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A trip to Canada is sure to be filled with unforgettable views and experiences unlike any other. 

Every year, millions of people head to Canada to see Niagara Falls. In fact, over eight million visitors trek to the spot each year to take in its beauty, according to the Niagara Falls website. 

Canada is a very large country, the second largest in the world behind Russia. Seeing several of Canada's popular tourist destinations all in one trip will be a long vacation, with travel days worked in. Instead, it's more practical to choose just a couple of destinations close to each other to focus your trip on. 

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Below are a few places throughout the country that many tourists head to for a vacation.

Starting with Niagara Falls, which is made up of three different waterfalls: Horseshoe Falls, American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls. 

There are several different ways you can explore Niagara Falls, including by boat or with a walking tour filled with incredible viewing points. You can even take a helicopter tour of the destination. 

While you're visiting, there are plenty of great restaurants where you can also get great views of Niagara Falls while you enjoy a scrumptious meal, such as Table Rock House. 

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You can also book one of the many hotels near Niagara Falls that offer stunning views throughout your vacation.

Banff National Park is located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains.  

While in Banff National Park, be prepared for lots of hiking and tons of picturesque views throughout the route. 

If you enjoy skiing or snowboarding, there are three luxurious resorts located in Banff: Mt. Norquay, Sunshine Village and Lake Louise Ski Area. 

Whether you're a beginner or an expert, you'll be able to find hills that suit your level of experience at Banff. 

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While at Banff National Park, you can take an eight-minute ride on the gondola to soar high above the trees. 

Old Montreal is full of attractions for visitors. 

While visiting, you can get great views from the observation wheel in Old Port and do plenty of shopping at the stores that line the streets. You can also take a ride on a zip line for an exciting adventure. 

Many visitors stand in awe in the Notre-Dame Basilica. If you visit at night, you can purchase tickets to see the church illuminated in breathtaking lights. There's also a 25-minute light show put on. 

In Old Montreal, you can also visit the history and archaeology museum Pointe-à-Callière and the Centaur Theatre to catch a show. 

Toronto is a city often visited by tourists, especially since it's home to the CN Tower. 

At the CN Tower, you can get incredible views of Niagara Falls and even into New York State from the top of the building, according to its website. 

There are many different activities to partake of at CN Tower, so you can really cater your experience to the liking of you and your travel party. 

There are plenty of lookout spots at different levels throughout the tower. 

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The lower observation level features a glass floor design. The main observation deck features glass walls throughout, so you can take incredible pictures from different spots along the level. 

If you're feeling extra-adventurous, you can participate in the Edgewalk. While 116 stories up, with a harness keeping you secure, you can walk along the edge of the main pod of the tower. If heights make you uneasy, staying inside the tower may be the better option for you. 

The top of the tower is where you can get the best views, where you'll be able to see about 100 miles out, according to the CN Tower website.

There's also dining in the tower at 360 Restaurant. Of course, the restaurant offers spectacular views, and different ones throughout your meal, as it completes a rotation every 72 minutes. 

If you love the city, visit downtown Vancouver on your trip. 

You can simply walk through the city or take a bike if you prefer. There are plenty of places to stop for a quick snack or a sit-down meal throughout the city. 

Downtown Vancouver is full of places to shop, as well as art galleries and museums to explore. 

If you want some serenity away from the city, check out Stanley Park, which is full of beautiful greenery, mountainous views and lots of wildlife. 

German police exchanged gunfire with an armed Islamist outside the Israeli consulate in Munich on Thursday, ultimately killing the gunman.

Police engaged the shooter at roughly 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, suspecting he was planning to attack the Israeli consulate. Authorities say he had a long rifle with a bayonet attached, and he returned fire when police engaged him. Police have yet to identify the gunman, but they say content on his phone suggests he was an Islamist.

The incident occurred on the anniversary of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Authorities say the shooter was an 18-year-old Austrian national with Bosnian roots. No one aside from the gunman was injured in the shootout.

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"We have to assume that an attack on the Israeli Consulate possibly was planned early today," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, told reporters at the scene. "It’s obvious that, if someone parks here within sight of the Israeli Consulate ... then starts shooting, it most probably isn’t a coincidence."

