Israel pummels residential areas of Gaza City, kills 54 across Strip
- Entire families are being “wiped out” as Israel intensifies the bombardment of residential areas in Gaza City and makeshift encampments across the Strip, with at least 54 Palestinians killed in attacks since dawn on Thursday.
- A two-day event examining the United Kingdom’s role in Israel’s war on Gaza, hosted by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, has begun in London.
- Hamas says it is ready for the formation of an independent national administration to run Gaza and for a comprehensive truce deal, which will see all Israeli captives released.
- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office rejects Hamas’s statement, saying “the war can end immediately” on conditions set by his cabinet.
Palestinians being displaced repeatedly as Israel bombards Gaza City
The vast majority of people are internally displaced within Gaza City. They’re moving from one area to another that is less dangerous, but still within the range of Israeli military fire, the air strikes and bombardment.
Instead of issuing large-scale enforced displacement [orders] to people … [Israel’s] heavy bombardment – by heavy artillery, air strikes and drone strikes – is pushing people and residents of these areas to be displaced by erasing their neighbourhoods.
Taiwan accuses China of breaching international law over drilling
Island’s government demands halt to Chinese oil and gas operations in its exclusive economic zone
Thu 4 Sep 2025 11.41 BST
Taiwan accuses China of breaching international law over drilling
Island’s government demands halt to Chinese oil and gas operations in its exclusive economic zone
Taiwan’s government has accused China of breaching international law by drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and immediately demanded it halt the activity.
The statement from the office of Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, came after revelations first reported by the Guardian that several Chinese oil rigs and associated vessels had been detected inside Taiwan’s EEZ, near the disputed Pratas Islands, which are under Taiwanese control.
Moroccan activist sentenced to prison in blasphemy case
Hauwau Samaila Mohammed with AP, AFP
Ibtissam Lachgar was found guilty of blasphemy because of slogans on a T-shirt she wore in a selfie online. She faces 30 months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
A Moroccan court on Wednesday sentenced feminist and LGBTQ+ activist Ibtissame Lachgar to 30 months in prison for blasphemy, her lawyer Naima El Geullaf said.
Lachgar was found guilty of violating part of Morocco's criminal code that prohibits offending the monarchy or Islam.
The court sentenced Lachgar to 30 months in prison and imposed a fine of 50,000 dirhams ($5,500), said defense lawyer Mohamed Khattab.
What to know about the deadly streetcar derailment in Lisbon
At least 16 people were killed and a further five were seriously injured when Lisbon’s historic Elevador da Gloria streetcar derailed on Wednesday evening, emergency services confirmed. Portuguese authorities said the country would observe a national day of mourning on Thursday.
The derailment of a popular streetcar in Portugal's capital killed 16 people and seriously injured five others, emergency services said, in what officials are calling one of Lisbon's worst tragedies in recent memory.
Here's what to know:
Official details about the crash were still scant Thursday morning. Authorities called the derailment on Wednesday an accident, and the government said that an investigation was under way.
Asahi Shimbun wins award for breaking Japan Post scandals
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 4, 2025 at 16:08 JST
The Asahi Shimbun received the award for outstanding journalism from the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association on Sept. 3 for a series of exclusive reports exposing misconduct by Japan Post Co.
The reports, which won the news category award for fiscal 2025, detailed how Japan Post had imposed excessively high penalties on subcontractors and had failed to properly ensure that delivery drivers were sober and fit to drive.
Australian embassy issues warning after tourist drinks offering at Japanese burial site
Japanese place food and drink at graves to honour their dead
The Australian embassy in Japan issued a warning urging travellers to show cultural sensitivity following public outrage over a video showing a tourist drinking an offering left at a Japanese grave.
The footage, shot near the Aokigahara forest and posted by Instagram user Lochie Jones in August, shows him entering a cemetery in the Yamanashi prefecture and stopping near a headstone with a can of popular Japanese beer Kirin placed in front of it.
Jones says he has decided to “leave it up to chance” and flips a coin before cracking open the beer can and drinking it.
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