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An Israeli airstrike has killed the head of the Hamas-led police force in the northern Gaza Strip, Brigadier-General Abdel-Nasser al-Maqadma, the Hamas-run interior ministry and medics said yesterday.Maqadma, one of at least five Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes yesterday, was also known as the governor of the northern Gaza Strip.He was killed in the Sheikh Radwan area north of Gaza City, medics said.The Israeli military said that he was also part of Hamas’s military wing.Israel has killed dozens of members of the Hamas-led police force, including senior officials, in the past months, accusing many of them of being members of the Hamas armed wing who posed imminent threats to Israel and its forces inside Gaza.Hamas says Israeli attacks on the police force and its headquarters are intended to sow chaos and anarchy in the enclave and violate the US-brokered October ceasefire.Another Israeli strike yesterday killed a Palestinian medic in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, medics said.They added that a police officer wounded by an Israeli airstrike last week had passed away.The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the incident.An Israeli airstrike also killed two people in a house in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, medics said.The Israeli military said the strike targeted a fighter of the Islamic Jihad group.Later in the day, an Israeli airstrike, also in Khan Younis, killed Khaled al-Breim, a high school student, taking the death toll yesterday to at least five.Relatives said al-Breim was killed as he sought to bring sweets to distribute to relatives and friends who had flocked into his family home to offer their congratulations as he had just concluded high school and was preparing for university.The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the student’s death.The latest deaths add to a toll of more than 1,180 Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed by Israeli attacks since an October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect, according to Gaza health officials.Hamas does not usually disclose its losses.The truce halted full-scale fighting but has not ended near-daily Israeli strikes.Four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza over the same period. Source link
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Results from the first round of Peru’s presidential election won’t be released until mid-May, an official said Saturday, after a chaotic vote leading to what appeared to be a tight race. “We expect to have the presidential results, which is what we need to determine the runoff candidates, by around mid-May,” said Yessica Clavijo, secretary-general of the National Jury of Elections (JNE) — Peru’s highest electoral justice authority — on radio broadcaster RPP. With 93.4% of ballots counted from last Sunday’s election, right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori was leading with 17%. The top two candidates go to a runoff election, and a close race has emerged for a spot in the next round between leftist Roberto Sanchez, who received 12% of the vote, and ultra-conservative Rafael Lopez Aliaga, with 11.9%. The gap between the two increased slightly Saturday to 13,600 votes. Clavijo attributed the slow vote count to the review of more than 15,000 challenged ballots, about 30% of which involve the presidential vote and the remainder related to legislative elections. Lopez Aliaga, the former mayor of capital Lima, has emerged as the harshest critic of the vote’s delays. He has alleged fraud, without providing evidence, and called for the vote to be annulled. He called on supporters of his Popular Renewal Party to march on Sunday in protest. Sanchez, for his part, also criticised the vote, telling a press conference Saturday: “These serious organisational issues must be investigated and there must be appropriate sanctions.” A record 35 candidates ran for president in the chronically unstable Andean nation, where four of the last eight presidents were impeached by Congress. The election was marked by delays in the delivery of election materials that forced authorities to extend voting into Monday in parts of the capital Lima. The European Union’s election observer mission nonetheless gave the election a clean bill of health. On Friday, prosecutors raided a warehouse of the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE), which organises the vote, and four officials have been reported to JNE for alleged crimes against the right to vote. Source link
