Trustees of a mosque in south Wales have been given a formal warning by the Charity Commission after sharing a video in the wake of the October 7 terrorist attacks showing a “positive image” of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist group in the UK.
An inquiry by the regulator found misconduct or mismanagement, or both, by trustees of the Al-Manar Centre Trust in Cardiff over a video posted on the charity’s social media account in November 2023.
The trust’s objectives include Islamic education and religious harmony, but the commission said the video it shared tried to justify the October 2023 terrorist attack on Israel.
The Al-Manar Centre Trust said the incident was due to “genuine human error”.Its trustees added in a statement: “At no point was there any intention by the charity or its trustees to promote or glorify any proscribed organisation.”
The inquiry concluded: “The video was likely to lead an ordinary member of the public to infer that the charity was supportive of and or glorified terrorism.”
On 7 October 2023, hundreds of members of Hamas and allied Palestinian armed groups attacked southern Israel, where they killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others hostage.
Israel responded by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 57,500 people have been killed, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry
The world No 1 is through to his fourth successive grand slam title match – and his first at the All England Club – after a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 demolition on Centre Court on Friday. The 23-year-old will be desperate to avenge his painful French Open defeat against world No 2 Alcaraz after squandering three championship points in last month’s epic Roland Garros final. Sinner and Alcaraz are the undisputed new kings of men’s tennis, claiming the past six majors between them. bars
serbia s novak djokovic plays a backhand return to italy s jannik sinner during their men s singles semi final tennis match on the twelfth day of the 2025 wimbledon championships at the all england lawn tennis and croquet club in wimbledon southwest london on july 11 2025 photo afp Serbia’s Novak Djokovic plays a backhand return to Italy’s Jannik Sinner during their men’s singles semi-final tennis match on the twelfth day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 11, 2025
World number one Jannik Sinner will face defending champion Carlos Alcaraz in a blockbuster Wimbledon final on Sunday as the tennis world braces for the latest chapter in their enthralling rivalry.
Sinner demolished Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in a Centre Court masterclass on Friday to reach his first Wimbledon title match and his fifth at the Grand Slams.
Just hours earlier, Alcaraz — who has won the last two Wimbledon titles — reached his third successive All England Club final.
The Spanish world number two battled to a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) win against American fifth seed Taylor Fritz.
The commander of an elite Russian marine unit was reportedly killed in a Ukrainian missile strike that also claimed the life of Russia’s deputy navy chief, the independent Telegram news channel Astra reported Friday, citing a now-deleted post by officials in the officer’s hometown.
Colonel Sergei Ilyin led the Pacific Fleet’s 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade and died “during the special military operation” in Ukraine, according to a post attributed to the Urmarsky district administration in the republic of Chuvashia.
The post did not specify the date of Ilyin’s death, but Astra shared a photo of a billboard at his apparent funeral showing his birth and death dates as Nov. 26, 1985, and July 2, 2025.
That same day, reports emerged that 11 senior Russian military officers, including Navy Deputy Commander Mikhail Gudkov, were killed in a Ukrainian missile strike in the southwestern Kursk region.
Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed Major General Gudkov’s death “during combat duty” on July 2 but did not provide a cause or mention the other reported casualties.
“Yokohama, Japan – Aprir 1, 2011: The sign of Nissan Motor Company on the top of the office building of the company’s global headquarters. The building is located in Yokohama, Japan.”
The struggling Japanese automaker, undergoing massive restructuring in response to poor sales in the United States and China, said the bond issuance will help “further enhance liquidity in its automotive business to support medium- and long-term strategies.”
Of the total amount raised, about 660 billion yen came from the issuance of debt in the form of U.S. dollar- and euro-denominated bonds, and 200 billion yen from convertible bonds, which allow holders to convert them into shares under certain conditions.
The funds will be used to pay off debt that is maturing in fiscal 2025 and to invest in new products and technologies such as vehicle electrification and digitalization, Nissan
“Striking Al Udeid Air Base is not a small incident but a major one that can be repeated,” Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
He was referring to last month’s ballistic missile attack against the largest US base in the region in response to the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. “We are capable of reaching important American sites in the region,” Khamenei said.
On Friday, the Pentagon told Al Arabiya English that one of the missiles struck the base. Satellite imagery this week revealed damage to a radome at the base, which is typically used to store communications equipment and gear. Al Udeid serves as the forward headquarters of US Central Command (CENTCOM) in the region.
Shortly after the Iranian attack, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said the US was “aware that something” got through the multi-layered air defense systems. But he praised the US troops that worked to thwart the attack, which he said was the “largest single Patriot engagement in US military history.”
The United States A divided federal appeals court has thrown out a plea agreement that would have allowed accused “9/11 mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, US media report.
Judges in Washington DC rejected the agreement, which would have given Mohammed and the other defendants a life sentence without parole, in a 2-1 decision on Friday.
Mohammed is accused of organising and directing the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, in which hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people. He was captured in 2003 and is being held in Guantanamo Bay, the US prison camp in Cuba.Following his arrest in Pakistan in 2003, Mohammed spent three years at secret CIA prisons known as “black sites”, where he was subjected to simulated drowning, or “waterboarding”, 183 times, among other so-called “advanced interrogation techniques” that included sleep deprivation and forced nudity.
In July last year, the Biden administration announced it had struck deals with Mohammed and three other co-defendants.
But then Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin overruled the agreement two days later, saying he was the sole authority who could enter such an agreement.
A military court ruled against Austin’s effort in December, which put the agreement to avoid the death penalty back on the table.
On Friday, the appeals court tossed the deal, saying Austin was acting within his authority in December 2024.
