What you need to know about the latest attacks between Israel and Hezbollah
Hezbollah’s attack was anticipated, weeks in the making against Israel’s recent targeted killings, mounting concern of regional escalation.
Hezbollah and Israeli forces have exchanged attacks across the Lebanon-Israel border in a marked escalation of the tit-for-tat engagement they have been undertaking since October 7.
What exactly happened?
Israeli jets attacked southern Lebanon in the early hours of Sunday morning, saying it was a preemptive strike against Hezbollah rocket launchers that were preparing to attack Israel.
Telegram app founder Pavel Durov to appear in court after arrest in Paris
Russian-born billionaire said to have ‘miscalculated’ by visiting France during inquiry into crime on his platform
Sun 25 Aug 2024 14.51 BST
The Russian-born founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, is due to appear in a French court later on Sunday, after his arrest at a Paris airport over alleged offences related to the messaging app.
Sources told the AFP news agency that the Franco-Russian tech billionaire would appear in court after being detained by police at Le Bourget airport. French investigators had issued a warrant for Durov’s arrest as part of an inquiry into allegations of fraud, drug trafficking, organised crime, promotion of terrorism and cyberbullying.
Durov is accused of failing to take action to curb the criminal use of his platform and was stopped after arriving in Paris from Baku on his private jet on Saturday night. “Enough of Telegram’s impunity,” said one investigator who expressed surprise that Durov flew to Paris knowing he was a wanted man.
Warsaw's Palace of CultureFrom a Symbol of Oppression to a Symbol of Subversion
The Palace of Culture in Warsaw was a "gift from Stalin" to the Polish people. They hated it at first, but slowly learned to love it. The tower has now become the landmark of a self-confident city, and one of the coolest monuments in Europe.
By Nadia Pantel in Warsaw
At the very top, the palace belongs to the birds of prey. On the door leading to the tower clock hangs a sign reading: "Please remain quiet. Peregrine falcons are nesting.” So when you gaze down at Warsaw, at the high-rises and residential towers that look rather miniature despite being 20-stories tall, you must do so quietly.
It is only up here that you realize that this building isn’t just tall, it’s absurdly tall. Fully 44 floors and 230.68 meters.
Germany: Solingen attack suspect named, remanded in custody
Prosecutors have identified the Syrian man who allegedly killed three people at a festival in western Germany. He was remanded in pre-trial detention, accused of murder and links to the "Islamic State" group.
German prosecutors on Sunday released the name of the 26-year-old Syrian man suspected of a multiple stabbing attack in the western city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight others.
Issa Al H., who was identified without his family name due to German privacy laws, was flown by helicopter to the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe for his first hearing.
Al H. was remanded in custody on suspicion of murder and membership of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) group, among other charges, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said.
Reuters journalist missing after Russian strike on hotel in eastern Ukraine
A member of a Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine was missing and two colleagues were hospitalised after a Russian strike on a hotel where the news agency's group was staying in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the agency said on Sunday.
A member of the Reuters news agency was missing and two others were wounded in a strike on a hotel in the east Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the agency said Sunday, with Russian attacks killing 15 civilians across the country in the last 24 hours.
In another deadly day in the two-and-a-half year war, six civilians were also killed in Ukrainian strikes on Russian border regions, Russian officials said.
The attacks came as Kyiv mounts an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, which has rattled Moscow but not slowed its advance in eastern Ukraine.
Noda, former prime minister, to run in CDP leadership race
By NOZOMI MATSUI/ Staff Writer
August 25, 2024 at 15:41 JST
Yoshihiko Noda, a former prime minister, plans to run in the leadership contest of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan to be held next month, sources said.
Noda, 67, who currently serves as one of the party’s chief executive advisers, is expected to announce his candidacy as early as this week, the sources said.
The CDP’s leadership election is scheduled for Sept. 23. Official campaigning will start on Sept. 7.
Noda plans to call for a change in government by defeating the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the next Lower House election, the sources said.
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