A car bomb attack in Pakistan has killed at least 13 soldiers and injured civilians. Pakistani officials said a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a military convoy in the north-western tribal region of North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan, on Saturday. Pakistan alleged that the militants behind the attack were...
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli drone strike targeted a Hamas police unit attempting to assert control over a market in the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, a doctor and eyewitnesses told the BBC. Eyewitnesses said Israeli drones fired at members of a Hamas police force, dressed in civilian...
At least 20 people have been killed and 52 others wounded in a suicide bombing at a church on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria’s interior ministry has said. The attacker entered Mar Elias Church in Dweila during a service and opened fire with a weapon before detonating an explosive vest, the ministry said in a...
Israeli forces have killed 23 Palestinians after opening fire on crowds who had gathered near an aid distribution site, witnesses and medics say. Tanks and drones fired at thousands of people near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the witnesses and medics said. A...
Star Wars has always been political. George Lucas’ 1977 masterpiece and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, were all saturated with political allegory and overt themes of rebellion, anti-fascism, and warnings about the dangers of authoritarianism. Lucas ascended the film industry alongside a generation of filmmakers deeply influenced by two...
A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province on Tuesday around noon, killing at least five people and injuring 19 others. Footage circulating online shows thick columns of black smoke rising from the site. More than 200 emergency workers were dispatched to Shandong Youdao Chemical factory, which according to its website...
Getty Images Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says. Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar’s children and...
A Royal Bengal tiger was killed and dismembered by a mob in India’s north eastern state of Assam, a forest official has said. Angry residents from a village in the Golaghat district reportedly took the step because the tiger had killed livestock in the area and posed a threat to their lives. The state’s forest...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News X/@ClaraBrugadaM A gunman has shot dead two top aides of the mayor of Mexico City, Clara Brugada. The mayor’s private secretary, Ximena Guzmán, and Brugada’s adviser, José Muñoz, were killed on their way to work on Tuesday morning local time. Witnesses said an armed man first opened fire on Guzmán, who...
An Israeli air strike has killed at least six people and injured dozens at the European Gaza hospital in Khan Younis, local officials have said. Israeli warplanes dropped six bombs simultaneously on the hospital, hitting both its inner courtyard and surrounding area, according to local sources. The Israeli military said it had conducted a “precise...
Getty Images Thick black smoke was still towering above the port on Sunday In Iran, mourning is turning to anger after a huge blast at its largest commercial port killed at least 40 people and injured more than 1,000. The explosion happened on Saturday morning at Shahid Rajaee port. Many people rushed to hospitals up...
Six police officers have been killed in Thailand after their plane crashed into the sea during a test flight for parachute training, police have said. The small plane was seen crashing into the water at around 08:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Friday in the Cha-am district, a coastal resort area some 130km (80 miles)...
Surprisingly, this spin on a story ranks only #2 in the rankings this week. #1 I wrote about yesterday, in which I learned that Trump was responsible for the heart attack of an obese Social Security employee with chronic heart disease and hypertension because he didn’t respect her enough. But this spin is about as insane. LA...
At least 29 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential building in the east of Gaza City, a local hospital says. The Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said warplanes targeted the area near al-Hawashi mosque in the Shejaiya neighbourhood on Tuesday morning. It said more than 40 people were wounded and...
Twenty people have been killed in a fire at a nursing home in north-east China, state media report. The blaze in Chengde city, Hebei province, broke out on Tuesday night local time and was extinguished in about two hours. Nineteen people survived the fire and were taken to hospital for observation, reports say. Authorities are...