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Prosecutors and police later confirmed that they believe the assailant's plan was "a terrorist attack" on the Israeli consulate.

Munich authorities say five police officers initially confronted the gunman and fatally wounded him. Police soon deployed an additional 500 officers to the area.

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Israel's Foreign Ministry confirmed that none of its personnel were hurt in the incident, saying the consulate was closed due to a ceremony marking the 52nd anniversary of the Munich Olympic massacre.

The 1972 Olympics saw Palestinian terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes and hold others hostage for days inside the Olympic village.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he spoke with German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He wrote on the social media platform X that "together we expressed our shared condemnation and horror" at the shooting.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein won’t face charges of indecent assault in Britain, prosecutors announced on Thursday.

The Crown Prosecution Service, which in 2022 authorized two charges of indecent assault against Weinstein, said it decided to discontinue proceedings because there was "no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.’’

"We have explained our decision to all parties,’’ the CPS said in a statement. ’’We would always encourage any potential victims of sexual assault to come forward and report to police, and we will prosecute wherever our legal test is met."

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Weinstein became the most prominent villain of the #MeToo movement in 2017 when women began to go public with accounts of his behavior. After the revelations emerged, British police said they were investigating multiple allegations of sexual assault that reportedly took place between the 1980s and 2015.

In June 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service said it had authorized London’s Metropolitan Police Service to file two charges of indecent assault against Weinstein in relation to an alleged incident that occurred in London in 1996. The victim was in her 50s at the time of the announcement.

Unlike many other countries, Britain does not have a statute of limitations for rape or sexual assault.

Weinstein, who has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anyone, remains in custody in New York while awaiting retrial in Manhattan, prosecutors said in August.

After the retrial, he is due to start serving a 16-year sentence in California for a separate rape conviction in Los Angeles, authorities said. Weinstein was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 while already serving a 23-year sentence in New York.

His 2020 conviction in Manhattan was thrown out earlier this year when the state’s top court ruled that the judge in the original trial unfairly allowed testimony against Weinstein based on allegations that weren’t part of the case.

Weinstein, the co-founder of the Miramax entertainment company and The Weinstein Company film studio, was once one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, having produced films such as "Pulp Fiction" and "The Crying Game."

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday appeared to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race against former President Donald Trump.

According to multiple reports, Putin was questioned during the Eastern Economic Forum he attended in eastern Russia over how he viewed the upcoming U.S. election.

The Russian president, apparently smiling alongside the event’s moderator, said ultimately it was up to the American people to decide but said that as President Biden has backed Harris, "we will do the same, we will support her."

"She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that everything is fine with her," he added. 

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Earlier this year, Putin threw his support behind Biden before he dropped out of the race, claiming he preferred Biden to Trump as he is a more predictable candidate.

According to former DIA intelligence officer and author of "Putin’s Playbook," Rebekah Koffler, "The Russians don’t really endorse anyone, in the traditional sense.

"When it comes to preference, Putin and his regime prefer Kamala to deal with as a future U.S. president," Koffler told Fox News Digital. "Putin believes that he can manipulate Harris easily, unlike Trump, whom the Russians profiled as unpredictable and difficult to read.

"By issuing these statements, the Russians are just messing with us, specifically with the Harris Team," Koffler added. "It’s a classic influence operation to unbalance your adversary by mocking, teasing, and pleasing them, or rather appearing to please."

Despite Putin’s comments of apparent support for the democratic candidates over Trump, the U.S. intelligence community continues to assess that Putin would prefer a second Trump presidency, according to reports earlier this year. 

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The assessment is reportedly consistent with actions authorized by Putin during the 2016 and 2020 elections, when Russia was found to have engaged in some election interference by running disinformation campaigns to boost Trump’s candidacy.

According to an investigation into the 2020 election, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence found "that Russian President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating sociopolitical divisions in the U.S."

Russia has denied meddling in any U.S. election, though Putin’s apparent support for the Democratic candidates and their stated policy positions run counter to his strategic interests.

Trump has been critical of U.S. support to Ukraine in its war against Russia following the invasion more than two and a half years ago, and his chosen running mate, vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, has openly said, "I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other."

Additionally, NATO leaders remain concerned over how a second Trump presidency could affect the military alliance, as he has suggested he would pull U.S. troops from Europe – a move some fear could destabilize the alliance and embolden Putin.

