GAZA — Alaa Abu Hatab had gone out to buy bread for dinner and sweets and toys for the Eid holiday when his house in a Gaza refugee camp was struck by the Israel Defense Forces on May 15, killing almost his entire family, including his wife and four sons.
“I lost all my family, but my daughter, Maria, survived,” said 34-year-old Abu Hatab, whose house was located in Shati, or Beach Camp, just north of Gaza City. His sister and her four children were also killed in the airstrike.
From the New York Post:
They’re young, hot and ready for war.
Members of the Israel Defense Forces are posting “thirst traps” on TikTok amid the nation’s conflict with Hamas — and experts say it’s part of a larger strategy to garner support and spread nationalism as the social media masses flock to support Palestinians, Rolling Stone reported.
From Reuters:
President Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated an imposing new mosque in Istanbul on Friday, fulfilling a decades-old goal and stamping a religious identity on the landmark Taksim Square in the heart of Turkey's largest city.
Also from Reuters:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which opponents and the West say was marked by fraud.
Assad’s government says the election on Wednesday shows Syria is functioning normally despite the decade-old conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and driven 11 million people - about half the population - from their homes.
From the BBC:
Boris Johnson acted "unwisely" by not being more "rigorous" in finding out who had funded refurbishment work on the Downing Street flat, a report says.
Lord Geidt, the PM's adviser on standards, said a Tory donor had paid an invoice for some of the costs.
From CNBC:
KEY POINTS
- The mine was stealing thousands of pounds worth of electricity from the mains supply, police said.
- Police searched the unit on May 18 on the back of intelligence that led them to believe it was being used as a cannabis farm.
- These are all “classic signs” of a cannabis farm, police said. However, officers found a bank of around 100 computers and zero cannabis on entering the building.
From Newsweek:
A woman has died after she was "dropped" on the operating theater floor following surgery, according to her husband.
Jeannette Shields, 70, broke her hip while she was at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, North West England, where she was being treated for gall stones, BBC News reported. While she was in the hospital she buzzed for help to go to the restroom, but went by herself when she got no answer, and she fell and broke her hip after she got dizzy, her husband, John Shields, told the broadcaster.
From Reuters:
A radicalised French ex-prisoner on a watch list of potential terrorist threats stabbed a policewoman inside her station in western France on Friday before being killed in a shoot-out with police, a government minister said.
The victim was seriously wounded but expected to survive, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
The assailant had been released from prison in March following an eight-year sentence for violent crime and was on a security services register for individuals who might pose a terrorism risk.
From NPR:
BERLIN – Germany is formally recognizing that its killing of tens of thousands of people belonging to two ethnic groups more than a century ago in present-day Namibia was a genocide.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced the recognition on Friday, saying "in light of Germany's historical and moral responsibility, we will ask Namibia and the descendants of the victims for forgiveness."
From MSN:
The remains of 215 Indigenous children have been found buried at a former residential school in British Columbia, a First Nations community said on Thursday, reopening old wounds inflicted by Canada's colonial history.
Rosanne Casimir, chief of the Tk'emlups te Secwépemc, announced that the remains had been found in the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School over the weekend. The children, whose deaths are thought to be undocumented, include some as young as 3 years old.
From CNN:
(CNN)A Canadian lawmaker has apologized after being caught urinating on camera during virtual parliamentary proceedings, just weeks after he appeared naked during a video call.
William Amos said the incident occurred on Wednesday while he was "attending House of Commons proceedings virtually in a non-public setting."
Amos is a federal Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontiac, Quebec for Canada's governing Liberal party.
From Reuters:
Ana Mano Roberto Samora
Brazil’s government agencies warned of droughts this week as the country faces its worst dry spell in 91 years, increasing fears of energy rationing, hitting hydroelectric power generation and agriculture while raising the risk of Amazon fires.
Late on Thursday, the Electricity Sector Monitoring Committee (CMSE), which is linked to Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry, recommended that the water regulator ANA recognize a state of "water scarcity," after a prolonged drought hit Central and Southern parts of Brazil along the Paraná river basin.
From CNN:
Maj. Njike Kaiko Guillaume, spokesperson for the military governor of North Kivu, said that the Volcanic Observatory of Goma had identified magma under the city that also extends under Lake Kivu. While that magma has partially drained, radar images indicate that the crater inside the summit of the volcano continues to expand, he reported.
From CNN:
By Simran Vaswani, Nikita Koirala and Zamira Rahim, CNN
(CNN)A fugitive in New Zealand chartered a helicopter to surrender himself to police officers on Thursday.
The man, who faces multiple criminal charges, was on the run for 58 days in a rural area on the
country's South Island, his legal adviser, Hazel Heal, told CNN.
The fugitive flew from his hideout to the town of Dunedin.
The man, who cannot be identified because he has been granted name suppression by the court, spoke about his time on the run to journalists, including reporters from local outlet "Stuff," as they waited for him outside the police station.
From AP:
TOKYO (AP) — A freighter sank in a Japanese strait early Friday after colliding with another ship, and three crew members from the cargo ship are missing.
Nine of the 12 crewmembers from the Japanese freighter have been rescued, and the coast guard was searching for others in waters roughly 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) north of the coast of Imabari in Ehime prefecture.
The Byakko collided Thursday night with a chemical tanker operated by a South Korean company, and the collision caused the Byakko to sink.