A Palestinian mother filmed the panic and confusion, screaming for her son after she said an Israeli strike targeted their neighbour’s home as they were preparing to evacuate. Palestinians in Gaza City say Israel often gives only 15–30 minutes’ warning before striking buildings.
Amanda Holden has proved her fashion credentials once again this week, stepping out in a chic high street checked mini dress that gives a subtle nod to the Princess of Wales. Kate Middleton has long been a fan of heritage prints, often sporting checks and tartans during the autumn months.
Just yesterday, Kate opted for a grey check suit from British brand Bella Freud. And Amanda’s latest look felt like a stylish tribute to the royals’ timeless wardrobe.
Amanda was spotted in the River Island Green Check Belted Cape Dress, priced at £69. This dress has already proved to be so popular that it’s currently sold out on the River Island website. However, we’ve found it in stock in all sizes on the Next website.
The khaki green printed mini dress features a sleeveless cape detail, handy pockets, and a horsebit belted detail reminiscent of popular Gucci styles. The perfect combination of polished and playful, this mini can be easily dressed up or down for autumn depending on the occasion.
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Checks are always in fashion for autumn, but this year they’re bigger and better than ever. They’re having a serious fashion moment right now, making Amanda’s outfit even more on trend.
The print has returned this autumn thanks to a revival of heritage-inspired dressing and the growing popularity of ‘countrycore’ style, a look sparked by the cult TV series The Traitors, with host Claudia Winkleman putting rural-inspired fashion back on the map.
From tailored coats to tartan skirts and mini dresses like Amanda’s, checks offer so much versatility.
Doha, Qatar – Six coffins – five of them draped in Palestinian flags, one in a Qatari flag – were laid before the hundreds gathered for funeral prayers at Doha’s Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque.
Sitting in the front row of the congregation on Thursday was Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. He was there to honour those killed in an Israeli attack this week that has shaken Qatar.
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Among those killed was Lance-Corporal Badr Saad Mohammed al-Humaidi al-Dosari, a 22-year-old member of the Internal Security Forces. In the crowd after the prayers, the emir comforted a young boy with tears rolling down his cheeks.
The sombre feeling at the funeral followed the shock of Tuesday’s attack, which targeted Hamas leaders as they were discussing a Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by the United States. The leaders survived the attack.
The attack took place on Tuesday afternoon in the city’s West Bay Lagoon area. Several blasts rang out across Doha, sending up a thick plume of smoke and uniting its residents in equal parts shock and horror. Though the nature of the incident was quickly apparent, Doha’s reputation for safety cast a shadow of doubt over whether it really could have been attacked.
Since gaining independence in 1971, the country has faced no conflicts that have escalated into direct military action on its territory. When Iran carried out its strike earlier this year, Qatar was more of a circumstantial participant – its role shaped largely by the presence of a major US military base.
Mohammed Asim, 40, who moved to Doha from Bangladesh with his wife and two children and works in the wholesale food trade, lives about a kilometre from the building that was hit and said he had never believed such a thing could happen in the city.
“I thought a house was being demolished, as the sounds of the explosions, which came one after the other, reminded me of that,” he told Al Jazeera. “It wasn’t until I saw the news that I realised.”
About 45 minutes after the strike, I arrived with my colleague, photojournalist Showkat Shafi, in the Diplomatic Area in West Bay near Doha’s coast, just as details were beginning to reach newsrooms worldwide. We parked the car a few blocks down from the site and walked about 500 metres until we arrived near the site. Before us stood a large crimson-walled compound, its facade torn open, ashen debris spilling through the wide gate, with wisps of smoke still curling from the courtyard where another strike had hit.
Two drones, one fibre optic and the other remote, hovered above the compound for hours, providing light after dusk, as emergency services dug through the rubble.
All entrances to the streets near the compound were cordoned off. Beside us were members of various branches of Qatar’s security services, civil defence teams and several ambulances on standby. As the night drew on, the police presence thinned, with families in nearby houses occasionally glancing out of their windows at the security forces and their glaring red and blue siren lights.
The building, situated in a residential area with three schools nearby, housed members of Hamas’s political bureau.
