The whale, known as Tahlequah, has lost another calf and is again pushing the body, according to the Center for Whale Research.
Tahlequah has this time been spotted off the coast of the US state of Seattle.
Killer whales have been known to carry dead calves for a week but scientists in 2018 said Tahlequah had set a "record".
The Center for Whale Research said the death of any calf was a "tremendous loss" but added that the death of Tahlequah's newborn was "particularly devastating" given its history.
The centre, which studies the Southern Resident killer whale and works on its conservation, said Tahlequah had now lost two out of four documented calves - both of which were female.
Both Canada and the US list Southern Resident killer whales as endangered.
The whales depend on Chinook salmon - which have been in dramatic decline in recent years - for food.
US tech giant cuts prices in China as it faces growing competition from local rivals like Huawei
Shoppers in China are getting rare discounts on iPhones as Apple faces growing competition from local brands.
The four-day promotion, which starts this Saturday (4 January), includes discounts of as much as 500 yuan ($68.50, £55.30) on some of the US technology giant's newest handsets.
Chinese phone maker Huawei has also cut prices of its high-end mobile devices by as much as 20%.
The discounts come as consumers in China remain hesitant about spending because of the country's economic challenges.
The offer covers Apple's top models as well as older handsets and some other devices.
The biggest discount of 500 yuan will apply to Apple's flagship iPhone 16 Pro, which has starting a price of 7,999 yuan, and the iPhone 16 Pro Max which currently costs 9,999 yuan.
The firm held a similar promotion in China last year ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. This year, the festival starts at the end of January.
Changing behaviour
"Apple's strategy has changed to adapt to the change in Chinese consumers' shopping behaviour," said Will Wong, a senior research manager for market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC).
"The value-seeking trend has made price discounts more attractive to consumers. Apple may fall behind other competitors if it doesn't adopt such a pricing strategy."
The discounts being offered by Apple and Huawei reflect a wider trend in China.
From online retail giants to the country's car makers, deals are being offered in a bid to attract customers who have been reluctant to spend as the world's second largest economy slows.
Local competition
Against this backdrop, Apple's share of the Chinese market has come under increasing pressure from local rivals, such as Vivo and Xiaomi.
The US firm re-entered China's top five smartphone makers in the third quarter of 2024 after briefly dropping off the list.
According to IDC's latest research, Vivo was China's best-selling smartphone maker in the period as its sales jumped by more than 20%.
During the same period, Apple saw sales dip by 0.3%. Huawei's jumped by more than 40%.
"We've seen market competition increase with almost everyone launching a flagship last quarter," said Ivan Lam, a senior analyst at Counterpoint Research.
Huawei has seen demand for its products surge after its return to the premium smartphone market in August last year.
The Shenzhen-based firm has since launched several new devices powered by advanced technology despite the company facing US restrictions.
Fourteen flowers were placed at the entrance of Bourbon Street - one for each victim killed in the attack.
Just hours before the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, Jack Bech got on a phone call with his older brother Martin - an avid outdoorsman and former football star mostly known to friends and teammates as "Tiger".
Jack, 22, was in Dallas visiting family members, while Tiger, a 28-year-old former Princeton alumnus who lived in New York, was in New Orleans, getting ready to celebrate the New Year.
"We just thought it was going to be another conversation," he told the BBC. "I was showing him what we were eating, and he was showing us what he was eating."
The two brothers would never speak again.
"I hung up the phone, and that was the last time I ever spoke with him," Jack recalled.
Tiger was among the 14 people killed when an attacker ploughed through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
The attacker, 42-year-old army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was killed in a gunfight with police after he drove a pick-up truck into the crowds, according to authorities. Though he posted videos online proclaiming allegiance to the Islamic State group before the attack, FBI officials said they believe he was acting alone.
While the identities of all the victims have not been made public yet, a picture is slowly emerging of a group of mostly young people, many of whom - like Tiger - were Louisiana locals.
Jack - who remembers his brother as his best friend, role model and inspiration - says that the close-knit Bech family will never be the same.
New Orleans victim's brother says family will have to deal with his death 'every day'
Most of the family is in the town of Lafayette, about 136 miles (218km) away from New Orleans.
"This is something we're going to have to deal with. Every time we wake up, and every time we go to sleep, it's going to be something," he added. "Every holiday, there's going to be an empty seat at the table."
But Tiger said that his brother "wouldn't want us to grieve and mourn". Instead, he has encouraged his family to remember him as "a fighter".
"He'd want us to keep attacking life...he'd want us to go and be there for each other," he said.
"I told my family that instead of seeing him a couple of times a year, he'll be with us every moment," Jack added. "Whenever we're waking up and we're going to sleep and we're walking, when we're at work, doing whatever, he'll be with us."
Christina Bounds
Matthew Tenedorio's family says they begged him not to head into New Orleans on New Year's Eve
Among the other victims of the attack in the early morning hours of 1 January was Matthew Tenedorio, an audio-visual technician at New Orleans' Caesars' Superdome.
Tenedorio, who just turned 25 in October, had spent the earlier part of his evening at his brother's home in the town of Slidell, about 35 minutes away from New Orleans.
With him were his father and mother - who just recently recovered from cancer.
His cousin, Christina Bounds, told the BBC that his family "begged" him not to go into New Orleans, fearful of the large crowd and potential dangers.
Despite their pleas, he went, along with two friends. When the news broke, his mother eventually got a hold of one of them.
"They said they were walking down Bourbon, and saw a body fall," she said, noting that they now believe it was a body thrown into the air by the attacker's truck.
Amid screams and gunshots, Tenedorio was separated from his friends.
His family says he was shot, and believe he was killed during the exchange of gunfire between the attacker and police officers on Bourbon Street.
The BBC is unable to independently verify this claim.
According to Ms Bounds, the family's tragedy has been made more painful by the slow, nearly non-existent trickle of communications they've had with local authorities.
"We couldn't get any information when my aunt [Tenedorio's mother, Cathy] showed up at the hospital," she said. "There has been no information from doctors, hospitals, or cops. Nobody."
"They have zero information, and that's the part that's pissing everybody off. We don't even know what happened," Bounds added. "Was he carried out by the EMS? Was he in an ambulance? Did he die instantly?"
These answers, she added, would "help people accept" what happened.
"But now it's like total shock," she added. "It's not registering."
The family has started a GoFundMe page to gather funds for Tenedorio's funeral expenses - which Ms Bounds said have been made difficult by his mother's significant medical bills during her cancer diagnosis.
Another cousin of Tenedorio's, Zach Colgan, remembers him as a "goofball" who was quick to make a joke, cared deeply about animals and was an avid storyteller.
"He cared. He was definitely a people person. A happy-go-lucky guy," Mr Colgan told the BBC. "It's sad that a terrorist attack took him...no family should ever have to bury their son, especially for something so senseless."
