Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, UN investigators say.

The report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission accuses the group of "murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and persecution on ethnic, gender and political grounds".

It also cited broader evidence of alleged war crimes by both the RSF and the regular army, however both sides have previously denied any wrongdoing in the country's ongoing civil war.

The UN report said the two groups targeted civilians in numerous ways and as deliberate strategies.

"Both sides have deliberately targeted civilians through attacks, summary executions, arbitrary detention, torture, and inhuman treatment in detention facilities, including denial of food, sanitation, and medical care," said Fact-Finding Mission chair, Mohamed Chande Othman.

"These are not accidental tragedies but deliberate strategies amounting to war crimes."

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Highlighting the RSF's actions in el-Fasher, the report accused the group of using starvation as a method of warfare that might amount to the crime of extermination.

In April, the RSF stormed the Zamzam camp near el-Fasher, forcing tens of thousands of the world's most destitute people to flee their homes once more. The situation in the camp was already so bad that a famine had been declared there.

The city of el-Fasher has been under siege for more than a year and is the Sudanese army's last major foothold in the Darfur region of the country.

The US has accused the RSF of committing genocide against Darfur's non-Arabic population. The paramilitary group has denied responsibility and blames the violence on local militias.

The US has also placed sanctions on army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan blaming him for civilian deaths and using food deprivation as a weapon of war.

The army has been at war with the RSF since April 2023, with the latter recently intensifying its offensive on el-Fasher, local people have previously told the BBC.

Recent research conducted by Yale University analysing satellite images showed that 31km (19 miles) of raised banks had been built since May in areas populated by the RSF just outside the city, and that there was an intention to essentially trap civilians.

The report, titled "A War of Atrocities" called on the international community to enforce an arms embargo as well as set up an independent judicial process to ensure alleged perpetrators face justice.

"Our findings leave no room for doubt: civilians are paying the highest price in this war," Mr Othman added.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Sudan's civil war and forced some 13 million to flee their homes.

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Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector - the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where.

The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favouring its own products for displaying online ads, to the detriment of rivals.

It comes amid increased scrutiny by regulators worldwide over the tech giant's empire in online search and advertising.

Google told the BBC the Commission's decision was "wrong" and it would appeal.

"It imposes an unjustified fine and requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money," said Lee-Anne Mulholland, global head of regulatory affairs at Google.

"There's nothing anti-competitive in providing services for ad buyers and sellers, and there are more alternatives to our services than ever before."

In its decision on Friday, the Commission accused Google of "self-preferencing" its own technology above others.

As part of its findings, it said Google had intentionally boosted its own advertising exchange, AdX, over competing exchanges where ads are bought and sold in real-time.

Competitors and publishers faced higher costs and reduced revenues as a result, it said, claiming these may have been passed to consumers in the form of more expensive services.

The regulator has ordered the company to bring such practices to an end, as well as pay the nearly €3bn penalty.

Third time rules broken

The Commission's fine is one of the largest fines it has handed down to tech companies accused of breaching its competition rules to date.

In 2018 it fined Google €4.34bn (£3.9bn) - accusing the company of using its Android operating system to cement itself as the dominant player in that market.

Teresa Ribera, executive vice president of the Commission, said in a statement on Friday the regulator had factored in previous findings of Google's anti-competitive conduct when deciding to levy a higher fine.

"In line with our usual practice, we increased Google's fine since this is the third time Google breaks the rules of the game," she said.

Ms Ribera also warned the tech giant it had 60 days to detail how it would change its practices, or else the Commission would look to impose its own solution.

"At this stage, it appears the only way for Google to end its conflict of interest effectively is with a structural remedy, such as selling some part of its ad tech business," she said.

Earlier this week, the Commission denied reports it had delayed the announcement of Google's fine amid tensions over trade relations between the EU and the US.

President Donald Trump has frequently criticised the bloc's fines and enforcement actions against US tech firms in recent months, saying concerns have been shared by some tech executives.

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Israeli strikes and demolitions have destroyed dozens of buildings in areas of Gaza City, satellite images show, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its offensive has established control over 40% of the city.

The new images reviewed by BBC Verify show that intensive bombardments and controlled explosions have levelled several neighbourhoods over the past four weeks.

Rows of tents - which have sprung up over the city to shelter Palestinians displaced by the Israeli military campaign - have also disappeared over the past month, the images show.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel's intention to seize all of the strip and launch an incursion into Gaza City after indirect talks with Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage release deal broke down in July.

UN humanitarian officials have warned that the impact of a full-blown offensive would be "beyond catastrophic". Strikes have intensified in areas of Gaza City in recent weeks and dozens of Palestinians have been killed in attacks this week alone according to the Hamas-run health ministry and civil defence agency.

Satellite images show that significant damage has already occurred in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan, Zeitoun and Tuffah neighbourhoods in recent weeks. The photos show that dozens of buildings in the city were levelled between August and September.

In a statement to BBC Verify, the IDF said it was "locating and destroying terror infrastructures embedded, among other things, inside buildings".

In Sheikh Radwan - a neighbourhood located about three kilometres from Gaza City centre - a number of buildings have been wiped away. BBC Verify previously geolocated footage of strikes carried out by the IDF to the area on 29 August.

The images clearly show track marks left by Israeli armoured vehicles, many of which pass through sections of the neighbourhood where buildings and trees once stood.

BBC Verify also geolocated footage of an explosion which levelled dozens of high-rise buildings as part of a demolition in the adjacent Jabalia area.

The footage, which first appeared online on 31 August, mirrors similar demolitions carried out by Israeli forces in southern Gaza. Thousands of buildings in areas including Rafah and Khan Younis have been demolished by controlled explosions and demolition contractors in the area, a BBC Verify investigation revealed last month.

In Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood images show what appear to be four clusters of IDF armoured vehicles. In a 24-hour period between 1 and 2 September, dozens of buildings which had stood in an area between the vehicles have been demolished.

By 4 September the armoured vehicles had moved on, images reviewed by BBC Verify showed, with further damage inflicted on buildings in the area.

Elsewhere in Zeitoun, rows of tents set up by displaced Palestinians have disappeared in little over a month. According to the UN, more than 1.9 million Gazans - about 90% of the population - have been displaced by the Israeli military campaign.

According to the UN, hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting had returned to northern Gaza earlier this year after the Israeli military opened a corridor from the south of the strip during the short-lived ceasefire agreement.

High-rise buildings which had surrounded the tents have also been destroyed, while signs of activity on the streets have also disappeared. Fresh track marks left by IDF vehicles passing through areas where buildings once stood are also visible.

Similarly, in the Tuffah neighbourhood - where Israeli strikes killed at least eight people on Thursday, according to the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency - more buildings have been levelled.

On 1 August IDF armoured vehicles were visible in the area. By 1 September buildings near where the vehicles were active had been destroyed, including a school.

The images also appear to show fresh tracks left by armoured vehicles crossing through a cemetery, where over 3,000 troops killed fighting for the British Empire in World War 1 are buried. The cemetery has already been heavily damaged by bombardments earlier in the conflict, with a crater left by a previous strike also visible.

An IDF spokesperson told BBC Verify, without providing evidence, that: "In certain cases, entire neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip are converted into combat complexes which are utilized for ambushes, housing command and control centres and weapon warehouses, combat tunnels, observation posts, firing positions, booby-trapped houses, and for setting explosives in the streets."

Last month, Hamas said it had accepted a plan from regional mediators Qatar and Egypt that would see 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 dead hostages released during a 60-day truce in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails.

Israel has not responded to the plan but insists all the hostages must be released in one go.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led 7 October attack, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 more were taken hostage.

At least 64,231 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

Additional reporting by Paul Brown and Merlyn Thomas.

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Hamas has released a video showing two Israeli hostages seized from a music festival during its cross-border attack in October 2023.

