Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna attends a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine October 12, 2021. REUTERS/File Photo Ukraine said on Thursday it identified the body of journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, who had died in Russian captivity, and a forensic medical examination revealed signs of torture and ill-treatment. Viktoria Roshchyna died at the age of 27 last September after spending months in captivity.

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 50 people, many of them women and children, the territory’s Health Ministry said Thursday. The deadly strikes tore into residential buildings, a police station, and a tent for displaced Palestinians, among other locations. One strike in northern Gaza killed at least 18 people and another killed 11, including at least one child, according to Palestinian health officials.

PARIS - Seorang pelajar sekolah menengah memasuki sebuah sekolah di Nantes, barat Perancis dengan sebilah pisau dan menikam sekurang-kurangnya empat pelajar petang Khamis, lapor media tempatan memetik polis. Seorang daripada mangsa meninggal dunia akibat kecederaan, menurut BFMTV, memetik pelbagai sumber. Guru menghalang penyerang sebelum polis tiba, kata BFMTV, sambil menambah bahawa penyerang, seorang pelajar sekolah menengah tahun dua, telah ditahan.

PARIS - A high school student entered a school in western France's Nantes with a knife and stabbed at least four students Thursday afternoon, local media reported, citing the police. One of the victims died from injuries, according to BFMTV, citing multiple sources. Teachers stopped the attacker before police arrived, BFMTV said, adding that the attacker, a second-year high school student, has been detained.

JERUSALEM - Seorang pemandu kereta kebal Israel maut akibat tembakan penembak tepat di Semenanjung Gaza, kata tentera Israel dalam satu kenyataan pada Khamis. Askar itu, yang berkhidmat di Batalion ke-79 Briged Berperisai "Machatz", terbunuh "semasa pertempuran di utara Gaza," kata tentera, sambil menambah bahawa keluarganya telah dimaklumkan tentang kematiannya. Nama askar yang terbunuh itu masih belum diumumkan untuk penerbitan. Selain itu, seorang pegawai di Unit Yahalom dan seorang anggota simpanan dari batalion yang sama cedera parah dalam kejadian itu dan dipindahkan ke hospital, menurut kenyataan itu.

JERUSALEM - An Israeli tank driver was killed by sniper fire in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said in a statement on Thursday. The soldier, who served in the 79th Battalion of the "Machatz" Armored Brigade, was killed "during combat in northern Gaza," the military said, adding that his family had been notified of his death. The slain soldier's name has not yet been cleared for publication.

Serangan gabungan peluru berpandu dan dron Rusia semalaman mencetuskan kebakaran, menghancurkan bangunan dan menimbus penduduk di bawah runtuhan di ibu kota Ukraine Kyiv, membunuh sembilan orang dan mencederakan lebih 70, kata Perkhidmatan Kecemasan Negeri pada Khamis. Enam kanak-kanak dilaporkan antara yang cedera. "Terdapat kemusnahan. Pencarian diteruskan untuk orang di bawah runtuhan," tulis Perkhidmatan Kecemasan Negeri di aplikasi pemesejan Telegram. Insiden paling serius adalah di sebuah bangunan pangsapuri yang musnah di daerah Sviatoshynskyi di barat pusat bandar.

An overnight Russian combined missile and drone attack triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing nine people and injuring more than 70, the State Emergency Service said on Thursday. Six children were reported to be among the injured. "There has been destruction. The search is continuing for people under rubble," the State Emergency Service wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Jackson Rodriguez dari Emelec Ecuador memberi reaksi semasa perlawanan bola sepak pusingan kedua 16 Copa Sudamericana menentang Defensa y Justicia dari Argentina di stadium Unico Diego Armando Maradona di La Plata, Argentina, Selasa, 8 Ogos 2023. AP/Fail QUITO, Ecuador - Isteri pemain bola sepak Ecuador Jackson Rodríguez dan anak berusia 5 tahun diculik awal Rabu, polis melaporkan, apabila lelaki memecah masuk ke rumah mereka untuk mencari pemain pertahanan Emelec itu, yang memberitahu penyiasat dia bersembunyi di bawah katil.

