Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country "takes full responsibility" for an unprecedented airstrike on Hamas leaders in Qatar.
"Today's action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation," Netanyahu's office said in a statement Sept. 9. "Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility."
Israel launched the attack on Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar's capital, on Sept. 9. The strike is an expansion of military actions that have ranged across the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state where the Palestinian Islamist group has long had its political base.
Reuters and Al Jazeera, citing Hamas sources, reported that Hamas negotiators targeted by Israel had survived. Air raid sirens wailed in Jerusalem around 8 p.m. local time as the military reported an incoming rocket attack from Yemen and residents briefly took cover.
Netanyahu takes credit for Israeli strikes targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar
Netanyahu warns Palestinians ‘leave now’ before ‘hurricane’ strikes as six killed in Jerusalem
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned residents of Gaza City to leave straight away, as Israel said it would ramp up air strikes on the territory hours after six people were shot dead in Jerusalem.
“I say to the residents of Gaza, I take this opportunity and listen to me carefully: you have been warned – leave now,” he said at the Air Force Command Centre in Tel Aviv, adding that Israeli forces were organising and assembling in the heart of the war-torn strip for a ground “manoeuvre”.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz warned on social media earlier that “a powerful hurricane will strike the skies of Gaza City” after the IDF struck numerous high-rises over the past few days.
Drone said to strike main boat of Thunberg-led Gaza flotilla in Tunisian port
A drone allegedly targets the lead boat of a large flotilla set to try to break the Israeli maritime blockade on the Gaza Strip, according to organizers.
The incident is said to have occurred inside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, from which the Global Sumud Flotilla plans to depart on Wednesday.
The lead boat, “Family,” is set to carry Greta Thunberg and other activists.
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The organizers say the vessel, carrying members of its steering committee, was struck by what is suspected to be a drone, with all passengers and crew reported safe.
Francesca Albanese, the staunchly anti-Israel UN rapporteur from the Palestinians, tweets that she is “at the port now trying to figure out the facts, with local authorities and flotilla people.
Fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina ignites crime debate
The murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in North Carolina last month has sparked ongoing concerns about crime in the US.
A video released on Friday by the Charlotte Area Transit System shows Ms Zarutska seated on a train when she is stabbed from behind several times in what appears to be a random attack.
The suspect, 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr, is charged with first-degree murder. The graphic video has circulated on social media, attracting the attention of influencers, commentators and politicians.
Charlotte's mayor on Monday called the killing "a tragic failure by the courts and magistrates". She vowed to deploy more officers to public transit sites.
France's government collapses after the prime minister loses a confidence vote
Legislators toppled France's government in a confidence vote on Monday, a new crisis for Europe's second-largest economy that obliges President Emmanuel Macron to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months.
Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted overwhelmingly in a 364-194 vote against him. Bayrou paid the price for what appeared to be a staggering political mishttps://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/g-s1-87610/france-government-collapse-confidence-vote-macron-bayroucalculation, gambling that lawmakers would back his view that France must slash public spending to rein in its debts. Instead, they seized on the vote that Bayrou called to gang up against the 74-year-old centrist who was appointed by Macron last December.
The demise of Bayrou's short-lived minority government — now constitutionally obliged to submit its resignation after just under nine months in office — heralds renewed uncertainty and a risk of prolonged legislative deadlock for France as it wrestles with pressing challenges, including budget difficulties and, internationally, wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the shifting priorities of U.S. President Donald Trump.
The school shooting industry is worth billions – and it keeps growing
On a sunny day in Grapevine, Texas, three drones are buzzing around the head of a test dummy balanced on a pedestal. It's part of a demonstration outside the National School Safety Conference.
"We use drones to stop school shootings," says Justin Marston, the CEO of Campus Guardian Angel, the company selling the drones. In the event of a shooting, remote pilots fly the drones, housed at the school, at the shooter. They shoot pepper balls and run the drones into the shooter to debilitate them.
The technology is one example on a long list of products schools can buy to deter a shooter.
There have been more than 400 school shootings since Columbine in 1999, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. The latest was last month, when a former student opened fire at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Two students were killed and at least 18 others were wounded.
New Orleans archdiocese increases sex abuse settlement offer to $230m guaranteed
Just as the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans was beginning to ask victims of clergy sexual abuse to approve a settlement plan assuring them of $180m, the church has now guaranteed $230m – enough to persuade certain attorneys who were opposed to striking a deal to instead favor settling.
The church’s largest insurer, Travelers, for now has evidently held out against a settlement. However, the Guardian and local reporting partner WWL Louisiana understand that the insurer is in active talks to contribute an amount of money that could substantially increase the worth of the proposed settlement.
Either way, Monday’s higher offer was a long-rumored move by the archdiocese to appease a sizable bloc of sexual abuse victims who had been advised by their attorneys to reject the smaller offer in a voting process that runs through 29 October.
Some of those attorneys issued a statement on Monday saying their “dogged efforts” had produced a “superior deal … to resolve this bankruptcy at long last”, and that they would be encouraging all of their clients “to vote in favor of this amended plan” thanks to the “current and certain funding now in place” for it.
Supreme court lifts restrictions on Los Angeles immigration raids in win for Trump
Federal agents can resume sweeping immigration operations in Los Angeles after the US supreme court lifted an order barring the Donald Trump administration from stopping people solely based on their race, language or job.
The court ruled in favor of Trump’s administration, granting a stay against a restraining order from another judge that found “roving patrols” of immigration agents were conducting indiscriminate arrests in LA. The ruling from the conservative majority is a win for the administration in its ongoing effort to enact mass deportations.
US district judge Maame E Frimpong in Los Angeles had found a “mountain of evidence” that enforcement tactics were violating the constitution. The plaintiffs, who said the administration’s approach amounted to “blatant racial profiling”, included US citizens swept up in immigration stops. An appeals court had left Frimpong’s ruling in place.
But the Trump administration argued the order wrongly restricted agents carrying out its widespread crackdown on illegal immigration.
House committee releases image of entire Epstein birthday album, including letter signed by Trump – follow live
In a statement, the Republican chair of the committee, congressman James Comer of Kentucky, also scolded House Democrats for “cherry-picking documents and politicizing information received from the Epstein Estate today”.
Democrats on the committee posted an image of the letter attributed to Trump on social media, and of another letter that refers to the current president.
The second letter released by the Democrats was from Joel Pashcow, a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, who made a crude joke about a woman the Wall Street Journal reports “Epstein and Trump each courted in the 1990s, according to court testimony and people familiar with the matter.”
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