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…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation to join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. A statement from his office said Netanyahu would become a member of the board “which is to be comprised of world leaders”. The board was originally thought to be aimed at helping end the two-year war between…
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…
Aviation safety campaigners in the United States say they have evidence a plane that crashed in India last year had previously suffered a series of technical failures, including an in-flight fire. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed on 12 June, shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London, killing 260 people. The Foundation for…
UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan yesterday received his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa’ar in Abu Dhabi, the official WAM news agency reported, as the occupation state continues its genocidal bombing of Gaza and destruction of the occupied West Bank. According to WAM, the officials discussed the growing bilateral relations between the two…