Qatar has promised to act in coordination with regional allies. In the days that followed the attack, regional leaders, crown princes, prime ministers, and ministers have visited Doha in a show of unity and solidarity, the most prominent among them the United Arab Emirates president, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Pakistan’s leader, Shehbaz Sharif.
Even US President Donald Trump joined the chorus of solidarity with Qatar, saying that such an attack wouldn’t happen again, even if he did add that “eliminating” Hamas was a “worthy goal”.
But is that enough to reassure Qatar and its people?
Trump’s words haven’t provided much reassurance to Doha’s inhabitants, whose once peaceful abode is now caught directly in the crosshairs of Israel’s wars in the region, becoming one of six countries that Israel has attacked just this week.
Billboards carried short messages to help calm nerves. At West Bay’s City Centre Mall, one of Doha’s most popular malls, the Prophet Abraham’s famous prayer – “Our Lord, make this land secure” – was emblazoned on its walls.
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez v Terence Crawford
Venue: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas Date: Saturday, 13 September
Las Vegas is built on noise.
The beeps and bells of the slot machines echo down the Strip – a blur of glittering lights, and performers who never break character.
A seismic fight week here usually feels the same – spotlight, swagger, and showmanship.
But Terence Crawford doesn’t play to the crowd.
At the Allegiant Stadium on Saturday night, the American attempts something historic against Mexico’s Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez – becoming the first male fighter to be undisputed champion in three weight divisions.
Alvarez has been among the sport’s biggest draws for over a decade, a four-weight champion who sells out arenas. Crawford – with 41 fights, 41 wins and 31 knockouts – is the unbeaten purist.
Yet his demeanour and words show why he is an outlier in a sport that thrives on theatre.
“I never set my sights out to be the face of boxing. It was never my goal,” the 37-year-old says.
Crawford spoke to BBC Sport during a media event at the bustling Fontainebleau hotel.
In the same building, rapping chart-topper Pitbull headlines his residency, belting out “Don’t Stop the Party”.
Crawford, though, looks almost offended when asked how he would celebrate if he wins. “I don’t like to party,” he says.
Away from the cameras he is loose and cheerful, but once the red light blinks, the mood changes. His voice flattens, his words become stripped back. Some might read it as coldness, but it is anything but nerves.
When BBC Sport begins a question, “If you win on Saturday you’ll make history…” Crawford interrupts firmly: “When I win on Saturday, I’ll make history.”
The certainty makes it clear – nothing outside the ring matters.
The city has a tangible buzz, a real big-fight weak feel. But this is not a fight born out of fan demand.
Crawford began at lightweight; Alvarez has climbed as high as light-heavyweight. On paper, it didn’t make sense.
Barely a year ago, Alvarez laughed off the idea of facing Crawford, saying he was too small, too risky and there was nothing to gain.
So what changed? The real driver is money, and the power brokers behind it.
This event marks the first marquee collaboration between Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh and UFC chief Dana White’s boxing venture.
Alalshikh wanted Alvarez and Crawford to face each other, and – as he does – he got what he wanted. The cheque-book did the convincing.
Alvarez will earn a reported purse of $150m (£111m). It’s the Hollywood treatment he’s come to expect, as he shows off his wealth at every turn – from his absurdly expensive watch collection to his fleet of luxury cars.
Crawford, long frustrated by smaller purses, will take home at least $10m (£7.4m), with the total pot expected to top $200m. Reported purses are often inflated, but give a taste of the fortunes involved.
Although Alvarez-Crawford has not been years in the making, special moments are built on special fighters.
Logical fights have been parked, however.
Alvarez, 35, has sidestepped the all-Mexican contest with David Benavidez, a fight fans were clamouring for. Crawford has put on hold a natural meeting with Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
Yet for all the contrivance, this match-up comes draped in the language of legacy.
Undisputed super-middleweight champion Canelo is fighting to protect a CV built on wins over Miguel Cotto, Gennady Golovkin, and Sergey Kovalev.
But Alvarez’s recent struggles – a loss to Dmitry Bivol and a less-than-convincing win over William Scull – have stirred doubts.
The Guadalajara fighter says he is not bothered about the naysayers.
A defeat by the smaller man, though, could shift how his career is remembered. It could even hasten the end.
Most fighters and pundits believe Crawford is so good he can bypass the conventional wisdom that weight divisions exist for a reason.
