Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention
Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep
Mon 6 Oct 2025 15.07 BST
Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention
Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep
International activists, journalists and lawyers deported from Israel after attempting to breach the 16-year maritime blockade of Gaza as part of a humanitarian flotilla have alleged being subjected to brutal physical and verbal abuse by Israeli forces during their detention.
The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults and being made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.
Iranian court acquits French-German national Lennart Monterlos charged with 'espionage'
An Iranian court on Monday acquitted French-German national Lennart Monterlos who had been arrested and accused of espionage in June while cycling alone across Iran. The 19-year-old was on a Europe-to-Asia bike trip and detained during the 12-day war between Tehran and Israel.
An Iranian court on Monday announced the acquittal of Lennart Monterlos, a French-German national accused of espionage and arrested in June during the war between Iran and Israel.
The decision followed an earlier announcement by Tehran that it hopes for the imminent release of a French couple detained in Tehran since 2022 in exchange for the release of an Iranian woman arrested in France.
France’s new prime minister resigns after less than a month in the job
French president Emmanuel Macron has accepted his resignation
France’s new prime minister resigned on Monday after less than one month in the role.
Sebastien Lecornu, 39, met with president Emmanuel Macron, who accepted his resignation, the French presidency said in a statement.
Speaking on the steps of the Hotel de Matignon on Monday, he said: “You cannot be prime minister when the conditions are not met.”
North Darfur displacement worsens as Sudan paramilitary tightens siege
Population in the besieged city of el-Fasher has plummeted by 62 percent as RSF attacks intensify, marking one of the worst humanitarian crises triggered by the vicious civil war.
By Faisal Ali
Displacement has surged in el-Fasher as paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensified attacks on North Darfur’s capital, according to a United Nations report.
More than one million people have fled el-Fasher since the start of Sudan’s civil war, with the exodus dramatically accelerating as the RSF has increased attacks following its loss of control of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, earlier this year, according to data published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Sunday.
The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 6, 2025 at 18:45 JST
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
Peripheral immune tolerance is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own tissues instead of foreign invaders.
The award is the first of the 2025 Nobel Prize announcements and was announced by a panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Eswatini confirms arrival of 10 more people as part of US deportation deal
African kingdom receives second group of third-country nationals in what NGOs and lawyers say is violation of human rights
Mon 6 Oct 2025 13.44 BST
Eswatini confirms arrival of 10 more people as part of US deportation deal
African kingdom receives second group of third-country nationals in what NGOs and lawyers say is violation of human rights
Ten people deported by the US have arrived in Eswatini, its government said, the second group of third-country deportees to be sent to the southern African kingdom by the Trump administration in what lawyers and NGOs have described as violations of their human rights.
A statement by the Eswatini government posted on social media before their arrival on Monday said: “The individuals will be kept in a secured area separate from the public, while arrangements are made for their return to their countries of origin.”
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