Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians
Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimates
Thu 7 Aug 2025 05.00 BST
More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict.
A Guardian investigation into the 72-hour attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on North Darfur’s Zamzam camp, the country’s largest for people displaced by the war, found repeated testimony of mass executions and large-scale abductions. Hundreds of civilians remain unaccounted for.
‘Banksying’ is the cruel new dating trend you need to know about (and avoid at all costs)
The digital world has rendered dating almost obsolete for younger generations – now it’s a toxic game played behind enemy lines, finds Chloe Combi. And there are bleak consequences for all involved
Recently, I watched a few episodes of Sex and the City with teenagers. There were obvious revelations in the room: the girls were baffled as to why someone would choose to walk around a city in vertiginous heels, for example; as generations before them have been, they were of course stumped by Carrie Bradshaw’s confounding finances. But the biggest eye-opener – at least for me – was the stark (and, sometimes, downright cruel) differences in dating.
Because, while dating – and, along with it, investment and effort made in the pursuit of love – used to be necessary, for Gen Z and, soon, Gen A, dating has become more or less obsolete.
Bavarian police arrest far-right Reichsbürger suspects
Richard Connor with AFP, dpa
Police have arrested three suspected Reichsbürger members accused of plotting to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order. The arrests follow early-morning raids in three states.
Three people suspected of belonging to the far-right "Reichsbürger" group have been arrested, the Bavarian state criminal police in southern Germany said Thursday.
Authorities accuse the suspects of being members of a terrorist organization that aimed to violently overthrow Germany's constitutional order.
French wildfires reignite debate over vanishing 'fire break' vineyards
As wildfires rip through southern France's Aude region, winemakers and farmers are blaming their rapid spread on the loss of moisture-rich vineyards that once acted as natural firebreaks, sparking fresh calls to preserve them as climate change fuels increasingly intense, frequent fires.
In southern France's sun-seared Aude region, farmers have been reluctantly digging up vines, spurred on by declining wine consumption and state subsidies, removing a natural, moisture-filled brake against wildfires.
The loss of vineyards – nearly 5,000 hectares in Aude in the past 12 months alone – and its impact have been laid bare this week as the biggest wildfire in France since 1949 sweeps through the region, fanned by strong winds and parched vegetation.
On Thursday, around 2,000 firefighters battled to control a blaze that has burned an area bigger than Paris, scorching homes, forest and farmland, and killing one person.
‘Palestinian Pele’ Suleiman al-Obeid killed while seeking aid in Gaza
Al-Obeid was known as the ‘Pele of Palestinian football’ and became one of its brightest stars.
Palestinian national football team player Suleiman al-Obeid has been killed in an Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza.
Al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday when Israeli forces attacked people waiting near an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the Palestinian Football Association said.
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