Trump has said he has a plan to end the war if he were elected, though he has remained tight-lipped on any concrete policy steps for doing so. 

Putin on Thursday claimed he was open to engaging in peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and said, "If there is a desire of Ukraine to carry on with the negotiations, I can do that."

The comments are a reversal to his previous statements when he said there was no possibility of talks amid Ukraine’s invasion into Kursk. 

Putin also suggested that Brazil, India or China could act as a mediator in the talks – a condition Ukraine is unlikely to agree to as China has aided Russia in its war. 

Reuters contributed to this report.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday morning dismissed reports that negotiators were close to agreeing a cease-fire deal.

"It’s exactly inaccurate," Netanyahu told "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade during an interview. "There's a story, a narrative out there that there's a deal out there … that’s just a false narrative." 

Netanyahu stressed that Israel has agreed to several deals proposed by the negotiators from the U.S., Egypt and Qatar, but that each time the deal lapsed because Hamas "has consistently said no to every one of them."

"They don’t agree to anything: Not to the Philadelphi Corridor, not to the keys of exchanging hostages for jailed terrorists, not to anything," Netanyahu said, adding that the terrorist group "just want us out of Gaza so they can retake Gaza and do as they vowed to do." 

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Netanyahu made headlines last week when The Times of Israel reported that the prime minister told Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that he prioritized an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) presence along the 7.8 mile long Philadelphi Corridor over saving the lives of the remaining hostages in Gaza.

The IDF over the weekend recovered the bodies of six hostages who were killed by Hamas terrorists. 

Netanyahu lamented the "horrible" condition of the bodies and detailed his visit to the families of the victims, whom he said were "broken" by the news. 

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"We have worked so hard to get them out," Netanyahu insisted. "I made a deal a few months ago where we got more than half of our hostages out and more than half of the living hostages. And we're doing everything we can to get the remainder."

"But Hamas consistently refuses to make a deal, so it's not, you know, the report that there's a deal out there that the only thing holding it up is the Philadelphia tunnel is not merely not true, it's just a direct falsehood," Netanyahu said. 

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Netanyahu maintains that the best way to ensure the return of the remaining roughly 100 hostages – over half of whom are believed to still be alive – relies on keeping control of the Philadelphi Corridor. 

"It prevents Gaza from becoming this Iranian terror enclave again, which can threaten our existence, but it's also the way to prevent them from smuggling hostages that they keep through the cease-fire into Egypt, into the Sinai, where they could disappear, and then they'll end up in Iran or in Yemen, and they're lost forever," Netanyahu argued. 

"So if you want to release the hostages and you want to make sure that Gaza doesn't pose a threat to Israel again, you've got to keep the Philadelphia corridor … and that's what we're really doing right now." 

Four of the seven people who died in the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht last month off the coast of Sicily passed away after being trapped alive inside the ship’s cabins and suffocated, autopsies have reportedly revealed. 

New York City lawyer Chris Morvillo, his wife Neda, along with Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley’s London-based investment banking subsidiary, and his wife, Judy all died due to "death by confinement," according to forensics results, the Italian outlet La Repubblica reports.

The so-called "dry drowning" supports the hypothesis that the four were awake as the ship went down and had been desperately inhaling oxygen in a tight air bubble until it tragically ran out. They had no water in their lungs, trachea or stomach, according to the tests carried out by pathologists with the Palermo Institute of Forensic Medicine.

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The four victims, along with tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch – who had organized the yacht trip to celebrate a recent legal victory – were found in a cabin on the port, or left side of the hull, after the Bayesian capsized and sank within about 16 minutes of being hit by a predawn storm on Aug. 19.

Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, was found in the next cabin, also on the port side of the hull. La Repubblica reports that Lynch’s wife attempted to save her husband and daughter but as the boat shook, she cut her bare feet on glass and fell to the ground. She could not walk for a week because of the cuts.

The ship sank tilted on its starboard side and, as the oxygen ran out, their air pockets became toxic with carbon dioxide, which ultimately led to their deaths.

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The ship's cook, Recaldo Thomas, was found immediately next to the wreck.

