Israeli forces ordered the Bedouin residents of Ein Ayoub to leave after declaring their village a ‘closed military zone’. Residents had faced weeks of settler attacks, arson, and drone flights over their homes, before soldiers gave them just minutes to leave.
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At least 20 people have died in a shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, and a United Nations agency says more refugees and migrants could be missing as search operations continue.
Rescue services on Wednesday found 20 bodies, while 60 survivors, 56 men and four women, were brought ashore to Lampedusa, according to the Italian Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The disaster, involving people travelling from Libya, was the latest to befall refugees and migrants making the perilous Mediterranean crossing from Africa to Europe.
Rights groups and UN agencies have also documented systematic abuse against refugees and migrants in Libya, including torture, rape and extortion. In February, Libyan authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, in the latest horror involving people seeking to make it to Europe through the North African country.
Since the beginning of this year, 675 people have died in the central Mediterranean while trying to make the crossing, said Filippo Ungaro, a UNHCR spokesperson in Italy.
An Italian law enforcement aircraft spotted a capsized boat with bodies in the water about 23km (14 miles) off Lampedusa on Wednesday morning, triggering a rescue operation, a source close to the matter told the Reuters news agency.
The Reuters source said that based on initial accounts from the rescued people, they departed from the Tripoli area in Libya in the early morning aboard two boats. One of the boats began taking on water, and they transferred to the other vessel, which later capsized in rough waters.
Initial UNHCR figures suggested that 92 to 97 people were in the group, indicating as many as 17 people were missing.
Cristina Palma, who works for the Italian Red Cross in Lampedusa, said in a video statement that the survivors were in “decent” health, but four of them had been hospitalised for checks.
OPEC+ is opening the oil taps again, while Donald Trump’s tariffs target Russian crude buyers.
OPEC+, which includes Saudi Arabia and Russia, has agreed to another large production hike in September.
That’s despite a warning by the International Energy Agency, the extra barrels could tip the market into oversupply later this year.
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs have targeted Russian crude buyers.
But whether those tariffs are imposed depends on the outcome of trade negotiations with India and China.
And even more so on talks over a peace deal in Ukraine between Washington and Moscow.
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Welcome to the Mirror’s Daily Digest, where we pull together all the best stories of the day from our News, Showbiz, Sport teams and more. This Wednesday, we’re featuring everything from Starmer’s claims regarding the Russia-Ukraine war to details surrounding the Beckhams’ feud and three children being charged with murder.
Following a phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and other European leaders, Starmer has claimed that a Ukraine ceasefire is ‘viable’ ahead of crunch talks with Putin. Elsewhere, Associate Editor Tom Bryant has offered the inside story of the Beckham fall-out and the man killed on the Isle of Sheppey has been named.
This afternoon, our Politics team broke the news that Keir Starmer said there is a ‘viable’ chance of reaching a ceasefire in the Ukraine war. The PM claimed that it was possible because of Donald Trump’s work.
Mr Starmer said Britain stands ready to “increase pressure” on Russia if necessary after holding virtual calls with the US President, Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders. The talks came ahead of high stakes in-person talks between Mr Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
Briefing the Coalition of the Willing after the calls, Mr Starmer said: “As I’ve said personally to President Trump, for three and a bit years this conflict has been going on and we haven’t got anywhere near the prospect of actually a viable solution, a viable way, of bringing it to a ceasefire. And now we do have that chance because of the work that the President has put in.”
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Our Associate Editor Tom Bryant has been looking into further details surrounding the Beckham feud since Brooklyn and wife Nicola Peltz’s wedding vows renewal appeared to further deepen the rift. According to Tom, David and Victoria only found out about the wedding vow renewal by reading it online.
When it came to the guest-list for Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s lavish “second” wedding, few would have expected the groom’s parents David and Victoria to make the cut. As one Peltz-Beckham confidante bluntly put it: “In the current climate….hell would have had to freeze over before that happened.”
Friends of Nicola and Brooklyn have told how Brooklyn’s siblings Romeo and Cruz were also persona non grata after what they claim are a series of online barbs from the duo. “Brooklyn’s brothers have been fanning the flames. They’ve openly made fun of and trolled Brooklyn in comments on social media,” said the pal.
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Three children have been charged with murder after a man died on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent Police have said. A 16-year-old girl and two boys, aged 14 and 15, from London have been charged with the murder of Alexander Cashford, 49, in Leysdown-on-Sea. A 12-year-old girl, from Basildon, who was also been arrested in connection with the incident, remains in custody.
The man was pronounced dead at around 7pm on Sunday after an air ambulance was called to the scene. It is alleged the victim was assaulted following a “disturbance involving a small group of people”. Multiple injuries to the man’s body were reported.
Two teenage boys and a girl were arrested a short while later and taken into custody. Yesterday, the boys, aged 14 and 15, and the 16-year-old girl were charged with murder by joint venture.
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TV presenter Jay Blades appeared before a judge today charged with rape. The Repair Shop star, 55, is alleged to have carried out two rapes between 2022 and 2024. He appeared via video-link at Telford magistrates’ court this morning.
Blades appeared on the court screen wearing a blue suit, sky blue shirt, black polka dot tie and spectacles. He gave his name as “Jason Blades” and confirmed his address and date of birth.
Blades separately faces a controlling or coercive behaviour charge between 2023 and last September. The star, from Claverley, Shrops, found fame on The Repair Shop, which he started presenting in 2017.
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Temperatures have soared past 40C in parts of Europe as apocalyptic wildfires continue to rage. Three people have been killed in the devastating forest fires sweeping across Spain, Turkey and Albania, while firefighters also scramble to quench the flames in Greece and Portugal.
Dozens in Greece have also been hospitalised with smoke inhalation. Tourists and locals have been evacuated from blazes that are tearing through Ionian islands.
Officials ordered the evacuations of dozens of villages amid an intense drought and strong winds that have helped the spread of the fire. Large fires have been raging in Zante, Kefalonia and Chios, all popular destinations for British holidaymakers.
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Bandits have again struck a community in Benue State, killing three persons.
They attacked the Uikpam community of Mbabai Council Ward of Guma Local Government Area of the state, 24 hours after three others were killed in Yelewata within the same LGA.
A community leader and a former candidate for the Guma I State Assembly seat in the 2023 general elections, Jimmin Geoffrey, confirmed this to Channels Television on Wednesday.
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Geoffrey said the discovery of the corpse of Iorhemba Ikpanju, an elderly man from the community, on Wednesday morning, has brought the casualty figures to three following the killing of Akeh Kelvin and Francis Nomsoor last night.
Sustained herdsmen attacks on Guma communities, which share borders with Nasarawa State, remain a major setback to the fight against insecurity.
“The discovery of the body of Baba Iorhemba Ikpanju at a nearby bush this morning brings the total casualty figures to three, following the death of Akeh Kelvin and Francis Nomsoor last night when herdsmen attacked the Uikpam community.
“We again call on concerned authorities to make haste by redeploying security operatives to Uikpam in order to at least repose some level of confidence in the already traumatised residents.”
The police authority in Benue State has remained silent on these killings, as every media inquiry is met with no response.