Smoke bombs, bulldozers at al-Amal Hospital
- Palestinian Red Crescent says smoke bombs launched at the hospital to force staff, wounded and displaced individuals to evacuate.
- Israeli forces have launched “violent” ground and air attacks on Khan Younis and bombed homes in Rafah and Deir el-Balah, killing at least 14 Palestinians, according to media reports.
- Mediation efforts to end the bloodshed in Gaza appear to be struggling, with a Hamas official telling Al Jazeera that Israeli negotiators have rejected their latest proposals for a ceasefire.
- At least 32,226 Palestinians have been killed and 74,518 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139, with dozens taken captive.
One displaced person killed inside al-Amal Hospital: PRCS
A displaced person has been killed after being shot in the head by the Israeli forces inside al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
The PRCS said earlier that the medical complex in southern Gaza was under heavy Israeli attack.
It said that Israeli troops closed the gates of the hospital with barriers and that everyone in the hospital was told to leave naked.
Israeli forces have besieged two more hospitals in Gaza, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
“All of our teams are in extreme danger at the moment and are completely immobilised,” the humanitarian organisation told Reuters on Sunday, adding one of its staff was killed when Israeli tanks pushed back suddenly into areas around al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Israel claims that the hospitals are used to harbour fighters while Hamas denies using the facilities for military ends and accuses Israel of war crimes.
New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack
Footage of gunmen reinforces terror group’s claim to have masterminded worst terror attack on Russia in two decades
Islamic State has released new videos of the attack on the Crocus City concert hall outside Moscow that left 137 people dead, corroborating the terror group’s claim to have masterminded the slaughter even as Russia has sought to place the blame on Ukraine, which Kyiv denies.
The Moscow terrorist shooting is the deadliest IS-claimed attack to date on European soil and the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege.
The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”.
The Garden of Eden Dries UpIraqi Marshlands Under Threat
By Monika Bolliger und Susanne Götze
Jassim Al-Asadi is standing on the bow of a narrow wooden boat, perfectly erect like a figurehead, looking into the distance. The wind is blowing gently into his face as the vessel glides smoothly through the marshlands of Chibayish in southern Iraq on this sunny winter day. Water buffalo are grazing next to huts artfully woven from reeds as herons circle overhead. The orange-blue plumage of a kingfisher glints in the sunlight.
Asadi, 66, is the best-known nature conservationist in Iraq, and he was born here in the marshes, as they are called. "I was born prematurely just as my mother was collecting reeds for the water buffalo," he says. "Buffalo," Asadi calls out when he sees one of the animals. He spews statistics, points out various plant and animal species, makes jokes and greets locals who periodically glide past in other wooden boats or who are standing in front of their huts at the water’s edge.
'Day of joy': Kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren rescued by army
More than 130 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month were released unharmed on Sunday, officials and the army said.
The mass abduction in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest attacks on a school in years and sparked a national outcry over insecurity.
The army said the hostages were freed in the early hours during a rescue operation.
Spokesman Major General Edward Buba shared photos of children wearing dust-coated uniforms in buses.
"The rescued hostages totalling 137 comprise of 76 females and 61 males. They were rescued in Zamfara State and would be conveyed and handed over to the Kaduna State Government for further action," he said.
Teachers and residents previously said around 280 pupils between the ages of eight and 15 were kidnapped when armed criminals known in Nigeria as bandits stormed the school on motorbikes.
Mexico: 42 kidnapped victims rescued, dozens still missing
The mass abductions happened in the region, which is home to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's dreaded Sinaloa drug cartel. Authorities are looking for the missing people with the help of the military.
Mexican authorities said they rescued 42 hostages, including 18 children, who were kidnapped by criminal groups in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.
Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, 66 people were initially reported missing, with 42 now found.
The search continues for the remaining 24 victims abducted on Friday in La Noria, outside Culiacan, the state capital.
La Noria is a known hotspot for cartel violence, situated within the territory of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.
Lack of Japanese classes in Japan's regions a hurdle for new foreign worker training system
Japan expects an influx of unskilled foreign workers following the Cabinet's March 15 approval of a new system replacing the Technical Intern Training Program, but the issue of Japanese education for foreigners stands as a potential major hurdle. How will the government, municipalities and workplaces involved meet the issue?
In early March, 47-year-old Japanese teacher Tamaki Yoshida faced her computer screen at home in the town of Zao, Miyagi Prefecture. Connected on the other end were Vietnamese technical intern trainees working at a factory about 200 kilometers away in Akita Prefecture.
Yoshida originally gave Japanese lectures within Miyagi Prefecture, but in fiscal 2021 began holding online courses for the trainees in Akita. With snowy winter weather making for poor transportation conditions on top of difficulties in retaining Japanese language teachers, Yoshida was asked to take up the work through an acquaintance.
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