Israel bombing, ground invasion of Gaza amplify with 43 killed
By Usaid Siddiqui and Faisal Ali
- At least 43 Palestinians have been killed since dawn in Israeli military strikes on central and southern Gaza, including children among 11 dead in az-Zawayda after their family home was destroyed.
- Spain and Italy are deploying navy vessels after activists in a flotilla seeking to break Israel’s sea blockade of Gaza said some boats were attacked by drones south of Greece.
- A drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli city of Eilat in a rare breach of Israel’s sophisticated missile defence systems.
1 million in harm’s way in Gaza City facing Israeli attacks, widespread hunger
As diplomatic efforts continue to falter, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have left Gaza City in the northern part of the territory, while nearly one million more have hesitated because of danger from Israeli attacks and widespread hunger.
“We moved to the western area near the beach, but many families didn’t have the time. Tanks took them by surprise,” said Thaer, 35, a father of one from Tal al-Hawa, a suburb of Gaza City.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
Thu 25 Sep 2025 16.03 BST
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.
Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said.
India imposes curfew in Ladakh after deadly clashes
Restrictions have been placed in the remote Indian region of Ladakh on Thursday following the deaths of four protesters.
The two main districts in Ladakh's Leh and Kargil have seen a ban on groups of more than five people assembling and a curfew has also been put in place.
It comes after protesters clashed with police on Wednesday as they called for greater autonomy for the Himalayan territory from the Indian government.
French jihadist who claimed 2016 Nice attack to be tried in Iraq, source says
Adrien Guihal, who claimed the 2016 Nice attack for the Islamic State group, will be tried in Iraq alongside 46 other French nationals recently transferred from Syria, a source close to the investigation said.
"Adrien Guihal, known as Abu Osama al-Faransi, is still under investigation," said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to speak to the media.
Guihal "was brought to Iraq two months ago with another 46 French nationals that will be tried here", the source added.
Three ways the unauthorized U.S. Department of Homeland Security Pokémon video makes no sense
We just saw anime show up in a question on long-running American quiz show Jeopardy, and now comes an even more unexpected appearance, as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has posted a video of interspersing clips from the Pokémon anime and footage of the department’s agents making arrests, all set to the English-language Pokémon theme song, which can be seen here.
And much like how there are many facets to the Pokémon media franchise, there are multiple aspects to the stupidity here. Let’s take a look at them one by one.
-- To start with, the Department of Homeland Security is a governmental organization tasked with anti-terrorism, civil defense, and border control activities. The forcefulness with which it carries out those duties is, to put it mildly, a topic of some debate within the U.S.
Putin may be a ‘paper tiger’ – but there’s a reason why he’s got Nato worried
Trump has called out the Kremlin’s war machine and has put his finger on what some call ‘Russophrenia’ – the belief that Russia is about to implode militarily and economically. But Putin still has a masterplan that shouldn’t be underestimated, warns Owen Matthews
Is Putin gearing up his war machine to attack Europe once he’s defeated Ukraine? Or is Russia, in fact, as Donald Trump wrote this week, “a paper tiger”? In his strongest-worded condemnation of Putin yet, Trump this week attacked Russia for “fighting aimlessly for three and a half years in a war that should have taken a real military power less than a week to win”. Trump added that “Putin and Russia are in BIG economic trouble” and claimed that Russians are finding it “almost impossible to get gasoline”.
In calling out the Kremlin’s failure to defeat Ukraine – a country with a quarter of Russia’s population and an economy 10 times smaller – Trump has put his finger on what some analysts call “Russophrenia”. This is the paradoxical belief that Russia is collapsing economically and militarily and is about to implode – but simultaneously also represents a deadly strategic threat to the Baltics and Nato. Logically, both cannot be true at the same time.
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