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A Palestinian family is trying to gather what remains of their belongings after their tent was damaged in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 09 January 2026. The tent was destroyed by strong winds and heavy rain. — EPA
Eight die in Gaza as storm brings extreme cold, collapses buildings
GAZA — Eight Palestinians have died as a new storm caused freezing winds and toppled buildings in war-ravaged Gaza, piling further misery on tens of thousands of displaced people surviving in flimsy shelters.Four people have been killed since Monday night after buildings damaged by Israeli airstrikes collapsed in Gaza as a powerful storm battered the enclave, Palestinian civil defense said on Tuesday.Three people, including a 15-year-old girl, were killed when one building collapsed in Gaza City while a fourth was killed in a separate building collapse in the city.The buildings collapsed due to heavy rainfall and strong winds driven by a low-pressure weather system that began affecting the region Monday evening.Four deaths have been recorded due to cold temperatures caused by a severe...
January 13, 2026

Eight die in Gaza as storm brings extreme cold, collapses buildings

French Far-right leader Marine Le Pen speaks to the press in Paris on Monday. — EPA
French far-right leader Le Pen appeals embezzlement conviction 
PARIS — A high-stakes appeal by far-right French politician Marine Le Pen starts on Tuesday against a ruling that banned her from running for public office for five years.Le Pen, 57, is seeking to overturn a March ruling that found her guilty of misusing European Parliament funds. She was slapped with a five-year ban from holding elected office, two years of house arrest with an electronic bracelet, a further two-year suspended sentence and a 100,000-euro ($116,800) fine.“I hope I’ll be able to convince the judges of my innocence,” Le Pen told reporters Monday. “It’s a new court with new judges. The case will be reset, so to speak.”She was seen as the potential front-runner to succeed President Emmanuel Macron in the 2027 election until last year’s ruling, which sent shock...
January 13, 2026

French far-right leader Le Pen appeals embezzlement conviction 

Iranians drive past a billboard reading 'Iran is our Homeland' at Enqelab Square in Tehran, Iran, 13 January 2026. — EPA
Trump announces tariffs to pressure Iran as death toll soars
DUBAI/WASHINGTON — About 2,000 people including security personnel have been killed in Iran, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, as the White House said President Donald Trump was briefed on military options following Tehran's intense crackdown on anti-government protesters.The Iranian official, speaking to Reuters, said that people he called terrorists were behind the deaths of both protesters and security personnel. This is the first time authorities have acknowledged the high death toll from an intense crackdown on two weeks of nationwide unrest.Media reports indicate Pentagon officials have discussed long-range missile attacks, cyber operations and psychological campaign responses.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump is exploring messages from Iranian regime...
January 13, 2026

Trump announces tariffs to pressure Iran as death toll soars

A US Navy sailor walks on the deck of amphibious assault ship USS ESSEX (LHD 2) on the berth at a port in Tokyo, Japan, 27 August 2008. — EPA
Former US Navy sailor jailed for selling information to Chinese intelligence
WASHINGTON— A federal judge in San Diego sentenced on Monday a former US Navy sailor to more than 16 years in prison for spying, prosecutors said.Jinchao Wei, 25, was convicted selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China.A federal jury convicted Wei in August of six crimes, including espionage. He was paid more than $12,000 for the information he sold, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.Wei, an engineer for the amphibious assault ship USS Essex, was one of two California-based sailors charged on August 3, 2023, with providing sensitive military information to China. The other, Wenheng Zhao, was sentenced to more than two years in 2024 after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of...
January 13, 2026

Former US Navy sailor jailed for selling information to Chinese intelligence

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
London’s record-low homicide rate disproves Trump’s ‘dystopian’ claims, says mayor Khan
LONDON — London’s homicide rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, officials said Monday, with Mayor Sadiq Khan saying the figures disprove claims by US President Donald Trump and others on the political right that crime is out of control in Britain's capital.Police recorded 97 homicides in London in 2025, down from 109 in 2024 and the fewest since 2014. The Metropolitan Police force said the rate by population is the lowest since comparable records began in 1997, at 1.1 homicides for every 100,000 people.That compares to 1.6 per 100,000 in Paris, 2.8 in New York and 3.2 in Berlin, the force said.“There are some politicians and commentators who’ve been spamming our social media with an endless stream of distortions and untruths, painting an image of a dystopian...
January 13, 2026