Jackson Rodriguez of Ecuador’s Emelec reacts during a Copa Sudamericana round of 16 second leg soccer match against Argentina’s Defensa y Justicia at the Unico Diego Armando Maradona stadium in La Plata, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. AP/File QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuadorian soccer player Jackson Rodríguez’s wife and 5-year-old child were kidnapped early Wednesday, police reported, when men broke into their home in search of the Emelec defender, who told investigators he hid under a bed.

Seorang wartawan Rusia yang terperangkap dalam serangan artileri Ukraine bulan lalu meninggal dunia akibat kecederaannya di hospital, kata penerbitannya awal Khamis. Nikita Goldin, yang bekerja untuk Televisyen Zvezda tentera, adalah sebahagian daripada kumpulan yang diserang di bahagian kawalan Moscow di wilayah Luhansk di timur laut Ukraine pada 24 Mac. Enam orang maut dalam serangan itu, termasuk dua lagi wartawan dan pemandu mereka.

A Russian journalist caught in a Ukrainian artillery strike last month died of his wounds in hospital, his publication said early on Thursday. Nikita Goldin, who worked for the military's Zvezda Television, was part of a group that came under attack in a Moscow-controlled part of Luhansk region in northeastern Ukraine on March 24. Six people died in the strike, including two other journalists and their driver.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Bumbung runtuh di sebuah kelab malam popular di Republik Dominican dan mengorbankan 232 orang bulan ini mengalami masalah penapisan selama beberapa dekad dan telah berulang kali diperbaiki dengan papan eternit, menurut pemiliknya. Antonio Espaillat, yang juga berkhidmat sebagai pengurus kelab malam Jet Set di ibu negara Dominican Santo Domingo, bercakap dengan stesen TV tempatan Telesistema pada Rabu dalam wawancara pertamanya sejak bencana 8 April.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A roof that collapsed at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic and killed 232 people this month had filtration problems for decades and had been repeatedly fixed with plasterboard, according to its owner. Antonio Espaillat, who also serves as manager of the Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo, spoke with local TV station Telesistema on Wednesday in his first interview since the April 8 disaster.

JENIN, April 23 – A twelve-year-old Palestinian boy was killed after being shot by Israeli forces in the town of Yamoun west of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health. The ministry identified the victim as 12-year-old Mahmoud Mithqal Ali Abu al-Haijja, who succumbed to critical wounds he sustained after being struck by Israeli forces’ live ammunition.

JENIN, 23 April – Seorang budak lelaki Palestin berusia dua belas tahun terbunuh selepas ditembak oleh tentera Israel di pekan Yamoun di barat Jenin, di utara Tebing Barat yang diduduki, menurut Kementerian Kesihatan. Kementerian itu mengenal pasti mangsa sebagai Mahmoud Mithqal Ali Abu al-Haijja, 12 tahun, yang meninggal dunia akibat kecederaan kritikal dialaminya selepas terkena peluru hidup tentera Israel. Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah Palestin (PRCS) melaporkan, krunya mengangkut kanak-kanak itu, yang mengalami luka tembakan maut di pipi dan perut, dari Pusat Perubatan al-Hadaf di Yamoun ke Hospital Kerajaan Jenin. WAFA

KYIV - Tentera Ukraine berkata pada Rabu ia melanda tapak pengeluaran dron jarak jauh Rusia di Tatarstan, merosakkan barisan pemasangan terakhir. Semasa perang selama tiga tahun, Rusia telah menggunakan secara meluas Shahed dan jenis dron serangan lain untuk serangan di seluruh Ukraine. Pada malam Rabu, Ukraine berkata ia telah menjatuhkan 134 dron Rusia. "Setakat ini, diketahui bahawa kerosakan berpunca daripada barisan pemasangan akhir UAV (Kenderaan Udara Tanpa Pemandu)," kata kakitangan am Ukraine di aplikasi Telegram, sambil menambah bahawa kapasiti pengeluaran kilang itu ialah 300 dron setiap hari.

