• The Daily Beast

    Hamas Releases First Propaganda Video Showing American Hostage Keith Siegel Alive

    HamasThe militant group Hamas has released footage of 64-year-old American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, still alive after more than 200 days in captivity.In the video, Siegel and Israeli hostage Omri Miran, 46, appear gaunt and clearly emotionally distressed as they address the camera. The two men speak in Hebrew to identify themselves and say they’re hoping for a hostage deal that could allow them to return home, according to a translation by The Times of Israel. Siegel has been missing since

  • Reuters

    Tornado in China's Guangzhou kills five and injures 33, Xinhua says

    The tornado hit the city's Baiyun district on Saturday afternoon, the report said, adding it had damaged 141 factory buildings but no residential houses had collapsed, the report added. Rescuers from the city's emergency management, weather, fire, waterworks and health departments, as well as local residents, were sent to the area, Xinhua said, adding that search and rescue work was completed there. Last year, China's Jiangsu was hit by a violent tornado which killed 10 people after torrential rain lashed China's southeast, causing massive evacuations and landslides in the wake of unrelenting storms brought on by the remnants of Typhoon Haikui.

  • PA Media: UK News

    Tory MP and ex-health minister Dan Poulter defects to Labour

    Dr Dan Poulter, a working medic, has quit the Tory Party in a blow to Rishi Sunak.