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Curacao earn first World Cup point as inspired Room keeps Ecuador outCuracao win their first-ever World Cup point as goalkeeper Eloy Room earns them a draw with Ecuador.
AFP via Getty ImagesMona Khalil, seen here in 2002, dedicated much of her life to protecting endangered turtles along Lebanon’s south coastLebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean’s most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being wounded in an Israeli strike.Khalil, 76, was injured when her house on Mansouri beach, near the southern city of Tyre, was hit during Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon two weeks ago.She died on Friday after several days in hospital, according to a local environmental group.Her…
AFP via Getty ImagesEscalating violence has marked Colombia’s presidential campaign”My brother was murdered for not paying an extortion payment…in front of his children,” Edilma Martinez Flores said at a support centre for displaced people in Bogotá.She fled her home on the outskirts of Cali, in the south-west, after armed criminal groups handed out leaflets ordering residents to leave or face violence.”We had no choice but to leave our things behind. They started placing bombs along the routes people travel.”Edilma is far from alone, and experiences like hers are why insecurity is dominating voters’ minds in Sunday’s key presidential election.It isn’t…
PA MediaThe King, seen at Royal Ascot this week, will publish how much tax he paysKing Charles will become Britain’s first monarch in modern times to reveal his personal tax bill.His tax payments will be shared on Thursday as a new element in the annual royal financial accounts, with the decision said by Palace sources to have been a personal one by the King. Buckingham Palace says the move is part of a modernising drive for greater transparency and to “encourage wider understanding of our accountability”.It also follows calls for more openness with regard to royal finances following scandals surrounding…
Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty ImagesVictims are brought to Al-Shifa Hospital for funeral procedures in Gaza CityIsraeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and at least one child, according to health officials and rescuers.Al Jazeera said it “strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing” of its correspondent Ahmed Wishah, who was killed in a strike on a central Gaza home on Saturday.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused Wishah of being “a terrorist in Hamas’ military wing who served as a sniper operative”.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures the…
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The man was seen striking the windows of a green shopfrontFive men have been injured in a series of suspected anti-Muslim attacks as a bare-chested man was seen roaming the streets of Edinburgh with a large weapon.The BBC understands the attacks began near a mosque in the west of the city, where two men were injured, on Friday night.Footage posted on social media appears to show the same man vandalising a petrol station and battering the door of a pizzeria several miles away on Leith Walk before being held on the ground by police.A 36-year-old white man has been arrested…
‘Like a bomb explosion’: Bedford train passenger describes crashTwenty-eight people remain in hospital – nine of them in a critical condition – after a train crash near Bedford, police have said.A train driver was killed and 100 people injured when two East Midlands Railway (EMR) services to London St Pancras collided at 17:15 BST on Friday.Eleven people were very seriously injured, a further 32 were described as injured and 57 had minor injuries, East of England Ambulance Service confirmed.Speaking near the scene on Saturday, Chief Constable Lucy D’Orsi of British Transport Police (BTP) said the crash was being investigated and…
EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockThe Polish Order of the White Eagle was bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then-President Andrzej DudaUkraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has returned Poland’s highest honour after his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki said he was stripping him of the award.The Polish Order of the White Eagle was bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then-President Andrzej Duda.But Kyiv caused outrage last month after renaming a Ukrainian army unit after a group of controversial World War Two fighters called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).Three senior Ukrainian officials have also said they are returning awards bestowed by Poland, to show solidarity with…
BBC sees destroyed villages in Israeli-occupied southern LebanonTravelling with a humanitarian convoy, BBC’s Hugo Bachega has been given rare access to a part of Lebanon under Israeli occupation.37 mins agoMiddle East