At least 44 people have died after a stampede at a religious festival in Israel resulted in a crush. More than 100 have been injured at the Lag B’Omer celebrations in Mount Meron, northern Israel. The national ambulance service told Sky News that “scores” of people have died, with the death toll continuing to rise.
World
At least 28 people have been killed after a “disastrous” crush at a religious bonfire festival in Israel. The country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has described the incident as a “heavy disaster”, adding: “We are all praying for the wellbeing of the casualties.” Dozens of people were hurt at the Lag Ba’Omer event in northern
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has appeared in public for the first time since going on hunger strike – via video link during a court hearing. The 44-year-old Russian opposition leader, who told the court he looks like a “creepy skeleton”, was arrested earlier this year and is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a prison some
Russian and Chinese media are trying to sow mistrust in western COVID-19 vaccines, according to a European report. The report says that between December and April, the two countries’ state media outlets published fake news online in a number of languages. They sensationalised vaccine safety concerns, publicised unfounded links between vaccines and deaths in Europe,
The number of people who have died with coronavirus in India has passed 200,000. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare gave an updated official figure of 201,187, although many believe the real figure is much higher. This means there were 3,293 deaths reported in the most recent 24-hour period, as the world’s second-largest country
There’s growing concern that India’s official tally of coronavirus deaths does not match what grieving relatives and others are seeing on the ground. India has continued to post alarmingly high global record numbers of coronavirus cases, with more than 300,000 every day for the past week. But its deaths are still low in comparison to
A major new report by Human Rights Watch has concluded that Israel is presiding over a system of apartheid in the Palestinian Territories which amount to “crimes against humanity”. The controversial 213-page document, produced over two years and titled A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, accuses Israel of methodically
India’s hospitals are already full to bursting, but doctors in Delhi are warning there could be even worse to come. Hard to imagine just how much worse it could get when the country’s citizens are begging in the street for air; people are collapsing and dying on hospital doorsteps and administrators are saying oxygen is
Families in India are being left to ferry their loved ones from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for the fifth day. Desperate relatives have been pleading for oxygen outside in the street as many coronavirus patients have been turned away by overcrowded hospitals.
The frantic hunt for oxygen is an ugly one at the epicentre of the world’s coronavirus pandemic. There’s shouting. There’s pleading. There’s crying. And there’s death. Dozens of vehicles were crammed into a narrow road outside a Sikh temple in the east of the Indian capital, New Delhi. Image: The situation in the Indian capital
The navy submarine that went missing off the coast of Bali last week has been found, broken into at least three parts, Indonesia’s military has confirmed. The country’s president has sent condolences to the families of the 53 crew members who were on board when it vanished on Wednesday last week. Speaking to reporters, military
The heat is intense. The grief is palpable. Fires just do not stop burning in the Indian capital, Delhi, right now. The coronavirus dead are piled up in vehicles and ambulances and rickshaws – as India continues to set daily global records for new infections. Image: An crematorium in Delhi cremating people who have died
The oxygen supply for the 53 crew members of an Indonesian navy submarine missing in waters off Bali is believed to have run out, with no sign of the vessel. Rescue teams from several countries have been battling against time to find the KRI Nanggala 402 which went missing during a training exercise in waters
People were dying on the pavement outside one of the biggest hospitals in the Indian capital, Delhi, as doctors struggled to cope with the country’s dwindling supplies of oxygen amid a massive second surge in coronavirus cases. India is now the world’s fastest-growing coronavirus crisis and for the second day running it set a record
Rescue teams from several countries are battling against time to find a missing Indonesian navy submarine that lost contact with land two days ago with 53 crew on board. The country’s navy has been searching for the vessel ever since it went missing during a training exercise in waters north of the island of Bali.
In his neat flat in the Polish town of Rybnik, Emil Nagalewski sips a coffee, strokes his cat and then asks if we want to see how he stops his family being poisoned by the air around us. We are taken to a small anteroom, where Emil shows us the silver pipes leading into the