Mr Colgan, who has experience working with law enforcement in Louisiana, says he believes officers have done the best they can in an extremely hectic casualty situation.
"I know it's chaotic. But part of closure is getting answers. I know my aunt and uncle weren't able to get much besides 'yes - Matthew was killed'," he said.
"It'd be nice to know a little bit more," Mr Colgan added. ""If it was my kid, I'd want to know."
Even as his family continues to search for answers, Mr Colgan says he hopes that the government and public's focus continues to be on the victims, rather than on law enforcement's response or what else could have been done to prevent the attack.
"I want every single one of them to be remembered," he said. "They didn't deserve this. No one deserves this."
Two people have died and 18 others were injured after a small plane crashed into a commercial building in southern California, officials say.
Ten people were taken to hospital with injuries, the Fullerton Police Department said in a post on X on Thursday afternoon. Eight others were treated for injuries and released at the scene.
The single-engine Van's RV-10 crashed at 14:15PST (20:15GMT), according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Officials have provided no further details about how the crash occurred. It is unclear whether the two people who died were workers or were on board the plane.
Police say they are evacuating buildings in the area, and are asking the public to stay away from the crash site.
Congressman Lou Correa, who represents the area of Orange County, about 25 miles (40km) south of Los Angeles, said that the building that was struck is a furniture manufacturing business.
In a post on X, Correa said that at least a dozen of the victims are factory workers.
Aerial photos of the scene show parts of the plane inside the building. The crash also sparked a fire which was extinguished by fire crews.
Security footage recorded from a building across the street shows a fiery explosion, according to local news outlets.
"People are just shaken over the situation," witness Mark Anderson told KRCA-TV.
"It was just a large boom, and then one of the people went out and said, 'Oh my gosh, the building's on fire.'"
The area where the plane crashed is near the Fullerton Municipal Airport, about 6 miles (10 kilometers) from Disneyland.
The plane appears to have been turning back to the airport shortly after takeoff, according to KRCA-TV.
This is the second plane to crash in the area in the past two months, according to CBS, the BBC's US partner.
On 25 November, another plane crashed into a tree roughly one block away from this most recent crash. No majorinjures were reported in that crash.
People resting at a refugee shelter in Ubla, Slovakia, in February 2022 after Russia launched its war against Ukraine
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to cut financial support for more than 130,000 Ukrainian refugees as a dispute with Ukraine over Russian gas supplies escalates.
On 1 January, Kyiv shut off a pipeline that for decades was used to supply Central Europe with Russian natural gas.
Slovakia had been the main entry point and the country now stands to lose millions of euros in transit fees.
The prime minister of the EU state said he would propose halting electricity exports to Ukraine and also "sharply reducing" financial support for Ukrainians who have found shelter in Slovakia.
He said there was no risk of Slovakia itself suffering from gas shortages, as it had already made alternative arrangements.
But Fico added that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's decision to turn off the taps would deprive Slovakia of 500m euros (£415m; $518m) in transit fees from other countries.
He said his party was ready to debate "halting supplies of electricity" and the "significant lowering of support for Ukrainian citizens in Slovakia".
"The only alternative for a sovereign Slovakia is renewal of transit or demanding compensation mechanisms that will replace the loss in public finances," he added.
Last month Zelensky accused Fico of helping Putin to "fund the war and weaken Ukraine".
"Fico is dragging Slovakia into Russia's attempts to cause more suffering for Ukrainians," the Ukrainian president had said.
Poland has offered to support Kyiv in case Slovakia cuts off its electricity exports - supplies that are crucial to Ukraine, whose power plants come under regular attack from Russia.
Poland's government called the cut-off "another victory" against Moscow while the European Commission said the EU had prepared for the change and most states could cope.
Moldova, which is not in the EU, is already suffering shortages.
Russia can still send gas to Hungary, Turkey and Serbia through the TurkStream pipeline across the Black Sea.
The man who rented a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside of President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel is an active-duty US special forces soldier, officials have confirmed.
Las Vegas police identified Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, of Colorado, as the renter of the vehicle who drove the Cybertruck from Colorado to Las Vegas.
They said they were fairly certain he was the same person found dead in the vehicle after the explosion but were waiting for DNA evidence to confirm this.
The body was burnt beyond recognition and found with a gunshot wound to the head believed to be self-inflicted, according to Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
The explosion injured seven people after the vehicle - filled with fuel canisters and firework mortars - exploded. Officials said all injuries were minor.
Authorities said they were yet to determine any motive.
"I'm comfortable calling it a suicide with a bombing that occurred immediately after," Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a Thursday afternoon press conference.
Livelsberger rented the Cybertruck on 28 December in Denver, Colorado. He has decades of experience with the US military, having served in the Army and National Guard.
He entered the active duty Army in December 2012, serving as a special operations soldier.
The US Army said he was on approved leave at the time of his death.
Livelsberger's father spoke to the BBC's news partner CBS and said his son was currently serving in Germany and on leave to visit Colorado and see his wife and eight-month-old daughter.
Livelsberger's father said he last spoke to his son at Christmas and that everything seemed normal.
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Rosita Missoni founded the brand with her late husband Ottavio in 1953
Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the eponymous Italian knitwear label Missoni, has died aged 93.
The news was confirmed by the president of Italy's Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, who praised the brand's iconic "multicoloured textures".
He described her death as "a great loss for Italy, Lombardy and for the province of Varese where she was born and lived".
Rosita founded the luxury brand - which became known for its zig-zag motif - in the northern Italian region with her husband Ottavio in 1953.
Rosita, whose parents were shawlmakers, was born in 1931 in the town of Golasecca, Lombardy.
While on a study trip to learn English in London, she met Ottavio - known as Tai - while he was competing in the 400m hurdles at the 1948 Olympic Games.
At the time, Tai was producing his own knit tracksuits, including bottoms with a zip so they could be put on over trainers.
"When I got married, four sewing machines arrived with my husband," Rosita told the AFP news agency in a 2016 interview.
The pair, who married in 1953, initially set up a machine-knitwear workshop in Gallarate, northwest of Milan.
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Rosita and Ottavio Missoni pictured in their office in the 1990s
Their big break came in 1958 when a Milanese department store ordered hundreds of Missoni-labelled striped dresses.
Missoni's first catwalk show came in 1966, followed by a presentation at the Pitti Palace in Florence the following year.
A controversy over the see-through quality of clothing, after models were asked to remove their white bras because they could be seen under blouses, propelled the brand into global fame.
Tai died in 2013, aged 92.
The couple's daughter, Angela, took over the fashion house in the late 1990s, although Rosita continued to work on the label's home line, Missoni Home.
Multiple casualties are feared in New Orleans after a vehicle reportedly drove into a crowd on the popular Bourbon Street, the BBC's US news partner CBS has reported.
