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Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025The Israeli army has bombed another high-rise in Gaza City after telling Palestinian residents to evacuate or face being killed amid its ongoing siege and imposed mass starvation in the enclave.The Israeli military designated more high-rise towers as targets in a map released on Saturday. Shortly after releasing the map, it bombed the 15-storey Soussi Tower, which is located opposite a building belonging to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“These attacks are causing panic amongst the people, especially considering the…

“It’s more exhausting,” says Afer, a deputy commander of the “Da Vinci Wolves”, describing how one of the best-known battalions in Ukraine has to defend against constant Russian attacks. Where once the invaders might have tried small group assaults with armoured vehicles, now the tactic is to try and sneak through on foot one by one, evading frontline Ukrainian drones, and find somewhere to hide.Under what little cover remains, survivors then try to gather a group of 10 or so and attack Ukrainian positions. It is costly – “in the last 24 hours we killed 11,” Afer says – but…

Published On 6 Sep 20256 Sep 2025Tunis, Tunisia – At 61 Station Street, downtown Tunis, volunteers are busy receiving and documenting donations for the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla – one of four organising groups of the Global Sumud Flotilla, aiming to break Israel’s siege on Gaza.The initial plan was for the boats to set sail from Tunis on Thursday. But the Tunisian boats will have to wait until the Spanish flotilla – led by, among others, the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg – that sets off from Barcelona on Monday arrives, having been delayed as a result of a storm.Recommended Stories…

There are simple Sunday afternoon pleasures to be had in the gentle comedy drama The Choral, the latest collaboration for Nicholas Hytner and Alan Bennett. Their last was 2015’s The Lady in the Van, a slight, mostly unmemorable film blessed by a spiky Maggie Smith performance but cursed with an uneven tone. Unlike that, and their previous two works together on screen, this wasn’t based on a play but it often feels like it and, at too many points, that it also maybe should have been one instead. There are moments of creaky comedy and some bluntly emotional dialogue that…

392 The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, Bernard Bediako Baidoo, has emerged winner of the parliamentary by-election held on Tuesday in Akwatia, Eastern Region of Ghana. Baidoo, a lawyer and the constituency secretary of the NDC, polled 18,199 votes out of a total of 33,516 valid votes to clinch victory. His closest rival, Solomon Kwame Asumadu of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), garnered 15,235 votes. Patrick Owusu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) finished a distant third with 82 votes. The election also recorded 303 rejected ballots. Addressing journalists after the official declaration, Baidoo expressed gratitude to the…

MIAMI — The Philadelphia Phillies invited a young fan to meet Harrison Bader following their 9-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Friday night after an apparent dispute over a home run ball hit by the center fielder during the game.Bader hit a solo home run into the left-field stands in the fourth inning at LoanDepot Park. Several fans scrambled for the ball before a man came up with it and walked over and gave it to the boy and hugged him. Both were wearing Phillies gear.Moments later, a woman, also wearing Philadelphia apparel, approached and appeared to shout at…

More than 7,000 children under the age of five were put on recovery programmes for acute malnutrition at clinics run by Unicef in Gaza in just two weeks of last month, figures reveal.The overall total for August is being compiled by Unicef but is expected to exceed 15,000 new patients, more than seven times the total in February.A famine was declared in Gaza City, in the north of the devastated territory, last month, but other towns farther south are “fast catching up”, officials from the agency said.“On the ground, it is crystal clear that people are starving, that there is…

“For my own safety I’ve become much more distrustful, I’ve shut myself off and try not to talk to certain people,” says Paul*, a young Burkinabé. “How will we go to health centres? Will doctors and nurses protect us? Or will they report us?”On 1 September, Burkina Faso’s minister of justice and human rights, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, announced an amendment to the Code of Persons and Family (CPF) which came into force in 1990, establishing for the first time a prison sentence of between two and five years and a fine for those who “promote homosexuality”.The amendment is “a historic…

Amid heightened geopolitical tensions, ongoing inflationary pressures, fluctuations in currency values, and stricter global financing conditions, the Afreximbank Group has achieved commendable results for the first half of the year (H1’2025). This performance, which surpassed that of the 2024 comparative period, reflected higher net income, a robust liquidity position, and strengthened capital buffers, positioning the Group to better fulfil its mandate across its member states in Africa and the Caribbean Community. The results released by the Bank has revealed that its gross income grew by 2.04 per cent over the comparative period, reaching US$1.6 billion for the H1’2025. Its net…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHalf-time readingShareHalf time: Arsenal 2-1 London City LionessesA cracking first half at the Emirates. London City Lionesses took the lead through Kosovare Asllani’s assured penalty, and for the first 28 minutes they looked very comfortable. Then Olivia Smith, Arsenal’s record £1m signing, whacked a glorious equaliser and the mood of the match changed. Arsenal had several chances before Chloe Kelly poked them in front just before the breka.ShareArsenal’s second goal has been coming ever since they scored their first. Fox intercepted a tired ball out of defence and slipped…