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BBCCan the Fort Hood shooter’s execution be livestreamed?US President Donald Trump has called off plans to livestream the execution of former US army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan by firing squad.Trump had previously said he approved of showing online the death of the Fort Hood attacker, while Vice-President JD Vance cast doubt on whether it would happen and said he would not watch it.As criticism over the public display mounted, Trump said on Thursday that “many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die”. “He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be…
Getty ImagesAt least 33 pupils and a teacher have been killed after a school roof collapsed in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to hospital officials.More than a dozen others are injured, with some in a critical condition. Several children are feared to be trapped under the rubble.Emergency services were alerted to the incident at the private Al-Khair school in Dir Colony at 08:48 (03:48 GMT) on Thursday after lessons had begun, a rescue official said.He told the BBC the roof of an upper-floor classroom had collapsed, causing ceilings below to cave in as well.”The children in the affected…
LIVE’They were lovely’, say fans during Harry and Meghan’s first joint tour in Nottingham since UK returnThey are in Nottingham, where they made their first joint appearance after announcing their engagement in 2017.
PA MediaBarack Obama warned that online platforms were stoking anger and fear in peopleBarack Obama has told an audience in Glasgow that hope is worth fighting for despite big challenges facing the modern world.The 44th president of the United States said online platforms had shifted in recent years to focus on content that stoked anger and fear, but he believes a drift to extremism is “not inevitable”. The comments came as he addressed an OVO Hydro crowd of 12,150 people while in conversation with British journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera, part of three speaking dates in the UK.He reflected on…
Reuters/DOJA recording device (R) was wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into a TV (L)A Saudi national who worked for OpenAI appeared in court this week for allegedly planting a secret recording device behind a TV in one of the tech giant’s meeting rooms. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old engineer, was arrested by the FBI and charged with using or attempting to use a device “to intercept oral communications”.As yet, it is not clear what he was planning to do with the recordings. But, here’s we do know so far.The engineer asked AI to help him listen in to discussions about…
Getty ImagesThe recent floods in Nepal have highlighted the need for cross-border co-operation in the Himalayan regionNepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah used much of his speech at the recent UN General Assembly to warn of the growing threat of climate-related disasters in the Himalayas, recalling the devastating debris floods that struck his country in August.But it was his ambitious proposal to bring together regional rivals India and China, alongside Nepal, to tackle these shared threats that drew particular attention.Shah called for the creation of a Himalayan Climate Resilience Mechanism to strengthen cross-border disaster response and the sharing of scientific data…
LIVEAt least 28 killed in Pakistan school roof collapse as rescuers search for survivorsIn a statement, the office of Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari says “this heart-wrenching tragedy has plunged the entire nation into shock”.
EPAElon Musk has suggested that the US government may be behind restrictions on the speed at which some of Ukraine’s weapons can travel and stay connected to SpaceX’s Starlink internet network.Starlink is a vital tool allowing Kyiv to guide drones to Russian targets and also protect its own skies, but on Tuesday night Ukraine said unexpected new speed limits were disrupting its battlefield missions.An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the restrictions were not a coincidence and were related to the latest strains between Kyiv and Washington.Musk said that Starshield, the military-grade sister service to Starlink, is controlled…
Getty ImagesNidal Hasan in 2010A group of 72 retired US generals, admirals, and other high-ranking military officers are pressing the US government to cancel plans to livestream an execution by firing squad.”We ask the President, our Congressional representatives, and our fellow citizens to act to prevent this barbaric abuse of authority,” they wrote in a letter where they also argued the livestream would turn the mass killer into a “martyr”.Last week, the Pentagon announced it would publicly show the 3 December execution of Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 unarmed US soldiers at the Fort Hood military…
BBCBBC Verify has identified 254 incidents in which the Israeli military has been accused of killing or injuring people in Gaza, Lebanon, the occupied West Bank and Israel that it said it was investigating, but have no public outcome.Using purpose-built AI tools, BBC Verify combed through more than 60,000 news reports and examined hundreds of incidents in which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) faced allegations of harm since the start of the Gaza war. Following extensive manual checking of each incident, we found 300 cases that the military said it was looking into, only 28 of which had outcomes published…