Four people, including two children, have been killed by a relative in New York, according to police. Those stabbed to death included a 12-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, a 44-year-old woman and a man in his 30s. Officers were called to reports of an incident in the city’s Queens borough after a girl said “her…
A British soldier shot dead on a motorcycle trip in Kenya was killed just three days before he was due to finish his deployment. Major Kevin McCool, 32, was off-duty when he was attacked on 29 November. His father Joseph said he was on a bike trip away from base, preparing for the end of…
The UK will conduct surveillance flights over Israel and Gaza as part of hostage rescue efforts. The Ministry of Defence said the surveillance aircraft “will be unarmed, do not have a combat role, and will be tasked solely to locate hostages”. “Only information relating to hostage rescue will be passed to the relevant authorities responsible for…
Israel’s determination to completely dismantle Hamas means that takeover of the south is an absolute military necessity. The southern campaign has already started, with air raids in and around the city of Khan Younis fully underway. The problem is that, to all intents and purposes, most of the surviving Gazan population is now crowded into…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to summon his Mossad negotiating team home from Qatar means that Israel has taken the decision that Hamas either is not interested in another truce or they are not providing anything that would satisfy the Israelis that it is worth making concessions. That does not necessarily mean that negotiations are off entirely….
Rishi Sunak is known to love tech, so could it offer a way out of his awkward diplomatic row with Greece over the Elgin Marbles? The augmented reality (AR) boffins at Snap think it could. The creators of the app most people associate with wearing silly filters have branched out into culture and the arts,…
Derek Chauvin – the ex-police officer jailed over the murder of George Floyd – was stabbed 22 times with an “improvised knife” in prison, it has emerged. Fellow inmate John Turscak has been charged with attempted murder following the attack on 24 November, which was Black Friday. The 52-year-old, a former member of the Mexican…
Plumes of smoke rise once again into the clear skies over Gaza. Artillery boomed and jets screamed through the skies above us as the skyline to the north of the strip filled with smoke as buildings and Hamas targets were pounded by the Israeli military. Loudspeakers blared out warnings of incoming Hamas rockets. Follow…
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court, has died at the age of 93. She was appointed by Republican ex-president Ronald Reagan in 1981 and retired from America’s highest court in 2006. Ms O’Connor died in Phoenix of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness, the court…
Israel’s military has resumed combat in Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating the seven-day truce. A spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said: “Hamas violated the operational pause and in addition fired towards Israeli territory.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office added that Hamas did not agree to release all women hostages, infringing on…