Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter Getty Images US President Donald Trump appeared on course for a setback at America’s top court on Wednesday over his unprecedented move to fire a central bank governor. Supreme Court justices from the left and right asked why they should speed through such an impactful decision, citing concerns about process and implications…
It was with some surprise that I read the letter to the Financial Times signed by 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BOD) attacking Israel’s continued war against the Palestinians in Gaza. Although they make up only one in eight of the total number of deputies, it was refreshing to see…
Three Palestinian journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza, first responders say. Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said their car was hit in the al-Zahra area and named them as Mohammed Salah Qeshta, Anas Ghunaim and Abdul Raouf Shaath. They are understood to have been working for an Egyptian relief organisation….
Israel’s Supreme Court today ordered far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to respond within six days to petitions demanding his dismissal. Israeli human rights groups accuse Ben-Gvir of interfering in operational police matters and have called for his dismissal. The extremist minister, however, argues that the police force falls under his authority as national security…
Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, researchers say, to create a claw-like motif which indicates an early leap in symbolic imagination. The painting has…
Five Palestinian children were killed yesterday in Israeli air strikes on tents sheltering displaced people in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, a desolate coastal area in southern Gaza designated a “humanitarian safe zone” by the Israeli occupation military, Anadolu reported. A medical source told the news wire that ten others, most of them children, were…
James Waterhousein Córdoba, Spain BBC/Moose Campbell Yamilei’s brother-in-law Victor was among the victims of Sunday night’s crash Eduardo Morán, a doctor at Córdoba’s Reina Sofía Hospital, suspected it was serious. He and his wife, also a medic, had been asked to head to work after reports that two high speed trains had collided nearby. “We…
The 77th anniversary of the Zionist usurpation of the land of Palestine will be celebrated as “Independence Day” in the occupation state in a couple of weeks. This is based on the myth of national liberation from British colonialism and the establishment of an independent state that successive Jewish generations dreamt of. The Zionists will…
Merlyn Thomas,correspondent, BBC Verify, Shayan Sardarizadeh,senior journalist, BBC Verifyand Ghoncheh Habibiazad,senior journalist BBC Warning: this story contains graphic content which some readers might find distressing Hundreds of photos revealing the faces of those killed during Iran’s violent crackdown on anti-government protests have been leaked to BBC Verify. The pictures, which are too graphic to show…
At least 52,495 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, Anadolu reports. A ministry statement said that 77 people were killed in Israeli attacks in the enclave in the last 48 hours, while 275 others were injured, taking the number of injuries to 118,366 in…