63 m. ago Yes, Israel’s plan for Rafah would be a crime – but international law has never protected Gaza | Raja Shehadeh

Palestinians continue to hold on to the practice we call sumoud – refusing to give up or leave – despite the world turning its back on usOver the past 21 long months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, voices all over the world have decried the demise of international law and the rule-based order. And indeed, the facade of Israel’s adherence to international law has vanished and policies that constitute war crimes are now brazenly declared.This week, Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has shared plans to forcibly move Palestinians into a camp in the ruins of Rafah. Once they enter, they cannot leave. In other words, a concentration camp, which by definition is an internment centre for members of a national group (as well as political prisoners or minority groups) on the grounds of security or punishment, usually by military order. Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer, was quoted in the Guardian as saying that Katz “laid out an operational plan for a crime against humani...

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3 h. ago Hand luggage trick lets you pack 'three months' of clothes into a small suitcase

A TikTok user has shared a genius packing hack to help you fit more clothes in your case - and it doesn't involve using packing cubes, which she said "don't save any space"

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3 h. ago I went to Cardiff's new small plates restaurant and there's one thing I would change

Walking around the capital city has almost felt like being abroad so with a spritz in hand I tried Cardiff's new small plates restaurant

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5 h. ago Bon Jovi star Richie Sambora's devastating injury is revealed as guitarist says he has 'new lease of life'

Bon Jovi star Richie Sambora has a new lease of life after secretly undergoing surgery after breaking his hand in two places, DailyMail.com has exclusively learned.

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6 h. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Britain is broken. Wherever you look the State is failing. In many ways the mess is worse than in the 1970s

Nearly 40 years have passed since Norman Tebbit, who died this week, was a power in the land.

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7 h. ago Donald Trump sparks frenzy as he says 'thing like this has never happened before'

President Donald Trump made the bizarre comments about the recent flooding in Texas which has left at least 120 dead, as he addressed reporters in New Jersey on Friday

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7 h. ago Air India flight ‘was doomed’ without sufficient power, says travel expert Simon Calder

After studying the preliminary report on the Air India crash, The Independent’s travel correspondent Simon Calder picks out three elements of the 32-second flight

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8 h. ago Former Trump lawyer previously claimed he knows Epstein client list names: ‘But I’m bound by confidentiality’

‘I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them,’ Alan Dershowitz said in March

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9 h. ago High power lawyer last seen with beer in hand found dead in Thai massage parlour

Successful Christopher Saines, 43, left his family in their £3,500-a-night boutique hotel in Koh Samui, Thailand, for a massage and suddenly died with staff thinking he was asleep

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10 h. ago The Script emotional TRNSMT moment as Danny O'Donoghue pays tribute to dead bandmate

"I like to think there is a big festival up there and they are all drinking whisky"

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11 h. ago Trump tours Texas flood damage as disaster tests vow to shutter Fema

Since disaster that has killed at least 120 people, Trump has remained quiet about promises to axe relief agencyUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump arrived in Texas on Friday for a first-hand look at the devastation caused by catastrophic flooding, a trip that comes as he has remained conspicuously quiet about his previous promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief.The Washington Post reported on Friday that the Trump administration has backed away from plans to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but administration officials continue to dodge questions about the agency’s future and many are still calling for serious reforms, potentially sending much of its work to the states. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair dies aged 72

Lord Ian Blair ran the force from 2005 to 2008, including the period of the July 7 bombings

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12 h. ago Oasis Heaton Park support band Cast brings out music legend for first Manchester show

The band, fronted by John Power, brought out a surprise star

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12 h. ago 'Controlling and coercive' partner accused of raping and murdering his ex

Samantha Mickleburgh, 54, was found dead at the Pennyhill Park Hotel in Bagshot, on the morning of April 14 last year after sharing the night there with her former partner James Cartwright, 61.

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13 h. ago Slow starts, the breakdown and pressure of selection are weighing heavy on Lions | Ugo Monye

Andy Farrell has problems to solve before Test series and needs players to push their case in final warmup gameThe phoney war is coming to an end. One more warm-up match against a tasty looking Australia and New Zealand invitational side and then into the real thing. The Lions head coach, Andy Farrell, was asked how much he was holding back for the Test series and he replied it was exactly the same amount as Australia were. I’d expect nothing less.To give a sense of what that means, it’s not as if he’s asking players to give 80% of their capacity or that the Lions will be unrecognisable come the Test series. The framework they have been working with is the one they will use. But it’s the details where the Lions will try to hurt Australia that have been, to a degree, parked or kept back. You don’t necessarily want to show that in warm-up matches, certainly not your full hand. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Horror as beloved internet megastar is found dead at his home aged just 32

The 32-year-old's death sent shockwaves through his community of supporters and his manager issued a heartbreaking statement. Authorities are investigating.

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14 h. ago At least 4 presumed dead, 11 missing after Houthi rebels sink ship in Red Sea, EU naval mission says

Four people are presumed dead after a Liberian-flagged cargo ship came under an hourslong attack from Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who ultimately sank the vessel in the Red Sea

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14 h. ago Justin Bieber: Swag review – inane lyrics undermine a gorgeously produced R&B passion project

(Def Jam) The surprise seventh album from the former tween idol is musically expansive, abetted by a host of star producers. If only he’d thought about the words a bitIn the mid-2010s, pop music changed. Instead of hounding the listening public with focus-grouped, machine-tooled crowd-pleasers, the biggest stars began releasing expansive, experimental albums that played to their own tastes and interests. These were records that were artistically self-indulgent, mostly in a good way: Rihanna’s sleazy, sultry Anti, Beyoncé’s densely referential Lemonade, Lady Gaga’s soft-rock-heavy Joanne, Miley Cyrus’s psychedelic Wayne Coyne collaboration Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz (I may be the only person who holds that example in such high regard.)With his fourth album Purpose, Justin Bieber was adjacent to this shift. Leaning into the ascendant tropical house genre, collaborating with Skrillex and pursuing a sound you sensed a 21-year-old might actually like, it spelled the end of Bieber’s ...

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14 h. ago Scientists drop dead cow into ocean and are stunned by what appears out of darkness

In an experiment that took place in the South China Sea, scientists dropped a cow carcass into the ocean to find out what would happen and were left stunned by eight elusive visitors

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14 h. ago Man Utd hand two more players new squad numbers in clear hint at Ruben Amorim's plans

Manchester United have handed out new squad numbers to several players ahead of the new season, including Diogo Dalot, Chido Obi, Tyler Fredricson and Shea Lacey

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