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Tens of people gathered in central London on Saturday to call for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, drawing attention to those detained under what Israel calls administrative detention a system under which people can be held for indefinite renewable periods of time without a charge and without having committed an offence on the grounds that a person plans to break the law in the future.

The draft law, which seeks to criminalise France's colonial rule in Algeria between 1830 and 1962, was introduced in the People's National Assembly, Algeria's lower house of parliament, on Saturday. The bill will go up for a vote on Wednesday, according to reports. Public broadcaster AL24 News reported that the draft, which contains five chapters comprising 27 articles, is based on the principles of international law that affirm peoples' right to legal redress and the achievement of historical justice.

Reporting from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera's Nida Ibrahim said surveillance footage showed Abdel Qader walking towards what locals said was his home when Israeli forces shot him point-blank. We don't often have video surveillance to show how many of these killings have been done under what Palestinians call extrajudicial killings, which is Israeli forces killing Palestinians point-blank or under excuses that they say they've been doing something that is seen as resisting Israeli forces, she said.

Officials from Russia and the United States ended a day of peace talks in the southern US state of Florida and will continue their efforts on Sunday. Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev told reporters that the meeting with US counterparts Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had been constructive. "The discussions are proceeding constructively. They began earlier and will continue today, and will also continue tomorrow," Dmitriev said.

The president of the NSW Board of Jewish Deputies, David Ossip, said it cannot be disputed that a federal royal commission was needed, to loud cheers and applause from the crowd of up to 15,000 people gathered at Bondi, where a minute's silence was held at 6.47pm, the time the attack began. Ossip's plea was echoed by the president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Daniel Aghion, who thanked Ossip for the courage to say it.

Palestinian prisoners in Israel already face horrific conditions, with a rights group documenting the deaths of at least 94 of them in the past two years, and the rape of prisoners caught on camera. The far-right Israeli minister responsible for prisons, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has proudly declared that conditions have gotten harsher for Palestinian prisoners under his watch. And in late October, he stood over Palestinian prisoners forced to lie face-down on the floor.

The shadow fleet used by Russia, Iran and Venezuela to avoid western sanctions and ship cargo to customers including China and India is exploding in its scale and scope, and there are concerns that efforts to counter it are drawing closer to dangerous military confrontations. Complicating the issue is that Russia has begun putting its own flag on some former shadow fleet tankers, in an open challenge to Europe.

That dream that we came here with is now over, which is obviously incredibly disappointing, said Stokes, at the ground where he made his debut 12 years ago. I hate living in hindsight because you can never change what you have done. At the end of the day, it's what you do out there [on the field] that counts. We've not been able to stand up to what Australia have thrown at us.

Two American girls are sitting on a bench outside the establishment, sipping Nepalese green tea. The inside is a spacious and austere area reminiscent of an industrial warehouse with a visible bread oven, and English is spoken more often than Spanish. A man in his sixties, wearing a jacket and tasseled shoes, tells the young man behind the counter that he drove almost an hour from the wealthy residential area of Polanco just to buy a loaf of malted cereal: 165 pesos (about $9).

Israeli forces have advanced into the Quneitra area of Syria's occupied Golan Heights and set up two military checkpoints, an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground reports. The Israeli military operation on Saturday took place in the villages of Ain Ziwan and al-Ajraf in the southern part of the country. For months, Israeli forces have conducted near-daily incursions into southern Syria, particularly in the Quneitra governorate, carrying out arrests, erecting checkpoints, and bulldozing land, all of which have prompted growing public anger and unrest.

The US military's Central Command (CENTCOM), which is responsible for the Middle East, said on social media that US forces "have commenced a large-scale strike against ISIS infrastructure and weapons sites in Syria." Syrian state television reported that strikes hit targets in rural areas of Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa provinces as well as in the Jabal al-Amour area near Palmyra. It said they targeted "weapons storage sites and headquarters used by IS as launching points for its operations in the region."

A shell company with Israeli ties exploited Palestinians desperate to flee the ongoing war in Gaza, charging them large sums of money to covertly exit the country in what may be an official plan to ethnically cleanse the territory. In an exclusive digital investigation, Al Jazeera probed last month's mystery flight that spirited 153 passengers from Gaza to South Africa, unearthing figures working for Al-Majd Europe, an unregistered front organisation that falsely claimed to be working for humanitarian aims.

He had joined the Ukrainian army to fight in the war against Russia, drawn, like so many others, by the lucrative salaries. That day, Ricardo Velasquez told her he was going on a mission to the front lines. Worry immediately set in. I cried all weekend, went to Mass, and felt terrible, she says. Her feeling that something bad had happened was confirmed on Monday: he was dead. A Russian drone attacked him as he tried to escape.

The Bondi attack was an unutterably cruel event, all the more horrifying for being ours, and we can't stop ourselves saying so. It is a sword that fell on the necks of two sets of Australians. Yet again, young Australian Jews will be asking parents why they are hated, and that is heartbreaking. In a different sense, so will young Muslims.

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, judicial authorities announced, as Tehran continues a widening crackdown on alleged collaborators following the 12-day Israel-United States-Iran war earlier this year. Aghil Keshavarz was put to death on Saturday morning after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction on espionage charges, according to Mizan, the judiciary's official news agency.

Bristol produced a scintillating attacking display to hammer Harlequins 40-14 under the lights at Twickenham Stadium. In Quins' annual 'Big Game', it was the Bears who came out on top as they ran in six tries and won by 26 points. Unanswered scores from Kalaveti Ravouvou, Joe Batley, Gabriel Oghre and Louis Rees-Zammit gave the visitors a ruthless 26-0 lead at the break against a Harlequins side that had at times produced some good rugby themselves.

Earlier this week, Mexican lawmakers approved a 50% tariff on Chinese imports, including everything from shoes, microwaves to electric vehicles. The measure is set to take effect next year. China is the second-largest exporter to Mexico, just after the United States. Analysts say the move signals Mexico's interest in appeasing the U.S. at a moment when both countries are set to renegotiate their free trade agreement. President Claudia Sheinbaum denies this, saying it's intended to boost domestic manufacturing.