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Police arrest Netanyahu aide as opponents accuse him of leaking intelligence to thwart Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal

Police arrest Netanyahu aide as opponents accuse him of leaking intelligence to thwart Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal


November 4, 2024
Israeli police have arrested a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegedly leaking classified information to foreign media. Opposition leaders say the intelligence was “faked,” and part of a ruse to thwart a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza. The investigation centers on allegations that the prime minister’s office promoted to foreign media […]
World’s largest captive crocodile dies in Australia aged more than 100

World’s largest captive crocodile dies in Australia aged more than 100


November 3, 2024
A 5.48 metre (18 ft) Australian crocodile that held the world record as the largest crocodile in captivity has died, a wildlife sanctuary said on Saturday. He was thought to be more than 110 years old. Cassius, weighing in at more than one ton, had been in declining health since October 15, Marineland Melanesia Crocodile […]
29 children may be sentenced to death for protesting against cost-of-living crisis in Nigeria

29 children may be sentenced to death for protesting against cost-of-living crisis in Nigeria


November 3, 2024
Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them collapsed in court due to exhaustion before they could enter a plea. A total of 76 protesters were charged with 10 felony counts, including treason, destruction […]
Israel says it captured senior Hezbollah operative in amphibious special forces raid

Israel says it captured senior Hezbollah operative in amphibious special forces raid


November 3, 2024
The Israeli military says it has captured a senior Hezbollah operative in an amphibious special forces raid in northern Lebanon. The official added that the seized operative was now being investigated by Unit 504 – an intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Saturday that eyewitnesses had […]
Palestinians were living under occupation for decades before the war. A Palestinian and an Israeli united to show the world their reality

Palestinians were living under occupation for decades before the war. A Palestinian and an Israeli united to show the world their reality


November 3, 2024
Midway through the documentary “No Other Land,” journalist and activist Basel Adra recounts a 2009 visit to his village by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a navy suit and crisp tie, surrounded by security detail and photographers, Blair walked through the village for seven minutes, Adra says in a voice-over. He visits the […]
Israel has long wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. The consequences could be disastrous for all

Israel has long wanted to dismantle the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. The consequences could be disastrous for all


November 3, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu sat down for his regular cabinet meeting and had some words for a new ally – and an old enemy. “Last week I met with US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley,” the Israeli prime minister told his colleagues. “I thanked her, on your behalf as well, for her decisive words in […]
Putin unlikely to come to the negotiation table, regardless of who wins US election

Putin unlikely to come to the negotiation table, regardless of who wins US election


November 3, 2024
Russia is watching US policy like a hawk. That was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s message to reporters last week in Kyiv as he answered a question about Moscow’s willingness to negotiate. “It depends on the elections in the United States,” he said. If elected, Kamala Harris is expected to largely continue the policies of the […]
IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in landmark move

IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in landmark move


November 3, 2024
Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow. Political as well as criminal prisoners in Germany during the Cold War era were forced to build flatpack furniture […]
Prince William defends his ambitious plan to tackle homelessness in UK

Prince William defends his ambitious plan to tackle homelessness in UK


November 2, 2024
Prince William has said he comes with “no other agenda” than wanting to “help people who are in need,” in a documentary series that follows the future King as he launches a five-year program he hopes will help end homelessness in six locations across the United Kingdom. The “Homewards” program, launched in collaboration with the […]
Eight killed after railway station roof collapses in Serbia

Eight killed after railway station roof collapses in Serbia


November 2, 2024
Eight people were killed in the Serbian town of Novi Sad on Friday when the roof of a railway station collapsed, according to the country’s interior minister. More than 30 people have been injured, according to local media reports. Two survivors pulled from under the rubble are currently in hospital, a statement from Serbia’s Interior […]
Armed group kidnaps military personnel and seizes base in central Bolivia, military says

Armed group kidnaps military personnel and seizes base in central Bolivia, military says


November 2, 2024
An armed group has taken control of a military post in central Bolivia, the country’s armed forces said on Friday. According to the Bolivian military’s statement, the “irregular armed group” kidnapped military personnel and seized weapons and ammunition from the base situated near the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba. The armed forces’ statement urged the […]
Satellite imagery shows mystery ship built in China amid breakneck naval expansion

Satellite imagery shows mystery ship built in China amid breakneck naval expansion


November 2, 2024
China appears to have built a new and unusual aircraft carrier, intriguing experts with a potentially first-of-its-kind vessel that could further increase Beijing’s rapidly expanding maritime power. Satellite imagery from Planet Labs shows a vessel with a large, open flat top under construction at Guangzhou Shipyard International on Longxue Island, in the southern province of […]
Too little, too late: How Valencia’s residents were trapped with no warning in Spain’s deadly floods

Too little, too late: How Valencia’s residents were trapped with no warning in Spain’s deadly floods


November 2, 2024
Adan Ortell Mor had a 7:30 p.m. appointment to cut a client’s hair at his salon in La Torre, Valencia, on Tuesday night. But when the client called to cancel because traffic was bad, it may have saved Mor’s life. Instead, he went home and saw reports of cars floating in floodwaters in a town […]
Horrific details emerge of how victims died in Spain’s flash floods

Horrific details emerge of how victims died in Spain’s flash floods


November 2, 2024
The full horror of the flash flooding in Spain began to emerge on Friday, just as new rainfall lashed southern parts of the country. The storm has killed at least 205 people, with 202 of those in the hardest-hit region of Valencia, emergency services in the region said Friday. It marks Spain’s deadliest natural disaster […]
Israeli military dropped bombs in ‘lethal proximity’ of at least 19 Lebanese hospitals, CNN analysis finds

Israeli military dropped bombs in ‘lethal proximity’ of at least 19 Lebanese hospitals, CNN analysis finds


November 2, 2024
The ground shook, windows shattered, and the cries of patients filled the air. An Israeli bomb had just struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in yet another near-nightly attack – this time hitting a building across the street from Lebanon’s biggest public hospital. “I was treating a patient when the bomb went off. I fell over him […]