The video claims to show Guy Gilboa-Dalal in Gaza City in late August, where he says he and eight others are being held and will remain despite Israel's planned ground offensive. It also shows captive Alon Ohel.

Earlier videos of hostages released by their captors in Gaza have been condemned by world leaders and families as propaganda.

Israel's far-right national security minister called for the full occupation of Gaza in response, claiming this was the only way to "bring back the hostages in security".

The video shows Mr Gilboa-Dalal, who was seized from the Nova festival in southern Israel, pleading for his release. In footage dated 28 August, he is filmed in a car in what he says is Gaza City.

The footage also shows Mr Ohel for the first time since he was seized in the attack 700 days ago. Mr Gilboa-Dalal was previously seen in a Hamas video in February.

They are two of the 48 hostages still being held by Hamas, 20 of whom are thought to be alive.

Defence minister Israel Katz meanwhile said Israeli military activity would "intensify" until Hamas accepted Israel's conditions to end the war, which include the release of release of all hostages, threatening that the armed group would be "destroyed" otherwise.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid urged Israeli negotiators to resume talks on a ceasefire deal to free the hostages.

On Friday, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 30 Palestinians had been killed in the territory in the past 24 hours, including 20 in Gaza City.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it had struck a tower block there, which it claimed was being used by Hamas.

It said precautionary measures had been taken to mitigate harm to civilians, "including advance warnings to the population" and the use of "precise munitions".

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans a month ago to take control of Gaza City after indirect talks with Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage release deal broke down in July.

Israel has intensified its operations around Gaza City in recent weeks, and says its offensive has established control of some 40% of the city, which it claims is a stronghold of Hamas.

The UN and aid groups have warned that the offensive was already having "horrific humanitarian consequences" for displaced families sheltering in the city, which is home to a million people and where a famine was declared last month.

Satellite imagery shows several neighbourhoods in parts of the city have been levelled by Israeli strikes and demolitions over the past month.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led 7 October attack in 2023, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 more were taken hostage.

At least 64,231 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry.

As Sonia Silva prepared to leave work on Wednesday evening, she was asked by a colleague to help with a quick task.

It meant she missed her regular funicular ride down the hill with a work friend on their commute home from the office in the centre of Lisbon.

When she arrived at the stop a short while later, the funicular had crashed and her friend was dead.

"When I got there, it was a tragedy," she said.

Sixteen people were killed on Wednesday evening in Lisbon when its iconic 140-year-old Glória funicular derailed and crashed into a building. The Portuguese prime minister has described it as "one of the biggest human tragedies of our recent history".

Many of those killed were foreign nationals, including three British people whose identities have not yet been announced. Police say five killed were Portuguese - and four of them worked at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia charity, located at the top of the hill.

A service was held on Friday in a church next to the charity's headquarters, honouring the workers killed in the crash. The service was crowded, with people filling the aisles and any other available space.

As they left, colleagues wept and supported each other as they tried to make sense of what had happened. Several told the BBC that they regularly used the funicular as part of their commute.

Sitting on a bench outside, Sonia said she had worked at the charity for eight years and used the funicular each day.

"I can't express [how I feel] - it's very difficult. I am grateful but at the same time I'm very, very angry because my colleagues and lots of people died," she said.

She said she would travel to and from work each day with her colleague Sandra Coelho.

"I was very fond of her because I always took the funicular with her - going home and in the morning. It's very difficult because I'm not going to see her anymore," she said through tears, as colleagues comforted her.

On their commute, she said the two women would gossip and talk about their days.

"We'd talk about colleagues, work, everything. We'd meet in the morning and when we finished," she said.

Others around the church also mourned the loss of friends and tried to process what had happened.

"It's awful, we are devastated. It's difficult to work at the moment," said Lurdes Henriques.

"We're always thinking about our colleagues and wondering 'did they suffer?' They could be here with us now. We are deeply, deeply sad."

"It could have been any one of us - all of us used this kind of transport and we felt very confident in it," said Tania, another worker at the charity.

Rui Franco, a city councillor whose close friend and former colleague Alda Matias was killed in Wednesday's crash, said he was in shock.

"She was about my age. She had a family, children and I can't imagine if it was me what would be happening to my family. She was a great person… with a very solid way of acting in the world," he said.

Mr Franco said he was "already angry" when he first learned of the fatal crash, "then when I understood I knew the people involved, the rage [became] overwhelming".

While an investigation into the cause of the crash is under way, there was much speculation among mourners.

"It was always overcrowded," one said, while another blamed poor maintenance.

The leader of the rail workers union Fectrans claimed that some workers had complained that problems with the tension of the cable that hauls the carriages had made braking difficult.

"Even planes fall out of the sky sometimes. Accidents happen," said another woman.

Several told the BBC that whatever the cause, they could not imagine using the funicular again.

"I've told everyone I'm not going to use it anymore," said Sonia before heading back into the office, flanked by work friends.

US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people allegedly in the country illegally.

The 3,000-acre site, which was built by the Korean automobile manufacturer to make electric vehicles, had been operational for a year.

The Department of Homeland Security told the BBC's US partner CBS News that agents executed a search warrant due to allegations of "unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes".

Korean nationals were among those detained, the South Korean foreign ministry said, calling it an "unjust infringement" of their rights.

"The economic activities of Korean investment companies and the rights and interests of Korean citizens must not be unfairly infringed upon during US law enforcement operations," the statement said.

The ministry added that it was dispatching diplomats to the site.

"In Seoul, we also conveyed our concerns and regrets today through the US Embassy in Korea and urged them to exercise extreme caution to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of Korean citizens are not infringed upon."

The state's governor, Republican Brian Kemp, had touted Hyundai's new electric vehicle operation as the biggest economic development project in the state's history, employing 1,200 people.

The search by federal agencies had also shut down construction on an adjacent battery plant, CBS News reports.

President Trump campaigned for his second term in office on the back of a pledge to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants although he said the priority would be those who committed crimes.

Portugal is in mourning after at least 17 people died and some 20 more were injured when Lisbon's famous funicular cable railway derailed on Wednesday evening.

A transport worker was among those killed, while a three-year-old German boy was reported to have escaped with minor injuries.

Those hurt include four Portuguese, and 11 foreign nationals from Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, South Korea, Morocco and Cape Verde, according to emergency services.

Police have not yet confirmed the identities of those who died, but here is what we do know about the victims.

Transport worker and German father among the dead

Among the dead are seven men and eight women, and foreigners, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon's Civil Protection Agency, said on Thursday.

Some foreign nationals were also killed, but where they were from remains unclear.

Portuguese transport union Sitra said André Jorge Gonçalves Marques, who worked as the brake guard on the funicular, was among the dead.

In a statement on Facebook, the union wrote: "We send our condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the accident and wish them a speedy recovery as well as the best recovery to the others injured in the accident."

Ms Martins said the injured include 12 women and seven men aged between 24 and 65, and a three-year-old child.

Local media reported that a German family-of-three were on board the funicular when it crashed.

The father died at the scene, Portuguese news outlet Observador reported, while the mother was said to be in a critical condition in hospital, and a three-year-old boy sustained minor injuries.

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What we still don't know

The Glória funicular can carry about 40 passengers and is extremely popular with tourists - but it is also crucial for the city's residents, to help them travel up and down Lisbon's hilly streets.

We don't know how many people were on board, or the identity of all those who died. The death toll and number of people injured could change in the coming hours.

We also don't know if any UK nationals are involved - the UK foreign office has said it is aware of the incident and is ready to provide consular assistance to any affected British nationals.

US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people allegedly in the country illegally.

The 3,000-acre site, which was built by the Korean automobile manufacturer to make electric vehicles, had been operational for a year.

The Department of Homeland Security told the BBC's US partner CBS News that agents executed a search warrant due to allegations of "unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes".

Korean nationals were among those detained, the South Korean foreign ministry said, calling it an "unjust infringement" of their rights.

