Hamas’s murderous attack will be remembered as Israeli intelligence failure for the ages
Israel’s advanced surveillance of Palestinians makes scenes of Hamas gunmen moving through its streets all the more astounding
Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be remembered as an intelligence failure for the ages.
In the space of several hours, dozens of Gaza militants broke through the border fence into southern Israel, surprising local military positions.
Gunmen kidnapped and murdered Israelis in the southern border communities, filming their assault as they advanced in numerous locations. In one instance, a Gaza television journalist delivered a standup report about one attack from inside Israel, an almost unthinkable moment.
Ecuador: Suspects tied to candidate’s murder killed in jail
The six inmates who were killed in the infamous Guayas 1 prison were suspected of assassinating of Ecuador’s presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in August.
Six inmates were killed in a Guayaquil jail in Ecuador on Friday, in the latest bout of prison unrest. The inmates were the suspects in the assassination of a leading presidential candidate, officials confirmed.
They “are of Colombian nationality and were accused of the murder of the former presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio,” the National Service of Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) said in a statement. The SNAI is Ecuador’s prison authority.
The statement came after Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso temporarily called off a visit to Seoul and returned from a trip to New York to handle the incident.
How Indian authorities ‘weaponised’ a New York Times report to target the press
NewsClick, a defiantly critical news site, has been in the Indian government’s sights over the past few years. But there was little to show after extensive financial probes – until the New York Times published a report which enabled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration to use the press to attack the press.
Shortly after breakfast time on Tuesday, October 3, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta was outside his home in Gurgaon, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi, seeing his son off for the day when the police showed up at his place.
“Nine cops arrived at 6:30 in the morning,” recounted the renowned investigative journalist and writer in a phone interview with FRANCE 24. “I was surprised. I asked them, why have you come? They said, we want to ask you a few questions.”
True to their word, the police did have relatively few questions. But they were repeated over 12 hours at two venues, according to Guha Thakurta.
After around two hours of questioning at his Gurgaon home, the veteran journalist was taken to the Delhi police’s Special Cell – the Indian capital’s counter-terrorism unit – and questioned again before he emerged around 6:30pm local time to a phalanx of news camera teams.
Hosting Asian Games will ‘wipe away’ Japanese doubts, says top official
By Andrew McKIRDY
The 2026 Asian Games in Japan can “wipe away” public doubts over holding major sporting events, a senior official told AFP, following a wide ranging corruption scandal surrounding the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
It came as Japanese media reported that Sapporo is set to abandon its bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and may now instead try for 2034 or later.
Graft scandals from the Tokyo Olympics, which were delayed to 2021 because of COVID, have damaged public support for hosting major competitions in Japan and have forced a rethink over the Sapporo bid.
Britain invented trains. Now its railway system seems to be having a nervous breakdown
Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain.
Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, staff shortages, late-running trains and the chaos around a money-burning project to build the so-called High Speed 2 (HS2) rail line – it feels like an industry on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
As the 200th anniversary of the world’s first public railway – opened between Stockton and Darlington in northeast England in 1825 – approaches, Britain’s railways are in turmoil.
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