Israeli and Palestinian rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres/ The United Nations committee on torture says there is evidence that Israel is operating a "de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture". The committee regularly reviews the ...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar stands at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)/ PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The prime minister of retracted comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the ...
A gun battle and air strikes resulted in the deadliest incident of its kind for months/ At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli raid on a village in southern Syria overnight, state media reported, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind for months. It said children were among the ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the introduction of a new "mansion tax" on properties valued at £2m and over as one of the measures unveiled in her It’s estimated that around 0.4% of properties, about 145,000, according to Savills, will be affected by this extra fee, which the government ...
BBC correspondent examines footage showing moments leading up to shooting in the occupied West Bank/ Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank. The incident happened during an ongoing Israeli ...
Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, reunites with family after release from Israeli jail/ A Palestinian-American teenager who spent nine months in Israeli detention without charge has been freed. Mohammed Ibrahim was 15 when he was arrested in February in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where he was visiting ...
A worker fills a bag with wood chip biomass at Nova Pangaea Technologies, in Redcar, Britain, April 9, 2025. REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski/ LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's government watered down plans to strengthen workers' protection against unfair dismissal on Thursday, saying employees would get the ...
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Due to large amounts of rain, the city of Peoria has issued a Combined Sewer Overflow Alert for Thursday. When Peoria gets too much rainfall, the sewers overflow, and instead of that sewage going to the water treatment plant, it flows into the Illinois River, said public ...
Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia and political party. On streets, ...
A drone view of a Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding the birth of symbolic thought, social complexity and monumental architecture thousands of years before cities or states existed, near the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, Turkey, November 25, ...
