Pressure for truce deal rises as Israel reports four Gaza captives killed
The US says the onus is on Hamas to accept the deal, but confusion continues to build over Israel’s stance.
Israel has confirmed that four of the captives held in Gaza were likely killed during air raids on the enclave.
The Israeli military said late on Monday that the four men were believed to have died in southern Gaza several months ago. The news is likely to increase pressure on Israel’s government to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas.
The military did not provide details, citing a continuing investigation, but spokesman Daniel Hagari said Chaim Peri, 79, Amiram Cooper, 84, Yoram Metzger, 80, and Nadav Popplewell, 51, who were being held together by Hamas, were killed while its “forces were operating in Khan Younis”.
Nuclear issue looms over Iranian presidential election to succeed Raisi
About 80 candidates put names forward for vetting against backdrop of confrontation with west
About 80 candidates have registered to stand in Iran’s presidential election on 28 June, taking place against the backdrop of a growing confrontation with the west over Tehran’s nuclear weapons programme and UN access to its nuclear sites.
The winner will replace Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, has urged all sides not to add “nuclear weapons to the cauldron of the Middle East”. Grossi’s unsuccessful efforts to negotiate fuller access to the sites, including through a phone call on Friday with Iran’s acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri, suggest no progress on that will be made at least until after the presidential vote.
Far-right AfD appears as strongest German party on TikTok
Politicians and figures linked to the far-right Alternative for Germany party use TikTok as a "parallel universe" to spread extremism, a study says. Meanwhile, other parties show "weak performance" on the platform.
Of all the parties represented in the German parliament the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) uses the youth social media platform TikTok the most, according to a study published Tuesday.
"We are observing masses of openly right-wing extremist symbols and codes on TikTok," said Deborah Schnabel, the director of the Anne Frank Educational Center, which conducted the analysis.
"Time and again, accounts from the AfD or from the party's environment are involved" in such content, Schnabel said.
EDITORIAL: Boosted security dialogue vital for ensuring stable relations in Asia
June 4, 2024 at 13:42 JST
The Asia-Pacific region is riddled with many potential security flashpoints, such as the Korean Peninsula, the Taiwan Strait and the seas around the Philippines.
Preventing a full-blown crisis from boiling over at these and other hot spots in the region requires building trust through dialogue and exchanges.
Such discussions should lead to stepped-up efforts to build a solid foundation for a long-term stable order in the region.
Modi’s BJP to lose majority in India election shock, needs allies for gov’t
Defying exit polls, opposition parties stun the BJP in vital states, resetting India’s political landscape.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on course to lose its national majority after suffering major losses in key states, marking a dramatic shift in a political landscape it has dominated for the past decade.
The BJP is on track to comfortably emerge as the country’s single-largest party in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament. But as election officials declared leads and results from India’s six-week-long election on Tuesday, it became apparent that the BJP would struggle to repeat its performances from 2014 and 2019.
Unlike both those elections, when the BJP won clear majorities on its own in a house of 543 seats, its leads and wins were hovering around 240 constituencies through much of the day. The halfway mark is 272 seats.
Doppelgängers and deepfakes: How Russian trolls are meddling in the world’s second-biggest democratic vote
If you believe everything you read, it would seem the European Union wants to ban drivers from getting their old cars repaired, or that it plans to limit the flights people can take by implementing “carbon passports.” It might even impose Covid-style “climate lockdowns.”
None of these things are true, but as 373 million eligible voters head to polls this week to elect a new EU parliament, a torrent of disinformation is flooding the continent.
The EU and several of its member countries have set up investigative agencies to counter disinformation ahead of the vote — and they are squarely focused on campaigns originating in Russia.
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