Michigan synagogue attacker's brother was Hezbollah commander, IDF says

Getty Images view of the Temple Israel sign out front of the synagogue, with police cars and yellow tape in view Getty Images

A brother of the man accused of attacking a Michigan synagogue on Thursday had been a Hezbollah commander who was killed in an air strike last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says.

Police say Ayman Muhammad Ghazali died after driving a car full of explosives into the Temple Israel synagogue. Members of his family, including two brothers, had reportedly been killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon in March.

The IDF said his brother Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali had managed weapons operations for the Badr Unit in Hezbollah, a


Sweden detains captain of Russian shadow fleet ship

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Members of the Swedish coast guard boarded the Sea Owl One while it was in territorial waters

A Swedish court has ordered the detention of the Russian captain of a ship suspected of sailing under a false flag as part of Moscow's shadow fleet.

The man, who has not been named, appeared in court in Ystad after being arrested on Friday by the Swedish Prosecution Authority on suspicion of using forged documents.

Members of the coast guard boarded the Sea Owl One in Swedish waters, where it was sailing under


How Iranians are evading internet blocks to contact family abroad

Faren Taghizadeh BBC Persian

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Iranians have been figuring out how to bypass wartime restrictions on the internet and phone network (file photo from 2025)

On the Iran-Turkey border a man sells a service that helps Iranians outside their country keep in touch with loved ones inside.

His secret is two phones - one connected to the Iranian phone network and one to the Turkish. It's necessary because international calls into Iran are blocked.

Customers outside Iran call his Turkish phone on WhatsApp and he

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French police detain brothers over 'lethal and antisemitic' plot

AFP via Getty Images Police officers sit in parked car near the French border in Calais, France, on Monday, 18 March 2019 AFP via Getty Images

French anti-terror prosecutors have opened an investigation into two brothers suspected of plotting a "lethal and antisemitic" attack.

They say the men – described as Moroccan-Italian nationals aged 20 and 22 – were picked up last week in a car in northern France.

Officers found a loaded semi-automatic weapon, a bottle of hydrochloric acid and a flag of the Islamic State group in the vehicle, the prosecutors say.

As the current war in the Middle East enters its third week,


Ugandan opposition leader goes abroad after two months in hiding

Reuters A close-up shot of Bobi Wine looking at the camera while sitting down. He is wearing a blue suit and has short hair and a beard. Reuters
"Running for president is not a crime," says Bobi Wine

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he has left the country after spending two months in hiding following January's disputed election.

Bobi Wine says he has gone abroad for "critical engagements" and to help mobilise the international community against President Yoweri Museveni.

The pop star turned politician, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, repeated his claim to have won the presidential election, saying it had been rigged in favour of Museveni, who has been in

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Zelensky accuses EU allies of 'blackmail' in oil pipeline row

James Landale Diplomatic correspondent, Kyiv

Bloomberg via Getty Images Men stand near the Druzhba crude oil pipeline near Stryi, western Ukraine, in 2009. The pipeline is situated on large orange pillars in a field. Bloomberg via Getty Images
File photo of part of the Druzhba pipeline pictured near Stryi, western Ukraine, in 2009

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused European allies of seeking to "blackmail" Kyiv into reopening a pipeline transporting Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.

He said restoring the flow of Russian crude oil through Ukraine into the European Union (EU) would be like lifting economic sanctions on Moscow.

Ukraine says the Soviet-era Druzhba oil pipeline was damaged by Russian air strikes in

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian couple and two of their children in occupied West Bank

Jo Floto Middle East bureau chief

Reuters A woman has her arms around children, comforting them as they mourn the deaths of members of a Palestinian family in Tammoun, occupied West Bank. Reuters
Palestinians gathered to mourn the deaths of the family in Tammoun

A Palestinian husband and wife, and two of their young children, have been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

The Bani Odeh family were travelling in their car in the town of Tammum, in the northern West Bank, when Israeli forces opened fire.

Two of their other children were injured but survived.

Israeli authorities said a joint operation by the army and Israel's paramilitary border police was taking


Severe flooding kills 62 in Kenya, as heavy rains continue

Joseph Winter and

Richard Kagoe , Nairobi

EPA A man rides a motorbike through brown flood water next to a damaged car after it was swept away by floods at Grogon garage area, known for automotive workshops and auto spares along the banks of the Nairobi River in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, 07 March 2026. EPA
Nairobi has been worst hit by the flooding over the past week

At least 62 people have died in Kenya over the past week after heavy rains caused widespread flooding, the authorities say.

The previous death toll, released a week ago, was 42.

Overnight, 11 people were rescued after a minibus taxi, known locally as a matatu, got stuck as water rose in the capital Nairobi, according to the Kenya Red Cross, while two children were saved from a

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US names six crew killed in refuelling plane crash in Iraq

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A file photo of a US Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refuelling tanker

The US military has named all six crew members who were killed when their refuelling aircraft crashed in Iraq.

The Pentagon said the airmen on board the KC-135 plane were: John Klinner, 33, from Alabama; Ariana Savino, 31, from Washington; Ashley Pruitt, 34, from Kentucky; Seth Koval, 38, from Indiana; Curtis Angst, 30

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My letter to my dead daughter - after forgiving the man who killed her

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Kate Grosmaire says she has found peace after forgiving the man who murdered her daughter

Ann Grosmaire was shot dead by her boyfriend not long after turning 19.

Nearly 16 years on, Ann's mother Kate says she's forgiven the man who took her daughter's life.

"Forgiveness allowed us to move forward and heal," she says. "Do we continue to feel grief?

"Of course we do. But we aren't imprisoned by our grief."

Kate has now

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