Bayern Munich players celebrate in Munich Sunday, after winning the Bundesliga for a record-extending 35th time. (AFP) Harry Kane scored his 32nd goal of the campaign as Bayern Munich cruised to a 4-2 home win over Stuttgart to claim a record-extending 35th Bundesliga title. Raphael Guerreiro, Nicolas Jackson and Alphonso Davies joined Kane on the scoresheet, while Chris Fuehrich and Chema Andres scored for the visitors. Borussia Dortmund’s limp 2-1 defeat at Hoffenheim on Saturday, their second in two matches, left the door open for Bayern, who only needed a point at home to secure the title with four games to spare. “It’s been a fantastic season for us,” said Bundesliga leading scorer Kane. “To finish the league off in the way we have with the goals we scored… credit to the lads… we still have a lot to play for… but all the hard work, this makes it all worth it.” Coach Vincent Kompany left regular starters Kane, Michael Olise, Manuel Neuer, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Dayot Upamecano and Jonathan Tah on the bench with Wednesday’s German Cup semi-final at Bayer Leverkusen in mind. Bayern fell behind when Chris Fuehrich scored with 21 minutes gone but roared back, scoring three goals in seven minutes. Jamal Musiala created Guerreiro’s opener before Luis Diaz laid on two goals in four minutes for Jackson and Davies to grab control of the match by the break. Kane grabbed another early in the second-half to ensure another Bundesliga crown was quickly added to his burgeoning team trophy collection. With victory secure, Bayern took their foot off the pedal as an assistant brought bags full with ‘2026 Champions’ t-shirts to the sideline. Andres added a late goal for Stuttgart with two minutes remaining but Bayern were on cruise control with title celebrations in mind. The title victory once again illustrated Bayern’s modern and historical dominance of German football. The Bavarian giants have now won 13 of the past 14 Bundesliga titles. Bayern have 35 league titles, with no other team reaching double figures. Bayern’s wealth and influence outshines all of their domestic rivals and this season has been truly remarkable. Bayern have scored 109 goals, the most in Bundesliga history and eight more than the previous record set back in 1971-72, with four games remaining. Free-scoring Bayern have 79 points and a goal difference of 80. If the season ended today, Bayern would become the first team to have a greater goal difference than points tally in Bundesliga history. With four wins in their remaining four games, Bayern could bring up 91 points, equalling the best mark set by their treble-bound side in 2012-13. Then there are the individual records. Kane, who became the first Englishman since 1930-31 to reach a half-century of goals in a season in all competitions on Wednesday, can still reach Robert Lewandowski’s single-season goals record of 41. The England captain has 32 goals from his 27 games this campaign and is in with an outside chance of catching Lewandowski. Michael Olise has 18 assists, three shy of the all-time mark set by Thomas Mueller in 2019-20. Earlier, Freiburg pushed last-placed Heidenheim closer to the drop with a 2-1 home win. Johan Manzambi put the Europa League semi-finalists ahead after 24 minutes but Heidenheim’s Budu Zivzivadze levelled things up just before the hour mark. Freiburg’s Maximilian Eggestein scored the winner with seven minutes remaining to help his side leapfrog Eintracht Frankfurt into seventh spot. The defeat leaves Heidenheim, who hosted Chelsea in the Europa Conference League last season, seven points behind the relegation play-off spot and 11 from safety with four games to play. …
Robert Downey Jr attends the 12th Breakthrough Prize ceremony gala in Santa Monica, California. (Reuters) Big names from the worlds of film, technology, music and sports gathered on Saturday in Santa Monica, California for the Breakthrough Prizes, popularly known as the “Oscars of Science.” The awards, co-founded by philanthropists and tech entrepreneurs, recognise the research achievements of leading scientists around the world in three broad categories: Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. “These are some of the most heroic and inspiring people we get in the world,” actor Edward Norton told AFP. According to the American History X star, it was important to turn out and “to highlight what this kind of work contributes to all of us.” “The US has the most anti-science administration in US history,” the actor said. “It’s always important, but if it was ever especially important, the moment is now.” In the last year, the Trump administration has slashed funding for science, halting projects and devastating workforces. Rock climber Alex Honnold agreed with Norton, adding that he hoped the fluctuations “of the political climate… are short-term compared to the long-term effort required to make these kind of gains in human knowledge.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the collaboration between his company’s artificial intelligence technology and some of the award-winning scientists “is moving things faster and faster, and letting them discover new things and bring them to the world faster than they could before.” “Change this fast is really disorienting. So there will be a lot of big questions that we’ll have to sort through as a society,” Altman told AFP. The Breakthrough Foundation was started by Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan; science patrons Julia and Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe. Six prizes worth $3mn each were presented at the 12th edition of the awards. French mathematician Frank Merle was honoured for his work on nonlinear equations describing the behaviour of waves, fluids and other systems. Merle told AFP the funding is “essential” for science. “Science is one of the foundations of our civilisation,” he said. Hollywood A-listers Ben Affleck, Lily Collins, Robert Downey Jr., Gigi Hadid, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Naomi Watts and her husband, Billy Crudup, also attended the event, alongside public figures like Bill Gates and Paris Hilton. Source link
