Alumni and students burn a diploma across the street from the main gates of Columbia University, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
Israel’s London embassy. Abdullah Sabah Albadri was charged with a terrorism offense.This month five Iranian men were arrested over an alleged plot to attack the embassy. They were later released, and police say the investigation is continuing.
Macron says he has reached out to his Israeli counterpart after the killings in what the French leader called “an antisemitic attack.”Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister, called it “an abhorrent act of antisemitic barbarity” and said “nothing can justify such violence.”France’s government on Thursday instructed police and military officials to put “visible and dissuasive” security in place around Jewish sites.
The instructions were issued by Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau and published by his ministry. The minister said security should be reinforced around Jewish sites – he specified synagogues, schools, shops, media and cultural events – following the shooting.“The measures put in place … should be visible and dissuasive,” his instructions to police and defense officials said. “I know I can count on your mobilization.”
Merz, in a post on X, said he was “shocked” by the news.
“Our thoughts are with their families,” Merz wrote. “At this stage we must assume an anti-Semitic motive. I condemn this heinous act in the strongest possible terms.”SOCOTRA, Yemen (AP) — On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is a kind of dragon’s blood tree — a species found only on the Yemeni island of Socotra that is now struggling to survive intensifying
“Seeing the trees die, it’s like losing one of your babies,” said Keybani, whose family runs a nursery dedicated to preserving the species.Known for their mushroom-shaped canopies and the blood-red sap that courses through their wood, the trees once stood in great numbers. But increasingly severe cyclones, grazing by invasive goats, and
— which is one of the world’s poorest countries and beset by a decade-long civil war — have pushed the species, and the unique ecosystem it supports, toward collapse.Dragon’s blood trees are seen from the highest peak on the Yemeni island of Socotra, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)