A New Orleans Police spokesman said that "initial reports show a car may have ploughed into a group of people" in the early hours of New Year's Day. The spokesperson added that there were "reported fatalities".
A CBS reporter saw multiple people on the ground with injuries.
Witnesses told the organisation that a vehicle ran into a crowd, and then the driver began firing a weapon, prompting police to return fire. Police have not confirmed this report.
Nola Ready, a New Orleans government agency, said on social media that there had been "a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street" and told those nearby to "get yourself away from the area".
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The man who rented a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside of President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel is an active-duty US special forces soldier, officials have confirmed.
Las Vegas police identified Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, of Colorado, as the renter of the vehicle who drove the Cybertruck from Colorado to Las Vegas.
They said they were fairly certain he was the same person found dead in the vehicle after the explosion but were waiting for DNA evidence to confirm this.
The body was burnt beyond recognition and found with a gunshot wound to the head believed to be self-inflicted, according to Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
The explosion injured seven people after the vehicle - filled with fuel canisters and firework mortars - exploded. Officials said all injuries were minor.
Authorities said they were yet to determine any motive.
"I'm comfortable calling it a suicide with a bombing that occurred immediately after," Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said during a Thursday afternoon press conference.
Livelsberger rented the Cybertruck on 28 December in Denver, Colorado. He has decades of experience with the US military, having served in the Army and National Guard.
He entered the active duty Army in December 2012, serving as a special operations soldier.
The US Army said he was on approved leave at the time of his death.
Livelsberger's father spoke to the BBC's news partner CBS and said his son was currently serving in Germany and on leave to visit Colorado and see his wife and eight-month-old daughter.
Livelsberger's father said he last spoke to his son at Christmas and that everything seemed normal.
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Ten people are dead and at least 35 injured after a man drove into a large crowd in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year's Day, authorities have said.
Here's what we know so far.
When did the incident happen?
At 0315 on New Year's day, a man drove a pickup truck at speed into a large crowd in Bourbon Street.
Police described the act as "very intentional", adding that the man was "hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did".
"This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could", said New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick.
The driver fired at officers from his vehicle, injuring two officers. They are in a stable condition, authorities said.
In a later update, the FBI confirmed the driver was dead and that the incident was being investigated as an "act of terrorism".
Who was injured?
Police said 10 people were killed and at least 35 injured. None of them have been identified yet.
The injured have been sent to several area hospitals for treatment.
Police said it appeared that the victims were mainly locals.
Where did it happen?
The man drove into a large crowd on Bourbon Street in the southern US city of New Orleans in Louisiana.
Bourbon Street is a well-known nightlife and tourist hotspot that is filled with bars, clubs with live music and restaurants.
It is within New Orleans' French Quarter, a lively area that attracts tourists and locals, especially to celebrate the new year.
What about the driver?
The driver of the vehicle has died, but the cause of death is not yet clear.
He has not been identified by police, who said earlier that he had fired at officers when they responded to the scene.
The truck, a white Ford F-150 Lightning, with a heavily damaged bonnet was geolocated by the BBC Verify team in front of Rick's Cabaret on Bourbon Street, near the Conti Street intersection.
Officials are investigating whether the suspect was connected to or inspired by a foreign terror organization, according to BBC's US news partner CBS.
Investigators also are analyzing potential explosive devices recovered at or near the scene.
A long gun was recovered from the scene, CBS reported.
What was found at the scene?
Special agent Althea Duncan of the the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed at a morning news conference that the agency had taken over the investigation.
Ms Duncan said a possible explosive device had been found at the scene and authorities were working to find out if it was "viable".
She stressed that the public should stay away from the area "until we can figure out what is going on".
Police asked that the public stay clear of Bourbon Street between Canal and St Ann streets.
What did witnesses say?
A witness who was on Bourbon Street at the time of the incident has just shared some of the harrowing scenes.
Whit Davis, from Shreveport, Louisiana, told the BBC: "We had been on and around Bourbon Street since the beginning of the evening.
"When we were in the bar we didn't hear shooting or crashes because the music was so loud," Mr Davis said.
Police held Mr Davis and a group of people in the bar, and when they were allowed to leave he said they "were walking past dead and injured bodies all over the street".
The names of around 425,000 people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands have been published online for the first time.
The names represent individuals who were investigated through a special legal system established towards the end of World War 2. Of them, more than 150,000 faced some form of punishment.
The full records of these investigations were previously only accessible by visiting the Dutch National Archives in The Hague.
The Huygens Institute, which helped digitise the archive, says this is a major barrier for people wishing to research the Netherlands' occupation, which lasted from its invasion in 1940 to 1945.
"This archive contains important stories for both present and future generations," the Huygens Institute says.
"From children who want to know what their father did in the war, to historians researching the grey areas of collaboration."
The archive contains files on war criminals, the approximately 20,000 Dutch people who enlisted in the German armed forces, and alleged members of the National Socialist Movement (NSB) - the Dutch Nazi party.
But it also contains the names of people who were found to be innocent.
This is because the archive is comprised of files from the Special Jurisdiction, which from 1944 investigated suspected collaborators.
The online database only contains the names of suspects - as well as the date and place of their birth - which are only searchable using specific personal details.
It does not specify whether a particular person was found guilty, or what form of collaboration they were suspected of.
But it will tell users what file to request to see this information if they visit the National Archives. People accessing the physical files must declare a legitimate interest in viewing them.
There has been some concern in the Netherlands about personal information pertaining to a sensitive period of history being made freely available - prompting the information published online to be initially limited.
"I am afraid that there will be very nasty reactions," Rinke Smedinga, whose father was an NSB member and worked at Camp Westerbork, from which people were deported to concentration camps, told Dutch online publication DIT.
"You have to anticipate that. You should not just let it happen, as a kind of social experiment."
Tom De Smet, the director of the National Archives, told DIT that relatives of both collaborators and victims of the occupation had to be taken into account.
But he added: "Collaboration is still a major trauma. It is not talked about. We hope that when the archives are opened, the taboo will be broken."
In a letter to parliament on 19 December, Culture Minister Eppo Bruins wrote: "Openness of archives is crucial for facing the effects of [the Netherlands'] difficult shared past and to process it as a society."
How much information made available online would be limited given privacy concerns, and those visiting the archive in person will not be allowed to make copies. Bruins has expressed a wish to change the law to allow more information to be disclosed publicly.
The online database's website says that people who might still be alive are not listed online.
Israel has attacked heavily-populated areas saying Hamas militants hide amongst displaced civilians
An Israeli air strike on a tent camp sheltering displaced families in southern Gaza has killed at least 11 Palestinians, including the chief of the territory's Hamas-run police force, medics say.
