September 25, 2022

Ninety-seven people have died – including 24 children – after a boat full of asylum seekers heading from Lebanon to Europe capsized in the Mediterranean. Speaking from a hospital bed, still in shock, Ibrahim Mansour, one of 20 people who survived one of the deadliest boat disasters in the Eastern Mediterranean, says he can’t forgive himself …

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The group is being held under administrative detention, an Israeli policy that imprisons them without charge or trial. Thirty Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli jails have begun an open-ended hunger strike to protest their administrative detention – a policy that means they are being held without charge or trial. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/25/thirty-palestinian-prisoners-begin-open-ended-hunger-strike

Hurricane Fiona left hundreds of thousands without power in eastern Canada, as officials try to assess the damage. The Canadian military has been mobilised after Hurricane Fiona left hundreds of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada without power and officials try to assess the scope of the devastation. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/25/canada-sends-troops-to-help-clear-hurricane-fionas-devastation