Israel’s top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors
Mon 3 Nov 2025 16.20 GMT
Police in Israel have arrested and detained the military’s top legal officer after she admitted leaking footage of soldiers allegedly attacking a Palestinian detainee and then in effect lying about her actions to Israel’s high court.
The military advocate general, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, said in a resignation letter last week that she had authorised publication of the video to defuse attacks on military investigators and prosecutors working on the case.
Sudan: ICC warns el-Fasher atrocities could be 'war crimes'
Dmytro Hubenko with AFP, Reuters
The Red Cross said that history is repeating itself in Sudan's Darfur region following reports of mass killings in the city of el-Fasher. The ICC said it was collecting evidence as part of its investigation into the war.
Sudan's civil war has reached a new tipping point after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of el-Fasher, the army's last stronghold in the western Darfur region, with the International Criminal Court suspecting war crimes have been committed.
The ICC prosecutor's office (OTP) voiced on Monday "profound alarm and deepest concern" over reports from el-Fasher about mass killings, rapes, and other crimes allegedly committed.
Tanzania's Hassan sworn in for new term as opposition says hundreds killed in election protests
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan was inaugurated for a new term on Monday as opponents said hundreds of people died in the violent protests following her election victory. Hassan won the presidency with 98 percent of the vote after her two main challengers were disqualified from running.
Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn into office on Monday for her first elected term after winning a landslide victory in an election that set off deadly protests across the country.
Hassan, who came to power in 2021 following the death in office of her predecessor, was declared the winner of last week's election with 97.66 percent of the vote.
Takaichi says no time to consider dissolving the Lower House
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 JST
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Nov. 1 she has no plans to dissolve the Lower House or call a snap election, saying she has more urgent issues to address first.
“It is most important to move forward with the policies we have promised, starting with economic measures,” she said at a news conference in South Korea after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. “I have no time to think about dissolution right now.”
Takaichi was elected prime minister in the Diet on Oct. 1, and her newly inaugurated Cabinet has received high initial support ratings.
The mothers who search for Mexico’s missing children
When their children disappeared, authorities failed to act, so grieving families were forced to search instead.
By Mark Viales
The mariachi band had just struck up its first ranchera when Axel grabbed his mother’s hand.
“Come on, mama!” the lanky 16-year-old shouted, spinning Daniela beneath a canopy of paper lanterns glowing in the warm night air.
Scunthorpe player and Forest fan among train attack victims
A Scunthorpe United player and a Nottingham Forest fan are among the victims stabbed in a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening. They are among 10 people injured on the train during the mass stabbing.
Footballer Jonathan Gjoshe, 22, and Forest fan Stephen Crean were travelling on a LNER train from Doncaster to London King's Cross when they were attacked at around 20:00 GMT.
Mr Crean has been hailed a hero after he confronted the train attacker, going face to face with him in the carriage.
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