Three children and two women were also reportedly among the dead in al-Mawasi, west of the city of Khan Younis.
The Hamas-run interior ministry condemned what it called the "assassination" of police director general Mahmoud Salah, and his assistant, Hussam Shahwan, who it said had been "performing their humanitarian and national duty".
The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
The military has declared the sandy strip of land along the coast in al-Mawasi to be a "humanitarian zone" for Palestinians displaced by its war with Hamas. But it has repeatedly attacked it, accusing Hamas operatives of hiding among displaced civilians.
Recent cold, wet weather has worsened conditions in the makeshift camp.
In the past day, there have also been deadly Israeli air strikes in a suburb of Gaza City, further north in Jabalia, and in Bureij in central Gaza - from where the Israeli military said rockets were fired into southern Israel at the very start of the new year.
Multiple casualties are feared in New Orleans after a vehicle reportedly drove into a crowd on the popular Bourbon Street, the BBC's US news partner CBS has reported.
A New Orleans Police spokesman said that "initial reports show a car may have ploughed into a group of people" in the early hours of New Year's Day. The spokesperson added that there were "reported fatalities".
A CBS reporter saw multiple people on the ground with injuries.
Witnesses told the organisation that a vehicle ran into a crowd, and then the driver began firing a weapon, prompting police to return fire. Police have not confirmed this report.
Nola Ready, a New Orleans government agency, said on social media that there had been "a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street" and told those nearby to "get yourself away from the area".
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There have been calls for protests ahead of the start of the new term on Sunday
There is concern growing in Syria that the new Islamist-led authorities have already decided on changes to the school curriculum, without the input of the rest of society.
The Facebook page of the transitional government's education ministry has posted the new curriculum for all age groups, which will take on a more Islamic slant, as well as dropping any reference to the Assad era across all subjects.
The phrase "Defending the nation" has been replaced by "Defending Allah", among other changes.
The Education Minister, Nazir al-Qadri, downplayed the move, saying the curriculum is essentially unchanged and will remain so until specialised committees have been set up to review and revise it.
Other proposed changes include Evolution and the Big Bang theory being dropped from science teaching.
References to the gods worshipped in Syria before Islam, as well as images of their statues, are also being dropped.
The significance of the great Syrian heroine Queen Zenobia, who once ruled Palmyra in the Roman era, seems to have been downplayed.
The Assad era has essentially been excised from the curriculum, including poems celebrating both Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, in Arabic language courses.
In a statement, al-Qadri said the only instructions he had issued were related to the removal of content that he described as glorifying the "defunct Assad regime" and the instatement of the Syrian revolutionary flag in all textbooks.
The minister also said that "inaccuracies" in the Islamic education curriculum had been corrected.
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The education minister said the curriculum would remain essentially unchanged until specialised committees had reviewed it
The changes have been welcomed by some Syrians.
But the move has set off alarm bells among resurgent civil society activists, many of whom have returned to Syria for the first time in many years.
They fear it is a sign that their voices - and those of groups and communities across the country - may not be listened to as the country develops under its new leadership.
There have already been calls for protests ahead of the start of the new school term on Sunday.
Activists want to make clear their opposition to any moves by the transitional government to bring in changes to the education system - or any other state institution - without the participation of all sections of Syrian society.
The new authorities have made much of the fact that they are to hold a National Dialogue Conference.
Officials have been holding meetings with many different communities - from Christians to Kurds, to artists and intellectuals.
The message has been that they want to create a new Syria with the involvement of all sections of society so that all will have a stake in the country's future.
But activists believe the unilateral changes in the school curriculum undercut such promises and want to make a stand right from the start for the values of freedom and inclusion that the removal of Bashar al-Assad has now made possible.
A drunken police officer in Zambia freed 13 suspects from custody so that they could go and celebrate the new year, officials say.
Detective inspector Titus Phiri was arrested after releasing the suspects from Leonard Cheelo police station in the capital, Lusaka, before running away himself.
The 13 detainees were accused of crimes such as assault, robbery and burglary.
They are all currently on the run and a manhunt has been launched to find them.
Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said that Mr Phiri, "in a state of intoxication, forcibly seized cell keys" from constable Serah Banda on New Year's Eve.
"Subsequently, detective inspector Phiri unlocked both the male and female cells and instructed the suspects to leave, stating they were free to cross over into the new year," he said.
"Out of the 15 suspects in custody, 13 escaped. Following the incident, the officer fled the scene."
Mr Phiri has not yet commented on the allegations.
Reacting to the incident, former presidential spokesperson and lawyer Dickson Jere wrote on Facebook: "I keep laughing each time I picture the scenario - comical! But then, I remembered a similar incident in 1997."
On New Year's Eve in 1997, the late, controversial High Court Judge Kabazo Chanda ordered the release of 53 suspects, some of whom were deemed dangerous by the police.
Mr Chanda was annoyed that the suspects had been arrested as long ago as 1992, but had not yet appeared in court.
Saltwater crocodiles were almost hunted to extinction in Australia's Northern Territory (NT). Now they're thriving
It's dawn on Darwin Harbour and government ranger Kelly Ewin - whose job is to catch and remove crocodiles - is balancing precariously on a floating trap.
Heavy rain clouds from the storm that has recently passed are overhead. The engine of the boat has been cut so now it's mostly silent – that is, apart from the intermittent splashing coming from inside the trap.
"You get pretty much zero chances with these guys," says Ewin as he attempts to loop a noose around the jaw of the agitated reptile.
We're in Australia's Northern Territory (NT), home to an estimated 100,000 wild saltwater crocodiles, more than anywhere in the world.
The capital, Darwin, is a small coastal city surrounded by beaches and wetlands.
And, as you quickly learn here in the NT, where there is water, there usually are crocs.
Watch: The BBC's Katy Watson is onboard with crocodile rangers in Darwin Harbour, Australia
Saltwater crocs - or salties, as they are known to locals - were nearly hunted to extinction 50 years ago.
After World War Two, the uncontrolled trade in their skins soared and numbers fell to around 3,000.
But when hunting was banned in 1971, the population started rising again - and fast.
They still are a protected species, but are no longer threatened.
The recovery of the saltwater crocodile has been so dramatic that Australia now faces a different dilemma: managing their numbers to keep people safe and the public onside.
"The worst thing that can happen is when people turn [against crocodiles]," explains croc expert Prof Grahame Webb.
"And then a politician will invariably come along with some knee-jerk reaction [that] they're going to 'solve' the crocodile problem."
Living with predators
The NT's hot temperatures and abundant coastal surroundings create the perfect habitat for cold-blooded crocs, who need warmth to keep their body temperature constant.
There also are big saltie populations in Northern Queensland and Western Australia as well as in parts of South East Asia.
While most species of crocodile are harmless, the saltie is territorial and aggressive.
