Israeli attack on Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians kills 22
The dead from the strike on Zeitoun School in Gaza City include 13 children and six women.
At least 22 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack that hit a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
The Palestinian Civil Defence agency in Gaza confirmed that Israel targeted the Zeitoun School in the eastern part of Gaza City on Saturday.
Those killed include 13 children, six women, and a three-month-old baby, the Government Media Office said in a statement, adding that Israel had committed a “horrific massacre”.
From Munich 72 to 7 October attack: the chequered history of the Mossad
Hezbollah device blasts add to reputation for audacious espionage, but Israeli spy agency has had numerous failure
Sat 21 Sep 2024 05.00 BST
Israel’s foreign intelligence service, usually known as the Mossad, has scored many spectacular victories in almost 80 years of undercover operations, earning a unique reputation for audacious espionage and ruthless violence.
But even former agents admit the service’s history is “chequered” with many failures that have embarrassed Israel, dismayed allies and led to accusations of systematic disregard for international law.
Israel has not formally commented on this week’s simultaneous explosion of thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon that killed 37 people and injured about 3,000 others. The consensus among experts is that the Mossad, an abbreviation of the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations in Hebrew, was responsible.
New Zealand pilot freed in Indonesia's West Papua
A pilot from New Zealand who was being held captive in the restive Indonesian region of West Papua has been freed. Phillip Mehrtens was kidnapped more than a year and a half ago.
Indonesian police on Saturday said insurgents in the region of West Papua had released New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens from captivity more than a year and a half after he was kidnapped.
Mehrtens had been working for Indonesian airline Susi Air when he was taken by rebels at Nduga airport on February 7 last year.
Polls close in Sri Lanka's first election since economic collapse
Sri Lankans voted on Saturday in the country's first presidential election since its economic collapse, with the unpopular IMF austerity plan at the forefront of voters' minds. President Ranil Wickremesinghe faces tough opposition as his economic reforms, though stabilising the nation, have caused widespread hardship, fuelling support for candidates advocating political change.
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka concluded its voting for the next president on Saturday, marking an effective referendum on the unpopular International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity plan introduced after the country’s unprecedented financial crisis.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is battling for a fresh mandate to continue the belt-tightening measures that have stabilised the economy but led to food, fuel, and medicine shortages, leaving millions struggling.
Hack of Hezbollah devices exposes dark corners of Asia supply chains
The lethal hack of Hezbollah's Asian-branded pagers and walkie-talkies has sparked an intense search for the devices' path, revealing a murky market for older technologies where buyers may have few assurances about what they are getting.
While supply chains and distribution channels for higher-margin and newer products are tightly managed, that's not the case for older electronics from Asia where counterfeiting, surplus inventories and complex contract manufacturing deals can sometimes make it impossible to identify the source of a product, analysts and consultants say.
The response from the companies at the center of the booby-trapped gadgets that killed 37 people and wounded about 3,000 in Lebanon this week has underlined difficulties in discerning how and when they were weaponised.
'A tipping point': Why Chappell Roan and other stars are taking on toxic fans
In just eight months, Chappell Roan has gone from being a relative unknown to suddenly topping charts as one of the biggest new pop stars on the planet.
But as the Missouri-born 26-year-old concludes a sold-out UK tour, the dark matter of mega-fame, and its invasive superfandom, threatens to cast a shadow over her success.
In August, she posted two TikToks, now collectively viewed over 30 million times, calling out the "creepy behaviour" she's experienced and telling fans to respect her boundaries.
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