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m By Emma Farge for Reuters Palestinian forensic and civil defence recover human remains at the grounds of Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest hospital, which was reduced to ashes by a two-week Israeli raid. Photo: - A United Nations inquiry says it found that Israel carried out a concerted policy of destroying Gaza's healthcare system in the Gaza war, actions amounting to both war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination. A statement by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay that accompanied the report accused Israel of "relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities" in the war, triggered by Hamas militants' deadly cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7 October, 2023. "Children in particular have borne the brunt of these att...

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert (left) stands with her great-grandson Dov Forman after being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire following an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, on 31 January, 2023. Photo: AFP / Pool / Andrew Matthews King Charles has paid tribute to the "extraordinary resilience and courage" of Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert, who has died at the age of 100. Ebert, born in Hungary, was taken in 1944 as a 20-year-old to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where her mother, younger sister, and brother were sent to the gas chambers. Along with three of her other siblings, she managed to survive. They were freed in 1945 and reunited in Switzerland before eventually heading to Israel. She later settled in London in 1967, where in her later years she became well k...

Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives for the 2018 Met Gala on May 7, 2018, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Photo: AFP / Angela Weiss Musician and producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, will go to trial in May 2025. The judge in Combs' federal case set a trial date for May 5, 2025 at a court hearing in New York on Thursday. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, was present in the courtroom, as were several of his family members. Combs' ankles were shackled, and he was wearing a loose-fitting tan button down shirt and khaki pants. He smiled widely to his family as he was led into the courtroom by a US Marshal, taking a moment to wave toward them sitting in the second row. Prosecutor Emily Jo...

A man makes a call in front of a convenience store's collapsed roof in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Wednesday, October 9. Photo: Eric Hasert/TCPALM/USA Today Network/Imagn Images via CNN Newsource As Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, as a dangerous Category 3 storm - weakening to a Category 1 as it sliced through the state - at least nine tornadoes tore through communities over 100 miles (160km) inland, including three in less than 25 minutes, according to a CNN analysis of National Weather Service warnings. Milton, the third hurricane to hit Florida this year, dumped about 16 inches of rain on St Petersburg, a more than a 1-in-1000 year rainfall event for the area, according to the National Hurricane Center. But residents in St Lucie County faced an entirely differen...