Autopsies on the bodies of Lynch, his daughter and Thomas are scheduled for Friday, according to La Repubblica.

Civil protection officials said they believe the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, near the port of Porticello, where the yacht was anchored.  

The Bayesian had 22 people on board – 12 passengers and 10 crew. Fifteen people, including Lynch's wife, were rescued from the 184-foot British-flagged luxury yacht. 

Morvillo was one of Lynch’s U.S. lawyers in a fraud case involving the 2011 sale of search engine company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in an $11 billion deal that turned sour over allegations that Lynch had cooked the books to overvalue Autonomy, the AP reported. He was acquitted in June. 

Prosecutors reportedly are investigating the captain and two crew members for possible responsibility in connection with the sinking. A cause of the ship's sinking has yet to be determined.

Giovanni Costantino, the CEO of a manufacturing company responsible for building the yacht, has blamed a series of "indescribable, unreasonable errors" by the crew for the vessel’s demise. 

Costantino told Reuters that the yacht’s crew made an "incredible mistake" of not being ready for the storm, which was included in shipping forecasts. The passengers should have been called out of their cabins and ordered to assemble at a safety point as the ship was preparing for the storm by taking measures such as pulling up the anchor, the CEO said. 

Costantino ruled out design or construction flaws as reasons the ship sank, saying it was unlikely after 16 years of trouble-free navigation, including in more severe weather than Bayesian encountered this week.

Instead, he blamed the yacht’s crew for the "incredible mistake" of not being prepared for the storm, which was included in shipping forecasts. The passengers should have been called out of their cabins and assembled at a safety point as the ship was preparing for the storm by pulling up the anchor, the CEO said.

Additionally, doors and hatches should have been closed, and the keel should have been lowered to increase stability, among other safety measures, Costantino declared.

Fox News’ Greg Norman, Stephen Sorace and Greg Wehner, as well as The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

A study led by the University of South Florida has uncovered new details about the colonization of Mallorca, Spain.

An underwater bridge located inside Genovesa Cave was first discovered by researchers in 2000, according to Dr. Bogdan Onac, a geology professor at the University of South Florida and leader of the study, in an email to Fox News Digital.

At the time, it was estimated that the bridge was 3,500 years old, primarily based on pottery that was found close to where the bridge was created, but the new study has dated the ancient limestone bridge back even further.

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The research team studied the 25-foot submerged bridge and published its findings on Aug. 30, 2024, in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

New research has found that the bridge was actually built nearly 6,000 years ago, indicating that human life in Mallorca dates back further than what was previously thought.

"By estimating the timeline of the bridge construction, our research suggests that humans likely arrived on Mallorca nearly 2,000 years earlier than previously thought," Onac told Fox News Digital. "This discovery significantly narrows the gap between the colonization timelines of islands in the eastern (started 13,000 years ago) and western Mediterranean."

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To discover the bridge's age, researchers looked at "mineral overgrowth on preexisting stalactites near the bridge" as well as "analyzed the elevation of a coloration band" that was found on its upper section.

To gather mineral samples, divers were sent about five meters below the water surface.

"Both indicators suggest that these features formed during a period of sea-level still [and] stand between 5,800 and 5,500 years ago. This implies that the bridge must have been constructed before this time frame, but not after 5,600 years ago, as the sea level would have already risen above the bridge by then," Onac told Fox News Digital. 

The fact that the stone bridge was underwater provokes the question of its preservation. 

Being submerged actually helped the preservation of the stone bridge. If it had been above water, there are a lot of elements it would have interacted with that could have interfered with its conservation.

"The submersion of the stone bridge actually helped preserve it," Onac said.

"Constructed from large limestone blocks, likely sourced from cave breakdowns, the flooding served as a protective measure. Had the bridge been exposed, especially with the impact of mass tourism in Mallorca, its fate could have been quite different," Onac continued. "Fortunately, water does not damage limestone, so the bridge remains well-preserved in its submerged state."

Two U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II jets executed a historic landing on a highway in Finland on Wednesday as part of the Finnish Air Force’s annual road base exercise, dubbed BAANA 2024.

The two U.S. jets were assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, U.K. and their maneuver demonstrated advancements in the NATO Alliance’s ability to deploy air power from unconventional locations.

