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Ilan Weiss was 56 when he was killed while trying to defend kibbutz Be'eri from Hamas on October 7, 2023
Israel recovers remains of hostages, as Gaza City declared a ‘dangerous combat zone’
JERUSALEM — Israel’s military recovered the body of one hostage and the remains of another in Gaza on Friday, as it declared Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone” ahead of a major assault.The recovered body was identified as Ilan Weiss, 56, from Kibbutz Be’eri, and the remains of the other hostage have yet to be unidentified, the Prime Minister’s Office said.Weiss’ wife and daughter, Shiri and Noga, were kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri during the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023 and were released during the first ceasefire in November that year. At the time, it was believed that Weiss might still be alive. But in January 2024, Kibbutz Be’eri announced that Ilan Weis had been killed during the attack on the community and his body taken into Gaza.The Israel Defense Forces...
August 29, 2025

Israel recovers remains of hostages, as Gaza City declared a ‘dangerous combat zone’

A visitor tries a range of submachine guns at the DSEI 2023 exhibition in London
UK blocks Israeli government delegation from arms trade fair
LONDON — No Israeli government delegation will be invited to a global defence exhibition in London next month because of the Gaza war, the UK has said."The Israeli government's decision to further escalate its military operation in Gaza is wrong," a UK government spokesperson said. "As a result, we can confirm that no Israeli government delegation will be invited to attend DSEI UK 2025."Israel's defence ministry called the move a "deliberate and regrettable act of discrimination" and said it would be withdrawing and not setting up a national pavilion.UK leaders have become more outspoken against Israel's conduct in Gaza, including a recent plan to expand the war and take over Gaza City."There must be a diplomatic solution to end this war...
August 29, 2025

UK blocks Israeli government delegation from arms trade fair

When President Cyril Ramaphosa visited in the aftermath of the fire he described the incident as a wake-up call
Survivors of South Africa's horrific building fire now live in fear of guns
JOHANNESBURG — Blackened by soot, the gutted and derelict remains of South Africa's infamous Usindiso building in central Johannesburg are an unintentional memorial to the 76 people who died here in a devastating fire two years ago. At one time an office block, the 1950s building in the Marshalltown area was abandoned and then taken over by several hundred people desperately needing a home. One of those was Vusi Tshabalala, who shakes his head in disbelief as he recalls how he survived the blaze on that late August night. "The fire seemed to come out of nowhere," the 45-year-old tells the BBC in a melancholic voice, raspy from years of smoking cigarettes. Mr Tshabalala was asleep on the third floor of the five-storey building, where he was sharing a place with...
August 29, 2025

Survivors of South Africa's horrific building fire now live in fear of guns

Paetongtarn Shinawatra says she accepts the court's verdict after being removed from office over a leaked phone call with Cambodia's former leader
Thai PM removed from office over phone call scandal with Cambodian leader
BANGKOK — A Thai court removed suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on Friday, ruling that her controversial phone call with Cambodia’s former leader breached ethics rules, in a move that plunges the kingdom into fresh political turmoil.Paetongtarn, a member of the powerful Shinawatra political family dynasty, became the country’s youngest prime minister in August 2024 and has served only a year in office.In a ruling of 6 to 3, Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled that Paetongtarn “lacks the qualifications and possesses prohibited characteristics” under the Thai constitution, leading to the end of her time in office.In the leaked call, which took place on June 15 as border tensions with Cambodia escalated, Paetongtarn could be heard calling former...
August 29, 2025

Thai PM removed from office over phone call scandal with Cambodian leader

Susan Monarez was confirmed to lead the US public health agency by the Senate in July
White House names RFK Jr deputy as replacement CDC director
WASHINGTON — The White House has named a replacement for the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after its previous leader was forced out of the job.Jim O'Neill currently serves as the deputy to Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, and will replace Susan Monarez after she was in the role for just a month.Lawyers representing Dr Monarez said her sacking was illegal, and alleged she was targeted by Kennedy because she refused "to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives".The reason for her removal was that she was "not aligned with the president's agenda", the White House said in a statement.O'Neill is a former Silicon Valley tech investor and takes over the CDC at a time when some of its leading officials are...
August 29, 2025

