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Staff Sgt Mohamed Mahdhee died while diving in the search-and-rescue operation, the Maldives government tells the BBC. Source link

Police and rescue officials said the collision sparked a fire that engulfed the bus. Source link

Nothing has worked for the 49-year-old Toronto woman, who described herself as “functionally terminal”, no longer able to work, leave the house or speak with her loved ones. She is now enrolled in a psychiatric care programme at a local hospital that, she said, is designed to support people with severe and persistent mental illness…

The Fatah faction elects top decision makers, but ordinary Palestinians feel the party and its leader are out of touch. Source link

Charges could come as soon as next week in a case reportedly focused on Cuba’s downing of two planes in 1996. Source link

The man was bitten just before 10:00 (03:00 BST) at Horseshoe Reef – north-west of the popular Rottnest Island near the city of Perth, local police said. Source link

The US president says the joint operation eliminated “the most active terrorist in the world”, Abu-Bilal al-Minuki. Source link

“Patriotic” UK anti-immigration social media accounts have been traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Source link

Asked if he thinks Ireland is antisemitic, Sears said Jewish people have experienced a “whole plethora of antisemitic incidents, language” which represents “a chronic lack of knowledge and ignorance about Jews, about antisemitism itself, about Zionism”. Source link

Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, described as “one of the architects of the October 7 massacre”, was killed in Gaza City, Israel says. Source link