KYIV - Ukraine’s military said on Wednesday it had hit a Russian long-range drone production site in Tatarstan, damaging the final assembly line. In the course of the three-year-old war, Russia has been extensively using Shahed and other types of attack drones for strikes across Ukraine. On Wednesday night, Ukraine said it had downed 134 Russian drones. “As of now, it is known that damage was caused to the final assembly line of the UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles),” Ukraine’s general staff said on the Telegram app, adding that the plant’s production capacity is 300 drones per day.

QUETTA, Pakistan - Lelaki bersenjata yang menunggang motosikal menembak dan membunuh dua pegawai keselamatan yang ditugaskan melindungi pekerja polio di barat daya Pakistan yang bergolak pada Rabu sebelum melarikan diri dari tempat kejadian, kata polis. Serangan itu berlaku di kawasan perumahan di Mastung, sebuah daerah di Balochistan, menurut Mohammad Arif, seorang pegawai polis tempatan. Tiada siapa yang segera mengaku bertanggungjawab atas serangan itu.

QUETTA, Pakistan - Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed two security officials assigned to protect polio workers in restive southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday before fleeing the scene, police said. The attack occurred in a residential area of Mastung, a district in Balochistan, according to Mohammad Arif, a local police official. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

ISTANBUL - Gempa bumi dengan magnitud awal 6.2 menggegarkan Istanbul dan kawasan lain di Turki pada Rabu, menyebabkan panik yang meluas dan sejumlah orang cedera di bandar berpenduduk 16 juta orang itu, walaupun tiada laporan segera mengenai kerosakan serius. Sekurang-kurangnya 236 orang dirawat kerana kecederaan yang mereka alami semasa cuba melompat dari bangunan atau kerana panik — kebanyakan mereka di Istanbul, di mana penduduk berada dalam keadaan cemas kerana bandar itu dianggap berisiko tinggi untuk gempa bumi besar.

ISTANBUL - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas of Turkey on Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the city of 16 million people, though there were no immediate reports of serious damage. At least 236 people were treated for injuries they suffered while trying to jump from buildings or for panic attacks — most of them in Istanbul, where residents are on tenterhooks because the city is considered at high risk for a major quake.

ISTANBUL - Gempa bumi dengan magnitud awal 6.2 menggegarkan Istanbul dan kawasan lain pada Rabu, menyebabkan panik yang meluas dan sejumlah kecederaan di bandar Turki yang mempunyai 16 juta penduduk itu, walaupun tiada laporan segera mengenai kerosakan serius. Lebih 150 orang dimasukkan ke hospital dengan kecederaan yang dialami ketika cuba terjun dari bangunan, kata pejabat gabenor di Istanbul, di mana penduduk berada dalam keadaan cemas kerana bandar itu dianggap berisiko tinggi untuk gempa bumi besar.

ISTANBUL - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the Turkish city of 16 million people, though there were no immediate reports of serious damage. More than 150 people were hospitalized with injuries sustained while trying to jump from buildings, said the governor’s office in Istanbul, where residents are on tenterhooks because the city is considered at high risk for a major quake.

KAHERAH/GAZA - Serangan udara Israel ke atas sebuah sekolah yang melindungi keluarga pelarian di utara Gaza membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 10 orang pada Rabu, manakala satu lagi melanda hospital kanak-kanak, kata pegawai perubatan, ketika tiga pemimpin Eropah menggesa Israel menamatkan sekatannya terhadap bantuan. Sejak gencatan senjata Januari runtuh pada 18 Mac, serangan Israel telah membunuh lebih daripada 1,600 rakyat Palestin, menurut pihak berkuasa kesihatan Gaza, dan ratusan ribu telah dipaksa keluar dari rumah mereka ketika Israel merampas apa yang dipanggil zon penampan tanah Gaza.