Pauses in fighting only taking place in central areas
The pauses in the fighting are only limited to areas where a polio vaccination campaign is running and taking place in the central areas. In other parts of the Gaza Strip, there are still active war zones as the Israeli military continues with its air strikes.
So far, just in the past 24 hours, 26 people have reportedly been killed.
That’s only the number that’s being collected and identified by health facilities and officials in the northern and southern parts of the Strip.
Top Russian physicist jailed for 15 years for ‘state treason’
Sentencing of Alexander Shiplyuk is latest prison term for scientists working on military programmes
Tue 3 Sep 2024 13.01 BST
A prominent Russian physicist has been sentenced to 15 years on treason charges in the latest prison term for a scientist working on the country’s hypersonic missile programme.
The Moscow city court found Alexander Shiplyuk, the 57-year-old director of a top Siberian science institute, guilty of “state treason” on Tuesday after a trial held behind closed doors.
More than a dozen senior Russian scientists have been arrested in recent years, at least three of whom, including Shiplyuk, were working at the prestigious Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, in Novosibirsk, Siberia’s largest city and a major scientific hub.
Only one country in the world apart from the Vatican bans divorce. Meet the women calling for that to change
Filipino women are challenging the Catholic Church and a conservative lobby to demand legal freedom from abusive or unhappy marriages. They tell their stories to Maroosha Muzaffar
It took some time for Mavi Veratta Millora to realise that her marriage was not a fairytale. In the end, it turned out to be quite the opposite – her husband, she says, was unemployed and unfaithful, and the effort to keep her home running left her exhausted.
“I had to kick him out of our lives because it had become unhealthy and toxic for our children,” Millora tells The Independent from Manila, Philippines. Her four children, having grown up in a conflicted household, encouraged her to leave the marriage. Her eldest was 16 or 17 years old at the time, she recalls.
After years of emotional turmoil, she decided to separate from her husband. It has been almost 12 years since. Her children have grown up. She has regained her strength and is doing much better in life. But the man legally remains her husband and can still stake claim to the family property.
Ugandan Olympian set on fire in domestic assault
Rebecca Cheptegei, who finished 44th in the Olympic marathon in Paris, suffered severe burns after allegedly being doused with petrol by her partner. Domestic violence against women remains a serious problem in Kenya.
A Ugandan marathon runner who competed in the Olympic Games in Paris last month has been hospitalized in neighboring Kenya after reportedly being the victim of a brutal domestic assault.
Kenyan police said that Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, had been doused in petrol and set alight by her Kenyan partner Dickson Ndiema Marangach, suffering burns to 75% of her body.
Marangach had reportedly entered Cheptegei's home in home in Kenya's western Trans-Nzoia county at around 2:00 pm on Sunday while she and her children were at church, before attacking her when she returned.
Haitians risk perilous mountain crossing to avoid capital’s armed gangs
Travelling on horseback, by motorbike or on foot, Haitians are being forced to scale a perilous mountain path in order to get out of the country’s capital Port-au-Prince without encountering the dangerous armed gangs that have seized control of vast swathes of the city.
Fifty killed in Russian attack on Ukraine military centre, with 15 trapped
Number killed rises to 51
Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russian editor at BBC Monitoring
Following that update from the regional leader, the Ukrainian prosecutor-general's office now says the number killed has risen to 51.
Summary
At least 49 people have been killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, Ukraine's defence ministry says, with 219 injured
The regional head says 18 are still trapped under the rubble
Earlier, President Zelensky said two missiles hit the Institute of Communications, which is a military institute in the city, and a hospital
Ukraine denies Russian reports that the missiles hit a military parade at the institute
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