“Having properly assumed the convening authority, the Secretary determined that the ‘families and the American public deserve the opportunity to see military commission trials carried out.’ The Secretary acted within the bounds of his legal authority, and we decline to second-guess his judgment,” judges Patricia Millett and Neomi Rao wrote, as reported by the Associated Press.
Judge Robert Wilkins disagreed, saying the government “has not come within a country mile of proving clearly and indisputably that the Military Judge erred.”
‘We’re filled with grief’ – President Trump visits Texas after deadly floods
US President Donald Trump has reassured Kerrville, Texas, residents that the government would help rebuild after floods hit the central part of the state last week, killing 120 people.
The president and First Lady Melania Trump met on Friday with local officials on the ground – at one point standing in front of an upended tractor trailer – and surveyed the damage.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump said, after taking a tour of the devastation.
More than 12,300 volunteers have gathered to help search for the 161 people still missing statewide. Officials said volunteers have been working 10 hours a day.While storms damaged homes and killed residents throughout central Texas, Kerr County faced the brunt of the floodwaters.
Trump told officials gathered for an afternoon roundtable at a Kerrville youth center that he and the first lady were in town to “express the love and support, and the anguish of our entire nation”.
The first lady, who ordinarily keeps a low profile, also toured the devastation. She said she hugged and prayed with families of the victims during her visit.
“My deepest sympathy to all of the parents who lost beautiful young souls,” she said. “We are grieving with you. Our nation is grieving with you.”
She also promised to visit again.
Among those killed in the storms were 27 young girls who were attending Camp Mystic – one of 18 summer camps located on that stretch of the Guadalupe River.
Search crews in Texas are still sifting through debris for scores of missing people. Authorities have said they will not relent until everyone is accounted for.
“This is a massive operation, expanding day by day,” Rajeev Fernando, the Chief Medical Officer for the relief organization Heal Corps, told the BBC.
“All of this debris drags bodies further down the river, for miles and miles. So every day we get updates, and every day it’s really expanding the operation.”
In the wake of the deadly tragedy, questions have been raised about whether adequate warnings were provided and why camps weren’t evacuated ahead of the deluge.
Experts have said a number of factor led to the deadly impact of the flash flood, including the pre-dawn timing, the location of some homes, the patchwork of cell service and its overall speed and severity.Trump dismissed a media question on Friday what more could have been done to warn residents, saying: “Only an evil person would ask a question like that.”
He praised the “heroism” of search and rescue efforts and said it “easy” to sit back and talk about what could have been done differently.
The Guadalupe River levels, which rose to flood homes, roads and cars, caught many by surprise.
A preliminary report into the June 12 crash in Ahmedabad shows the fuel control switches, used to shut down the engines, were moved to the cutoff position
Air India crash linked to sudden fuel switch shutdown
A preliminary report into the June 12 crash in Ahmedabad shows the fuel control switches, used to shut down the engines, were moved to the cutoff position.
A firefighter stands next to the crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, in Ahmedabad, India on June 13, 2025 Air India’s Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed soon after taking off from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad
A preliminary report into last month’s Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad found the aircraft engines’ fuel control switches shifted from “run” to “cutoff” within a second of each other, causing a loss of thrust.
Only one person out of the 242 people on board the airplane survived, and at least 19 people died on the ground where the plane crashed moments after takeoff.
According to a preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released on Friday, the plane reached 180 knots indicated airspeed (IAS), and “immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 1 second.”
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner immediately began to lose thrust.
Questions about the pilots’ actions The report did not provide a reason for why the switch could have flipped to the cutoff position.
“At this stage of investigation, there are no recommended actions to Boeing 787-8 and/or GE GEnx-1B engine operators and manufacturers,” India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said., suggesting no technical issues with the engines or the aircraft.
The bureau also explained that the Engine and Flight Data Recorder (EAFR) — more commonly known as the aircraft’s “black box” — was “substantially damaged,” to the extent that its data “could not be downloaded through conventional means.”
In the cockpit voice recording retrieved from the black box, the report said “one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff,” and the other pilot “responded that he did not do so
“The next of kin for both women have been notified and are being supported by specially trained officers.
“Following this sad update, the investigation will now also consider whether the collision contributed to their deaths.”
Two 21-year-olds who had previously been questioned were re-arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the deaths. Two women died the day after a crash on Wednesday (PA)
Two elderly women have died after a stolen BMW which was being chased by police crashed into a care home.
Highcliffe Care Home in Witherwack, Sunderland, had to be evacuated following the crash on Wednesday night, which caused structural damage to the building.
On Friday morning, Northumbria Police said: “Sadly, two care home residents – a woman in her nineties and a woman in her eighties – passed away yesterday.
“The next of kin for both women have been notified and are being supported by specially trained officers.
“Following this sad update, the investigation will now also consider whether the collision contributed to their deaths.”
Two 21-year-olds who had previously been questioned were re-arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the deaths.
The BMW crashed into the care home on Wednesday open image in gallery
Block House steak chain heiress Christina Block is in court accused of masterminding a cross-border kidnapping. She and ex-TV host Gerhard Delling deny snatching her children from Denmark after a bitter custody fight. A German steakhouse heiress has been accused of hiring Israeli spies to kidnap her children from their father in Denmark, in a long-running custody battle.
Christina Block, heiress of the Block House steak chain, which has 53 restaurants across Europe, hired Cyber Cupula, a private security firm run by former Israeli soldier David Barkay and around 20 others, to snatch her two children on New Year’s Eve 2023 from the Danish town of Gråsten, Die Zeit reported.
It followed a bitter legal battle between Ms Block and Stephan Hensel, the children’s father, sparked by their refusal to return to their mother during a visit to their father in Denmark.