"The economic activities of Korean investment companies and the rights and interests of Korean citizens must not be unfairly infringed upon during US law enforcement operations," the statement said.

The ministry added that it was dispatching diplomats to the site.

"In Seoul, we also conveyed our concerns and regrets today through the US Embassy in Korea and urged them to exercise extreme caution to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of Korean citizens are not infringed upon."

The state's governor, Republican Brian Kemp, had touted Hyundai's new electric vehicle operation as the biggest economic development project in the state's history, employing 1,200 people.

The search by federal agencies had also shut down construction on an adjacent battery plant, CBS News reports.

President Trump campaigned for his second term in office on the back of a pledge to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants although he said the priority would be those who committed crimes.

Elon Musk will receive a pay package worth over $1tn (£740bn) if he hits a list of ambitious targets over the next decade, the board of Tesla has proposed.

The chief executive of the car firm would not get a salary or bonus under the plan, which depends Tesla's value soaring more than eightfold alongside other moonshot goals.

It comes after Musk, who is already the world's richest person, was awarded $29bn in shares last month after his original $50bn award was struck down by a US court for being "unfair to shareholders".

Tesla's board urged investors to vote in favour of the package revealed on Friday which chair Robyn Denholm said "will drive peak performance from our visionary leader".

To get the $1tn package, Musk would need to boost one of Tesla's earning figures 24-fold, put a million robotaxis into operation, sell a million artificial intelligence robots, and sell another 12 million Tesla cars.

"Growth that may seem impossible today can be unlocked with new ideas, better technology and greater innovation," Ms Denholm said.

"Simply put, retaining and incentivising Elon is fundamental to Tesla achieving these goals and becoming the most valuable company in history."

Dan Coatsworth, investment analyst at AJ Bell, said the suggested pay award "beggars belief".

"Is one person worth that much?" he asked.

Mr Coatsworth added that Musk "presides over a company that has lost its edge, is being overtaken by rivals, and whose brand has been tarnished by Musk's actions outside of Tesla."

He continued: "Surely Musk should be fighting for his job, not Tesla's board fighting to keep him?"

The board's unprecedented pay proposal comes just months after it was forced to deny reports that it was looking to replace Musk.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal in May, which Tesla said was "absolutely false", the board had hired headhunters to replace Musk because he was too focused on his work with US President Donald Trump to tackle Tesla's sinking share price.

The Wall Street Journal told the BBC at the time it stood by its reporting.

Mr Coatsworth said: "One minute Tesla's board is wondering if Elon Musk is a liability to the company given his outspoken views and political distractions, the next they're effectively saying 'pick a number, any number' to lock him in for as long as possible."

Aid workers on donkeys have delivered the first humanitarian supplies to survivors of a landslide that reportedly killed hundreds of people in a remote mountain village in Sudan's western Darfur region.

Heavy rains and flash floods that hit Tarasin village triggering the disaster on Sunday have continued, meaning donkeys are the only way to reach the affected families.

"Families in Tarsin have lost everything. It took our team more than a full day on a rocky, muddy, and hilly route to reach this devastated community," said Francesco Lanino, from aid agency Save the Children.

It remains unclear how many people died.

The armed group in charge of the area put the number at 1,000, however the health ministry says only two bodies have been recovered.

On Thursday, local civilian leaders said they had recovered and buried the bodies of hundreds of people.

"We recovered 370 bodies and buried them. Others are still trapped under the rocks and some were carried away by floodwaters," said Ibrahim Suleiman, one of the local leaders in Daramo locality, in a video seen by the AFP news agency.

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The footage shared by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), which controls the area showed residents and rescuers gathered at a makeshift burial site, praying for the victims laid to rest, according to AFP.

Mujib al-Rahman al-Zubair, another local leader, said in a video shared with the Associated Press on Thursday that rescuers had found 375 bodies, while more remain trapped underground.

The SLM/A has remained neutral in the civil war which has been ravaging Sudan for more than two years and many people have escaped to the Marra Mountains area where the landslide occurred to escape the fighting.

Antoine Gérard, the UN's deputy humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan, earlier gave the figure of 370 deaths, but said that it was hard to assess the scale of the disaster or the exact death toll as the area was so hard to reach.

The UN said an inter-agency assessment "will seek to provide verified figures in the coming days".

On Thursday, an emergency team of 11 staff riding donkeys delivered medical supplies, food, water and tarpaulins to the affected communities in a journey that took over six hours, Save the Children said in a statement.

The team includes medical staff, child protection experts and a mental health team, the agency said, adding that up to 1,000 people had been affected.

Mobile health clinics and emergency medical teams have also been deployed to provide immediate care on the ground, with UN agencies and partners preparing to send more supplies to meet additional needs.

"Tarsin is one of the most isolated villages in one of the most remote parts of Sudan. Heavy rains and flash floods have made the response extremely challenging," said Mr Lanino, the deputy country director of programmes and operations for Save the Children in Sudan.

In a statement, the SLM/A said the "catastrophic humanitarian" situation in Tarasin required urgent international intervention.

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has also severely hampered rescue efforts, according to another aid organisation, World Vision.

"With hundreds of lives lost and communities shattered, we are racing against time and immense challenges to reach the most vulnerable," said Simon Mane, the national director for World Vision in Sudan, describing the situation as a "tragedy of unimaginable scale".

About 150 people have been displaced from Tarsin and neighbouring villages, with families now sheltering in nearby communities, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The landslide compounds a deepening humanitarian crisis in Sudan, a nation already in the grip of a crisis where 30 million people are in need of assistance.

Heavy rains and floods have affected at least 21 areas across Sudan in recent weeks, with fears of disease outbreaks, and experts predicting an unusually wet season continuing into September.

More BBC Africa stories about Sudan:

• A pregnant woman's diary of escape from war zone
• Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening
• From prized artworks to bullet shells: how war devastated Sudan's museums
• 'Our children are dying': Rare footage shows plight of civilians in besieged Sudan city

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Thailand's parliament has chosen business tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul as the country's prime minister - the third in two years, after yet another leader was removed from office.

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who belongs to Thailand's most powerful political dynasty, was removed by the constitutional court last week for ethical violations over her handling of the border dispute with Cambodia.

Anutin's Bhumjaithai party broke from the coalition led by the Shinawatras' Pheu Thai, and secured enough support in parliament to win the premiership.

But the uncertainty may not be over for Thailand which has seen multiple administrations deposed by court interventions and military coups in the recent past.

Anutin's rise to the premiership deals a significant blow to the Shinawatra family, which has dominated Thai politics since 2001, when Paetongtarn's father Thaksin became PM.

On Thursday night there was intense scrutiny in Thailand of a private jet carrying Thaksin out of the country.

Early on Friday he posted on social media saying that he had flown to Dubai for medical treatment and that he intends to return in time for a 9 September hearing for a court case that could put him back in jail.

His Pheu Thai party, which emerged as a major player in the 2023 election, is now on the sidelines. It had one last remaining candidate for PM, Chaikasem Nitisiri, who has little public profile and is in poor health.

In the past the Shinawatras' populist policies gave them wide support among lower-income Thais, but put them at odds with Bangkok's conservative-royalist elite.

Both Thaksin, and his sister Yingluck, who served as prime minister after him, were ousted by military coups in 2006 and 2014 respectively.

When Paetongtarn became the PM, it was seen as a comeback for the family - but her dismissal suggests they have again lost favour with the conservative-royalist elite.

Paetongtarn was the fifth Thai prime minister to be removed from office by the Constitutional Court, all of them from administrations backed by her father Thaksin.

She herself took office after her predecessor was dismissed by the same court, also for an ethics violation.

And the Pheu Thai-led coalition formed the government only after the reformist party that won the election was prevented from doing so - before it was then dissolved by the Constitutional Court, and some of its leaders banned from politics for the next 10 years.

