Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. A federal judge ordered the release of Mr Suri, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa. An…
His lawyer, Khaled Zabarqa told the BBC he was freed after serving his sentence. Israelis saw the young age of Manasra and his cousin at the time of the attack as evidence that they had been indoctrinated by propaganda. After the stabbings, Manasra fled the scene and was hit by a car. A graphic video…
Orla Guerin Senior international correspondent in Istanbul EPA The rallies have been largely peaceful, but on Sunday, fierce clashes saw protesters fired upon with tear gas and rubber bullets The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has told the BBC that protests will continue “in every city” until either early presidential elections are called, or…
Pakistan’s army says it has freed more than 300 hostages from a passenger train seized by militants in Balochistan province on Tuesday. The military spokesperson said 33 militants were killed during the operation. Twenty-one civilian hostages and four military personnel were killed by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) before the operation began, the military spokesperson…
Hamas has released six more hostages held in Gaza, in exchange for 602 Palestinian prisoners to be freed later on Saturday. The released hostages included four kidnapped during the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel – Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov, Eliya Cohen and Omer Wenkert. The two other men freed, Avera Mengistu and…
Reuters The Israeli hostages appeared before a crowd in Khan Younis before their release Hamas has freed three Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, in the latest swap under the ceasefire agreed by Israel and the militant group last month. The three hostages handed over on Saturday are American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen,…
Hamas has released the names of three hostages due to be freed on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel, after days of fears over the future of the ceasefire. They are Russian-Israeli Alexander Troufanov, Argentine-Israeli Yair Horn, and US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen. Israel has said it will resume bombing if the three are not…
Jonathan Head South East Asia Correspondent Thai News Pix More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centres in Myanmar’s Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand. The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian nations, were received…
A Saudi PhD student at the University of Leeds has been released from prison in Saudi Arabia after her sentence over critical social media activity was reduced, activists have said. Salma al-Shehab, a 36-year-old mother of two, was arrested in 2021 while on holiday in the Gulf kingdom. She was later jailed by a terrorism…
Italian Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has said Rome had no choice but to release a Libyan war crimes suspect due “errors and inaccuracies” in an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Osama Almasri Najim, head of Libya’s judicial police, was apprehended in Turin on 19 January. Two days later, he was released…