White House names RFK Jr deputy as replacement CDC director

A man and a woman embrace each other - they are standing outside near the five-storey building in Ukraine destroyed in a missile strike
Kyiv in mourning after strikes as allies discuss military support
KYIV — A day of mourning has been declared in Kyiv after the second biggest aerial attack of the war so far killed at least 23 people, including four children.The city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said it was to honour the dead, as a massive recovery effort continues at the five-storey block of flats where 22 of the 23 were killed.The attack has been widely condemned — the White House said President Donald Trump was "not happy" but not surprised, while European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia would "stop at nothing to terrorise Ukraine".Meanwhile, EU defence ministers are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Friday to discuss military support for Ukraine.The attack also damaged the EU's diplomatic mission and the British Council...
August 29, 2025

Kyiv in mourning after strikes as allies discuss military support

Banu Mushtaq won the International Booker Prize for her short story anthology Heart Lamp
India's International Booker winner at the center of a political row
MUMBAI — International Booker Prize winning-author Banu Mushtaq has found herself in the midst of a controversy after she was invited to inaugurate a prominent festival in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.Last week, the state's Congress government announced that Mushtaq — who won the Prize earlier this year for her short story anthology, Heart Lamp — would inaugurate the Mysuru Dasara festivities in Mysuru (formerly called Mysore).Mysuru Dasara, also called Naada Habba (which roughly translates to festival of the land in Kannada), is an annual 10-day event that has been celebrated for decades.Thousands of people flock to the city to participate in the grand festivities, which include cultural performances, elephant parades, exhibitions and fireworks.The decision to invite...
August 29, 2025

India's International Booker winner at the center of a political row

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar in waves of displacement over years
'India put us on the boat like captives — then threw us in the sea'
DELHI — Noorul Amin last spoke to his brother on 9 May. The call was brief, but the news was devastating.He learned that his brother, Kairul, and four other relatives were among 40 Rohingya refugees allegedly deported by the Indian government to Myanmar, a country they had fled in fear years ago.Myanmar is in the midst of a brutal civil war between the junta — which seized power in a 2021 coup — and ethnic militias and resistance forces.The odds that Mr Amin will ever see his family again are vanishingly small."I could not process the torment that my parents and the others who were taken are facing," Mr Amin, 24, told the BBC in Delhi.Three months after they were removed from India's capital, the BBC managed to contact the refugees in Myanmar. Most are staying with the...
August 29, 2025

'India put us on the boat like captives — then threw us in the sea'

Modi met his Canadian counterpart Carney in June and agreed to appoint high commissioners
India and Canada name top diplomats after 10 months to mend ties
DELHI — India and Canada have appointed new high commissioners to each other's countries, in the latest step to restore ties strained by the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in a Vancouver suburb in 2023.India's previous high commissioner left Canada last October after Ottawa expelled him, linking six diplomats to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar — though Delhi insisted he was withdrawn.That same day, India ordered out six senior Canadian diplomats, including the acting high commissioner.The mutual expulsion of top diplomats last year marked an unprecedented low in an otherwise cordial relationship.Nijjar, designated a terrorist by India in 2020, was shot dead by two gunmen outside a Sikh temple in Vancouver in June 2023.Relations between the two countries deteriorated...
August 29, 2025

India and Canada name top diplomats after 10 months to mend ties

People sit across a memorial near boarded windows damaged in Wednesday's school shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis
Minneapolis church shooter 'obsessed' with the idea of killing children, police say
MINNEAPOLIS — The shooter who killed two Minneapolis Catholic school students and injured more than a dozen others was filled with hatred and admired mass murderers, authorities revealed on Thursday.“It is very clear that this shooter had the intention to terrorise those innocent children,” said Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara.23-year-old Robin Westman fired 116 rifle rounds through stained-glass windows while the children celebrated Mass during the first week of classes at the Annunciation Catholic SchoolAccording to authorities, Westman once attended the same school and was "obsessed" with the idea of killing children.Acting US Attorney Joe Thompson said videos and writings the shooter left behind show that the shooter "expressed hate towards almost every...
August 29, 2025

Minneapolis church shooter 'obsessed' with the idea of killing children, police say

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