Wave of Israeli airstrikes kills at least 50 people in Gaza
Palestinian officials say at least 30 killed in strike on school in Deir al-Balah where thousands were seeking shelter
A wave of Israeli airstrikes targeting central and southern Gaza have killed at least 50 people and injured an estimated 200, with one strike hitting a school where thousands were seeking shelter.
Palestinian health ministry officials said at least 30 people were killed in an airstrike on the Khadija school in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Wounded people poured into the nearby Aqsa hospital, while images from Deir al-Balah showed families carrying injured children for treatment.
Bangladesh: Protest leaders held 'for their own security'
Bangladeshi authorities say three leaders of recent protests who were forcibly removed from the hospital by plainclothes detectives on Friday have been taken into custody for their own safety.
The three students include Nahid Islam, the head of the protest group Students Against Discrimination, and two other senior members. Islam earlier this week told AFP news agency he was being treated at the hospital in the capital, Dhaka, for injuries police inflicted on him during an earlier round of detention.
The trio coordinated recent nationwide street rallies that triggered a police crackdown during which at least 200 people are estimated to have died.
Traffic on French high-speed trains gradually recovers after sabotage
Traffic on France's TGV high-speed trains should be back to normal by Monday after engineers worked through the night to repair sabotaged signal stations and cables. The attacks, which occurred early Friday, disrupted travel on the opening day of the Paris Olympic Games, affecting connections between Paris and major cities such as Lille, Bordeaux, and Strasbourg.
Traffic on France's high-speed rail network should be back to normal by Monday, Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete said after sabotaged signal stations and cables caused travel chaos on Friday, the opening day of the Olympic Games.
French rail operator SNCF reiterated that transport plans for teams competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics would be guaranteed.
Friday's pre-dawn attacks on the high-speed rail network damaged infrastructure along the lines connecting Paris with cities such as Lille in the north, Bordeaux in the west and Strasbourg in the east. Another attack on the Paris-Marseille line was foiled, SNCF has said.
Japan eyes steps to limit ash fall damage in event Mount Fuji erupts
The Japanese government started Friday studying measures to mitigate damage from ash falls in Tokyo and its surrounding areas in the event of a large-scale eruption of Mount Fuji, aiming to compile guidelines later this year.
An ash fall could paralyze urban infrastructure by disrupting rail networks and causing extensive power outages, and the government wants local governments and businesses to use the measures as a reference when adopting preventive steps.
"It is important to consider various possibilities, as a volcanic disaster would cause events that we have never yet experienced in our lifetimes," Toshitsugu Fujii, emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, told a meeting.
‘A point of no return:’ Why Europe has become an epicenter for anti-tourism protests this summer
Anti-tourism protests have been sweeping across Europe this summer, with demonstrations taking place in the Netherlands, Greece, and of course, Spain.
In early July, protesters marched through popular tourist areas in the Spanish city of Barcelona spraying unsuspecting visitors with water pistols while chanting “tourists go home.
And most recently, thousands protested in the Spanish island of Mallorca, with organizers claiming the island’s tourism model “impoverishes workers and enriches only a few.”
First images of Jasper after 100m high wildfire hit
Brandon Livesay
The fierce wildfire which swept through the Canadian town of Jasper in recent days melted cars to the road and turned homes to ash.
The first images of the devastation at the famous tourist town have emerged, after a 100m (328ft) firewall swept through late on Wednesday.
It has been difficult to get a sense of the scale of what happened because the fire burned out-of-control for days.
Some 25,000 people were evacuated from the town and the Jasper National Park, in Alberta.
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