Its successor, the People's Party, is among those currently supporting Anutin. It has the most number of seats in parliament but it is still barred from forming a government.

Who is Anutin Charnvirakul and how did he rise to power?

Anutin, 58, is a seasoned politician and dealmaker who in the past has made no secret of wanting the top job. But even he must wish he'd got it under better circumstances.

His party Bhumjaithai (Proud to be Thai) has only 69 seats out of 500 in parliament, which means he can only govern with the backing of one of the two largest parties.

Bhumjaithai is famously unideological and transactional, and in the past has been allied with conservative, military-backed groups and, more recently, with Pheu Thai.

He left the Pheu Thai-led coalition ostensibly over an embarrassing leaked phone call between Paetongtarn and Cambodian strongman Hun Sen, but there were other disagreements.

The only remaining option was the progressive and youthful People's Party, the largest in parliament. But the two parties make unlikely bedfellows.

Anutin is staunchly royalist. The People's Party is not, one reason its leaders were banned from politics leaving it with no eligible candidate for PM. Some of its MPs have been convicted of lese majeste, and many opposed doing any deal with Bhumjaithai.

But with Pheu Thai in disarray following Paetongtarn's dismissal, there was also a possibility that former PM and coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha might have been called back to lead the country, a prospect even less palatable than teaming up with Anutin.

However, the People's Party has made tough demands for supporting Anutin's premiership.

It has got Anutin to agree to call an election within four months, and to start the process of amending the military-drafted constitution. It is offering to support only the new government's survival until the election, not any legislation.

So Anutin starts his premiership with his hands tied, and only four months to make an impact.

Anutin comes from a wealthy political family. His father held several ministerial portfolios, and founded the family construction business – it built the new parliament complex in which the vote for prime minister took place.

Anutin is best known for liberalising Thailand's marijuana laws when he was health minister in 2022. He is an enthusiastic pilot who owns three of his own planes.

His challenge now is to pilot his country out of yet another political crisis, in a very short timeframe.

US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people allegedly in the country illegally.

The 3,000-acre site, which was built by the Korean automobile manufacturer to make electric vehicles, had been operational for a year.

The Department of Homeland Security told the BBC's US partner CBS News that agents executed a search warrant due to allegations of "unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes".

Korean nationals were among those detained, the South Korean foreign ministry said, calling it an "unjust infringement" of their rights.

"The economic activities of Korean investment companies and the rights and interests of Korean citizens must not be unfairly infringed upon during US law enforcement operations," the statement said.

The ministry added that it was dispatching diplomats to the site.

"In Seoul, we also conveyed our concerns and regrets today through the US Embassy in Korea and urged them to exercise extreme caution to ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of Korean citizens are not infringed upon."

The state's governor, Republican Brian Kemp, had touted Hyundai's new electric vehicle operation as the biggest economic development project in the state's history, employing 1,200 people.

The search by federal agencies had also shut down construction on an adjacent battery plant, CBS News reports.

President Trump campaigned for his second term in office on the back of a pledge to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants although he said the priority would be those who committed crimes.

Aid workers on donkeys have delivered the first humanitarian supplies to survivors of a landslide that reportedly killed hundreds of people in a remote mountain village in Sudan's western Darfur region.

Heavy rains and flash floods that hit Tarasin village triggering the disaster on Sunday have continued, meaning donkeys are the only way to reach the affected families.

"Families in Tarsin have lost everything. It took our team more than a full day on a rocky, muddy, and hilly route to reach this devastated community," said Francesco Lanino, from aid agency Save the Children.

It remains unclear how many people died.

The armed group in charge of the area put the number at 1,000, however the health ministry says only two bodies have been recovered.

On Thursday, local civilian leaders said they had recovered and buried the bodies of hundreds of people.

"We recovered 370 bodies and buried them. Others are still trapped under the rocks and some were carried away by floodwaters," said Ibrahim Suleiman, one of the local leaders in Daramo locality, in a video seen by the AFP news agency.

• Sudan landslide: A collapsing mountain and bodies still buried under rubble
• Race to find survivors after Sudan landslide kills hundreds

The footage shared by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), which controls the area showed residents and rescuers gathered at a makeshift burial site, praying for the victims laid to rest, according to AFP.

Mujib al-Rahman al-Zubair, another local leader, said in a video shared with the Associated Press on Thursday that rescuers had found 375 bodies, while more remain trapped underground.

The SLM/A has remained neutral in the civil war which has been ravaging Sudan for more than two years and many people have escaped to the Marra Mountains area where the landslide occurred to escape the fighting.

Antoine Gérard, the UN's deputy humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan, earlier gave the figure of 370 deaths, but said that it was hard to assess the scale of the disaster or the exact death toll as the area was so hard to reach.

The UN said an inter-agency assessment "will seek to provide verified figures in the coming days".

On Thursday, an emergency team of 11 staff riding donkeys delivered medical supplies, food, water and tarpaulins to the affected communities in a journey that took over six hours, Save the Children said in a statement.

The team includes medical staff, child protection experts and a mental health team, the agency said, adding that up to 1,000 people had been affected.

Mobile health clinics and emergency medical teams have also been deployed to provide immediate care on the ground, with UN agencies and partners preparing to send more supplies to meet additional needs.

"Tarsin is one of the most isolated villages in one of the most remote parts of Sudan. Heavy rains and flash floods have made the response extremely challenging," said Mr Lanino, the deputy country director of programmes and operations for Save the Children in Sudan.

In a statement, the SLM/A said the "catastrophic humanitarian" situation in Tarasin required urgent international intervention.

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has also severely hampered rescue efforts, according to another aid organisation, World Vision.

"With hundreds of lives lost and communities shattered, we are racing against time and immense challenges to reach the most vulnerable," said Simon Mane, the national director for World Vision in Sudan, describing the situation as a "tragedy of unimaginable scale".

About 150 people have been displaced from Tarsin and neighbouring villages, with families now sheltering in nearby communities, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

The landslide compounds a deepening humanitarian crisis in Sudan, a nation already in the grip of a crisis where 30 million people are in need of assistance.

Heavy rains and floods have affected at least 21 areas across Sudan in recent weeks, with fears of disease outbreaks, and experts predicting an unusually wet season continuing into September.

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• Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening
• From prized artworks to bullet shells: how war devastated Sudan's museums
• 'Our children are dying': Rare footage shows plight of civilians in besieged Sudan city

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An Indian farmer from the hilly village of Piplodi in the western Indian state of Rajasthan has found himself in an unlikely spotlight.

Mor Singh, 60, never went to school but his selfless act of handing over his painstakingly built house to the village school - which was washed away by floods - has made him a local hero.

His modest two-room residence now operates as an upper primary school - up to eighth standard - attended by 50-60 students from the village, he says.

Last week, the state government gave Mr Singh 200,000 rupees ($2,266, £1,682) in financial aid for his thoughtful gesture.

Rajasthan saw its wettest July in nearly 70 years with 285 mm of rain recorded statewide, the meteorological centre says.

On 25 July, a classroom roof collapsed in Piplodi, killing seven children, injuring 21 others and leaving the village school unusable.

Two days after the incident, Mr Singh and his family, which includes his two-year-old grandson, moved to a bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack, which they set up on a patch of land a few meters from his house.

It is not an "ideal accommodation", but Mr Singh is willing to let go of his comforts for the future of the children, he told BBC over phone.

"If I had not taken that quick decision, many children would have dropped out. The only other school is in a neighbouring village, which is a two kilometre (1.24 miles) trek in the hills. While the older students would have managed, the younger ones wouldn't have," he says.

It took him three years to build the house and he moved into it with his family 13 years ago.

The 25 July tragedy in Piplodi exposed systemic issues of poor school infrastructure across Rajasthan. A recent government survey shows that more than 5,600 schools in the state are in dilapidated condition.