BAANA 24 is the annual road base exercises, and the Finnish Air Force regularly trains outside its main operating bases to be able to quickly disperse aircraft across Finland if necessary. The activities prepare the military branch for battle from anywhere, according to a press release from the Finnish military.

The objective is to do take-offs and landings at a road base.

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The two F-35s participated in the exercises for better integration among allied forces.

"The successful first-ever landing of our fifth generation F-35 on a highway in Europe is a testament to the growing relationship and close interoperability we have with our Finnish Allies," Gen. James Hecker, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa said. "The opportunity to learn from our Finnish counterparts improves our ability to rapidly deploy and employ air power from unconventional locations and reflects the collective readiness and the agility of our forces." 

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Finland joined NATO in 2023 and has since provided U.S. Airmen opportunities to learn from each other.

One of the most recent activities involved the Finnish Air Force, which was among nine national air forces that participated in an air superiority exercise in Ramstein, Germany in June.

During the event, pilots used their aircraft in a series of air combat simulations.

A day after 12 migrants died when their small inflatable ripped apart on a failed effort to cross the English Channel, several dozen others made another crossing attempt on a crowded vessel from northern France on Wednesday, as French patrol boats watched it labor through the seas.

That migrants were prepared to risk their lives so soon after a dozen others lost theirs trying to cross the busy waterway from France to Britain underscored the magnitude of the problem for the French and U.K. governments. It was the deadliest accident involving a migrant boat in the English Channel this year.

The mayor of Wimereux, a French coastal town where Associated Press journalists filmed the crowded inflatable boat on Wednesday, pleaded for French and British officials to do more to limit the number of migrants attempting the often perilous journey.

"Unfortunately, every day is like this for us. The smugglers — a criminal network — continue with insistence to send people to their deaths in the channel. It really is unacceptable, scandalous. And it is high time that a lasting solution is found with Britain," Mayor Jean-Luc Dubaële said by phone.

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"Let's ask ourselves the question: Why do they want to go to Britain? Because something is drawing them there," he said. "They can ask for asylum in France. (But) none ask for the right to asylum in France. They all want to go to Britain. So it is high time that we sit around a table with the new British government."

Cross-Channel migration was a key focus in the U.K. general election in July, which the Labour Party won resoundingly to make its leader, Keir Starmer, the new prime minister.

A French prosecutor investigating Tuesday's sinking, Guirec Le Bras, said 10 of the 12 dead were women and six of the victims were minors. Many appeared to be Eritrean, he said. The inflatable boat sank about 3 miles off the French coast, he said. Maritime authorities said many aboard didn't have life vests.

Fishermen who recovered some of the dead said they were moved to tears.

"The bodies of two women were very young. That hurt me. I cried all day. I couldn’t stop," said 53-year-old Samba Sy Ndiaye, who works aboard the Murex, one of two fishing boats that assisted the French rescue effort.

Another crew member, Axel Baheu, said the body of one young woman – he guessed she was between 15 and 20 – had a telephone in a waterproof pouch around her neck. It started to ring as he was pulling her out of the water and checking for a pulse, he said.

"That was hard because you know full well that no one will ever answer," Baheu said.

His father, Jean Marie Baheu, said he saw another heavily laden migrant boat set off Wednesday in front of his house.

"When the weather is good and there’s no wind, there are departures every day," he said. "At the beginning, you’d see 20, 30 people. Now, it’s minimum 70, 80."

The inflatable boat the AP saw and filmed on Wednesday was carrying migrants, French maritime authorities confirmed. AP journalists estimated that 40 to 50 people were aboard.

Many wore life preservers. A patrol boat flying a French flag approached the inflatable at one point and the crew tossed more life vests — about half a dozen — to the migrants.

The English Channel's gray seas were comparatively calm, with small waves lapping the beach as people walked dogs on the sand.

Still, the inflatable appeared to make slow headway. Even though journalists filmed it for more than two hours, it remained clearly visible from shore, with the patrol vessel buzzing around it and a larger one shadowing it from farther away.

The French maritime agency that oversees that stretch of sea said the boats were monitoring the inflatable in case it ran into difficulty or people aboard requested assistance.

In a statement to the AP, the agency said that although maritime law forbids the use at sea of makeshift inflatables, it's too dangerous to force them back to shore when the boats are heavily laden.