Fatal incidents are rare in Australia, but they do happen.
Last year, a 12-year-old was taken - the first death from a crocodile in the NT since 2018.
This is busiest time of year for Ewin and his colleagues.
Breeding season has just started, which means salties are on the move.
His team are on the water several times a week, checking the 24 crocodile traps surrounding the city of Darwin.
The area is popular for fishing, as well as for some brave swimmers.
The crocodiles that are removed from the harbour are most often killed, because if they are released elsewhere, they're likely to return to the harbour.
"It's our job to try and keep people as safe as we can," says Ewin, who's been doing his "dream job" for two years. Before that, he was a policeman.
"Obviously, we're not going to capture every crocodile, but the more we take out of the harbour, the less risk there's going to be an encounter with crocodiles and people."
Kelly Ewin's job is to capture and remove crocodiles from Darwin Harbour
Another tool helping to keep the public safe is education.
The NT government goes into schools with its programme "Be Crocwise" - which teaches people how to behave responsibly around croc habitats.
It's been such a success that Florida and the Philippines are now looking to borrow it, in order to better understand how the world's most dangerous predators can live alongside humans with minimal interactions.
"We're living in crocodile country, so it's about how we [keep ourselves] safe around the waterways - how should we be responding?" says Natasha Hoffman, a ranger who runs the programme in the NT.
"If you're on the boats when you're fishing, you need to be aware that they're there. They're ambush hunters, they sit, watch and wait. If the opportunity is there for them to grab some food, that's what they're going to do."
In the NT, mass culling is currently not on the table given the protected status of the species.
Saltwater crocodiles are the largest living reptile in the world
Last year though, the government approved a new 10-year crocodile management plan to help control the numbers, which increased the quota of crocs that can be killed annually from 300 to 1,200.
This is on top of the work Ewin's team is doing to remove any crocodiles that pose a direct threat to humans.
Every time there's a death, it reignites the debate about crocodiles living in close proximity to people.
In the days after the 12-year-old girl was taken last year, the Territory's then leader Eva Lawler made it clear she wouldn't allow the reptiles to outnumber the human population of the NT.
Currently that stands at 250,000, well above the number of wild crocs.
It's a conversation that goes beyond the NT.
Queensland is home to about a quarter of the number of crocs that the Top End of NT has, but there are far more tourists, and more deaths, which means talk of culls sometimes feature in election debates.
Big business
The apex predators may court controversy, but they're also a big draw card for the NT – for tourists but also for fashion brands keen to buy their leather.
Visitors can head to the Adelaide River to watch "croc jumping" - which involves salties being fed bits of meat on the end of a stick if they can leap out of the water for their audience.
"I'm supposed to tell you to put your [life-jackets] on," jokes the head skipper at Spectacular Jumping Croc Cruises, Alex 'Wookie' Williams, as he explains the house rules of the boat.
"The bit I don't have to tell you… [is that] life jackets are pretty useless out here."
For Williams, who's been obsessed with crocs since childhood, there's plenty of opportunity to work alongside them.
"It's boomed over the last 10 years or so," he says of the number of tourists coming to the region.
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Shows with wild crocodiles are organised in the NT to attract tourists
Farming, which was brought in when hunting was banned, has also become an economic driver.
It's estimated there are now about 150,000 crocodiles in captivity in the NT.
Fashion labels such as Louis Vuitton and Hermès - which sells a Birkin 35 croc handbag for as much as A$800,000 ($500,000; £398,000) - have all invested in the industry.
"The commercial incentives were effectively put in place to help people tolerate crocodiles, because we need a social licence to be able to use wildlife," says Mick Burns, one of the NT's most prominent farmers who works with luxury brands.
His office is in downtown Darwin. Spread across the floor is a massive croc skin. Pinned to the wall of the conference room, there is another skin that spans at least four metres.
Mick Burns has been working in the NT's crocodile farming industry for years
Burns is also involved with a ranch in remote Arnhem Land, about 500km (310 miles) east of Darwin. There, he works with Aboriginal rangers to harvest and hatch croc eggs to sell their skins to the luxury goods industry.
One of the area's Traditional Owners, Otto Bulmaniya Campion, who works alongside Burns, says more partnerships like theirs are crucial for ensuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities share in the financial benefits of the industry.
For tens of thousands of years, crocs have played a significant role in Indigenous cultures, shaping their sacred stories, lives and livelihoods.
"My father, all the elders, used to go and harpoon crocodiles, get a skin, and go and trade it for tea, flour, and sugar. [However] there was no money at that time," the Balngarra man says.
"Now, we want to see our own people handling reptiles."
But not everyone is on board with farming as a practice - even if those involved say it helps with conservation.
The concern among animal activists lies in the way the crocs are held in captivity.
Despite being social animals, they are usually confined to individual pens to ensure their skins are flawless - as a scrap between two territorial crocs would almost certainly damage a valuable commodity.
Aboriginal Swamp Rangers Aboriginal Corporation
Otto Bulmaniya Campion is a Traditional Owner of the Central Arnhem Land region in the Top End
Everyone in Darwin has a story about these formidable creatures, regardless of whether they want to see them hunted in greater numbers or more rigorously preserved.
But the threat they continue to pose is not imagined.
"If you go [swimming in] the Adelaide river next to Darwin, there's a 100% chance you'll be killed," says Prof Webb matter-of-factly.
"The only question is whether it's going to take five minutes or 10 minutes. I don't think you'll ever get to 15 - you'll be torn apart," he adds, pushing up his trouser leg to reveal a huge scar on his calf - evidence of a close encounter with one angry female nearly forty years ago as he was collecting eggs.
He is unapologetic about what he calls the pragmatism of authorities to manage numbers and make money out of crocs along the way - a way of life that, in the near future at least, is here to stay.
"We've done what very few people can do, which is take a very serious predator…and then manage them in such a way that the public is prepared to [tolerate] them.
"You try and get people in Sydney or London or New York to put up with a serious predator - they aren't going to do it."
Al Jazeera expressed shock and denounced the decision
The Palestinian Authority says it has suspended broadcasting by the prominent Arab channel Al Jazeera in parts of the occupied West Bank, citing incitement and bias.
Qatari-owned Al Jazeera expressed shock and denounced the decision as "an attempt to hide the truth about events in the occupied territories".
It links the closure to news coverage of the recent major crackdown by Palestinian security forces on armed Islamist groups in Jenin refugee camp where at least 11 people have been killed.
Al Jazeera, which is widely watched by Palestinians particularly for its exhaustive coverage of the Gaza war, has already been stopped in Arabic and English in Israel.
For the second time in months, Al Jazeera has broadcast the scene from within its own office in Ramallah as security forces enter and order it to close. Last year, it was Israeli soldiers who raided and this time, Palestinian police went in.
