Human rights groups in Guinea say they believe more than 135 football fans were killed in a crush at a stadium on Sunday, most of them children. The figure, which is unverified, far exceeds the official number of deaths at 56. The groups said the estimate was based on information from hospital, cemeteries, witnesses at…
Five people have reportedly been killed in an air strike in Gaza that Israel said was targeting someone who took part in the 7 October attacks. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the target of the strike also worked at the charity World Central Kitchen (WCK). WCK said it was “heartbroken to share” that a…
Misinformation about Western countries’ involvement in the war in Ukraine has continued to spread online almost three years after Putin’s full-scale invasion. In a recent case, a photo ricocheted across social media posts that falsely claimed it shows coffins of British soldiers killed in the conflict. However, the picture predates the war by more than…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Four members of Pakistan’s security services were killed as thousands of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s supporters broke through government barricades and clashed with law enforcement in the country’s capital Islamabad Tuesday. The interior ministry said in a statement that vehicles in a convoy of protesters ran over the paramilitary officers. “It is not…
Israel’s military once again bombed buildings near the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, a day after one of its strikes on a densely populated area in central Beirut killed at least 29 people, according to the latest tally from Lebanon’s Health Ministry. A dpa reporter counted at least eight loud explosions late on Sunday after…
Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in an attack on a vehicle donated by Welsh miners just months ago. The men died when their SUV was shelled by Russian artillery in August, according to a Ukrainian trade union. The car was driven to Ukraine by Welsh miners as part of an aid convoy in February…
Intense storms battering central Europe are now reaching Italy, where warnings for heavy rain, strong winds and floods have been issued for much of the country. Floods are already reported in the central city of Pescara, while the Italian meteorological service’s weather alerts apply from the northern coast of Emilia-Romagna to the far-south. The warnings…
Four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, hospitals said on Sunday, as Israel hit another former school in the war-torn coastal territory. According to al-Awda hospital, three of the victims died in the shelling of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. A fourth Palestinian…
Three Israeli hostages, whose bodies were found last year in underground tunnels in Gaza, were likely killed in a military airstrike aimed at a Hamas commander, an investigation into their deaths concluded. An investigation into the deaths of Nik Beizer, 19, Ron Sherman, 19, Elia Toledano, 28, found there was a “high probability” that the…
Thousands of mourners have turned out in eastern Uganda for the funeral of Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set ablaze by her former boyfriend and later died. Dickson Ndiema attacked her with petrol just under a fortnight ago outside her home in neighbouring north-west Kenya, close to where she trained. The 33-year-old’s killing,…
