Three Israelis shot dead at West Bank-Jordan crossing
Three Israeli men have been shot dead at a border point between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials say.
A gunman approached the Allenby Bridge crossing from the Jordanian side in a truck then got out and opened fire, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
Security personnel "eliminated" the gunman and the IDF checked the truck over for signs of explosives, a statement said.
Venezuela opposition leader Edmundo González leaves country for Spain
Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares said the opponent of Nicolas Maduro had left Venezuela after seeking asylum
Sun 8 Sep 2024 13.42 BST
The Venezuelan opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Edmundo González, has gone into exile in Spain, dealing a bitter blow to opponents of the country’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro.
The Spanish government said on Sunday that a Spanish air force plane carrying González and his wife had landed at the Torrejón de Ardoz military base outside Madrid
"This Is Not Our War"A Christian Town Trapped between Hezbollah and Israel
By Christoph Reuter in Rmaych, Lebanon
The hillside above the town of Rmaych provides a wonderful view out over Israel – and would be a perfect place from which to shoot across the border as well. The demarcation line between Israel and Lebanon curves around the town in a broad semicircle, Israeli military antenna towers rising in the distance. "Our location is our problem,” says Father Georges, one of the priests in Rmaych
He is standing next to an oversized cross at the peak of a rise, having driven up in his car to be on the safe side. "All warring parties are familiar with it,” he says. He wants to illustrate first-hand the topographical treachery of this Christian island in the middle of a sea of Shiite villages.
French protesters rage at ‘stolen election’ as Macron picks conservative Barnier for PM
Two months after snap parliamentary elections that threw France into political turmoil, tens of thousands of left-wing demonstrators rallied in central Paris on Saturday in protest at French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to name conservative Michel Barnier as prime minister in what they termed a “power grab” and a “stolen election”.
Two months after France's inconclusive snap elections, and just days after Michel Barnier's appointment as prime minister, the mood among demonstrators in downtown Paris on Saturday was one of rage and despair.
Amid cries of “Macron Out!, Resign Macron!” leftist demonstrators gathered in the autumn sun in their thousands to protest against French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint the veteran conservative prime minister, rather than a candidate from among their ranks.
Japanese prosthetics maker changes Paralympian lives in dramatic ways
By Eduardo Martinez
Few can take credit for changing lives in the dramatic ways prosthetist Fumio Usui has.
Some call him a pioneer, responsible for introducing sports prosthetics to Japan and later platforming several Paralympians who have gone on to achieve extraordinary things.
With the Paris Paralympics bringing a fresh surge of inclusive energy to the French capital, Usui said several prominent Japanese para athletes have put their trust in his equipment to deliver at the games, including badminton bronze medalist Daisuke Fujihara and runner Sae Tsuji.
Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion
Dima never puts out a cigarette until he smokes it right down to the filter, risking burning his fingers to squeeze out one more drag. He spent years on the Ukrainian front lines. He knows the price of a good smoke.
As a battalion commander, Dima was in charge of around 800 men who fought in some of the fiercest, bloodiest battles of the war – most recently near Pokrovsk, the strategic eastern town that is now on the brink of falling to Russia.
But with most of his troops now dead or severely injured, Dima decided he’d had enough. He quit and took another job with the military – in an office in Kyiv.
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