On Wednesday evening, a uniformed officer was shown handing an official order to an Al Jazeera correspondent who reads and signs it.
Fatah, the Palestinian faction which dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA), has accused the Al Jazeera network of sowing division in "our Arab homeland in general and in Palestine in particular". Al Jazeera insists it is impartial.
The PA, which cooperates with Israel on security, is increasingly unpopular with the Palestinian public and has little control over Jenin's urban refugee camp, historically seen as a stronghold for armed groups.
Since early December, its forces have been fighting members of the Jenin Battalion, most of whom are affiliated with Islamic Jihad or Hamas, whose 7 October 2023 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza.
Analysts say that the PA is trying to reassert its authority in the West Bank and prove its potential value to the incoming Trump administration. They suggest it may also want to show its ability to take a role in the future governance of Gaza.
However, ongoing events have drawn condemnation from many Palestinians.
"Al Jazeera has successfully maintained its professionalism throughout its coverage of the unfolding events in Jenin," it said in a statement earlier this week.
According to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, Al Jazeera network has been deemed in violation of Palestinian laws and regulations and its operations suspended temporarily. The stoppage order applies to all work by its journalists and staff.
The network is accused of broadcasting "inciting materials" and "misleading reports" that "provoke strife and interfere in Palestinian internal affairs," Wafa said.
Israel's parliament voted to close Al Jazeera in Israel last May saying it threatened national security. Israeli police then raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera for broadcasting and some of its equipment was confiscated. The channel's Arabic staff relocated to the West Bank.
In September, Israeli troops ordered the Al Jazeera office in Ramallah in the West Bank to close for 45 days claiming it was being used to support terrorist activities.
Israeli officials, including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have often accused Al Jazeera of being a mouthpiece for Hamas.
Israel has also accused Al Jazeera staff in Gaza of belonging to the Islamist group. In July, the Israeli military killed Ismail al-Ghoul, an Al Jazeera reporter in Gaza City, claiming he was a member of Hamas' s armed wing. Al Jazeera strongly rejects all the allegations.
There is also a long history of hostility between Al Jazeera and the PA, with some PA officials accusing it of showing support for Hamas, a political rival of Fatah.
In 2011, Al Jazeera's publication of the so-called Palestine Papers, a leak of confidential files detailing years of negotiations between Israel and Palestinian teams, embarrassed PA officials who accused the network of distortion. The documents purported to show offers of major concessions to Israel.
Some Palestinian journalists have criticised the PA decision to bar Al Jazeera saying it comes against a background of an increasingly authoritarian crackdown on dissent. The Foreign Press Association expressed "grave concern" over the action saying that it "raises serious questions about press freedom and democratic values in the region."
A drunken police officer in Zambia freed 13 suspects from custody so that they could go and celebrate the new year, officials say.
Detective inspector Titus Phiri was arrested after releasing the suspects from Leonard Cheelo police station in the capital, Lusaka, before running away himself.
The 13 detainees were accused of crimes such as assault, robbery and burglary.
They are all currently on the run and a manhunt has been launched to find them.
Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said that Mr Phiri, "in a state of intoxication, forcibly seized cell keys" from constable Serah Banda on New Year's Eve.
"Subsequently, detective inspector Phiri unlocked both the male and female cells and instructed the suspects to leave, stating they were free to cross over into the new year," he said.
"Out of the 15 suspects in custody, 13 escaped. Following the incident, the officer fled the scene."
Mr Phiri has not yet commented on the allegations.
Reacting to the incident, former presidential spokesperson and lawyer Dickson Jere wrote on Facebook: "I keep laughing each time I picture the scenario - comical! But then, I remembered a similar incident in 1997."
On New Year's Eve in 1997, the late, controversial High Court Judge Kabazo Chanda ordered the release of 53 suspects, some of whom were deemed dangerous by the police.
Mr Chanda was annoyed that the suspects had been arrested as long ago as 1992, but had not yet appeared in court.
Toxic waste has been moved from the Union Carbide plant 40 years after the disaster
Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from an Indian chemical factory that witnessed one of the world's deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago.
A court in December had set a four-week deadline for the waste to be disposed.
On Wednesday, the toxic waste - around 337 tonnes - was taken from the Union Carbide factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal to an incinerator facility around 230km (143 miles) away.
It will take between three and nine months to treat and destroy the waste.
Thousands of people died in December 1984 after breathing a poisonous gas leaked from the factory.
Since then, the toxic material had been lying in the mothballed factory, polluting groundwater in the surrounding areas.
The toxic waste cleared from the factory this week included five types of hazardous materials - including pesticide residue and "forever chemicals" left from its manufacturing process. These chemicals get the name because they retain their toxic properties indefinitely.
Over decades, these chemicals at the abandoned factory site had been slowly seeping into the surrounding environment, creating a persistent health hazard for people who live in nearby areas.
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The waste was transported in special sealed containers with high security
A 2018 study by the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research revealed that high concentrations of metals and chemicals have contaminated groundwater across 42 residential areas near the factory.
After decades of inaction, the Madhya Pradesh state High Court on 3 December set a four-week deadline for authorities to dispose the toxic waste material from the site.
The court said that authorities were "still in a state of inertia despite 40 years".
The process of moving the waste began on Sunday when officials started packing it in leak-proof bags. These bags were then loaded onto 12 sealed trucks on Wednesday.
Officials said the waste was transported under tight security.
There were police escorts, ambulances, fire brigades and a quick response team with the convoy of trucks carrying the waste, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
Swatantra Kumar Singh, the head of Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation department, told the PTI news agency that initially, some of the waste would be burnt at the disposal unit in Pithampur and its residue examined for toxic remains.
He said that special arrangements have been made to ensure that fumes from the incinerator or the ash left after do not pollute the air and water.
However, activists and people living near the disposal site have been protesting against the move.
They said that a small amount of waste from the Carbide factory was destroyed at the plant on a trial basis in 2015, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported.
It ended up polluting the soil, underground water as well as fresh water bodies in the nearby villages, they said.
But Mr Singh has denied these claims.
He said that incineration of toxic waste would not have "any adverse impact" on nearby villages.
Over the years, officials have made several attempts to dispose the waste from the Bhopal factory but dropped their plans after facing resistance from activists.
In 2015, India's pollution control board said that the toxic waste would be incinerated in Gujarat but the plan was dropped after protests.
The board later identified sites in Hyderabad and Maharashtra states as well, but faced similar resistance.
The Bhopal gas tragedy is the one of the world's largest industrial disasters.
According to government estimates, around 3,500 people died within days of the gas leak and more than 15,000 in the years since.
But activists say that the death toll is much higher. Victims continue to suffer from the side-effects of being poisoned even today.
