Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed interest in the issue and asked IDF officials whether the law could the applied in the current case.
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Israeli sentenced to 55 months in prison for spying for Iran, photographing Gallant’s house
The Israeli, Fares Abu al Hija, 32, of Kaukab Abu al Hija, is alleged to have conducted spying operations for Iran, including taking photographs of former defense minister Yoav Gallant’s house.
Arab stars turn out for Burberry’s summer 2027 show in London
DUBAI: Lebanese-Latin content creator Samia Kanaan, US-Egyptian model Sandra Shehab and Moroccan-Italian influencer Yasmin Barbieri were among the guests at Burberry’s summer 2027 show during London Fashion Week this week. Kanaan donned a cognac leather trench coat, cut double-breasted with a notched collar, epaulettes and buckled straps at the cuffs. She wore it open over a yellow silk tie-neck dress printed with navy and red stripes and finished the look with black knee-high leather boots. She
‘Thirteen in Gaza’ wins Toronto International Film Festival award
DUBAI: The Palestinian film “Thirteen in Gaza” has won the NETPAC Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, awarded by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema. The 2026 NETPAC jury was chaired by Mara Matta, alongside Richard Fung and Panagiotis Kotzathanasis, who praised director Hosam Abu Dan’s film in a statement issued on Sunday. “Against unfolding genocide, ‘Thirteen in Gaza’ by Hosam Abu Dan turns suffering into neither spectacle nor victimhood, but into riveting imag
UK government borrowing jumps over forecast to £18.3bn in August, in ‘dismal picture’ ahead of the budget – business live
The rising cost of servicing the UK national debt pushed up borrowing last month
How much ‘headroom’ might John Healey still have to keep within the government’s fiscal rules?
That’s the question dogging Westminster and the City.
“The chancellor has probably lost about half the headroom he inherited, leaving it between £10bn to £15bn. As long as the headroom is in double figures, he will probably be able to avoid topping it up, but the drop in headroom means any additional day-to-day spending, such as on defence or cost of living, will have to be paid for by higher taxes.
“What’s more, if the recent rise in energy prices is sustained through the next few months, household energy bills could rise by another 25% in January, which would take them above the level that the previous government capped them at. That would only further increase the pressure to act on cost of living by temporarily subsiding energy bills.
“The PM and chancellor will be feeling quite claustrophobic today as the walls close in around them. Borrowing costs keep climbing, while borrowing itself is outpacing the teeny rise in tax receipts.
Everyone can diagnose the problem, but it’s far from clear that a PM who swept to power promising good things for all is capable of holding a fractious Labour party together to carry out the tough work needed.”
Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver
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Fariba Hashimi fled after Taliban returned to power
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‘This medal can show resilience from Afghan women’
An Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to pursue her sporting dreams won an Asian Games silver medal on Tuesday, hoping it inspires other women in a country where Taliban authorities have sharply curtailed their freedoms.
Fariba Hashimi, who is based in Italy, powered home second in the women’s road race near Nagoya in Japan, calling the triumph “something special”.
MDA hosts knowledge-sharing workshop for Latin American, Spanish emergency organization officials
Over the years, MDA has partnered in “transferring knowledge and assisting in the establishment and development of emergency medical systems in various countries.”
Caution versus ambition: strategy debate dominates Lib Dem conference
Party strategists say careful targeting of seats has paid off and should continue, but some say a wider vision is needed
One of the more dramatic moments in a Liberal Democrat conference otherwise short of them came late on Sunday, when the party frontbencher Lisa Smart told the polling veteran John Curtice that, in effect, he no longer understood modern politics.
Curtice had warned the Lib Dems they risked being left behind, with the lack of a coherent national message seeing them all but ignored outside a few electoral strongholds. Smart’s response? In the new era of five- or six-party politics, and mass tactical voting, this does not matter.
Many Americans live in the UK – but few vote back home. This year, that must change | Kathryn Sikkink
The rights of overseas voters are protected by US federal law. It’s not hard – but Americans should start planning now
The UK hosts the second largest population of voting-age US citizens outside the United States, but Americans living in the UK vote at very low levels in US elections.
The US government’s Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) estimated that there were 298,268 voting-age US citizens in the UK in 2022, second only to Canada. But FVAP also estimated that only 3.8% of these US citizens in Britain voted in that year’s midterm elections. Why do hundreds of thousands of eligible US voters in the UK not exercise their right to vote, even though US rules for voting abroad are relatively welcoming compared to many other countries?
Shadows of Beirut review – chaos and crisis as woman goes back to birth city in fractured Covid-era drama
A London-dwelling émigrée goes back to Lebanon to see her dying father in this somewhat overwrought film examining a difficult childhood
This somewhat overwrought drama was apparently shot during the Covid-19 pandemic, partly in the city of the title and partly on sets in a Bulgarian studio. Its higgledy-piggledy production schedule perhaps accounts for the film’s fractured, frenetic quality and the feeling that the characters are perpetually in motion. Mind you, to be fair, the shredded editing might also be meant to reflect the distraught mental state of protagonist Lana (Tala Calil, also co-writer and producer) and the energy of the city itself, a municipality ravaged by wars that also has some of the most chaotic traffic in the Middle East. There’s even a scene where Lana’s new friend Sirine (Flavia Bechara) is driving and wants to take her coat off so she makes Lana take the wheel, much to Lana’s terror and distress, a nonchalance about safety believable for a city where traffic lights appear to be only a suggestion.
That said, Lana has a lot going on so she’s easily rattled. She left Beirut 25 years earlier, and has only come back to see her biological father of whom she has only negative memories, from a childhood blighted by his alcoholism and violence. These days she lives in London with her boyfriend Ben (Michael E Rodgers) and her mother, but the former relationship is also rocky due to Lana’s OCD. She’s obsessed with wearing as much sanitary PPE kit as possible, including not just an N95 (in UK FFP2) mask but one of those full-face clear plastic ones, too. However, she suddenly finds the strength to stop wearing all the gear when she gets back to Beirut and reconnects with her cousin Rami (Assaad Bouab). She starts to open up a bit more, and befriends the aforementioned Sirine, who helps Lana when she’s having a panic attack at the hospital. By slow degrees she works up enough fortitude to face her father before he dies, but that means confronting some family secrets she never knew.