of the wider workforce, according to new research.
And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make up 8.4% of those working in film, TV, radio and photography, while in museums, archives and libraries, the proportion is only 5.2%.
Continue reading...Six-month-old baby shot repeatedly during Arizona standoff with child’s father
Police were able to rescue child, who is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, before house caught fire with father still in it
A six-month-old baby is currently hospitalized after a man allegedly shot the infant several times during an armed home standoff in Surprise, Arizona, about 30 miles north-west of Phoenix.
At about 3am on Friday, the father of the child allegedly broke into the home where the child and mother lived, according to Surprise police. The child’s father did not live in the house, police said, adding that the man held the mother and child hostage for several hours before the mother managed to escape.
Continue reading...Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions
Republican Glenn Youngkin also vetoed bills related to maintaining access to contraception, saying they were ‘not ready’
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has vetoed two bills that would have stripped tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that has opposed the removal of statues of southern state generals during the US civil war and other markers of the southern states’ attempt to secede from the Union in defense of slavery.
The Republican governor vetoed several measures, including those related to maintaining access to contraception, saying in a statement they were “not ready to become law”.
Continue reading...IDF claims Hezbollah hit Israel’s missile-detecting airship: report – Business Insider
- IDF claims Hezbollah hit Israel's missile-detecting airship: report Business Insider
- 2 hurt as barrage of 75 rockets fired at north; IDF strike on Hezbollah said to kill 3 The Times of Israel
- IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon The Jerusalem Post
- Barrage Of Rockets, Drones Rains Down On Northern Israel, 10 Rockets Fired At South | LIVE UPDATES - I24NEWS i24NEWS
- Israel at War, Day 224: Some 75 Rockets Fired at Israel's Golan Heights From Lebanon - Middle East News Haaretz
At least 23 people missing off Tunisia coast, authorities say
Search and rescue operations under way while five suspects have been arrested, Tunisian National Guard says.