In 2010, an Indian court convicted seven former managers at the plant, handing down minor fines and brief prison sentences. But many victims and campaigners say that justice has still not been served, given the magnitude of the tragedy.
Union Carbide was a US company which Dow Chemicals bought in 1999.
Chinese car maker BYD saw sales jump at the end of last year, leaving it closer to claiming the title of the world's best-selling electric vehicle (EV) maker of 2024.
The company says it sold 207,734 EVs in December, taking its annual total to 1.76 million, as subsidies and discounts helped attract customers.
It comes as Tesla is scheduled to announce its own quarterly sales figures later on Thursday.
The US electric car maker maintained a slim lead in EV sales over BYD in the previous quarter but the Shenzhen-based firm has been narrowing the gap.
BYD's total vehicle sales jumped more than 41% in 2024, year-on-year. The surge was powered mainly by sales of its hybrid cars.
The company has benefited from a rise in car sales in its home market, as intense competition drove down prices and government subsidies encouraged consumers to replace their old cars with EVs or other more fuel efficient options.
BYD sells 90% of its cars in China, where its been extending its lead over foreign brands like Volkswagen and Toyota.
The rise of BYD and other Chinese EV makers contrasts with the challenges faced by some legacy car makers, which have been struggling in major Western markets.
His abrupt exit from the company - which owns brands including Vauxhall, Jeep, Fiat, Peugeot and Chrysler - came two months after Stellantis issued a profit warning.
It posted more than 200bn yuan ($28.2bn, £21.8bn) in revenues between July and September - a 24% jump from the same period last year, and more than Elon Musk's company whose quarterly revenue was $25.2bn.
However, Tesla still sold more electric vehicle (EVs) than BYD.
An eight-year-old boy has been found alive after surviving five days in a game park inhabited by lions and elephants in northern Zimbabwe, according to a member of parliament.
The ordeal began when Tinotenda Pudu wandered 23 km (14 miles) from home into the "perilous" Matusadona Game Park, said Mashonaland West MP Mutsa Murombedzi on X.
He spent five days "sleeping on a rocky perch, amidst roaring lions, passing elephants, eating wild fruits", she said.
Matusadona game park has about 40 lions. At one point, it had one of the highest lion population densities in Africa, according to African Parks.
Murombedzi said the boy used his knowledge of the wild and survival skills to stay alive.
Tinotenda survived his ordeal by eating wild fruit. He also dug small wells into dry riverbeds with a stick to access drinking water - a skill taught in the drought-prone area.
Members of the local Nyaminyami community started a search party and beat drums each day to try and guide him back home.
But ultimately, it was park rangers who managed to find him.
On his fifth day in the wild, Tinotenda heard a ranger's car and ran toward it, narrowly missing it, the MP said.
Luckily, the rangers returned, spotted "fresh little human footprints," and searched the area until they found him.
"This was probably his last chance of being rescued after 5 days in the wilderness," said the MP.
The park is over 1,470 sq km (570 sq miles) and is home to zebras, elephants, hippos, lions and antelope.
Across social media, people have been praising the young boy for his resilience.
"This is beyond human comprehension," one person wrote on X.
Another user wrote: "He's going to have one hell of a story to tell when he gets back to school."
Dandy Krazy, one of Zambia's most popular musicians, has died from injuries caused by a road collision on New Year's Eve.
The 47-year-old - real name Wesley Chibambo - was travelling in Zambia's Kapiri Mposhi region when his car collided with a truck and a second car.
Three people died at the scene. Dandy Krazy passed away in the early hours of Thursday despite being transported to the University Teaching Hospital in capital city Lusaka for emergency surgery.
President Hakainde Hichilema was among those who paid tribute to the musician, calling him an "extraordinary artist".
"His music and charisma touched lives far and wide, crossing all boundaries and bringing people together," Hichilema wrote in a Facebook post.
Ten people are dead and at least 35 injured after a man drove into a large crowd in New Orleans in the early hours of New Year's Day, authorities have said.
Here's what we know so far.
When did the incident happen?
At 0315 on New Year's day, a man drove a pickup truck at speed into a large crowd in Bourbon Street.
Police described the act as "very intentional", adding that the man was "hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did".
"This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could", said New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick.
The driver fired at officers from his vehicle, injuring two officers. They are in a stable condition, authorities said.
In a later update, the FBI confirmed the driver was dead and that the incident was being investigated as an "act of terrorism".
Who was injured?
Police said 10 people were killed and at least 35 injured. None of them have been identified yet.
The injured have been sent to several area hospitals for treatment.
Police said it appeared that the victims were mainly locals.
Where did it happen?
The man drove into a large crowd on Bourbon Street in the southern US city of New Orleans in Louisiana.
Bourbon Street is a well-known nightlife and tourist hotspot that is filled with bars, clubs with live music and restaurants.
It is within New Orleans' French Quarter, a lively area that attracts tourists and locals, especially to celebrate the new year.
What about the driver?
The driver of the vehicle has died, but the cause of death is not yet clear.
He has not been identified by police, who said earlier that he had fired at officers when they responded to the scene.
The truck, a white Ford F-150 Lightning, with a heavily damaged bonnet was geolocated by the BBC Verify team in front of Rick's Cabaret on Bourbon Street, near the Conti Street intersection.
Officials are investigating whether the suspect was connected to or inspired by a foreign terror organization, according to BBC's US news partner CBS.
Investigators also are analyzing potential explosive devices recovered at or near the scene.
A long gun was recovered from the scene, CBS reported.
What was found at the scene?
Special agent Althea Duncan of the the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed at a morning news conference that the agency had taken over the investigation.
Ms Duncan said a possible explosive device had been found at the scene and authorities were working to find out if it was "viable".
She stressed that the public should stay away from the area "until we can figure out what is going on".
Police asked that the public stay clear of Bourbon Street between Canal and St Ann streets.
What did witnesses say?
A witness who was on Bourbon Street at the time of the incident has just shared some of the harrowing scenes.
Whit Davis, from Shreveport, Louisiana, told the BBC: "We had been on and around Bourbon Street since the beginning of the evening.
"When we were in the bar we didn't hear shooting or crashes because the music was so loud," Mr Davis said.
Police held Mr Davis and a group of people in the bar, and when they were allowed to leave he said they "were walking past dead and injured bodies all over the street".
Police are investigating the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Police said a cybertruck pulled up in front of the hotel on Wednesday near a glass entrance, then smoke started coming from the vehicle and it exploded.
The driver was killed and seven people were injured, police said without naming any suspects or victims. Officials said all injuries were minor.
The fire occurred just hours after ten people were killed when a man drove a truck into a crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana, on New Year's Day.
Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Police Department said officials were "well aware of what happened in New Orleans", including that an improvised explosive device was found at the crime scene in Louisiana.
