14 h. ago Shiri Bibas remains identified as Israel and Hamas prepare for another hostage

Gaza ceasefire deal still on track amid uproar over fate of two Israeli boys and initial false return of their mother’s bodyThe body of the Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas has been identified, Israel’s army radio reported early on Saturday, adding that Bibas was likely killed in captivity with her children.The confirmation came as Israelis and Palestinians braced for another tense exchange of hostages, prisoners and detainees on Saturday after uproar in Israel over allegations that two child hostages were “brutally murdered” by Hamas, and the group’s initial failure to deliver the body of their mother, instead returning the corpse of an unidentified woman. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago BBC apologies for letting 'Hamas chief's son' narrate Gaza documentary after being accused of failing to 'carry out the most basic journalistic checks'

The Corporation was forced to apologise after a documentary about Palestinian children living in war-torn Gaza starred the son of a Hamas government minister.

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3 d. ago ‘We paid a high price for human rights’: a road trip through the new Syria

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the futureAmid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another. A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, this small town of concrete, red earth and olive groves in Syria’s north-west was a stop on the Guardian’s 280-mile (450km) journey along the M5, the highway threading all of the country’s major cities and six provinces together.Suffering was palpable everywhere, from children rummaging through bins for food in Aleppo and Homs, to relatives searching for loved ones in Damascus’s prisons, to displaced people still living in tents in Idlib. There are huge challenges ahead for HTS’s transitional government, and in some places, sectarian vio...

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4 d. ago Man who died after carer 'landed on him' in pool was warned not to jump into water, inquest hears

Michael Parker died while on holiday in Spain with residents and staff from the care home where he lived

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4 d. ago Man with Down's Syndrome died after his carer accidentally jumped on top of him in a swimming pool during a summer holiday in Spain, inquest hears

Michael Parker, 43, died at the Salou Princess Hotel near Tarragona, on the southern coast of Spain, on June 12, 2023. He was accidentally hit by carer Harry Beckwith, who jumped on him in the pool.

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4 d. ago British fathers who had been pals since they were children died on holiday in Turkey when quad bike they were driving crashed head

The young fathers, both 26 and from Harwich in Essex, collided with the minibus just before midnight on May 13, 2024, according to a report from Turkish authorities.

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4 d. ago Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone review – these incredible children offer a sliver of hope

This often-distressing BBC documentary follows astonishing kids working as TikTok chefs and hospital porters – and shows their determination to smile in the face of unimaginable horrorThe children of Gaza will be its future, if they are able to remain there. Starting several months into Israel’s bombardment and continuing right up until the recent ceasefire, London-based directors Jamie Roberts and Yousef Hammash made their documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone by remotely instructing two local cameramen, Amjad Al Fayoumi and Ibrahim Abu Ishaiba, as they captured life inside the “safe zone” – an ever-changing, ever-dwindling area in the south-west of Gaza, designated by Israel as the place where displaced Palestinians should reside. That the cameras predominantly follow children has an unexpected double effect: it makes the film’s many deeply distressing moments all the more unbearable, yet it tinges them with some sort of hope.The kids are led by 13-year-old Abdullah, who acts...

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5 d. ago Down's Syndrome sufferer died after his carer accidentally jumped on top of him in a swimming pool during a summer holiday in Spain, inquest hears

Michael Parker, 43, died at the Salou Princess Hotel near Tarragona, on the southern coast of Spain, on June 12, 2023. He was accidentally hit by carer Harry Beckwith, who jumped on him in the pool.

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5 d. ago Two men died after quad bike crash with bus during Turkish holiday, inquest told

Cory Dove was driving the hired quad bike and his childhood friend Matthew Steward was his passenger, Monday’s hearing in Chelmsford heard.

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5 d. ago Two UK dads died after their quad bike crashed into bus in Turkey

The two, both aged 26 collided with the minibus just before midnight

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5 d. ago Heartbroken family of British father, 37, who was 'left to die alone in Las Vegas' are SUING the hotel he died in and the ambulance company

William Howell's wife Emma is suing Aria Casino Hotel and others after her husband, aged 37 and a type one diabetic, was found dead in his room on the Las Vegas strip in August 2023.

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