Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin appears in Hamas video, the first proof he survived October 7 injuries
From CNN’s Eyad Kourdi, Pauline Lockwood and Lauren Izso
Hamas released a video of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Wednesday, the first proof that he survived being badly wounded during his capture on October 7.
Goldberg-Polin, then 23, was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7 during Hamas’ attacks on Israel that left more than 1,200 people dead and saw more than 200 people taken hostage in Gaza.
He is shown in the undated video with part of his left arm missing several inches above the hand.
- The US Senate has passed a $95 billion funding package that includes money for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The package provides $26.4 billion to aid Israel and includes sanctions on Iran.
- Dozens more bodies have been found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza, bringing the total uncovered to 344 following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area earlier this month.
Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown
Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls
Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and detained by security services have emerged as human rights groups say country’s hijab rules have been brutally enforced since the country’s drone strikes on Israel on 13 April.
A new campaign, called Noor (“light” in Persian), was announced the same day the Iranian regime launched drone attacks against Israel, to crack down on “violations” of the country’s draconian hijab rules, which dictate that all women must cover their heads in public.
Hours later, videos verified by human rights groups showing women and girls being forcefully arrested by agents of the notorious Gasht-e-Irshad (“morality police”) flooded social media along with stories of beatings and assault.
China spying: Krah still tops AfD's EU ticket
The Alternative for Germany politician Maximilian Krah will stay on as the AfD's lead candidate in June's European elections. On Tuesday, one of Krah's aides was accused by Germany's government of spying for China.
German EU lawmaker Maximilian Krah on Wednesday said he would remain the nationalist Alternative for Germany's lead candidate in upcoming European elections, despite the fact that one of his aides was charged with committing espionage for Chinese intelligence agencies.
It was agreed, however, that Krah would take a lower profile at the start of the campaign.
What did the AfD politician say?
Krah said he would immediately sack Jian G., the aide in his EU parliamentary office who is now in custody.
Iran sentences popular rapper to death for supporting Mahsa Amini protests
An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year and a half for supporting nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, local media reported Wednesday.
Toomaj Salehi, 33, was arrested in October 2022 after publicly backing the wave of demonstrations which erupted a month earlier, triggered by the death in custody of 22-year-old Amini.
The Iranian Kurdish woman had been detained by the morality police in Tehran over an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's strict dress rules for women.
"Branch 1 of Isfahan Revolutionary Court... sentenced Salehi to death on the charge of corruption on Earth," the singer's lawyer Amir Raisian said, quoted by the reformist Shargh newspaper.
Japan's moon lander wasn't built to survive a weekslong lunar night; it's still going after 3
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the lunar probe responded to a signal from the earth Tuesday night, confirming it has survived another weekslong lunar night.
Temperatures can fall to minus 170 degrees Celsius (minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit) during a lunar night, and rise to around 100 Celsius (212 Fahrenheit) during a lunar day.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
BY FRANCIS TANG
STAFF WRITER
More than 40% of Japan’s municipalities might eventually vanish due to a sharp population decline brought on by a chronically low birthrate, according to a study by a private group of experts.
The study released Wednesday by the Population Strategy Council (PSC) deems local municipalities that would likely see their population of women age 20 to 39 — the core childbearing age group — reduced by half between 2020 and 2050 as having a risk of disappearing.
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, the study identified 744 with such a risk.
The Japan Policy Council, a now-defunct organization, had released a similar report in 2014, in which it estimated that 896 municipalities would eventually vanish because of similar factors.
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