BBC Middle East Correspondent Hugo Bachega reports from Rishon LeZion, a city just outside of Tel Aviv which was hit by overnight Iran strikes. The IDF said more than 200 missiles were fired as part of the Iranian response to the large scale attacks carried out by Israel. They have urged residents to “stay alert”...
The homes of two Minnesota state lawmakers have been targeted in shootings early on Saturday morning, CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner, reported. They were the homes of State Senator John Hoffman and Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, both from the Democratic-Farmer-Labour (DFL) Party, in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, neighbouring cities near Minneapolis....
In a video statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to “Israel’s very survival”. He said that Israel had targeted Iranian scientists “working on the Iranian bomb” and that the strikes “would continue for as many days as it...
British number two Emma Raducanu speaks to BBC Sport’s Isa Guha about the importance of working with a team she trusts as she looks ahead to the grass court season. Read full article at source...
Are the Hamasholes feeling empowered yet? Sure seems like it. This is unbelievable, reading an eyewitness account and watching the aftermath of what happened. I guess it’s been a regularly scheduled, little peaceful demonstration for this group on Sundays. They show up at the pedestrian mall between these streets with their flags and Israeli signs...
Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the official police account was compromised, with sexually explicit material and false information that the president had died being posted. The police dissociated itself from the information and...
A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a suspected assassination. Police said the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong’ondo Were’s vehicle before one of them got off the motorbike and shot him at close range. “The nature of this crime...
The Colombian government says 15 police officers and 12 soldiers have been killed over the past two weeks in targeted attacks it blames on armed groups. President Gustavo Petro accused the Gulf Clan criminal gang and other armed groups of targeting members of the security forces in revenge for the recent killing of several of...
A leading Polish doctor has told the BBC she fears for her patients’ safety after being targeted by anti-abortion activists. Gizela Jagielska says she has received thousands of death threats in relation to her work administering legal abortions in a hospital in the town of Olesnica in southwestern Poland. The facility specialises in complicated pregnancies....
BBC Devon and Cornwall Police made the arrests as part of a day of targeted action against domestic abuse. More than 60 people have been arrested during a day of targeted action against domestic abuse. Devon and Cornwall Police said the operation on on 8 April saw 65 taken into custody as part of targeted...
So much for the “he criticized Democrats” narrative that formed around Cody Balmer. The arsonist targeted Josh Shapiro and his family over perceived slights to “the people of Palestine,” according to police search warrants, as well as Shapiro’s Jewish faith. The timing of the attack — on Passover — strongly suggested domestic terrorism in the...
A Cornell University graduate student who had his US visa revoked due to protest activities against Israel has chosen to leave the US rather than be deported. Momodou Taal, who is a joint citizen of the UK and The Gambia, had his student visa revoked due to his on-campus protest activities last year as the...
On Tuesday 25 March, climate crisis and anti-genocide protesters across England came together to target insurance companies complicit in death and destruction around the world. A press release from Boycott Bloody Insurance explained that: groups from the climate justice, Palestine liberation and migrants rights movements, held protests in cities across England. Protests took place in...
Yunseo Chung, a junior at Columbia University, sued U.S. President Donald Trump and other top officials in the Southern District of New York on Monday, challenging “the government’s shocking overreach in seeking to deport a college student… who is a lawful permanent resident of this country, because of her protected speech.” The 21-year-old, who moved...
The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to target free speech on college campuses and one doctoral student at Cornell University who was involved in pro-Palastinian protests on campus now finds himself targeted for deportation once again. Momodou Taal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Africana Studies at Cornell University who is a...