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French police arrest synagogue blast suspect

Malu Cursino & Jaroslav Lukiv

CCTV showed a suspected attacker at the synagogue in La Grande-Motte

French police say they have arrested a man suspected of setting fires and causing an explosion outside a synagogue in a southern resort.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said "the alleged perpetrator" was detained on Saturday. He added that the police had shown "great professionalism".

French media reported that the suspect was shot and injured by police after he opened fire on the officers who came to arrest him in the city of Nîmes.

Earlier on Saturday, a police officer was injured in the blast outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the nearby seaside resort of La Grande-Motte.

The police officer's injuries are not said to be life-threatening, following the blast between 08:00 and 08:30 local time (07:00-07:30 BST) on Saturday.

Five people, including the rabbi, were inside the synagogue at the time, authorities said.

The explosion was caused by two cars which were set alight outside

Police sources told French media that one of the vehicles contained a hidden gas canister.

The suspect - who was seen on CCTV with what French media said was a Palestinian flag around his waist - also set fire to several entrance doors of the synagogue.

Jewish community leader Yonathan Arfi said the incident was "an attempt to kill Jews" and seemed to have been timed to target Saturday morning worshippers.

President Emmanuel Macron said the incident was "a terrorist act".

One eyewitness, who asked to remain anonymous, told the BBC: "Just as we were coming round the last corner, there was a huge explosion - a fireball into the air.

"It was surreal, like a film. We didn't go any further."

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Mr Darmanin visited the site on Saturday evening. Both had earlier condemned the attack, with Mr Attal calling it "an antisemitic act".

"What happened here shocks and scandalises all Republicans in our country," Mr Attat said during the visit.

"Because the reality is that once again, French Jews have been targeted, attacked because of their beliefs."

Mr Attal said an absolute tragedy" had been "narrowly avoided" as "there would have been victims" if the synagogue had been full of worshippers.

Both Mr Attal and Mr Darmanin said security would be strengthened outside synagogues.

"I want to assure our Jewish fellow citizens and the municipality of my full support," Mr Darmanin said earlier in the day.

The French Jewish community already live under high security, with many synagogues and Jewish schools under police protection.

A January 2024 report by the Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) said there had been a nearly threefold increase of antisemitic acts in France between 2022 and 2023.

In May, police shot dead a man after a synagogue in the north-western city of Rouen was set on fire.

In 2015, two days after the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine, four people were murdered in a hostage attack on a kosher supermarket.

The explosion comes amid heightened concerns for Europe's Jewish community, after the latest survey from the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) published last month found that Jewish people in the bloc continued to face high levels of antisemitism.

More than 8,000 Jews in 13 EU countries, including Germany and France, were interviewed. Some 96% said they had encountered antisemitism in their daily lives.

There has been widespread condemnation of the attempted arson attack across France's political spectrum.

Left-wing politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon called it an "intolerable crime", while the far-right National Rally's Jordan Bardella said it was "a criminal and antisemitic act".

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“Ex-US government informant gets life over Haiti president's murder” by Malu Cursino, BBC

Joseph Vincent, plead guilty to taking part of the assassination of late Haitian President Jovenel Moise. Vincent is a former US Informant for US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), he helped kill President Moise in his home in July 2021.

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One of world's rarest cats no longer endangered

Malu Cursino for BBC News:

One of the world's rarest cats, the Iberian lynx, is no longer classed as endangered, according to a report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

On Thursday the IUCN, which categorises species according to the level of risk they face in a "red list", bumped the Iberian lynx from "endangered" to "vulnerable" after a significant surge in numbers.

Its population grew from 62 mature individuals in 2001 to 648 in 2022. While young and mature lynx combined now have an estimated population of more than 2,000, the IUCN reports.

Love it when the amount of cats in the world is increased

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I thought religion wasn’t supposed to change? Because it is the same/supposed to be okay for all people? (I can’t think of how to actually say this?)

Pope Francis fires Texan bishop after criticism of reforms

By Malu Cursino - BBC News

Pope Francis has fired the Texan bishop Joseph Strickland, a fierce critic who has questioned the Pope's leadership of the Catholic church.

The Vatican said the bishop would be "relieved" of his duties as a result of investigations at his Diocese of Tyler.

Bishop Strickland is a leading voice in a branch of US Catholicism that is opposed to the Pope's reforms.

His removal comes after Francis spoke of the "backwardness" of some US Catholic church leaders.

Bishop Strickland has launched a series of attacks on the Pope's attempts to update the Church's position on social matters and inclusion, including on abortion, transgender rights and same-sex marriage.

In July, he warned that many "basic truths" of Catholic teaching were being challenged, including what he called attempts to "undermine" marriage "as instituted by God" being only between a man and a woman.

He criticised as "disordered" the attempts of those who "reject their undeniable biological God-given identity".

