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No, incinerators were not installed at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

As criticism of the Trump administration's detention centre 'Alligator Alcatraz' mounts, a rumour has been circulating online that incinerators have been installed at the site for malicious purposes. But these rumours are false, as Charlotte Hughes explains. [...]

MSF accuses Ethiopian soldiers of 'targeted killing' of 3 staffers in Tigray in 2021

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said that three of its staff were intentionally executed by Ethiopian soldiers in Tigray in 2021. The victims were not caught in the crossfire, but were shot at close range while clearly identifiable as aid workers. The victims were Spanish coordinator María Hernández Matas, Ethiopian health worker Yohannes Haleform Reda and driver Tedros Gebremariam. MSF halted operations in Tigray after the killings and now accuses the Ethiopian government of breaking its promise to investigate. According to eyewitnesses, a commander was heard over the radio giving the order to shoot. [...]

India orders airlines to inspect certain Boeing models after Air India crash

India and Singapore ordered their airlines to examine fuel switches on several Boeing models with South Korea set to do the same after the devices came under scrutiny following last month's crash of an Air India jet killed 260 people. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to aviation and tourism advisor Anita Mendiratta. [...]

IDF reports sharp rise in soldier suicides

As the Netanyahu government comes under pressure to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jews from mandatory military service, the Israeli army is reporting a spate of suicides among soldiers deployed on the Gaza front. FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky reports from Jerusalem. [...]

'Worse than murder': Ireland's dark history of criminalisation and diabolisation of unwed mothers

Excavations have begun of an unmarked mass burial site at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland suspected of containing the remains of hundreds of infants and young children. The planned two-year probe by Irish and foreign experts in Tuam comes more than a decade after an amateur historian first uncovered evidence of a mass grave there. Oppressive and misogynistic, the institutions -- which operated nationwide, some not closing until as recently as 1998 -- represent a dark chapter in the history of once overwhelmingly Catholic and socially conservative Ireland. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE [...]