After Mr Singh converted his home into a school, the state government has declared Piplodi a "model village" under a federal scheme.

This would help attract more funds for a new school, a playground, a healthcare centre and other facilities, Ajay Singh Rathore, a local official, told the BBC.

"Building a new school in the village will take at least another one and a half years," he added.

Some 90 families, mostly tribespeople, live in Piplodi.

"We are a poor community and have hardly seen any development," Mr Singh says.

"That's why is essential for these children to go to school, get an education and accomplish their goals."

Mr Singh's noble act has turned him into a local celebrity.

"He is a hero for the entire village," says Ram Dayal, whose daughter was injured in the 25 July incident and now goes to school at Mr Singh's residence.

Another resident, Ram Kumar, said: "If he had not offered his house for the school, many of the children would have dropped out. We all appreciate his gesture."

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The leaders of about 30 Western countries are taking part in a summit in Paris with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, with the aim of giving Kyiv security assurances if a ceasefire is agreed, and persuading the US to provide support.

Hopes of a deal to end the fighting have receded since Russia's Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump in Alaska, although the US president said on the eve of Thursday's talks that "we're going to get it done".

Trump was due to talk to leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" by phone after the Paris summit, and French officials said it was important for many European partners that any military guarantees for Kyiv involved an "American safety net".

Last month he said the US was willing to help "probably" with air support, and Western allies are keen for Trump to confirm that.

The summit opened on Thursday, chaired by France's Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and many of the leaders took part remotely.

Nato chief Mark Rutte said the aim was to have "clarity" on what the coalition could deliver so they could discuss what the Americans could provide.

Air support could include help with air defence or intelligence, but details so far are vague.

A source at the Élysée Palace said there were three aims behind the security guarantees: to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces; to support them by deploying a separate force to make it clear to Russia that Ukraine has Western backing; and to have a US safety net, which the Americans would obviously have to maintain.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said ahead of the talks that Kyiv had received "signals" from the Americans that they would provide a backstop.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Paris ahead of the summit and reports said he was due to meet Zelensky.

• 4,000 miles from Ukraine this Asian city is part of Russia's war

• Putin: Russia will achieve aims military with no deal

More than 40 months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has said this week that there is "a certain light at the end of the tunnel" and that "there are options for ensuring Ukraine's security in the event the conflict ends".

However, Russia has made clear that no Western forces should be deployed to Ukraine and it has insisted that it should be one of the countries acting as "guarantors" - an idea rejected by Kyiv and its allies.

Putin has also raised the unrealistic prospect of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky coming to Moscow for talks.

Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Russia had no veto on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine: "Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It's a sovereign country. It's not for them to decide."

President Trump told CBS News on Wednesday that he remained committed to reaching a deal to end the war and said he continued to have a good relationship with both Putin and Zelensky.

"I think we're going to get it all straightened out," he said.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has praised Trump, who he says "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options".

Ukraine is looking to the Coalition of the Willing to come up with a reassurance force involving British, French and other European troops. Germany has said it is too soon to make that kind of commitment.

The Russian leader, who spent Wednesday with China's Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claims that his country's military is pushing forward on all fronts in Ukraine.

He warned that without a deal Moscow was prepared to "resolve all our tasks militarily".

While Ukraine and its allies say a ceasefire should be agreed initially, Russia has insisted its campaign will not end before a full peace deal.

The source at the Élysée Palace said it had already become clear that Russia had no intention of having a ceasefire as part of a peace deal.

The source pointed to the demarcation line between North and South Korea, where a ceasefire had lasted for years with a powerfully armed, allied American deployment serving as a signal to North Korea. That concept was extremely important for the Ukrainians, the source added.

Former US President Joe Biden recently underwent skin cancer surgery, his spokeswoman said.

Biden had Mohs surgery, she told the BBC's US partner CBS News, but did not immediately provide further details.

The procedure is used to cut away skin until no evidence of cancer remains.

The 82-year-old had been spotted with a wound on the right side of his head in recent days.

In 2023, Biden had a cancerous skin lesion removed from his chest during a routine health screening.

In May, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.

"Cancer touches us all," Biden wrote on social media at the time. "Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places."

Biden also had several non-melanoma skin cancers removed in the past, before he became president.

He has largely retreated from the public eye since leaving the White House in January and has made few public appearances.

The Bidens have long been strong advocates for fighting and curing cancer. Their adult son, Beau, died in 2015 from brain cancer.

The leaders of about 30 Western countries are taking part in a summit in Paris with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, with the aim of giving Kyiv security assurances if a ceasefire is agreed, and persuading the US to provide support.

Hopes of a deal to end the fighting have receded since Russia's Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump in Alaska, although the US president said on the eve of Thursday's talks that "we're going to get it done".

Trump was due to talk to leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" by phone after the Paris summit, and French officials said it was important for many European partners that any military guarantees for Kyiv involved an "American safety net".

Last month he said the US was willing to help "probably" with air support, and Western allies are keen for Trump to confirm that.

The summit opened on Thursday, chaired by France's Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and many of the leaders took part remotely.

Nato chief Mark Rutte said the aim was to have "clarity" on what the coalition could deliver so they could discuss what the Americans could provide.

Air support could include help with air defence or intelligence, but details so far are vague.

A source at the Élysée Palace said there were three aims behind the security guarantees: to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces; to support them by deploying a separate force to make it clear to Russia that Ukraine has Western backing; and to have a US safety net, which the Americans would obviously have to maintain.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said ahead of the talks that Kyiv had received "signals" from the Americans that they would provide a backstop.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Paris ahead of the summit and reports said he was due to meet Zelensky.

• 4,000 miles from Ukraine this Asian city is part of Russia's war

• Putin: Russia will achieve aims military with no deal

More than 40 months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has said this week that there is "a certain light at the end of the tunnel" and that "there are options for ensuring Ukraine's security in the event the conflict ends".

However, Russia has made clear that no Western forces should be deployed to Ukraine and it has insisted that it should be one of the countries acting as "guarantors" - an idea rejected by Kyiv and its allies.

Putin has also raised the unrealistic prospect of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky coming to Moscow for talks.

Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Russia had no veto on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine: "Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It's a sovereign country. It's not for them to decide."

President Trump told CBS News on Wednesday that he remained committed to reaching a deal to end the war and said he continued to have a good relationship with both Putin and Zelensky.

"I think we're going to get it all straightened out," he said.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has praised Trump, who he says "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options".

Ukraine is looking to the Coalition of the Willing to come up with a reassurance force involving British, French and other European troops. Germany has said it is too soon to make that kind of commitment.

The Russian leader, who spent Wednesday with China's Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claims that his country's military is pushing forward on all fronts in Ukraine.

He warned that without a deal Moscow was prepared to "resolve all our tasks militarily".

While Ukraine and its allies say a ceasefire should be agreed initially, Russia has insisted its campaign will not end before a full peace deal.

The source at the Élysée Palace said it had already become clear that Russia had no intention of having a ceasefire as part of a peace deal.

The source pointed to the demarcation line between North and South Korea, where a ceasefire had lasted for years with a powerfully armed, allied American deployment serving as a signal to North Korea. That concept was extremely important for the Ukrainians, the source added.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the US will "blow up" foreign crime groups if needed, possibly in collaboration with other countries.

"Now they're gonna help us find these people and blow them up, if that's what it takes," Rubio said during a visit to Ecuador.

He also announced the US will designate two of Ecuador's largest criminal gangs, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, as foreign terrorist organisations.

The comments come days after US forces carried out a strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. The White House says it killed 11 drug-traffickers, though it did not release their identities.

Asked whether smugglers coming from US allies, like Mexico and Ecuador, could face "unilateral execution" from US forces, Rubio said "co-operative governments" would help identify smugglers.

"The president has said he wants to wage war on these groups because they've been waging war on us for 30 years and no-one has responded.

"But there's no need to do that in many cases with the friendly governments, because the friendly governments are going to help us."