“It’s a fantastic fight but I just can’t see Canelo beating him,” Briton Amir Khan – the only fighter to face both – told BBC Sport.
“Crawford is untouchable and I see him winning by skill, movement and holding his weight well.”
A win would have Crawford rubbing elbows with heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk atop the pound-for-pound list.
He’d also emulate his close friend Claressa Shields, and become only the second boxer to become undisputed in three weight divisions in the four-belt era.
With Netflix broadcasting the bout globally, a win could make Crawford the face of boxing, even if he remains indifferent to the idea, with his focus on other matters.
“It’s going to put me in the top class where we’re talking about the greatest fighters of all time,” he says.
Still, Crawford is 37 – the older man in this equation. If he loses, the reasoning will be ‘he dared to be great and size matters’.
But this is not a risk-free proposition – the aura of invincibility which comes with an unbeaten record will fade.
Las Vegas is built on noise.
The beeps and bells of the slot machines echo down the Strip – a blur of glittering lights, and performers who never break character.
A seismic fight week here usually feels the same – spotlight, swagger, and showmanship.
But Terence Crawford doesn’t play to the crowd.
At the Allegiant Stadium on Saturday night, the American attempts something historic against Mexico’s Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez – becoming the first male fighter to be undisputed champion in three weight divisions.
Alvarez has been among the sport’s biggest draws for over a decade, a four-weight champion who sells out arenas. Crawford – with 41 fights, 41 wins and 31 knockouts – is the unbeaten purist.
Yet his demeanour and words show why he is an outlier in a sport that thrives on theatre.
“I never set my sights out to be the face of boxing. It was never my goal,” the 37-year-old says.
Crawford spoke to BBC Sport during a media event at the bustling Fontainebleau hotel.
In the same building, rapping chart-topper Pitbull headlines his residency, belting out “Don’t Stop the Party”.
Crawford, though, looks almost offended when asked how he would celebrate if he wins. “I don’t like to party,” he says.
Away from the cameras he is loose and cheerful, but once the red light blinks, the mood changes. His voice flattens, his words become stripped back. Some might read it as coldness, but it is anything but nerves.
When BBC Sport begins a question, “If you win on Saturday you’ll make history…” Crawford interrupts firmly: “When I win on Saturday, I’ll make history.”
The certainty makes it clear – nothing outside the ring matters.
The city has a tangible buzz, a real big-fight weak feel. But this is not a fight born out of fan demand.
Crawford began at lightweight; Alvarez has climbed as high as light-heavyweight. On paper, it didn’t make sense.
Barely a year ago, Alvarez laughed off the idea of facing Crawford, saying he was too small, too risky and there was nothing to gain.
So what changed? The real driver is money, and the power brokers behind it.
This event marks the first marquee collaboration between Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh and UFC chief Dana White’s boxing venture.
Alalshikh wanted Alvarez and Crawford to face each other, and – as he does – he got what he wanted. The cheque-book did the convincing.
Alvarez will earn a reported purse of $150m (£111m). It’s the Hollywood treatment he’s come to expect, as he shows off his wealth at every turn – from his absurdly expensive watch collection to his fleet of luxury cars.
Crawford, long frustrated by smaller purses, will take home at least $10m (£7.4m), with the total pot expected to top $200m. Reported purses are often inflated, but give a taste of the fortunes involved.
Although Alvarez-Crawford has not been years in the making, special moments are built on special fighters.
Logical fights have been parked, however.
Alvarez, 35, has sidestepped the all-Mexican contest with David Benavidez, a fight fans were clamouring for. Crawford has put on hold a natural meeting with Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis.
Yet for all the contrivance, this match-up comes draped in the language of legacy.
Undisputed super-middleweight champion Canelo is fighting to protect a CV built on wins over Miguel Cotto, Gennady Golovkin, and Sergey Kovalev.
But Alvarez’s recent struggles – a loss to Dmitry Bivol and a less-than-convincing win over William Scull – have stirred doubts.
The Guadalajara fighter says he is not bothered about the naysayers.
A defeat by the smaller man, though, could shift how his career is remembered. It could even hasten the end.
Most fighters and pundits believe Crawford is so good he can bypass the conventional wisdom that weight divisions exist for a reason.
