UN calls for de-escalation as Israeli West Bank raids continue
Alex SmithBBC News
Five more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in a second day of raids in the occupied West Bank, with the UN calling for de-escalation.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were "five terrorists who had hidden inside a mosque" in Tulkarm, near the boundary with Israel.
Israel began what it said was a major counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank on Wednesday. There have been conflicting death tolls as the operation unfolded across multiple cities.
Two Stand News journalists in Hong Kong found guilty of sedition
Chris Patten condemns ‘dark day for press freedom’ as Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam convicted over 11 articles
Thu 29 Aug 2024 13.04 BST
Two journalists from the closed Hong Kong media outlet Stand News have been found guilty of conspiring to publish seditious materials – the first such convictions since Hong Kong’s return to Chinese control – after a trial that was closely observed as a bellwether for the city’s diminishing press freedom.
The former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam were arrested on 29 December 2021 after police raided the outlet’s newsroom.
Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, said the verdicts marked “a dark day for press freedom” in Hong Kong.
Ukraine updates: Air defense repel another Russian attack
Ukraine's air force said it destroyed 60 of 74 Russian attack drones and two of three missiles launched overnight. Meanwhile, EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war. DW has more.
Russia not ready to end war with Ukraine, says Polish FM
Russia is not ready for peace talks with Ukraine because it continues to demand that Ukraine give up large parts of its territory, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.
"Russia continues to demand Ukraine's capitulation, and as long as that is the case, Ukraine will not accept it," Sikorski told the PAP news agency.
He was responding to an announcement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he would present a new peace plan before the US elections in November.
Paraguay's abundant hydropower draws crypto miners, legal and not
In the Paraguayan city of Hernandarias, a data center with row upon row of supercomputers stands as a testament to a burgeoning crypto mining sector fueled by the South American country's abundance of green electricity.
Run purely on renewable power, the soccer field-sized site was erected by local company Penguin Group near the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant, one of the world's largest, on the Parana river.
Landlocked Paraguay, whose economy is driven by agriculture, is home to three hydropower plants.
This has helped attract more than 60 crypto mining sites in the last three years alone -- representing more than $1.1 billion in investments, Penguin spokesman Bruno Vaccotti told AFP.
Typhoon No. 10 makes landfall in Kyushu on a northeast path
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 29, 2024 at 17:03 JST
Powerful Typhoon No. 10 made landfall near Satsuma-Sendai in Kagoshima Prefecture around 8 a.m. on Aug. 29, prompting widespread evacuation orders and disaster-related warnings.
Strong gusts of wind were reported in Miyazaki Prefecture and a linear rainband formed in Oita Prefecture.
The slow-moving typhoon, also known as Shanshan, is expected to remain over the main island of Kyushu until the following morning, bringing torrential rain and strong winds, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
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