AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospital
Associated Press reporting into an Israeli attack on a Gaza Strip hospital that killed 22 people, including five journalists, raises serious questions about Israel’s rationale for the strikes and the way they were carried out. Among those killed was Mariam Dagga, who worked for AP and other news organizations.
Israeli forces struck a position well known as a journalists’ gathering point, because — a military official said — they believed a camera on the roof was being used by Hamas to observe troops. The official cited “suspicious behavior” and unspecified intelligence, but the only detail given was that there was a towel on the camera and the person with it — which the army interpreted as an effort to avoid identification.
Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty row
Rayner’s departure is deeply damaging to prime minister who had initially stood by her
Fri 5 Sep 2025 14.57 BST
Angela Rayner has stood down from the government after the prime minister’s ethics adviser found she had breached the ministerial code over her underpayment of stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat.
In a huge blow to Keir Starmer, Sir Laurie Magnus found that Rayner had “acted with integrity and with a dedicated and exemplary commitment to public service” but concluded she had breached the ministerial code over her tax affairs.
Anutin Charnvirakul new Thai PM as Thaksin jets off
Thailand's parliament elected Anutin Charnvirakul as the country's new prime minister. But his victory was overshadowed by the dramatic departure of Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thailand's parliament elected Anutin Charnvirakul as the country's new prime minister on Friday.
Anutin won 311 votes, securing a comfortable majority of the 492 lawmakers in the National Assembly's lower house, official final results showed.
The tycoon-turned-politician will take up the position after Paetongtarn Shinawatra was removed from office a week ago following a court ruling.
French interior minister vows 'utmost firmness' against protesters' planned shutdown
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said Friday he does not expect large-scale protests next week but ordered police to respond firmly to a viral online campaign calling for a protest movement to "block everything". The campaign’s organisers have suggested a range of actions from blocking train stations to picketing oil refineries.
France's hardline interior minister said Friday he did not anticipate a "large-scale" response to calls for protests next week, but ordered police to "show the utmost firmness" in case of any disorder.
A viral campaign has for weeks urged French people to stage a nationwide "shutdown" next Wednesday, two days after the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou faces a confidence vote in parliament over an austerity budget standoff.
Dissenting civil servants are silenced, says UK diplomat who quit over Gaza
Mark Smith resigned last August over the UK’s failure to stop selling arms to Israel, amid the genocide in Gaza.
Mark Smith, a diplomat who quit his Foreign Office job over the UK’s refusal to stop selling arms to Israel, said civil servants who question the onslaught in Gaza are routinely silenced by their seniors.
“Thousands of conversations within the walls of the Foreign Office on the most controversial aspects of our arms sales policy will never be seen by the public [and] never be put to a court,” he said on Friday in London, at an unofficial inquiry probing alleged UK complicity in Israeli war crimes.
Trump’s undermining Europe’s new world order - much to Putin’s glee
Europe’s every move to try and force Putin into a peace deal is dogged by the US president’s flip-flopping on Russia, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
Vladimir Putin has lost no time in warning that he’d attack foreign troops stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal he has no intention of signing while Donald Trump continues to undermine Europe’s defences.
Speaking in Vladivostok, Putin - who claims Ukraine’s intent to join Nato is the reason his forces invaded - said: “If some troops appear there, especially now, during military operations, we proceed from the fact that these will be legitimate targets for destruction.”
His words came less than 24 hours after French president Emanuel Macron announced there were now 26 countries in the “coalition of the willing”, which includes the UK, who were prepared to deploy forces to Ukraine.
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