Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’
The 33-year-old photojournalist committed to conveying suffering of civilians with ‘rare honesty and courage’
Mon 25 Aug 2025 23.32 BST
As has now become the norm for journalists working in Gaza, Mariam Abu Dagga prepared her will despite being just 33 years old. She left behind two sets of instructions: to her colleagues, do not cry at her funeral; to her 13-year-old son, Ghaith, make her proud.
Despite her instructions, Dagga’s colleagues could not help but weep over her body on Monday. She was killed by Israel, alongside four other journalists, while rushing to check on a colleague struck by Israel in al-Nasser hospital, where she had often reported throughout the war in Gaza.
India: Ambani son investigated over private zoo
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered an investigation into Anant Ambani's business dealings related to his massive private zoo. Anant is the son of India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
The zoo, known as Vantara and run by the elder Ambani's philanthropic Reliance Foundation, presents itself as "the world's biggest wild animal rescue center."
However, critics say it is anything but, claiming that Ambani is holding illegally acquired endangered species in unsafe conditions in the western state of Gujarat and has no intention of ever returning them to the wild.
Has the US shut its ‘Five Eyes’ allies out of intelligence on Ukraine-Russia peace talks?
US media has accused Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard of refusing to share information from Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations with Washington’s closest allies – to the potential benefit of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Are cracks appearing in the West's longstanding anglosphere “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance?
Are US intelligence services withholding information from their closest allies on peace negotiations with Russia and Ukraine?
According to anonymous intelligence officials, a memo issued by Gabbard weeks ago explicitly ordered that all information on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations be withheld from US allies, US news channel CBS reported on August 22.
In the memo, the talks were reportedly classed as “NOFORN” by US intelligence, meaning no foreign dissemination. That included withholding intel from members of the “Five Eyes” alliance – a traditionally tight-knit intelligence network linking the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Iran vows reciprocal action after Australia expels ambassador
Tehran rejects Australia’s accusations, calling the move unjustified and influenced by internal political developments.
Iran has promised reciprocal action following Australia’s decision to expel its ambassador in Canberra over accusations that Tehran was behind anti-Jewish attacks in the country.
On Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei “absolutely rejected” Australia’s accusations, saying “any inappropriate and unjustified action on a diplomatic level will have a reciprocal reaction”.
Teen with mixed roots registered as foreigner by soccer club
By TAKAHIRO OGAWA/ Staff Writer
August 25, 2025 at 18:46 JST
A young soccer player of mixed heritage, who holds Japanese citizenship, fell victim to a baseless assumption when he was treated as a foreign national and asked to "naturalize" on paper by soccer officials.
The first-year junior high school student in Kochi Prefecture was registered as a foreign national by his soccer club without his knowledge, even though he has held Japanese citizenship since birth.
The club then demanded that he submit an application falsely stating that he had only recently obtained Japanese nationality.
Porepunkah shooting: Weapons stolen from fatally wounded officers, alleged offender a ‘sovereign citizen’
Cameron Houston and Carla Jaeger
Sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman is the target of a major manhunt in Victoria’s alpine region after allegedly executing two policemen and wounding a third in an ambush attack at a remote farm near Porepunkah, about 320 kilometres from Melbourne.
Freeman, who once described police as terrorist thugs and Nazis when he was arrested in 2020 for minor traffic offences, fled into dense bushland immediately after the unprovoked attack on Tuesday morning.
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