"It's difficult to achieve with more than 50 people on board who are vehemently refusing to be rescued. The main risk is a stampede on board and then a capsizing, these boats being neither stable nor reliable. The risk of loss of human life being too high for an intervention under duress, the choice is made to prioritize the protection of the people on board and by simply monitoring from a distance the navigation capabilities of these boats," the statement said.

"It is therefore more a question of ethics than of blind application of the law," it added.

By the U.K. government's count, at least 21,720 migrants have managed to cross the English Channel so far this year. That's 3% more than at the same stage last year, but 19% lower than during the same period in 2022.

The boat that ripped apart on Tuesday, plunging 65 people into the sea, was one of several crossing attempts that day. British authorities said at least 317 migrants succeeded, arriving aboard five boats.

One of the first measures the new U.K. government immediately enacted was to scrap the previous Conservative government’s plan to send some migrants arriving in small boats to Rwanda rather than being allowed to seek asylum in Britain. Human rights groups criticized the plan.

Starmer called the plan a "gimmick" and wouldn't act as a deterrent. Instead, his government has opted to divert some of the money saved from ditching the program into setting up a strengthened border force to "smash" the criminal gangs behind the small-boat arrivals.

The U.S. Army confirmed Wednesday it is investigating the death of a U.S. soldier who died while stationed in Poland.

Lt. Col. Joshua Camara, 45, was based at Camp Kościuszko, home of V Corps’ forward headquarters in the city of Poznan. He died on Tuesday, Sept. 3. 

A V Corps spokesperson said Camara was a public affairs officer who had served in V Corps since June 2024. Camara was the recipient of the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal and Meritorious Service Medal, among other awards. 

"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Lt. Col. Josh Camara's family, friends, and teammates during this difficult time," Col. Kevin Jackson, V Corps chief of staff, said in a statement. "He was an outstanding leader and mentor, and we will remember his legacy and impact."

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TVP World, an English-language Polish news network, reported earlier Wednesday that Camara was found inside an apartment after military police stormed an apartment block near Camp Kościuszko. 

The report described Camara, without naming him, as a "senior officer." It cited Deputy District Prosecutor for Military Affairs in Poznań, Colonel Bartosz Okoniewski who said the evidence pointed to "unintentional manslaughter" and not murder. 

The U.S. Army has not confirmed the details of the TVP World report. Fox News Digital has reached out to the local authorities in Poznań for more information. 

A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a "death trap" where 72 people lost their lives.

The public inquiry into the 2017 blaze found no "single cause" of the tragedy, but said a combination of dishonest companies, weak or incompetent regulators and complacent government led the building to be covered in combustible cladding that turned a small apartment fire into the deadliest blaze on British soil since World War II.

The inquiry's head, retired judge Martin Moore-Bick, said the deaths were avoidable and "all contributed to it in one way or another, in most cases through incompetence but in some cases through dishonesty and greed."

Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized on behalf of the British state, saying the tragedy "should never have happened" and promising to act on the report's recommendations.

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"Today is a long-awaited day for truth but it must now lead to a day of justice," he told Parliament.

While the report may give survivors some of the answers they have long sought, they must wait to see whether anyone responsible will be prosecuted. Police will examine the inquiry’s conclusions before deciding on charges, which could include corporate or individual manslaughter.

They say prosecutions are unlikely before late 2026.

Natasha Elcock of the group Grenfell United urged authorities to deliver justice.

"We paid the price for systematic dishonesty, institutional indifference and neglect," said Elcock, a survivor who lost her uncle in the fire.

The fire broke out in the early hours of June 14, 2017, in a fourth-floor apartment and raced up the 25-story building like a lit fuse, fueled by flammable cladding panels on the exterior walls.

The tragedy horrified the nation and posed one central question, the report said: "How was it possible in 21st century London for a reinforced concrete building, itself structurally impervious to fire, to be turned into a death trap?"

The search for answers focused on a refurbishment completed in 2016 that covered the 1970s building in aluminum and polyethylene cladding — a layer of foam insulation topped by two sheets of aluminum sandwiched around a layer of polyethylene, a combustible plastic polymer that melts and drips on exposure to heat.

