A major fire that has engulfed a residential tower complex has caused the death of several people and possible trapped others inside. Residents can only watch on while reporter Laura Westbrook is standing outside the tower.
Published On 26 Nov 2025
After placing significant reinforcements in the northern Jordan Valley, Israel has seceded from the rest of the occupied West Bank and placed a comprehensive siege on the area.
In a bid to threaten Palestinian residents, Israeli Apache helicopters shot rounds over empty fields around Tubas while military bulldozers piled earth across every approach road before dawn, according to residents.
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As the army announced a new military operation it claimed was aimed at resistance fighters, troops immediately began conducting house-to-house searches in the city of Tubas as well as the four nearby towns, including Tammun and Aqqaba.
Ahmed Asaad, the governor of Tubas, refuted that justification, telling Al Jazeera that the Israeli assault is entirely related to geography and has nothing to do with security.
In a new effort to impose new realities, he said, “The assault is targeting Tubas because its location is close to the Jordan Valley.”
About 30 families were forced from their homes, according to Asaad, and several buildings on high ground overlooking the governorate had been seized by troops.
The five towns that the army has now encircled now have more than 50 000 Palestinians living in them.
Asaad criticized what he termed a new round of collective punishment for a neighborhood that is already enduring daily incursions and constant harassment at nearby checkpoints.
He claimed that local authorities have activated emergency committees throughout the governorate and suspended schools and public institutions as a result of the military curfew.
Additionally, there is a restriction on the movement of medical teams and ambulances. According to Asaad, Israeli forces restricted access to a number of patients in need of urgent care.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has been in contact with local authorities to arrange for medical transfers.
According to the doctors from the Palestine Red Crescent Society, at least two Palestinians were taken to a hospital on Wednesday after being brutally beaten during raids in Tubas and Tammun.
Residents told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that the scale of the operation, which started shortly after midnight, resembles the extensive invasions Israel has carried out in the West Bank since the genocide in Gaza in 2023, when troops have taken down homes, detained thousands, and attempted to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes.
Hamas criticized the “criminal Zionist occupation army,” blaming recent sieges, curfews, and raids for revealing “the scale of systematic crimes committed by the extremist occupation government.”
The group claimed that the assault is an attempt to “ethnically cleanse” the occupied territory and that it is a part of a strategy that “crushing any Palestinian presence in order to achieve complete control over the West Bank.”
Hamas claimed that Israel’s “colonial project” will not violate the “will of our people” and that this operation is a part of the ongoing annexation and displacement plans.
Another resistance group, the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, denounced the raid as part of an Israeli “open war” to annex the West Bank and forcibly remove its residents. A different statement was released. It accused the US of facilitating “systematic aggression” by Israel.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli forces have carried out nearly 7,500 raids across the West Bank this year alone.
According to OCHA, “the occupied West Bank is experiencing its worst displacement crisis in decades,” citing Israeli settler violence, military operations, and demolitions.
In the past two years, Israeli forces have killed more than 1, 000 Palestinians in the West Bank.
Human Rights Watch reported earlier this month that Israel’s systematic displacement of three refugee camps constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity.
As humans reach four significant “turning points” in brain development at the ages of 32, 66, and 83, according to a new study, adolescence can continue until the age of 32.
The study examined nearly 4, 000 brain scans of participants ranging in age up to 90, as reported on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
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Using this information, researchers analyzed the development of the brain and discovered that humans go through five “brain phases” as they grow, mature, and change, each with four significant life turning points.
Importantly, they discovered that changes in early adolescence do not occur until the human personality and intelligence “plateau” and “stabilize” until the age of 32.
According to the study, there are five distinct phases in brain development and ageing:
Researchers found that the brain’s development at the ages of nine, 32, 66, and 83 was the most important as it adapted to new circumstances and circumstances between birth and old age.
The shifts are characterized by changes in personality, personality stabilization, “reorganisation,” and decline.
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The brain’s grey and white matter quickly grew during this time.
White matter transmits that information to other parts of the nervous system, according to information from Johns Hopkins Medical in the United States.
According to Johns Hopkins, “white matter describes the lighter inner region of the brain while grey matter describes the darker outer region.” This is the spinal cord’s reversed arrangement: the white matter is inside and the grey matter is inside.
The authors of the new study claim that “the first few years of life are marked by synapses [the junctions where neurons meet and communicate with one another] and rapid increases in grey and white matter volume.
This age also coincides with the start of puberty, which occurs between the ages of eight and thirteen for females and between nine and fourteen for males, triggering significant hormone changes and significant neurological changes, it added.
Additionally, according to the report, hormone changes and a “neurobiological shift” led to an “increased risk” of mental health, cognitive, and behavioral disorders.
Prior to the age of 20, it was believed that adolescence started with puberty and ended with the age of 20. The study found that while puberty is the study’s starting point, the study’s conclusion is less clear.
According to the researchers, “the transition to adulthood is influenced by cultural, historical, and social factors, making it context-dependent rather than purely biological change.”
Our findings point to the possibility that adolescent topological development begins at around the age of 32 before brain networks launch a new topological development trend in Western nations (such as the UK and the United States of America).
The study found that, in contrast to other turning points in life, the brain experiences the “most directional changes and a significant shift in trajectory” by the age of 32, as this is when the brain’s white matter integrity and volume are rapidly increasing.
