Israeli attacks killed four Palestinians Monday, as Gaza’s Government Media Office reported thousands of ceasefire violations and severe humanitarian aid restrictions.

With days until the midterms, a federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from threatening election workers, calling out a campaign to intimidate officials and warning that the hunt for noncitizen voters risks disenfranchising lawful Americans.

As hundreds of protesters gather in Battersea holding “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” signs, the Met’s warning that even logistical helpers face arrest exposes the fault-lines of a terror ban now heading to the Supreme Court.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says three violating oil tankers, which were passing through the unauthorized route south of the Strait of Hormuz, struck mines, triggering explosions and fires.

Muslim mother Juveriah Alam describes her anguish at the prospect of having to silence her children over Palestine, fearing that strengthened political-impartiality guidance will further suppress their identities and freedom of expression. Her concerns, alongside those of children’s author and refugee-rights activist Onjali Q. Raúf, raise a wider question: is Britain’s attempt to tackle antisemitism and extremism creating a climate in which legitimate criticism of Israel, Palestinian identity and peaceful political dissent are increasingly treated as problems to be managed rather than rights to be protected?

Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian home in Qalqilya and seized residential properties in Al-Bireh and Burin, converting them into military barracks, as illegal Israeli settlers attacked homes, fired at vehicles and burned Palestinian vehicles across the occupied West Bank. The raids took place as Israelis voted in parliamentary elections Tuesday, following days of intensified military raids and restrictions across the territory.

China’s ambition to construct the world’s largest planned hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet is confronting an increasingly consequential scientific and political question: can a mega-dam of unprecedented scale be operated safely in a Himalayan river basin where climate change may increase runoff, extreme rainfall and flood risks, while seismic hazards and downstream geopolitical tensions remain unresolved?

Pakistan’s Preventive-Detention Test: LHC Summons Punjab Home Secretary, Kot Lakhpat Jail Chief Over Imran Khan Sisters’ Continued Custody

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has called for Israel to occupy and effectively annex around 60% of the Gaza Strip and to annex Lebanese territory up to Israel’s current military deployment lines, remarks that, read alongside reported buffer-zone plans, amount to an explicit push to convert military control into permanent territorial dominion.

Funds and programmes are not enough. Britain must make innovation a war-fighting function, with its own sponsor, protected budget and readiness line, before the decade is out.

Record racist and religious hate crimes in England and Wales have risen for a second year running, anti-Muslim offences up 15%, antisemitic offences up 10%, as Tell MAMA and the British Muslim Trust warn of a sustained crisis fuelled by political scapegoating, street-level aggression and mosque-targeted violence. With undercover footage of Reform UK officials and repeated controversies involving Reform MPs raising questions about the mainstreaming of anti-Muslim rhetoric, and with Azerbaijan’s headscarf row showing that the policing of Muslim girls’ bodies remains a transnational contest over education, identity and rights, the evidence points to a failure of political leadership and the urgent need for a comprehensive hate crime and community cohesion strategy.

Albania’s capital entered a fifth consecutive day of violent clashes on Saturday as a student-led anti-government movement demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation spread from the Education Ministry to streets across Tirana, and beyond to the coastal city of Durres.