Israeli strikes on Gaza City kill dozens, Hamas says
Two Israeli air strikes on buildings in Gaza City have killed at least 38 people and injured many more, Hamas says.
The Israeli military said warplanes had struck Hamas military infrastructure sites and it would provide more details later.
A spokesman for Gaza's civil defence said a residential block in the al-Shati area, one of Gaza's historic refugee camps, was hit several times. The other strike targeted houses in the al-Tuffah district, the Hamas-run government media office said.
Egypt to prosecute travel agents for ‘fraudulent’ hajj trips
PM orders 16 companies to be stripped of licences amid hundreds of deaths, many attributed to extreme heat
The Egyptian prime minister, Mostafa Madbouly, has ordered 16 tourism companies to be stripped of their licences and referred their managers to the public prosecutor’s office for illegally facilitating pilgrims’ travel to Mecca, the cabinet has said.
The order came after various countries reported more than 1,100 deaths, many attributed to high heat, during this year’s hajj.
Arab diplomats told AFP earlier this week that Egyptians accounted for 658 deaths, 630 of them unregistered pilgrims.
Kagame backs opposition ban as Rwanda election nears
Rwanda's president defended the central African nation's democratic record as campaigning for next month's vote got underway. Two prominent opposition candidates are barred from running by an appeals court decision.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said Saturday that his country's democracy reflected the "unique reality of Rwandans" as he launched his election campaign at a rally in the north of the country.
The central African country goes to the polls on July 15 with the incumbent widely expected to extend his 24-year rule.
While Kagame has been praised for Rwanda's economic recovery after the 1994 genocide that claimed 800,000 lives, he faces criticism over rights abuses and political repression.
New Caledonia independence activist to be held in custody in mainland France
Christian Tein, a pro-independence leader in the French Pacific territory New Caledonia will be held in France after being charged Saturday over deadly riots last month, his lawyer said. Tein was one of at least three pro-independence activists facing a transfer in custody to mainland France.
Tein, the head of Cellule de Coordination des Actions de Terrain (CCAT), will be sent almost 17,000 kilometres (10,500 miles) to France with the group's communications chief Brenda Wanabo.
An investigating magistrate charged Tein in New Caledonia's capital Noumea on Saturday. He was the first from a group of 11 people arrested Wednesday to be charged over the violence, in which nine people died, including two police.
Hundreds more were wounded, and around 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) of damage was inflicted during the troubles.
Iran court overturns death sentence of rapper Toomaj Salehi, lawyer says
Musician, 33, faces retrial after being sentenced to death for ‘corruption on Earth’
Iran’s supreme court has overturned the death sentence imposed on the rapper Toomaj Salehi, his lawyer said.
The decision comes in the middle of Iran’s presidential election campaign but seems unrelated to the fierce public debates under way about Iran’s future direction, including the rights of women not to wear the hijab if they wish.
“Salehi’s death sentence was overturned,” the rapper’s lawyer, Amir Raisian, said in a post on X, adding that the supreme court had ordered a retrial.
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