An Israeli drone killed a school principal in Nabaṭiyya al-Fawqā yesterday. Local residents live in a precarious situation, caught between Netanyahu and Hezbollah. Christian villages say Israeli prime minister’s claim “distorts our position.” At least 12 children have been killed or maimed every day since 2 March, UNICEF reports.
Several recently dismantled networks moved around 133 million dollars through online platforms based in Cambodia. The Vietnamese government has stepped up its crackdown, but the ban on gambling continues to fuel an illegal market linked to money laundering, online fraud and human trafficking.
The bishops of this remote region have condemned the death of Captain Nicholas Francis Goselin. The bishops highlight the “essential” service provided by AMA, an organisation founded by five Catholic dioceses. They have indignantly rejected allegations that the aircraft were transporting Indonesian army personnel and equipment.
Serebrennikov and Bogomolov were the most acclaimed figures in Russian theatre, celebrated far beyond the country’s borders. But since the start of the war, the former has left Russia and is now working in Europe, whilst the latter has remained in Moscow, urging the intelligentsia to “set aside their contempt for their own people” and to “work, live and believe”.
Today’s headlines: Pakistan wants to impose Islamic finance on all national banks; Since 2021, 80 per cent of drug rehabilitation centres in Afghanistan have closed; Chinese missile test in the Pacific; Hamas announces the dissolution of its government; Hiroshima invites the family of an Iranian girl from the Minab school to this year’s commemorations.
At least 16 soldiers were killed and 22 wounded in an incident south of the Red Sea port city of Hodeida. A military source calls it the "deadliest Houthi attack in years." This could have serious repercussions on the fragile truce in Iran and spark new clashes in the country, where the war has claimed more than 10,000 lives since it broke out in 2014, leaving the population starving.