His letter suggested that attempts to change "that which cannot be changed" would lead to an irrevocable schism in the Church. Those seeking change, he warned, "are the true schismatics".

Bishop Strickland was under investigation by the Vatican and had previously declined the opportunity to resign, and in an open letter in September challenged the Pope to fire him.

"I cannot resign as Bishop of Tyler because that would be me abandoning the flock," he said.

The right-wing "Coalition for Canceled Priests" held a conference earlier this year to support him during the investigation.

The Vatican said that the decision to fire him "came after an apostolic visitation ordered by the Pope last June in the Diocese of Tyler". According to Catholic media, the investigation also looked at the handling of financial affairs at the diocese.

Bishop Strickland, 65, was appointed bishop in 2012, while Benedict XVI was pope.

Transgender people can be baptised, Vatican says

Pope warns world 'collapsing' due to climate change

It all follows significant attempts made by the Pope to make the Church more progressive during his papacy.

On Thursday, the Vatican announced that transgender people can be baptised in the Catholic Church, as long as doing so does not cause scandal or "confusion".

In October, he suggested that the Church would be open to bless same-sex couples, as he told a group of cardinals "we cannot be judges who only deny, reject and exclude".

Speaking at a meeting at the World Youth Day celebrations in Lisbon the Pope said the backwardness of some people was "useless".

"Doing this you lose the true tradition and you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace faith," he added.

Climate change has also been a key pillar of his papacy - from a landmark paper on the environment in 2015 to recent warnings that the world may be "nearing breaking point" due to climate change.

He has also strongly condemned climate deniers and will be at the United Nations' Climate Summit (COP28) later this month - the first time a pope has attended the event since they began in 1995.

The Vatican said that the Diocese of Tyler would be temporarily administered by Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin.

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Several parts of France saw their hottest-ever days with the western city of Nantes recording 42C, the national weather office said. Wildfires in recent days forced more than 30,000 people to flee, with emergency shelters set up for evacuees. A zoo with 1,000 animals was among the areas evacuated. The UK had one of its hottest days on record on Monday, with a high of 38.1C recorded in Suffolk, in eastern England. Forecasters say Tuesday could see temperatures top 40C, with extreme heat warnings covering central, northern and south-east England. On Monday, the Netherlands recorded its hottest day of the year so far. In the south-western town of Westdorpe, temperatures reached 33.6C. And it is expected to be hotter on Tuesday, with temperatures forecast to top 39C in southern and central regions of the Netherlands. Forecasters say the heatwave is heading north, with Belgium and Germany expected to see temperatures around 40C in the coming days.

Malu Cursino, ‘Heatwave: Ferocious European heat heads north’, BBC

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Fas, Adidas'tan Cezayir Milli Takımı forma tasarımını değiştirmesini istedi

Fas, Adidas’tan Cezayir Milli Takımı forma tasarımını değiştirmesini istedi

Kaynak, ADIDAS 2 saat önce Malu Cursino BBC News Fas Kültür Bakanlığı, Cezayir Milli Takımı’nın yeni formalarında Fas kültürünün kullanılması nedeniyle spor giyim devi Adidas’ı suçladı. Adidas tasarımın, Cezayir’deki Mechouar Sarayı’ndan esinlendiğini söylüyor. Ancak bakanlığın avukatı, geometrik mavi, cam göbeği ve sarı tasarımların Fas’taki mozaiklerde sık görülen zellij adlı desen…

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Coronavírus: como o Uruguai conseguiu controlar a covid-19 sem impor confinamento total

Coronavírus: como o Uruguai conseguiu controlar a covid-19 sem impor confinamento total

Neste vídeo, Malu Cursino mostra como o vizinho sul-americano conseguiu manter sua taxa de mortes pelo coronavírus bem abaixo da média dos países vizinhos, apostando em conscientização, redução de salários de políticos, respeito à ciência e investimentos em saúde pública.

Graças ao sucesso registrado até o momento, o Uruguai se…

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In Spain and Portugal, more than 1,000 deaths have been attributed to the heat in recent days. Temperatures in Portugal hit 47C on Thursday - a record for July. Most of the country has been placed under high fire danger by the national meteorological office IPMA. In Spain, at least 20 fires are burning out of control. Heatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change. The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.

Malu Cursino, ‘Heatwave: Ferocious European heat heads north’, BBC

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Ubuntu: o que significa filosofia africana e como pode nos ajudar nos desafios do hoje

Malu Cursino explica a origem da filosofia, que ganhou admiradores e adeptos nos quatro cantos do mundo, e o que ela tem a nos ensinar. source http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-52721502

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Ubuntu: o que significa filosofia africana e como pode nos ajudar nos desafios do hoje

Malu Cursino explica a origem da filosofia, que ganhou admiradores e adeptos nos quatro cantos do mundo, e o que ela tem a nos ensinar. source http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-52721502