A Syrian man has admitted carrying out a knife attack in the German town of Solingen last August in which three people were killed. “I have committed a grave crime, I am prepared to accept the verdict,” Issa al H said in a statement read out by his defence lawyers at the start of his…
Wyre Davies Reporting fromDamascus Gate, Jerusalem Getty Images Israeli police remove a right-wing activist in Jerusalem’s Old City Crowds of far-right Israelis chanted insults and assaulted Palestinians during an annual parade for Jerusalem Day on Monday. Chants of “death to Arabs” and nationalistic slogans were repeated during the event, which commemorates Israeli forces taking Palestinian-majority…
A fight involving machetes at a Melbourne shopping centre has prompted an Australian state to fast-track the country’s first-ever ban on the weapon’s sale. The ban – to start in Victoria this Wednesday, instead of September – comes after two gangs attacked each other at Northland shopping centre in Preston on Sunday afternoon. A man,…
US President Donald Trump has said he is “not happy” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, following Moscow’s largest aerial attack yet on Ukraine. In a rare rebuke, Trump said: “What the hell happened to him? He’s killing a lot of people.” He later called Putin “absolutely crazy”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said Washington’s…
Several people have suffered life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg, police have said. The city’s fire department said 12 people were injured in the attack, but police later said there were no reliable figures for the number of victims. Hamburg Police said officers arrested…
Sakshi Venkatraman BBC News Reporting fromNew York court Getty Images Scott Mescudi, or Kid Cudi, leaves the Lower Manhattan courthouse after testifying in the Diddy trial. Rapper Kid Cudi, the biggest star yet to take the witness stand in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial, alleged that the rap mogul threatened him and was behind a Molotov…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has ordered residents of Khan Younis to evacuate as it prepares to launch an “unprecedented attack”. People were ordered to move towards al-Mawasi in the west of the strip, in one of the largest evacuation orders issued by the Israeli military in recent months. An Arabic statement shared by IDF…
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Reuters Residents survey the damage to their homes after a Russian drone strike on Saturday night on suburbs outside of Kyiv Ukraine says Russia has launched its biggest drone attack since the full-scale invasion began, targeting several regions including Kyiv, where one woman died. Russia had launched 273 drones by…
A pregnant Israeli woman has been shot and killed in what Israeli authorities say was a terrorist attack in the north of the occupied West Bank. Tzeela Gez, 30, was driving to a hospital with her husband Hananel to give birth when a gunman opened fire on their car near their home in the settlement…
Israel’s military says it has hit Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the group’s missile launch at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport the previous day. The IDF said it attacked sites that it claimed served as a “central supply source for the Houthis” in the Hudaydah Port, as well as the Bajil cement factory east…
