Israel recovers bodies of six Gaza hostages
Israel says its forces have recovered the bodies of six hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies were located on Saturday in an underground tunnel in the Rafah area of southern Gaza.
The IDF named the hostages as Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Master Sgt Ori Danino.
Afghan women sing in defiance of Taliban laws silencing their voices
Women push back at law stating they must not sing or read aloud in public by posting videos of themselves singing
Sun 1 Sep 2024 15.52 BST
Afghan women, both inside and outside the country, have posted videos of themselves singing in protest against the Taliban’s laws banning women’s voices in public.
Late last month the Taliban published new restrictions aimed, it said, at combating vice and promoting virtue. The 35-article document, which includes a raft of draconian laws, deems women’s voices to be potential instruments of vice and stipulates that women must not sing or read aloud in public, nor let their voices carry beyond the walls of their homes
Soup Kitchens Fight against Looming Famine
By Fritz Schaap and Sergio Ramazzotti (Photos), in Omdurman, Sudan
Even before the sun rises over the eastern bank of the Nile River, before mortar and artillery shells begin flying across the sluggish waters, Ayman al-Amin Taha steps into the soup kitchen that he runs. The chirping of birds echoes through the empty streets and the air carries the fragrance of flowering jasmine.
The soldiers at the checkpoints of Omdurman are still asleep on their cots when Taha sits down before an aluminum bowl the size of a car tire. He peels an onion it and sets it in a pot of water. An anti-aircraft gun is fired a few kilometers away.
Germany: Far-right AfD seeks gains in Saxony, Thuringia vote
Voters are going to the polls in the two eastern German states in what is seen as a barometer for the federal elections next year. Populist and far-right parties are set to do well.
Sahra Wagenknecht's new BSW party aims high in Saxony, Thuringia
The leftist, populist BSW party is set to place third in both state races, according to pre-election polls. In Thuringia, BSW hovered around 17.5%, behind the far-right AfD with 31% and the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) with 22.5%.
In Saxony, it is expected to win around 13,5%, while both the CDU and AfD are projected to claim over 30% of the vote in a close race.
Quake advisory hardly registered with residents, say governors
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 1, 2024 at 16:32 JST
The central government’s efforts to familiarize residents of Pacific coastal areas with a system that warns a megaquake might be imminent proved by and large to be a total flop.
That’s the assessment of about 40 percent of governors of prefectures that are deemed potentially at risk.
They all agreed that the government’s advance efforts were insufficient for residents to understand the first-ever Nankai Trough megaquake advisory in August, a survey by The Asahi Shimbun showed.
‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration
Trump’s running mate rants against feminism, immigrants and Ilhan Omar in a newly unearthed podcast from 2021
Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, said that professional women “choose a path to misery” when they prioritize careers over having children in a September 2021 podcast interview in which he also claimed men in America were “suppressed” in their masculinity.
The Ohio senator and vice-presidential candidate said of women like his classmates at Yale Law School that “pursuing racial or gender equity is like the value system that gives their life meaning … [but] they all find that that value system leads to misery”.
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