“It’s a fantastic fight but I just can’t see Canelo beating him,” Briton Amir Khan – the only fighter to face both – told BBC Sport.
“Crawford is untouchable and I see him winning by skill, movement and holding his weight well.”
A win would have Crawford rubbing elbows with heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk atop the pound-for-pound list.
He’d also emulate his close friend Claressa Shields, and become only the second boxer to become undisputed in three weight divisions in the four-belt era.
With Netflix broadcasting the bout globally, a win could make Crawford the face of boxing, even if he remains indifferent to the idea, with his focus on other matters.
“It’s going to put me in the top class where we’re talking about the greatest fighters of all time,” he says.
Still, Crawford is 37 – the older man in this equation. If he loses, the reasoning will be ‘he dared to be great and size matters’.
But this is not a risk-free proposition – the aura of invincibility which comes with an unbeaten record will fade.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted of attempting a coup in order to cling onto power following his loss in the country’s 2022 elections.
On Thursday, the populist ex-leader was found guilty by four out of five judges examining the case at Brazil’s Supreme Court, on all five counts he faced, making him the first Brazilian leader ever to be found guilty of an attempt to overturn an election. On house arrest in the lead-up to the verdict, he has now been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison.
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Bolsonaro, 70, has always denied the charges against him, but experts say a successful appeal is unlikely.
The landmark trial has set Latin America’s biggest economy on edge, with Bolsonaro’s tens of thousands of supporters denouncing the prosecution as a “witch-hunt” and calling for his release. Others, meanwhile, have rallied in support of the prosecution and have demanded Bolsonaro’s formal arrest.
Washington, DC, too, has kept a close eye on the trial, with President Donald Trump, a close ally of Bolsonaro, making it plain that he is deeply opposed to the prosecution. He cited his displeasure when announcing 50 percent trade tariffs for Brazil in July.
On Thursday, following the verdict, Trump told CNN that he had followed the trial and reiterated his support for Bolsonaro, whom he called “a good man”.
Earlier this week, the White House hinted it could use its “economic and military might” if Bolsonaro was handed a guilty verdict.
Here’s what we know about the verdict and what it could mean for United States-Brazil relations:
Bolsonaro was tried on the following charges:
He has now been found guilty of all five counts and sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison.
Four out of the five Supreme Court justices who heard the case supported a guilty verdict. The fifth had argued that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction to hear this case.
Hearings began on September 9 and concluded on Thursday this week when two final judges voted to convict Bolsonaro. A sentence was passed afterwards.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who led the case, sided with prosecutors’ arguments that Bolsonaro had planned to assassinate President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, his Vice President Geraldo Alckmin and De Moraes himself, in an operation codenamed Operation Green and Yellow Dagger.
Investigators presented evidence that Bolsonaro had gathered cabinet and military officials to discuss an emergency decree that would have suspended the October 2022 election results and prompted an investigation of unproven electoral fraud claims, ultimately allowing Bolsonaro to stay in power after he had already lost to leftist leader Da Silva.
De Moraes found that those efforts constituted a coup and cast doubt on the country’s electoral system. He also found Bolsonaro had encouraged the violent protests that broke out on January 8, 2023.
Bolsonaro denied all the charges. The embattled politician, who has been under house arrest at his home in the capital, Brasilia, since August, was not in court during the trial.
Seven of Bolsonaro’s allies were also convicted on related charges of a coup attempt. Their sentences have not been announced, but the judges are expected to convene on Friday to clarify that, according to the local news site, UOL.
Bolsonaro’s lawyer, Celso Vilardi, said the defence team would try to lodge appeals of both the conviction and sentence before all the Supreme Court’s 11 justices.
The court’s press office, responding to reporters, confirmed that according to the court’s jurisprudence, the full court can accept an appeal if there are at least two dissenting votes in a ruling, according to reporting by The Associated Press news agency.
However, only one of the five judges, Justice Luiz Fux, disagreed with prosecutors in the trial and called for Bolsonaro’s acquittal. It is not known if the court will accept an appeal yet.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman, reporting from the capital, Brasilia, on Thursday, said Bolsonaro’s supporters in Congress could also move to have the former president pardoned.
