Israeli army operation in West Bank’s Tulkarm ‘like a smaller-scale Gaza’
The Israeli military has expanded its operation, dubbed “Iron Wall”, from the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp to Tulkram, further north in the occupied Palestinian territory. The IDF says it has found what it calls terrorist infrastructure in Tulkarm. But residents of the neighbourhood say only families live there, who are being unfairly targeted and inhumanely treated.
Under drone and sniper threat, Hussein Cheik Ali walks cautiously on a deserted dirt street, sticking close to house walls, to reach a spot where he can see the remains of his home in the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
“I want to go further, but I’m scared. They can see us, there are drones, we can hear them,” said the Tulkarm community leader.
The Tulkarm refugee camp is being targeted in the Israeli army’s ongoing operation, dubbed “Iron Wall”, in the West Bank.
Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests
Research looking at tissue from postmortems between 1997 and 2024 finds upward trend in contamination
The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study.
It found a rising trend in micro- and nanoplastics in brain tissue from dozens of postmortems carried out between 1997 and 2024. The researchers also found the tiny particles in liver and kidney samples.
The human body is widely contaminated by microplastics. They have also been found in blood, semen, breast milk, placentas and bone marrow. The impact on human health is largely unknown, but they have been linked to strokes and heart attacks.
Sweden court finds Quran burner guilty of hate crimes
Salwan Najem was fined and given a suspended sentence over staging public burnings of the Quran. The court dropped the case against fellow campaigner Salwan Momika, who was shot and killed last week.
A Swedish court gave an anti-Islam campaigner on Monday a suspended sentence and fined him, after he was found guilty of hate crimes.
Swedish citizen Salwan Najem was convicted for "having expressed contempt for the Muslim ethnic group because of their religious beliefs on four occasions," the Stockholm district court said.
Najem's fellow campaigner Salwan Momika, who was also involved in Quran-burning incidents, was shot dead last week. His shooting coincided with his scheduled verdict in a parallel case.
Ex-NPA official regrets allowing Aum cult to ‘go on the offensive’
By SHIMPACHI YOSHIDA/ Senior Staff Writer
February 3, 2025 at 15:45 JST
A bureau chief who oversaw police investigations into Aum Shinrikyo said he feels responsible for the “indecision” on a crackdown that allowed the cult to commit its deadly gas attack in Tokyo in 1995.
According to Takashi Kakimi, who was at the time director-general of the Criminal Affairs Bureau of the National Police Agency, police were planning to search Aum Shinrikyo facilities in Tokyo and the village of Kamikuisshiki in Yamanashi Prefecture as early as March 22, 1995.
But on the morning of March 20 that year, Aum Shinrikyo members released sarin nerve gas on five trains on the Hibiya, Marunouchi and Chiyoda subway lines.
As Sudan’s RSF surrounds Darfur’s el-Fasher, ethnic killings feared
Sudan’s army could lose the last major city it controls in the western region of Darfur within days to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to analysts, local monitors and RSF sources.
Observers fear this could lead to crimes against humanity by the RSF and a humanitarian catastrophe in el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state.
Ali Musabel, an RSF adviser, told Al Jazeera: “The RSF will free el-Fasher … in about 10 days.”
Pro-Russia paramilitary leader killed in Moscow blast
Laura Gozzi
The leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine has died in hospital after being injured in an explosion in Moscow on Monday morning, Russian media have said.
Armen Sargsyan, the leader of the "Arbat" battalion, was severely injured following a blast in the entrance hall of a residential building in north-west Moscow, 12km (7 miles) from the Kremlin.
He was evacuated to a hospital by helicopter and placed in intensive care after the explosion, but eventually succumbed to his injuries, according to usually reliable Telegram sources.
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