"As you can imagine, with an explosion here on an iconic Las Vegas Boulevard, we are taking all of the precautions that we need to take to keep our community safe," he said during a news conference.
Mr McMahill said there was no longer a threat to the Las Vegas community.
Fire department officials said emergency responders quickly worked to extinguish the vehicle fire.
They added that the public should stay away from the area and that the hotel was evacuated, with most of the guests moving to a different location.
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Israel has attacked heavily-populated areas saying Hamas militants hide amongst displaced civilians
An Israeli air strike on a tent camp sheltering displaced families in southern Gaza has killed at least 11 Palestinians, including the chief of the territory's Hamas-run police force, medics say.
Three children and two women were also reportedly among the dead in al-Mawasi, west of the city of Khan Younis.
The Hamas-run interior ministry condemned what it called the "assassination" of police director general Mahmoud Salah, and his assistant, Hussam Shahwan, who it said had been "performing their humanitarian and national duty".
The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
The military has declared the sandy strip of land along the coast in al-Mawasi to be a "humanitarian zone" for Palestinians displaced by its war with Hamas. But it has repeatedly attacked it, accusing Hamas operatives of hiding among displaced civilians.
Recent cold, wet weather has worsened conditions in the makeshift camp.
In the past day, there have also been deadly Israeli air strikes in a suburb of Gaza City, further north in Jabalia, and in Bureij in central Gaza - from where the Israeli military said rockets were fired into southern Israel at the very start of the new year.
Toxic waste has been moved from the Union Carbide plant 40 years after the disaster
Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from an Indian chemical factory that witnessed one of the world's deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago.
A court in December had set a four-week deadline for the waste to be disposed.
On Wednesday, the toxic waste - around 337 tonnes - was taken from the Union Carbide factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal to an incinerator facility around 230km (143 miles) away.
It will take between three and nine months to treat and destroy the waste.
Thousands of people died in December 1984 after breathing a poisonous gas leaked from the factory.
Since then, the toxic material had been lying in the mothballed factory, polluting groundwater in the surrounding areas.
The toxic waste cleared from the factory this week included five types of hazardous materials - including pesticide residue and "forever chemicals" left from its manufacturing process. These chemicals get the name because they retain their toxic properties indefinitely.
Over decades, these chemicals at the abandoned factory site had been slowly seeping into the surrounding environment, creating a persistent health hazard for people who live in nearby areas.
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The waste was transported in special sealed containers with high security
A 2018 study by the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research revealed that high concentrations of metals and chemicals have contaminated groundwater across 42 residential areas near the factory.
After decades of inaction, the Madhya Pradesh state High Court on 3 December set a four-week deadline for authorities to dispose the toxic waste material from the site.
The court said that authorities were "still in a state of inertia despite 40 years".
The process of moving the waste began on Sunday when officials started packing it in leak-proof bags. These bags were then loaded onto 12 sealed trucks on Wednesday.
Officials said the waste was transported under tight security.
There were police escorts, ambulances, fire brigades and a quick response team with the convoy of trucks carrying the waste, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
Swatantra Kumar Singh, the head of Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation department, told the PTI news agency that initially, some of the waste would be burnt at the disposal unit in Pithampur and its residue examined for toxic remains.
He said that special arrangements have been made to ensure that fumes from the incinerator or the ash left after do not pollute the air and water.
However, activists and people living near the disposal site have been protesting against the move.
They said that a small amount of waste from the Carbide factory was destroyed at the plant on a trial basis in 2015, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported.
It ended up polluting the soil, underground water as well as fresh water bodies in the nearby villages, they said.
But Mr Singh has denied these claims.
He said that incineration of toxic waste would not have "any adverse impact" on nearby villages.
Over the years, officials have made several attempts to dispose the waste from the Bhopal factory but dropped their plans after facing resistance from activists.
In 2015, India's pollution control board said that the toxic waste would be incinerated in Gujarat but the plan was dropped after protests.
The board later identified sites in Hyderabad and Maharashtra states as well, but faced similar resistance.
The Bhopal gas tragedy is the one of the world's largest industrial disasters.
According to government estimates, around 3,500 people died within days of the gas leak and more than 15,000 in the years since.
But activists say that the death toll is much higher. Victims continue to suffer from the side-effects of being poisoned even today.
In 2010, an Indian court convicted seven former managers at the plant, handing down minor fines and brief prison sentences. But many victims and campaigners say that justice has still not been served, given the magnitude of the tragedy.
Union Carbide was a US company which Dow Chemicals bought in 1999.
A well-known American football player, a young aspiring nurse and a mother of a four-year-old are among the victims of the New Year's day attack in New Orleans in which at least 15 people were killed.
Their names are being released by families and relatives before authorities complete post-mortem examinations.
Here's what we know so far.
Martin 'Tiger' Bech
Martin "Tiger" Bech is a former football player at Princeton University.
His death was confirmed in a statement by the university.
"There was no more appropriate nickname of a Princeton player I coached," Princeton football coach Bob Surace said in a statement.
"He was a 'Tiger' in every way - a ferocious competitor with endless energy, a beloved teammate and a caring friend."
Martin Bech's brother, Jack Bech, posted a tribute on X alongside a news article reporting his death.
"Love you always brother!" he wrote. "You inspired me everyday now you get to be with me in every moment. I got this family T, don't worry. This is for us."
Mr Bech was a member of the 2016 and 2018 Ivy League Championship teams.
Nikyra Cheyenne Dedeaux
The 18-year-old was an aspiring nurse.
Her death was confirmed by her mother, Melissa Dedeaux, on social media.
"I lost my baby just pray for me and my family pleaseeeeee!!! God I need you now!!," the mother pleaded, along with a photograph of her daughter wearing a red graduation cap and gown from this year.
Ms Dedeaux - who is also a nurse - told local media outlet Nola that her daughter had been due to start her nurse training later this month.
She added that Nikyra had snuck out with a cousin and friend, who both survived.
Reggie Hunter
The death of the store manager and father of two was confirmed to CBS News, the BBC News' US partner, by his cousin Shirell Robinson Jackson.
Ms Jackson described him as "full of life", and said the 37-year-old had messaged the family minutes after midnight to wish them a Happy New Near.
He was with another cousin who was injured in the attack.
Nicole Perez
Kimberly Usher Fall, Ms Perez's friend and boss at the deli store she worked at, called her a dedicated, smart and a "good-hearted person", according to CBS.
The 27-year-old was also a mother to a four-year-old boy.
Matthew Tenedorio
The 25-year-old audio-visual technician had a "laid-back spirit and infectious laughter" that brought joy to those around him, according to a fundraiser his family set up in his name.
His mother Cathy Tenedorio, told US broadcaster NBC News, she last saw her son alive at 21:00 local time on New Year's Eve, adding she remembered hugging and kissing him.
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