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Maj Gen Tomer-Yerushalmi said that she had leaked the video to counter criticism that the military was prioritising Palestinian detainees over Israeli troops. In her resignation letter, she said the military had a "duty to investigate when there is reasonable suspicion of violence against a detainee," according to excerpts published in Israeli media. "Unfortunately, this basic understanding - that there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees - no longer convinces everyone," she wrote.

Speaking in Bahrain on Sunday, Anwar Gargash, the UAE's senior diplomatic envoy, said the UAE and others had been wrong not to impose sanctions on the instigators of the 2021 coup jointly led by the RSF and the army that overthrew Sudan's transitional civilian government. We all made a mistake when the two generals who are fighting the civil war today overthrew the civilian government, Gargash said.

The typhoon, locally known as Tino, made landfall around midnight in the eastern province of Southern Leyte and also hit Cebu, where residents were still reeling from a powerful earthquake that struck the province last month. The typhoon had sustained winds of up to 140 kilometers (87 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 195 kph (121 mph) as of Monday afternoon. Kalmaegi is forecast to move across the Visayas Islands region and out over the South China Sea by Wednesday.

Abu Srour, 56, recounted a sharp increase in the use of beatings and the deprivation of food and warmth after the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023. The prison guards uniform changed, with a tag on the chest written on it the word fighters', or warriors', and they started acting like they were in a war and this was another front, and they started beating, torturing, killing like warriors, he said.

The conference showed the international community to be "fully mobilised" behind these plans.

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2025. There are 57 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 4, 2008, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was elected the first Black president of the United States, defeating the Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Also on this date: In 1922, the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in Egypt.

The Grand Egyptian Museum has finally made its suitably grand debut - 103 years after the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, 33 years after the plan was first announced, and 23 years after its foundation stone was laid. The $1 billion megaproject is the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilisation, housing over 100,000 artefacts. The dazzling inauguration ceremony held on Saturday evening was attended by royals, presidents, prime ministers and high-level delegations from dozens of countries around the world,

Reddit and video streaming platform Kick will join the likes of Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok in being required by the Australian government to ban users under the age of 16, the federal communications minister has revealed. On Wednesday night, Anika Wells announced the list of eight companies which the government expects to block under-16 users from 10 December. Reddit and Kick are the two new additions to the list, with the other platforms which include Instagram, X and YouTube previously being identified by the government.

Kim Yong Nam, the former ceremonial head of North Korea for over two decades, has died at the age of 97, state media reported on Tuesday. State broadcaster Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the former diplomat died of multiple organ failure on Monday. Kim Jong Un visited his remains "to express deep condolences over his death," it said.

What just happened? Oh my god. This is what we do it for, this is why we get up out of bed every morning at 4am, work our asses off for the last 15 years I've been in this industry, she told Channel Nine. It's tough, it's not all glorious and perfect as everyone can see sometimes.

It's a warning shot aimed at the very idea of independent civic life. The silencing of a revolutionary media outlet Instead, the Decree, once seen as a safeguard for civic freedom, is now being weaponized as a tool of control. Nawaat's team describes the action as part of a broader campaign of harassment: tax audits, financial investigations, and administrative interrogations that together amount to an attempt to "stifle all media resistance to the dictatorship."