The Ecuadorian and Mexican governments have not said they would assist with military strikes.

In the wake of Tuesday's strike on the vessel in the southern Caribbean, President Donald Trump said the military operation had targeted members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as they transported illegal narcotics towards the US.

Legal experts told BBC Verify the strike may have violated international human rights and maritime law.

Late on Thursday, the defence department accused two Venezuelan military aircraft of flying near a US vessel in a "highly provocative move designed to interfere with our counter narco-terror operations". Venezuela is yet to respond to the claim.

Also on Thursday, Rubio announced Washington would issue $13.5m (£10m) in security aid and $6m in drone technology to help Ecuador crack down on drug trafficking.

Violence in Ecuador has soared in recent years as criminal gangs battle for control over lucrative cocaine routes

According to government data, about 70% of the world's cocaine now passes through Ecuador in transit from neighbouring producing countries, like Colombia and Peru, to markets in the US, Europe and Asia.

This designation was desired by the Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, who described his clampdown on criminal gangs as a "war."

In an interview with the BBC earlier this year, he said he would be "glad" if the US considered Los Lobos and Los Choneros, as terrorist groups because "that's what they really are".

He also said he wanted US and European armies to join his fight.

Noboa is trying to change Ecuador's constitution to allow foreign military bases in the country again – after the last US one was closed in 2009.

The designation means the US can target the assets and properties of anyone associated with the groups and share intelligence with the Ecuadorian government without limitations so it could take "potentially lethal" actions.

Soaring cartel violence in Ecuador has been a driver behind migration from the South American country to the US, too.

According to immigration law experts, it is unclear whether designating cartels as terrorist organisations may help or hinder their victims who seek asylum in the US.

On the one hand, it may mean they are now considered victims of "terrorism', but on the other hand some fear those who have had to pay extortions to gangs could be penalised for 'materially supporting' them.

Canadian police say one person has died and at least six were injured in a mass stabbing attack in a First Nations community in the province of Manitoba.

On Thursday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the suspect in the stabbing had also died.

The incident, described by police as a "mass casualty" event, took place in Hollow Water First Nation, about 200km (124 miles) northeast of the city of Winnipeg.

Eight people were transported by either air or ambulance to local hospitals, Shared Health, the provincial health authority, said in a statement to the BBC.

They arrived with varying injuries, a spokesman said.

Stars air ambulance confirmed that it responded to an emergency on the Hollow Water First Nation on Thursday morning and flew two patients to Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.

Few details on the incident are available at this time.

On Thursday morning, Manitoba RCMP warned Hollow Water First Nation residents that they should expect a heavy police presence in the community throughout the day.

They said there was no current risk to public safety.

"Our sincere condolences to everyone within the community of Hollow Water First Nation and to everyone who has been affected by this senseless act of violence," the RCMP said.

The RCMP major crimes unit will the lead the investigation.

In a letter to residents posted online, the Hollow River chief and council offered their condolences those "affected by this tragedy".

The Anishinaabe community has a small population of a few hundred people.

Sweden has accused Russia of being behind a significant rise in instances of GPS signal jamming recorded over the Baltic Sea, raising concerns for aviation in the region.

The Swedish Transport Agency (STA) said reports of disruptions have risen over the past few years, but had now become an almost daily occurrence. It recorded 733 incidents so far in 2025, up from 55 across the whole of 2023.

The agency said the source of the interference had been traced to Russian territory, and also affected shipping. Other European nations have accused Russia of being behind the jamming, which Moscow denies.

The STA report comes days after a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was hit by interference.

The pilots of the European Commission president's plane reportedly had to land using paper maps, but did so safely.

Andreas Holmgren, the STA's head of aviation, warned the issue was "serious" and posed "a safety risk for civil aviation".

As well as seeing a massive increase in reports, he said instances of jamming had spread "both geographically and in scope", going from being initially limited to the eastern parts of Swedish airspace over international waters to Swedish land and waters.

Airlines operating in the Baltic region have reported tens of thousands of GPS jamming incidents in the past few years. The Baltic states are bookended by Russian territory.

In June, Sweden and five other nations in the region - Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland - raised the issue with the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), of which Russia is a member state.

The ICAO Council expressed "great concern about the situation and is demanding that Russia fulfil its international obligations and ensure that the disturbances cease immediately".

Despite this, disruptions in the Baltic Sea region "have instead increased", it added.

European governments and experts regularly blame Russia, claiming such practices fit with an alleged Kremlin strategy to generally sow disorder and undermine European security.

Moscow regularly denies accusations of interference or attacks on commercial aviation. No proven link has yet been established between Russia and the rise in GPS jamming.

Von der Leyen's plane had been heading to Bulgaria on Sunday when its onboard telemetry was disrupted due to what a spokesperson described as "blatant interference by Russia".

The European Commission said the incident only reinforced its commitment to "ramp up our defence capabilities and support for Ukraine".

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the Financial Times, which reported on the suspected jamming, that its information was "incorrect".

Bulgaria's aviation authority said there had been a "noticeable increase" in GPS incidents since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

While planes can rely on other forms of navigation than GPS, jamming it mid-flight can increase the risk of collisions - either with other planes or by causing the pilot to unintentionally fly into the ground, water or other obstacle.

But the UK's Civil Aviation Authority has played down the significance of GPS jamming, says aircrafts' navigation systems do not rely solely on GPS and so interference should not affect their direct navigation.

It adds that interference occurs primarily near conflict zones as a by-product of military activity, rather than necessarily being a deliberate act.

The STA's figures for 2025 cover up to 28 August. While they include both Swedish and non-Swedish airlines, the agency cautions that they are considered to be significant underestimates of the number of reported incidents, as airlines often report incidents to their own nation's aviation authority.

A federal appeals court has overturned a legal order requiring Florida and US President Donald Trump's administration to shut Alligator Alcatraz, allowing the immigration detention centre to stay open.

In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted a request from the state of Florida and the US homeland security department to block a lower court injunction while a lawsuit plays out.

"Alligator Alcatraz is in fact, like we've always said, open for business," said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Last month, US District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered a halt to the facility's expansion and for its dismantling to begin within 60 days.

The Department of Homeland Security had begun transferring detainees out of the Everglades site late last month in compliance with the lower court order.

But on Thursday, Florida's Republican governor welcomed the appeals court decision.

"Some leftist judge ruled implausibly that somehow Florida wasn't allowed to use our own property on this important mission because they didn't do an environmental impact statement," DeSantis said.

There is a palpable sense of shock on the faces of people gathering at the site of a major funicular crash in the Portuguese capital as they hear of how a three-year-old German boy was pulled alive from the wreckage - a lucky survivor of Wednesday's terrible crash which killed 16 people.

The boy's father was reportedly killed and his mother injured in the crash. It is still unclear what caused the crash, in which more than 20 other people were injured, including many foreign nationals.

The capital's public transport operator, Carris, said all funiculars would be inspected and that it had launched an independent probe into the incident.

Police and prosecutors are also investigating the crash.

One local resident told the BBC she was "still processing" what had happened as she walked past the site of the crash, where the wreckage of the funicular that had derailed and crashed into a building lay on the ground.

"It's very, very sad," she said.

Others gathered and took photos of the wreckage, or stood silently watching. Two tourists from Singapore said they had been scheduled to ride the funicular on Wednesday but had changed their plans at the last minute.

"It's scary… Who knows, we might have been on this one," one said. "It changes your perspective on life. You just don't expect something like this to happen."

'People started to jump from the windows'

Tour guide Mariana Figueiredo was among those at the scene of the crash on Wednesday evening. She said she had been traumatised by what she had witnessed.

Ms Figueiredo said she heard a large crash and rushed to the scene, close to where her TukTuk was parked.

"In five seconds I was there," she said. "People started to jump from the windows inside the funicular at the bottom of the hill. Then I saw another one [further up] that was already crushed.