“(They) are already submitting an amnesty law, hopefully to get Bolsonaro off the hook so he won’t have to go to prison at all. Maybe house arrest, maybe no jail time at all. That’s still happening as I speak; it hasn’t (been concluded) yet,” she said.
The court panel now has up to 60 days to formally publish its ruling. After that, Bolsonaro’s lawyers have five days to file motions for clarification, which is a request for clearer language or better explanations of the ruling. That could provide some stalling time for the defence team.
However, once there is a firm sentence, Bolsonaro can go to prison. As ex-president, he will likely be granted special incarceration status and could be detained at the Federal Police’s main building in Brasilia, rather than in a regular prison, according to reporting by AP.
Reactions in Brazil were mixed after the final verdict was reached late in the day on Thursday.
Opponents of the ex-leader and supporters of the ruling Workers Party celebrated across the country. Meanwhile, hundreds of Bolsonaro’s supporters gathered in a vigil near the site of his house arrest to pray for him.
There were earlier fears of violent protests after Bolsonaro’s supporters had rallied in large numbers across the country throughout the week to support the ex-leader. Thousands in support of the trial also held counterprotests.
Trump and Bolsonaro are close allies, and the US president has long expressed his displeasure with the Brazilian government over the trial. He referred to the trial when announcing 50 percent trade tariffs for Brazil.
In July, he also posted on social media that Bolsonaro was “not guilty of anything, except having fought for THE PEOPLE” and told prosecutors to “LEAVE BOLSONARO ALONE!”
He praised Bolsonaro as a “strong leader” who “truly loved his country”.
President Lula fired back, saying “the defence of democracy in Brazil is a matter for Brazilians. We are a sovereign nation. We won’t accept interference or instruction from anyone. We have solid and independent institutions. No one is above the law. Especially those who attack freedom and the rule of law.”
Trump has also compared Bolsonaro’s prosecution to the legal cases he has faced between his own presidencies, including a prosecution for his alleged role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 US elections and inciting the riots and invasion of the US Capitol in DC on January 6, 2021 by his supporters.
Following the verdict against Bolsonaro on Thursday, Trump told reporters: “It’s very surprising that that could happen… I can only say this, I knew him as president of Brazil, and he was a good man.”
On Tuesday this week, White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt hinted that the US could react economically or even militarily if there was a guilty verdict.
Speaking at an event on Wednesday, Lula again responded. “We are a sovereign country and masters of our own nose. Brazil owes nothing to anyone when it comes to competence, resilience, and capacity,” he said.
In July, the US announced a 50 percent trading tariff for Brazil – even though it has a trading surplus with the Latin American country – citing the charges against Bolsonaro as politically motivated.
The high tariffs were “due in part to Brazil’s insidious attacks on Free Elections, and the fundamental Free Speech Rights of Americans”, Trump had said.
The US State Department also sanctioned Justice de Moraes, who led the Supreme Court panel for Bolsonaro’s trial, in July.
It accused De Moraes of suppressing freedom of expression and politicising prosecutions, including that of Bolsonaro. The judge, alongside his “allies” in the court, is now barred from obtaining a US visa. Any US property De Moraes might own will also be confiscated.
Some experts believe higher tariffs or sanctions, perhaps on government officials, could follow Bolsonaro’s guilty verdict.
Bolsonaro’s trial has soured relations between the leaders of the two countries.
Some Brazilian officials, including Lula, have denounced the US’s interference in the Bolsonaro case, and say the former leader should be tried for attempting to turn the US against his own country.
Lula, meanwhile, initially called for talks between the two nations. However, following the July tariff escalation by the US, the Brazilian president told reporters that there was “no point” in attempting to reason with Trump. The levies, Lula said, were imposed without conversation and done in an “authoritarian” manner.
On August 11, Brazil filed a request for dispute mediation to the World Trade Organization, complaining about the high tariffs. Brazil is also considering taking the Trump administration to a US court.
Separately, Lula has criticised US naval forces’ deployment in the Caribbean since August.
The US says its military forces are in the region to counter drug trafficking. However, the deployment comes as US threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom US President Donald Trump’s administration has accused of being closely linked with drug trafficking groups, have ramped up. Some see the military buildup as a pretext to attack Venezuela.