What remains of Gaza City?
Images show how neighbourhoods across Gaza's largest city have been levelled in recent months.
Israel is demolishing Gaza City’s high-rise towers, flattening entire blocks that once housed thousands of people.
The Palestinian Civil Defence said at least 50 multistorey buildings have been destroyed in recent weeks as Israeli forces press their assault on the city, all amid a wave of forced displacements.
Jail for Bolsonaro by no means signals the end of his political movement
in Brasília
With widespread support at home and from Trump, his heir will take the fight to Lula in the 2026 presidential election
Four years have passed since Jair Bolsonaro laid out three possible denouements for his extraordinary political career, during which the oft-ridiculed fringe politician rose to become one of leading lights of the global populist right alongside Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump.
“Going to jail, being killed or victory,” predicted Brazil’s then president as he grappled with a deluge of political crises in August 2021.
Nepal: Death toll in anti-corruption protests rises
Midhat Fatimah AFP, Reuters
Police say the death toll during violent protests has risen to at least 51 people as the Himalayan nation seeks an interim leader.
The death toll in Nepal's youth-led anti-corruption protests that turned violent last week has risen to 51, according to the police.
"51 people have died so far this week in the protests, including at least 21 protestors and three policemen," police spokesman Binod Ghimire told Agence France-Presse news agency.
Ghimire said that nine prisoners were also among those who were killed during the protests.
‘Our voices just aren’t heard’: ‘Block Everything’ protesters meet heavy police response in Paris
Police came down hard on scattered groups of protesters trying to block critical roads and infrastructure in Paris on Wednesday to protest government austerity measures as France's fifth prime minister in under two years took office. Demonstrators said they were frustrated with successive governments that changed names and faces – but not policy.
The signal’s red, but the road is still alive with people. At the Porte de Bagnolet, one of several major interchanges between metropolitan Paris and the Boulevard Périphérique ring road that curls around the capital, a few dozen demonstrators are milling back and forth across the road. Traffic is backed up, and the drivers are furious. It’s 7:30am, and if they’re not already late for work, they soon will be. The noise of horns is unrelenting.
Hakamata sues state, says top prosecutor still implies he’s killer
By TAKAHIRO TAKIZAWA/ Staff Writer
September 12, 2025 at 14:47 JST
Former death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata has sued the government, saying a prosecutor general defamed his character after he was acquitted in a retrial that he had been fighting for decades to gain.
The lawsuit, filed with the Shizuoka District Court on Sept. 11, seeks 5.5 million yen ($37,300) in damages plus an apology to Hakamata, 89, posted on the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office website.
Nato on high alert as Russia and Belarus start military drills on Polish border
The manoeuvres come two days after the unprecedented violation of Polish airspace by Russian attack drones
Russia and Belarus have begun major joint military drills on Nato’s eastern borders, sparking fresh security concerns just days after Poland shot down Russian attack drones that entered its airspace.
The manoeuvres, known as the “Zapad 2025” drills, began on Friday and will last until Tuesday, taking place close to Nato members’ Poland, Lithuania and Latvia’s borders.
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