"I started to climb the hill to help the people but when I got there the only thing I could hear was silence."

Ms Figueiredo said that when she and others started to pull the roof off of the funicular, they saw dead bodies inside.

She said she witnessed children being rescued, and tried to help people with broken bones and to calm those in distress.

"A lot of people were crying around me. They were very frightened. I was trying to calm them down."

A man, who was on another funicular at the bottom of the hill at the time of the crash, told reporters that he thought he was going to die.

"No matter how many more years I live, I'll never take the funicular again," he said.

Police have not officially named any of the dead or injured, but said at a news conference on Thursday that they believed two Canadians, one German and one Ukrainian national were thought to be among the dead.

This followed from an earlier update in which police said they believed five Portuguese, two South Korean and one Swiss national had been identified.

The Portuguese transport union said funicular brake guard André Jorge Gonçalves Marques was among those killed.

Charity Santa Casa da Misericórdia, whose employees used the funicular for their work commute, confirmed that four of their workers were killed in the accident.

One employee, Valdemar Bastos, told the BBC that staff at the charity, located on top of a steep hill, often used the funicular along with tourists and elderly people.

"I have always felt safe," he said. "I never thought this could happen."

On Thursday, the head of Lisbon's public transport operator, Carris, said that all funiculars in the city would be closed until technical inspections had been carried out.

Pedro Gonçalo de Brito Aleixo Bogas told reporters that the Gloria line would reopen in the future with a new carriage.

He said the company had increased its spending on maintaining funiculars - which had operated correctly since 2007 - but added that the cost of maintaining them had more than doubled over the past 10 years.

The findings from the investigation would be released soon, Dr De Brito Bogas said, but declined to say when this would happen.

Footage shared on social media showed the crumpled yellow funicular overturned on the cobblestone street and people running from the area as smoke filled the air.

Several passengers trapped in the wreckage had to be freed by emergency responders, local authorities said.

Officials in Lisbon had initially put the death toll at 17, however that number was later revised down to 16 after they discovered a person who died in hospital overnight had been counted twice.

A funicular is a type of railway system that allows travel up and down steep slopes, and in Lisbon they are a crucial means of navigating the city's steep, cobbled streets.

The city's funicular railways - Glória, Lavra, Bica and Graça - are a popular tourist attraction, as the bright yellow tram-like vehicles snake through the often-narrow, hilly streets.

Glória was opened in 1885 and electrified three decades later.

It travels some 275m (900ft) from Restauradores, a central city square, up to the picturesque streets of Bairro Alto. The journey takes just three minutes.

The two carriages on the Glória route are attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable, which is pulled by electric motors.

As one carriage travels downhill, its weight lifts the other, allowing them to ascend and descend simultaneously, reducing the energy needed to transport them.

The second, intact carriage could be seen just metres from the wreckage at the bottom of the hill.

Canadian police say one person has died and at least six were injured in a mass stabbing attack in a First Nations community in the province of Manitoba.

On Thursday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the suspect in the stabbing had also died.

The incident, described by police as a "mass casualty" event, took place in Hollow Water First Nation, about 200km (124 miles) northeast of the city of Winnipeg.

Eight people were transported by either air or ambulance to local hospitals, Shared Health, the provincial health authority, said in a statement to the BBC.

They arrived with varying injuries, a spokesman said.

Stars air ambulance confirmed that it responded to an emergency on the Hollow Water First Nation on Thursday morning and flew two patients to Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.

Few details on the incident are available at this time.

On Thursday morning, Manitoba RCMP warned Hollow Water First Nation residents that they should expect a heavy police presence in the community throughout the day.

They said there was no current risk to public safety.

"Our sincere condolences to everyone within the community of Hollow Water First Nation and to everyone who has been affected by this senseless act of violence," the RCMP said.

The RCMP major crimes unit will the lead the investigation.

In a letter to residents posted online, the Hollow River chief and council offered their condolences those "affected by this tragedy".

The Anishinaabe community has a small population of a few hundred people.

The leaders of about 30 Western countries are taking part in a summit in Paris with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, with the aim of giving Kyiv security assurances if a ceasefire is agreed, and persuading the US to provide support.

Hopes of a deal to end the fighting have receded since Russia's Vladimir Putin met Donald Trump in Alaska, although the US president said on the eve of Thursday's talks that "we're going to get it done".

Trump was due to talk to leaders of the "Coalition of the Willing" by phone after the Paris summit, and French officials said it was important for many European partners that any military guarantees for Kyiv involved an "American safety net".

Last month he said the US was willing to help "probably" with air support, and Western allies are keen for Trump to confirm that.

The summit opened on Thursday, chaired by France's Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, and many of the leaders took part remotely.

Nato chief Mark Rutte said the aim was to have "clarity" on what the coalition could deliver so they could discuss what the Americans could provide.

Air support could include help with air defence or intelligence, but details so far are vague.

A source at the Élysée Palace said there were three aims behind the security guarantees: to strengthen Ukraine's armed forces; to support them by deploying a separate force to make it clear to Russia that Ukraine has Western backing; and to have a US safety net, which the Americans would obviously have to maintain.

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said ahead of the talks that Kyiv had received "signals" from the Americans that they would provide a backstop.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Paris ahead of the summit and reports said he was due to meet Zelensky.

• 4,000 miles from Ukraine this Asian city is part of Russia's war

• Putin: Russia will achieve aims military with no deal

More than 40 months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin has said this week that there is "a certain light at the end of the tunnel" and that "there are options for ensuring Ukraine's security in the event the conflict ends".

However, Russia has made clear that no Western forces should be deployed to Ukraine and it has insisted that it should be one of the countries acting as "guarantors" - an idea rejected by Kyiv and its allies.

Putin has also raised the unrealistic prospect of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky coming to Moscow for talks.

Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Russia had no veto on Western troops being deployed to Ukraine: "Why are we interested in what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? It's a sovereign country. It's not for them to decide."

President Trump told CBS News on Wednesday that he remained committed to reaching a deal to end the war and said he continued to have a good relationship with both Putin and Zelensky.

"I think we're going to get it all straightened out," he said.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has praised Trump, who he says "brought Putin into talks" and "not closed off any options".

Ukraine is looking to the Coalition of the Willing to come up with a reassurance force involving British, French and other European troops. Germany has said it is too soon to make that kind of commitment.

The Russian leader, who spent Wednesday with China's Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claims that his country's military is pushing forward on all fronts in Ukraine.

He warned that without a deal Moscow was prepared to "resolve all our tasks militarily".

While Ukraine and its allies say a ceasefire should be agreed initially, Russia has insisted its campaign will not end before a full peace deal.

The source at the Élysée Palace said it had already become clear that Russia had no intention of having a ceasefire as part of a peace deal.

The source pointed to the demarcation line between North and South Korea, where a ceasefire had lasted for years with a powerfully armed, allied American deployment serving as a signal to North Korea. That concept was extremely important for the Ukrainians, the source added.

At least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's health ministry has said.

The presence of the virus had been confirmed in a 34-year-old pregnant woman who was admitted to hospital last month after showing symptoms that included a high fever and repeated vomiting, the ministry added.

She died a few hours later from multiple organ failure.

This will be the 16th outbreak of the deadly virus in the vast central African state that has poor health services, and is hit by conflict in the east.

The latest outbreak is in central Kasai province, with 28 suspected cases recorded, the ministry said.

Officials have urged strict adherence to preventive measures, including frequent handwashing and social distancing in high-risk areas.

Tests identified the Zaire strain of Ebola, a rare but often deadly disease, officials said.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was "acting with determination to rapidly halt the spread of the virus and protect communities".

Four health workers were among the 15 people who had died, it said.

"Case numbers are likely to increase as the transmission is ongoing. Response teams and local teams will work to find the people who may be infected and need to receive care, to ensure everyone is protected as quickly as possible," WHO added in a statement.

