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Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026At least 47 people have been killed and dozens of buildings have collapsed in cities across western Colombia after a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the South American nation.The quake on Monday trapped residents under debris, injured many more and forced people to flee their homes as far away as the capital, Bogota.The epicentre was near San Jose del Palmar, a community of about 4,800 people in the Choco region, roughly 250 miles (400km) west of Bogota, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Colombia’s geological service. The USGS said the earthquake…

The comments have been widely criticised by survivors groups and political opponents who said they downplayed the seriousness and lasting trauma of rape.The SCRA, which comprises support groups in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and the Western Isles, said the impacts of rape can last a lifetime, and the crime should never be reduced to a theoretical debate. In an open letter the alliance said: “We are not demonising rape. We are naming it.”The authors strongly opposed the idea of rape existing on a “spectrum”, insisting “there is no hierarchy of rape” and that no survivor should feel compelled to ask whether…

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A small boat has crossed the English Channel carrying 230 people, the largest number to make the journey in a single vessel.It breaks the previous record set in July, when 165 people made the crossing on a single vessel.The boat arrived in the UK in the early hours of Monday.A picture taken off the coast of northern France showed the inflatable boat was so full many passengers had to dangle their legs in the water as it entered the busy shipping route.A Home Office spokesperson said this latest incident demonstrated the “reckless and dangerous tactics employed by criminal gangs… who…

An Al Jazeera investigation has tracked the rapid spread of an anti-Muslim campaign on X after Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan in the Democratic primary for a United States Senate seat.It found that the apparently orchestrated campaign against El-Sayed, whose election win is seen as a setback for pro-Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, has sought to reframe his electoral win as a religious and ideological threat to the US.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe attacks began with accounts clipping the phrase “inshallah”, which means “God willing”, from El-Sayed’s election night speech. This word was used in the…

A total solar eclipse, the first that mainland Europe has seen in nearly 30 years, is happening on Wednesday. The moon will swallow the sun whole, casting a shadow hundreds of thousands of miles long onto Earth and plunging part of our world into ephemeral darkness.The main event will begin at about 12:08 p.m. Eastern time in the northernmost part of Russia, and then loop around to pass over Greenland, Iceland and the Atlantic Ocean. It will cut across northern Spain and a tiny corner of Portugal before ending in the Mediterranean Sea. Elsewhere in Europe, northwestern Africa and parts…

Andrew here. Mark Zuckerberg announced a new open-weight A.I. model that can run locally on a laptop, aiming to prove that open models can be far smaller and cheaper than top frontier systems — potentially rewriting the industry’s economics.Meta is also creating a $1 billion fund to support police and firefighters in towns hosting its data centers, an effort to counter local pushback in states like New York and Texas. We get into all of it.Plus, don’t miss our fascinating piece on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s efforts to recruit business leaders to a panel of advisers. More below.Zuckerberg’s bid to catch…

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has proposed that all foreign prisoners are sent to serve their sentences abroad in order to scrap Labour’s early release scheme.Farage said his party was exploring options with third countries over renting prison spaces, including El Salvador, which he said Reform chairman Lee Anderson would visit soon for initial talks.Reform said removing foreign nationals from the prison estate, as well as building emergency “Nightingale” prisons, would enable changes to be made to sentencing laws so that serious criminals serve out their full terms.Labour said Reform had “no serious answers to the Tory prisons crisis and…

At least 13 people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian republic of Tatarstan, officials have said. One child was among the victims with 75 more people injured, Russian authorities said, in one of the deadliest single attacks on Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale war in Ukraine.Kyiv has not yet commented on the strike on the city of Nizhnekamsk, which is more than 1,100 kilometres (680m) from the Ukrainian border.Ukraine’s Armed Forces confirmed Nizhnekamsk’s Tanevo oil refinery had been hit, while Ukrainian defence technology manufacturer FirePoint said its FP-1 drones had been used in…

An asylum seeker who raped a 13-year-old girl after pretending to be a teenager on Snapchat has been jailed.Abdul Khan attacked the girl in a nature reserve in Clifton, Nottingham, on 14 May last year.Khan arrived in the UK in a back of a lorry in 2015, Nottingham Crown Court heard, and faces automatic deportation to Afghanistan after he has served two thirds of his sentence. He was jailed for nine and a half years on Monday after he was convicted of two counts of rape, one count of sexual activity with a child, sexual communication with a child, meeting…