‘We pray a visa comes before death’: Gaza’s injured children left in limbo
Mariam, Nasser and Ahmed were evacuated from the warzone but are now stranded in an Egyptian hospital that cannot treat their life-threatening injuries after Trump’s sudden ban on Palestinians entering the US
Mariam Sabbah had been fast asleep, huddled under a blanket with her siblings, when an Israeli missile tore through her home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, in the early hours of 1 March.
The missile narrowly missed the sleeping children but as the terrified nine-year-old ran to her parents, a second one hit. “I saw her coming towards me but suddenly there was another explosion and she vanished into the smoke,” says her mother, Fatma Salman.
How Trump tariffs are lowering food prices in Brazil, Mexico
Tobias Käufer in Rio de Janeiro
US tariff policy is having unexpected consequences for consumers — in some places. Coffee is becoming cheaper in Brazil, and in Mexico tomatoes are less expensive. US shoppers, meanwhile, are facing rising grocery bills.
Customers at a supermarket on Avenida Rua Bolivar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are positively surprised at the price changes they've been experiencing over the past few weeks, as they are now paying significantly less for coffee and meat, for example.
"Finally, some good news in these difficult times," says shopper Julienne Freitas, while speaking with DW.
Zelensky visits troops on frontline positions in eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday that he had visited troops in the frontline Donetsk region, where Ukrainian forces are resisting multiple Russian offensives.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met troops in the eastern Donetsk region on Thursday and announced his army had pushed back some of the advances Russia made over the summer.
The Ukrainian leader said his troops had reclaimed areas of land near the eastern coal mining town of Dobropillia, where Russia pierced Ukraine's defences in August.
Film on Japan's controversial WWII biological warfare unit opens in China
A movie telling the story of the Imperial Japanese Army's notorious Unit 731 was released in China on Thursday, the 94th anniversary of the Mukden Incident near Shenyang that led to Japan's occupation of the nation's northeast through 1945.
The film "Evil Unbound" is one of several war-themed works that have been screened in China this year, which marks 80 years since Japan's defeat in World War II.
Its release, which had been postponed from the original date of July 31, came after Beijing on Sept. 3 celebrated its victory in what it calls the 1937-1945 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. China staged a massive military parade in the capital's Tiananmen Square to mark the occasion.
Israel’s far-right finance minister suggests a real estate ‘bonanza’ in Gaza will follow the war
Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has described Gaza as a potential real estate “bonanza” and claimed he was talking to the United States about how to divide up the war-torn enclave.
Speaking at the Urban Renewal Summit in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the far-right minister said that Israel and the US had “paid a lot of money for the war, so we need to share percentages on the land sales in Gaza.”
Smotrich also said he had already started negotiations with the US on how to divide Gaza, claiming there was a business plan on the matter sitting “on President (Donald) Trump’s desk.”
Cancelling Jimmy Kimmel reveals the crude truth about Trump’s definition of free speech
Instead of leaping to the defence of those who seek to speak without fear or favour, the president of the United States is revelling in their demise, says Simon Walters
Nothing reveals Donald Trump’s double standards on free speech more emphatically than the way the Jimmy Kimmel TV show in America has been taken off air.
Talk show host Kimmel was dropped after accusing the “Maga gang of trying to score political points” off the murder of Charlie Kirk and mocking Trump’s reaction to it as “how a four-year-old mourns the death of a goldfish”. You can question Kimmel’s sense of taste, but you would expect a champion of free speech to leap to his defence.
Trump has done the opposite and even took time out during his state visit to Britain to post his approval of Kimmel’s silencing on his Truth Social platform.
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