The authors did not provide an explanation for why this is the case in Western nations or provide an explanation of how adolescence persists in people in other parts of the world.
The study found that while brain development accelerates rapidly during the first two stages of life, the longest phase, adulthood, is where the brain develops more slowly.
According to the study, “This period of network stability also corresponds to a plateau in personality and intelligence.”
Although white matter integrity is declining during this stage, the brain does exhibit subtle changes in its connection patterns.
The brain no longer coordinates as a single whole, coordinating more independently in various regions.
With dementia and high blood pressure for many, both of which can cause the early stages of brain ageing, the early 60s represent a significant change in health and cognition.
Due to the small sample size, the study’s findings correlated with a declining trend in brain connectivity, the authors said, despite the lack of information on this stage of the brain’s development.
This may point to a true weakening relationship between structural brain topology in later life, they continued.
The most important finding of the report is the new study of adolescence.
Adolescence varies between 10 and 19 years old, according to the World Health Organization. Adolescence ended in the 20s, according to a report in the Lancet medical journal in 2018.
However, one of the study’s authors, Duncan Astle, a professor of neuroinformatics at Cambridge University in England, claimed that the new report advances our understanding of the brain’s vulnerabilities.
In the midst of the tensions following the Israeli attack on Beirut, Pope Leo XIV has urged Israel and Hezbollah to renounce their armed actions and seek dialogue. Before his upcoming trip to Lebanon and Turkiye, he made the remarks.
Published On 26 Nov 2025
Who: Bayern Munich vs. Arsenal
What: Matchday 5, League Phase, UEFA Champions League
Where: Emirates Stadium, North London, England, UK
When: Wednesday at 8pm (20:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 17:00 GMT in advance of our text commentary stream.
In a heavyweight UEFA Champions League (UCL) matchup of the two dominant European megaclubs on Wednesday, English Premier League leaders Arsenal take on German Bundesliga’s Bayern Munich.
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Both clubs have perfect records in the League Phase of the competition, and both teams are ranked No 1 and No 2 in the current UCL standings.
Before their top-of-the-table clash at Emirates Stadium, what is all the news?
Bayern Munich leads the league standings with four victories and a maximum of 12 points against Chelsea (3-0), Pafos (5-1), Club Brugge (4-4) and, most recently, a victory over Paris Saint-Germain (2-1) at home in France on November 4.
Arsenal leads only their German rival in terms of points and goal difference, with 11 points behind. Athletic Bilbao (2 / 2)), Olympiacos (2 / 2), Atletico Madrid (4 / 4) and Slavia Praha (3 / 3) have all registered victories against them.
Inter Milan is the only team with a perfect 4-0 record in the competition.
In what would be his first game since suffering a knee injury in early October, Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard has a good chance of starting for Bayern Munich.
The Norwegian midfielder is expected to be in the squad after training on Tuesday afternoon.
Odegaard is being considered for Wednesday’s game, according to manager Mikel Arteta.
For the previous game, “He]Odegaard was very close. We anticipate that he’ll be a part of the squad on Wednesday.
The Gunners defeated Real Madrid in the quarterfinals (5-1 on aggregate), before falling to Paris Saint-Germain, who had previously reached the Champions League semifinals.
Bayern Munich’s UCL campaign came to an end in the quarterfinals against Inter Milan (4-3 overall).
Arsenal: W-W-W-D-W (Premier League, last result)
Bayern Munich: W-W-W-D-W (Bundesliga), last.
Bayern Munich won 1-0 (3-2 on aggregate) over Arsenal in the Champions League semifinal on April 17, 2024, making the Germans advance to the last four of the 2023-24 competition with Joshua Kimmich’s 63rd-minute header.
The teams have played each other 14 times, with Bayern dominating the historical contest:
With Kai Havertz (knee) and Viktor Gyokeres (hamstring) both still recovering from injuries, Arsenal will face Bayern without a recognized striker.
Gabriel Jesus will also need to be rested for the Champions League game despite having knee surgery and returning to full fitness.
He arrived sooner than we anticipated, to be fair, and quite close, according to Arteta.
He will have a new step to take with a game that we will arrange for him in the coming days. He will simply be knocking on the door after that.
Timber, Saliba, Hincapie, Lewis-Skelly, Eze, Zubimendi, Rice, Saka, Merino, Trossard, and Raya (goalkeeper) are present.
Kimmich, the player who put an end to Arsenal’s last game in 2024, was a question mark at the beginning of the week because of a knock he picked up during the FIFA international break, but is now expected to be back on Wednesday.
Luis Diaz, an explosive winger, is a disciplinary defender for the Arsenal game. Lennart Karl, a rising 17-year-old star, who started for Bayern against Brugge on October 22 and became the club’s youngest champions league scorer in his debut.
Jamal Musiala and Alphonso Davies, who have injuries, won’t be selected for selection.
Harry Kane, who has returned to his native London for this game, will once again lead the charge under the guidance of Bayern manager Vincent Kompany.
Neuer (goalkeeper), Laimer, Upamecano, Tah, Guerreiro, Pavlovic, Kimmich, Olise, Karl, Gnabry, Kane, and Laimer