London’s record-low homicide rate disproves Trump’s ‘dystopian’ claims, says mayor Khan

Palestinian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah
Australia literary festival axed as high profile speakers quit over exclusion of Palestinian writer
BRISBANE — Organizers of Australia’s much-loved literary festival canceled the event Tuesday after more than 180 writers and speakers withdrew to protest the scrapping of an appearance by a Palestinian-Australian writer and academic.The annual Adelaide Writers Week has been mired in controversy since late last week when the board announced Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, a prominent critic of Israel’s war in Gaza, was no longer invited to attend “given her past statements.”The uproar began when the board of the Adelaide Festival, which runs Adelaide Writers Week, announced that they had disinvited Abdel-Fattah from the event, citing cultural sensitivities “at this unprecedented time so soon after” an antisemitic mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.“Whilst we do not suggest in...
January 13, 2026

Australia literary festival axed as high profile speakers quit over exclusion of Palestinian writer

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
European Parliament bars Iranian diplomats from entering its premises 
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has barred Iranian diplomats from entering its premises amid the ongoing crackdown on protesters by Tehran, President Roberta Metsola said on Monday.The ban is in place in Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and all of Parliament’s liaison offices in European cities, according to a Parliament official.Metsola has clashed in recent weeks with the Iranian embassy in Brussels over her staunch support for the protesters. Iran’s mission to the EU accused her of “disgusting hypocrisy” in a social media post last week.In a new social media post on Monday, Metsola said the Parliament “will not aid in legitimizing this regime that has sustained itself through torture, repression and murder.”“I have taken the decision to ban all diplomats, staff of...
January 13, 2026

European Parliament bars Iranian diplomats from entering its premises 

French owners of the bar in Crans-Montana Jacques and Jessica Moretti (C) arrive with their lawyers for questioning by the Valais public prosecutor's office in Sion, Switzerland, 09 January 2026. — EPA
Swiss court orders ski resort owner kept in custody after deadly fire
GENEVA — A Swiss court ordered on Monday three months of pretrial detention for the co-owner of a bar in the upscale ski resort of Crans-Montana that caught fire on New Year's Day, killing 40 people and injuring 116 others.The court of compulsory measures in the southwestern canton of Valais ordered that Jacques Moretti be held because of a possible "flight risk" highlighted by prosecutors.However, the court said in a statement it was inclined to lift the three months of pretrial detention if sufficient “security measures,” potentially including bail, are arranged.It said he should remain in custody until the measures are worked out.Prosecutors for the Valais canton initially ordered Moretti to be detained on Friday after a lengthy hearing with him and his wife, Jessica.In a...
January 13, 2026

Swiss court orders ski resort owner kept in custody after deadly fire

A handout picture provided by the US Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV (L) meeting with Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner, in Vatican City, 12 January 2026. — EPA
Machado meets Pope Leo at Vatican, seeks support for Venezuela's transition 
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuela’s opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican on Monday, during which she asked the pontiff to intercede for the release of hundreds of political prisoners held in the Latin American country.The Vatican confirmed the meeting, which hadn't been previously included in the list of the pope's planned appointments, in its daily press bulletin on Monday, but did not offer comment or further details about the encounter.In a brief video clip released by the Vatican, the two were seen shaking hands and smiling as they sat across from each other at the pope's desk in his official office in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace.Machado is touring Europe and the United States...
January 13, 2026

Machado meets Pope Leo at Vatican, seeks support for Venezuela's transition 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Iran summons Western envoys as death toll climbs
TEHRAN — Iran on Monday summoned the ambassadors of Britain, Germany, Italy and France over what it described as their countries’ support for recent protests inside the country, according to official media.The Foreign Ministry invited the diplomats to Tehran and presented video footage that showed acts of violence during the unrest, saying such actions went beyond peaceful demonstrations and amounted to organized sabotage, the state broadcaster IRIB reported.Iranian officials asked the four Western ambassadors to convey the footage directly to their respective foreign ministries and called on their governments to withdraw statements backing the protesters.Tehran said any political or media support for the protests constitutes “unacceptable interference” in Iran’s internal...
January 13, 2026

Iran summons Western envoys as death toll climbs

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