53 h. ago Can a common denominator unite warring contestant nations at the International Mathematics Olympiad?

Determination by IMO organisers to remain apolitical divides participating countries amid wars in Ukraine and GazaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA resounding cheer erupted when on Monday three Palestinian teenagers shuffled on to the stage of a convention centre tucked away behind the golden beaches of Australia’s Sunshine Coast.All of them from the West Bank, they were only half of a team able to attend the International Mathematics Olympiad, a gathering of the world’s brightest young mathematical minds, where medals can offer tickets to any university in the world and launch brilliant careers.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Facial recognition cameras to be used at Notting Hill Carnival, Met says

It is among a range of crime-cutting measures being used at the west London event over the August Bank Holiday weekend, the Metropolitan Police said.

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4 d. ago Relatives mourn Palestinian American beaten to death by Israeli settlers: ‘He made everyone feel loved’

Sayfollah ‘Saif’ Musallet, 20, was an ice-cream shop owner in Florida, and a beloved member of a tight-knit family with deep ties to the US and PalestineWhen Fatmah Muhammad thinks about her younger cousin Sayfollah Musallet, affectionately known as Saif, she pictures him behind the counter of his ice-cream shop in Tampa Bay, Florida, carefully decorating her knafeh with the same effort he brought to everything else.She makes the dessert from scratch, and would sometimes ship it from California, where the 43-year-old baker lives, so the family legacy could grow nationwide. Saif would sell the Palestinian dessert in his his little Amish-style ice-cream shop that carried international treats from the world over. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Vlogger died at Scots Borders property after fake claims she was killed in West Bank

Emma Winters, who is also known as Wandering Emma on her YouTube channel, died at a property in Hawick and was not killed in the West Bank.

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5 d. ago Scots travel vlogger killed in West Bank after online posts criticising Israeli regime

Emma Witters, who runs her YouTube channel Wandering Emma, has died in the West Bank.

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6 d. ago Leaders of Holy Land churches condemn Israeli settler violence during a West Bank visit

Top church leaders in the Holy Land have condemned intensifying Israeli settler violence on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank

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7 d. ago ‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel over Gaza war is not all down to antisemitismThe “humanitarian city” Israel’s defence minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians inside would be ethnic cleansing, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has told the Guardian.Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, Olmert said, and construction of the camp would mark an escalation. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 19, hospitals say, as ceasefire talks drag on

Gaza health officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 19 people including six children at a water collection point

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1 week ago UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese says US sanctions against her a sign of ‘guilt’

United Nations’ special rapporteur for Palestinian territories stresses all eyes must remain on Gaza as she urges ‘let’s stand tall, together’Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, has responded to news that she will be sanctioned by the Trump administration with a post on X saying “the powerful punishing those who speak for the powerless, it is not a sign of strength, but of guilt”.On Wednesday, as part of its effort to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza, the state department sanctioned Albanese, an independent official tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US issues sanctions against UN official investigating abuses in Gaza

Trump administration targets Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, in latest action against critics of Israel’s warThe Trump administration announced on Wednesday it was issuing sanctions against an independent official tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza.The state department’s decision to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, comes after a recent US pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post failed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza

Trump administration targets special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, in latest action against critics of Israel’s warThe Trump administration announced on Wednesday it was issuing sanctions against an independent official tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza.The state department’s decision to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, comes after a recent US pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post failed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago European explorers Wales determined to keep place on map at Euro 2025

Tournament’s lowest-ranked team are not ready to end their Swiss expedition, and are plotting an upset against FranceTourists visiting St Gallen’s famous medieval abbey library are sometimes startled to discover that one of its star attractions is a well-preserved Egyptian mummy.Shep-en-Isis has lain in a glass coffin there for more than 200 years after being removed from her tomb on the west bank of the Nile near Luxor and, eventually, gifted to the north-eastern Swiss city. Just lately, though, there has been quite an argument about whether she should leave her adopted monastic home and be returned to Egypt. Continue reading...

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1 week ago European explorers Wales plot an upset in hope of extending Swiss expedition

Tournament’s lowest-ranked team are not ready to come home from Euro 2025 just yetTourists visiting St Gallen’s famous medieval abbey library are sometimes startled to discover that one of its star attractions is a well-preserved Egyptian mummy.Shep-en-Isis has lain in a glass coffin there for more than 200 years after being removed from her tomb on the west bank of the Nile near Luxor and, eventually, gifted to the north-eastern Swiss city. Just lately, though, there has been quite an argument about whether she should leave her adopted monastic home and be returned to Egypt. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes

An Israeli directive gives a green light for demolitions in Masafer Yatta, where residents keep watch at night for attackers in the darknessAli Awad is tired. The 27-year-old resident of Tuba, one of the dozen or so villages that make up Masafer Yatta in the arid south Hebron hills of the occupied West Bank, had been up all night watching as a masked Israeli settler on horseback circled his family home.“When we saw the masked settler, we knew he wanted violence,” said Awad, his eyes bloodshot. They were lucky this time: the settler disappeared into the darkness before police could show up. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Diogo Jota wake: Liverpool bosses mourn alongside Premier League stars and team

Mourners from far and wide have been congregating in the town of Gondomar, at the Capela da Ressurreicao, to pay tribute and show their affections for Liverpool star Diogo Jota and his younger brother Andre Silva, following their tragic deaths

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2 w. ago Hundreds of Palestinian families flee West Bank camp ahead of Israeli demolition orders

Palestinian authorities say residents of 104 homes have fled the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank ahead of Israeli demolition orders

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2 w. ago Israeli settlers rampage at a military base in the West Bank

Israeli settlers have attacked a military base in the occupied West Bank, setting fires, vandalizing vehicles and clashing with soldiers

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3 w. ago Streeting tells Israel to get its own ‘house in order’ over West Bank violence

Rapper Bobby Vylan, of punk duo Bob Vylan, on Saturday led crowds at Glastonbury in chants of ‘Free, free Palestine’ and ‘Death, death to the IDF’.

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3 w. ago ‘They attack us without provocation’: West Bank town mourns its dead after settler raid

Sense of helplessness pervades Kafr Malik where IDF killed three Palestinians after locals resisted masked maraudersThe men from Fatah arrived on Thursday morning, hours after the attack on Kafr Malik, to put out more flags along the main streets, adding bright primary colours to a mournful scene, but they did nothing to relieve the all-encompassing sense of helplessness.Three men from this central West Bank town, one a teenager, lay dead and several others were still in hospital after an attack by about 100 Israeli settlers on Wednesday evening. The men of Kafr Malik had run to its south-western edge to form a screen against the settlers and rescue women and children trapped in a house set alight by the masked attackers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Israeli forces kill three Palestinians after settlers attack West Bank town

Meanwhile, the Israeli army kills 15-year-old boy amid a surge of violence between settlers and PalestiniansDozens of Israeli settlers have attacked a Palestinian West Bank town, sparking a confrontation that ended with Israeli forces killing three Palestinians.In a separate incident, a 15-year-old boy was killed by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank town of Al-Yamoun, amid a surge of violence and near-daily confrontations between settlers and Palestinians. Continue reading...

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