The administration of United States President Donald Trump has signalled that reconstruction will be limited to the green zone where Israel and its allies have been working on plans for so-called alternative safe communities. Although there are reports last week that these plans were dropped, colleagues in the humanitarian field have informed me that the first such community is still slated to be built in Rafah, southern Gaza and a further 10 are planned along the yellow line and into the north.
Brazil's former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasilia. In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. Brazilian media reports said the politician had been taken to a federal police base, seven miles from the presidential palace Bolsonaro occupied from 2019 until 2022, when he lost the election and tried to launch a military coup.
Vladimir Putin says Ukraine is being unrealistic if it does not accept the US plan to end the war, declaring: Ukraine is against it. Apparently, Ukraine and its European allies are still under illusions and dream of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. The positive response from the Russian president adds weight to the views of European and Ukrainian officials that the deal amounts to a capitulation.
When Elena Kostyuchenko (Yaroslavl, Russia, 38 years old) arrived in Berlin after covering the beginning of the war in Ukraine and learning that she could never return to Russia because a price had been put on her head, she thought she was safe. However, a few months later, she was poisoned in Germany with an unknown substance that continues to wreak havoc on her body even today.
Makeshift opener Travis Head smacked an explosive 69-ball century to power Australia to victory in a high-octane first Ashes Test on Saturday as England meekly surrendered in the Perth Stadium cauldron. Chasing 205 to win, Head slammed 123 as the hosts romped home on the second day by eight wickets in an electric start to the five-match series. Marnus Labuschagne was not out on 51, and Steve Smith was on two.
Have we all got our breath back? That was an absolutely nonsense, absurd, bizarre opening day: 19 wickets in a Test day in Australia that only contained about 70 overs. Can nobody remember how to bat anymore? Was the pitch too difficult? The answer is no, not really, because some players do still bat for long periods of time elsewhere, and the surface had some pace and bounce but nothing inconsistent or unplayable.
For the past eight years, he has led a project that aims to revive traditional boat making in New Caledonia, a territory of France in the Pacific ocean. Dozens of canoes have been built in an initiative designed to reconnect Indigenous Kanak people with their maritime heritage. Tikoure says the boats also help the start of conversation around ocean rights and environmental policies.
But B'Tselem provided another layer of analysis with its landmark report, called Our Genocide, in July. It dissected the decades-long history of Israeli policies that laid the groundwork for the carnage in Gaza, including the apartheid system, demographic engineering, the systemic dehumanisation of Palestinians, and a culture of impunity for abuses. Those conditions, Novak said, have been further entrenched since the war began.
A spokesperson said the United States remains the ICRC's largest donor but has reduced its contributions this year, mirroring funding drops from other traditional backers, including the United Kingdom and Germany. The ICRC remains committed to working on the front lines of conflict, where few others can operate, Spoljaric insisted, but warned that the financial reality is forcing us to make difficult decisions to ensure we can continue to deliver critical humanitarian assistance to those who need it most.
Live updatesLive updates, A displaced person has been killed south of Gaza's Khan Younis city, according to Nasser Hospital. Two Palestinian teenagers have been shot dead by Israeli forces in the Kafr Aqab neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Wafa news agency. A displaced person has been killed by Israeli forces outside the so-called yellow line, south of Khan Younis city, according to a Nasser Hospital source speaking to Al Jazeera.
She was really excited because she was going out there to meet up with her friend Bethany [Clarke], who she hadn't seen for seven months," Zak tells BBC Newsbeat. He says his 28-year-old sister, a trainee lawyer, was a "very experienced traveller", so seeing her off was nothing out of the ordinary. The siblings' farewell was "more just wishing her to go and have a nice time," says Zak. "'See you when you're back', kind of thing.
A Dubai bank is instrumental in the long-running detention of the 71-year-old British businessman Ryan Cornelius who is serving a 30-year sentence that will keep him in jail until he is 84, his brother-in-law claims. Recent accounts show the Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB), which claims to be the trailblazer in championing Islamic values in banking, is on course to make more than $2bn in profit this year.
The crash happened around 2.10 p.m. (1010 GMT) after the plane performed a low roll, crashing in flames around 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from the show site. Crowds had gathered for the air show at the Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central, in the United Arab Emirates. "A Tejas fighter aircraft from India participating in today's flying display at the Dubai Airshow has crashed, resulting in the tragic death of the pilot," Dubai's state-run media office posted on X.
The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian embassy in Thailand also did not respond to requests for comment, but Russia's consul general in Phuket, Yegor Ivanov, told Russian state news agency Tass that the consulate had "received notification of the arrest of a Russian citizen on charges of committing an information technology crime." "He was arrested on November 6 and transferred to Bangkok that same day," Ivanov said, without providing further details.