DR Congo had a "stockpile of treatments", including 2,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine, "effective to protect against this type of Ebola", the global health body said.

The last Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was three years ago, killing six people.

An outbreak in 2018-20 was far deadlier, claiming more than 2,000 lives.

The virus, which is thought to have originated in fruit bats, was first detected in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now DR Congo.

People are infected when they have direct contact through broken skin, or the mouth and nose, with the blood, vomit, faeces or bodily fluids of someone with Ebola.

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Israel has rejected a statement from Hamas saying the armed group is ready for a "comprehensive deal" to end the Gaza war and free all its hostages.

"This is more spin by Hamas that has nothing new," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.

It insisted the war would end only once the 48 hostages - 20 of whom are believed to be alive - were released, Hamas was disarmed, Gaza was demilitarised, Israel had security control, and an "alternative civilian administration" was established.

Hamas reiterated its call for a deal that would see hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, Israeli forces withdraw, border crossings reopened, and the start of reconstruction.

The group also said it agreed to the formation of an administration run by independent technocrats to govern post-war Gaza.

It issued the statement on Tuesday evening, hours after US President Donald Trump wrote on social media: "Tell Hamas to IMMEDIATELY give back all 20 Hostages (Not 2 or 5 or 7!), and things will change rapidly. IT WILL END!"

Last month, Hamas said it had accepted a plan from regional mediators Qatar and Egypt that would see 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 dead hostages released during a 60-day truce in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails.

Israel has yet to formally respond to the proposal – a decision that Egypt said on Tuesday reflected "a complete absence of Israeli will for de-escalation and achieving calm and peace".

The proposal was said by Qatar to be "almost identical" to an earlier one from US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, which Israel accepted but Hamas rejected, partly because it did not include a guarantee that the temporary ceasefire would lead to a permanent one.

Netanyahu announced Israel's intention to conquer all of Gaza after indirect negotiations with Hamas on Witkoff's proposal broke down in July.

The prime minister said the military's objectives were to defeat Hamas and free its hostages after 22 months of war triggered by the group's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Hamas now had to choose between accepting Israel's terms or seeing Gaza "become the equivalent of Rafah and Beit Hanoun", which have been largely flattened by Israeli bombardment and demolitions. The Israeli military was "preparing in full force", he warned.

The hostages' families are concerned that they will be endangered by the looming offensive to capture and occupy Gaza City, and want the government to instead immediately agree a deal that would secure their release by ending the war.

"The manoeuvring in Gaza City poses a real threat to the hostages, both the living and the deceased who could disappear forever," the Hostages and Missing Families Forum warned.

"Calls for a comprehensive agreement are coming from both sides - we demand: sit down at the negotiating table now and don't get up until a deal is signed."

In recent days, the Israeli military has intensified air and ground assaults on the outskirts of Gaza City, which it has said is a Hamas stronghold and declared a "dangerous combat zone".

Hospitals said at least 23 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes on the city on Thursday, and that 15 others were killed elsewhere in the territory.

Medics said two people were killed in one strike on a tent at a camp for displaced families in western Gaza City, close to al-Shifa hospital.

At the scene, Somaya Mikdad held up a pack of nappies that she said belonged to one of the victims - a pregnant woman.

"The woman was getting ready for the baby... It was her [due] month," she told Reuters news agency. "What is their fault? Is it a war against Hamas or a war against the people?"

The Hamas-run Civil Defence agency meanwhile said that eight people were killed in a strike that hit four homes in the north-eastern Tuffah neighbourhood.

The UN's humanitarian office has warned that a further intensification of the Israeli offensive will "push civilians into an even deeper catastrophe" in Gaza City, which is home to one million people and where a famine has been declared.

According to the UN, aid groups say the hostilities are having "horrific humanitarian consequences" for people living in displacement sites in "deplorable and overcrowded" conditions, with debris and waste accumulating, widespread rodent and insect infestations, and inadequate water supplies.

Since 14 August, more than 82,000 people have been newly displaced, many of whom have previously fled neighbouring North Gaza governorate, the UN says. Most have moved towards the coast and only a third have left for the south, as the Israeli military has instructed.

Many families say they are unable to move due to high costs and a lack of safe space.

Others are unwilling to leave after being displaced repeatedly during the conflict.

"This time, I am not leaving my house. I want to die here. It doesn't matter if we move out or stay. Tens of thousands of those who left their homes were killed by Israel too, so why bother?" said Umm Nader, a mother of five from Gaza City.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 64,231 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

The ministry also says 370 people, have so far died during the war as a result of malnutrition and starvation, including three over the past 24 hours.

Indian doctors have successfully removed "parasitic twins" - two foetuses that were growing inside the abdomen of a 20-day-old baby.

Called foetus in foetu, the condition is extremely rare, with fewer than 200 cases reported worldwide until now, a handful of which were in India.

The condition develops early in pregnancy when a malformed foetus is absorbed by the host twin. Though the foetus is not alive, it continues to develop by absorbing nutrients from the host twin.

In this case, the woman was pregnant with triplets and two of the foetuses began to grow inside the abdomen of the baby.

"The surgery was challenging but the baby is healthy and doing well," Dr Anand Sinha, a paediatric surgeon who led the operation, told the BBC.

The infant was discharged from hospital a month back and there have been no complications so far, he added.

The doctor said the recovery period after the surgery is crucial, as infection or other complications could prove fatal for the child.

In 2024, a three-day old baby in Kolkata city died a day after he underwent surgery to remove two malformed foetuses from his abdomen.

In the latest case, the parents admitted their 20-day-old baby to Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Gurugram in July.

"She had a bloated abdomen, was irritable and unable to eat anything because the foetuses were squashing her stomach," Dr Anand said.

A scan showed two tumour-like shapes inside her abdomen, which were actually the malformed foetuses.

Dr Anand said surgery could not be performed immediately as the baby was dehydrated, malnourished and first had to be stabilised. Her condition improved after two days, and then a team of about 15 doctors performed the surgery.

"The operation took about two hours," Dr Anand said, adding that special equipment had to be used because of the baby's delicate, diminutive stature.

Also, since the foetuses were attached to organs like the liver, kidneys and the intestines, they had to be extracted with great care so that no organs or blood vessels were damaged.

"Throughout the surgery, the baby's temperature was monitored. We also had to make sure that there wasn't too much blood loss," Dr Anand said.

Foetus in foetu is often diagnosed during pregnancy, but Dr Anand says sometimes parasitic twins are found in adults if the condition goes undetected during infancy.

He says if not removed early on, the malformed foetuses continue growing in size as the person ages. And while these foetuses usually do not turn cancerous, they are likely to cause other problems to the individual, which will eventually lead to their detection.

In February, doctors removed two foetuses from the abdomen of a three-day-old baby in Maharashtra state.

The Italian fashion designer and billionaire brand owner Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91.

He was the archetype of Italian style and elegance, reimagining men's and women's suits for a modern audience.

Armani, which began as a fashion company, expanded into beauty, music, sport and even luxury hotels.

He was also a revered businessman, with his company bringing in more than £2bn a year.

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In a statement on the brand's Instagram page, it said Armani " worked until his final days, dedicating himself to the company, the collections and the many ongoing future projects".

It also said he was "indefatigable to the end" and "driven by relentless curiosity and a deep attention to the present and to people".

The designer was seen as a pioneer in many ways, elevating red carpet fashion to what we see today.

He was also the first designer to ban underweight models from the runway, after the death of model Ana Carolina Reston in 2006 from anorexia nervosa.

In a profile in The Financial Times, in one of the designer's last interviews, Alexander Fury wrote: "He put women into a uniform of suits just as radical as Chanel's, creating forceful, confident clothing that helped to power the working woman's social revolution of the 1980s.

"By contrast, he relaxed menswear, deconstructing traditional tailoring in a manner that has affected how just about every suit in the world is made."

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