The report was highly critical of companies that made the cladding. It said they engaged in "systematic dishonesty," manipulating safety tests and misrepresenting the results to claim the material was safe.

It said insulation manufacturer Celotex was unscrupulous, and another insulation firm, Kingspan, "cynically exploited the industry’s lack of detailed knowledge." Cladding panel maker Arconic "concealed from the market the true extent of the danger," the report said.

The three companies expressed sympathies to the bereaved, but all denied responsibility for the deaths. Arconic said its products were not unsafe. Kingspan said its "historical failings" were not "causative of the tragedy." Celotex said the decision to combine its insulation with combustible cladding panels had been made by others.

The inquiry said the combustible cladding was used because it was cheap and because of "incompetence of the organizations and individuals involved in the refurbishment" -– including architects, engineers and contractors — who all thought safety was someone else’s responsibility.

It concluded the failures multiplied because bodies in charge of enforcing building standards were weak, the local authority was uninterested and the "complacent" U.K. government — led in the seven years before the fire by the Conservative Party — ignored safety warnings because of a commitment to deregulation.

The inquiry has held more than 300 public hearings and examined around 1,600 witness statements.

An initial report published in 2019 criticized the fire department for initially telling residents to stay put and await rescue. By the time the advice was changed, it was too late for many on the upper floors to escape.

London Fire Brigade came in for further criticism for a "chronic lack of effective management and leadership," poor training in high-rise fires and outdated communications equipment.

The Grenfell tragedy prompted soul-searching about inequality in Britain. Grenfell was a public housing building set in one of London’s richest neighborhoods, near the pricey boutiques and elegant houses of Notting Hill. The victims, largely people of color, came from 23 countries and included taxi drivers and architects, a poet, an acclaimed young artist, retirees and 18 children.

The report said the inquiry had "seen no evidence that any of the decisions that resulted in the creation of a dangerous building or the calamitous spread of fire were affected by racial or social prejudice," though it said the public body that managed Grenfell had failed to treat residents with "understanding and respect."

The prime minister said the tragedy "poses fundamental questions about the kind of country we are, a country where the voices of working class people and of those of color have been repeatedly ignored and dismissed."

After the fire, the U.K. government banned metal composite cladding panels for new buildings and ordered similar combustible cladding to be removed from hundreds of tower blocks across the country. But the work hasn’t been carried out on some apartment buildings because of wrangling over who should pay.

Starmer said the work had been "far, far too slow."

The report made multiple recommendations, including tougher fire safety rules, a national fire and rescue college and a single independent regulator for the construction industry to replace the current mishmash of bodies.

The ruined tower, which stood for months after the fire like a black tombstone on the west London skyline, still stands, covered in white sheeting. A green heart and the words "Grenfell forever in our hearts" are emblazoned at the top.

Sandra Ruiz, whose 12-year-old niece, Jessica Urbano Ramirez, died in the fire, said that "for me, there’s no justice without people going behind bars."

"Our lives were shattered on that night. People need to be held accountable," she said. "People who have made decisions putting profit above people’s safety need to be behind bars."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fiercely defended his insistence on maintaining control of the strategically important Philadelphi Corridor even as critics urge him to concede on that point to try and ensure a deal to release hostages. 

"What has changed? What has changed in this week?" Netanyahu said during an English-language press conference on Wednesday. "What's changed is that they murdered six of our hostages in cold blood."

"Now the world will seriously demand that Israel make concessions after this massacre. What messages are sent to Hamas?" he continued. "I'll tell you what the message is: Murder more hostages, you will get more concessions. That's not only illogical. It's not only immoral, it's downright insane. So, it's not going to happen."

"We had redlines before the murder. They haven't changed. We'll hold to them," he insisted. 

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Netanyahu made headlines last week when The Times of Israel reported that the prime minister told Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that he prioritized an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) presence along the 7.8 mile long Philadelphi Corridor over saving the lives of the remaining hostages in Gaza.

Histadrut, the country's largest trade union, urged Netanyahu to agree to a cease-fire deal and secure the release of all remaining hostages, trying to pressure the government through a protest, which the labor court ultimately shut down, NPR reported. 

The Philadelphi Corridor runs along the border between Gaza and Egypt, and is the area in which the Rafah Crossing exists. Netanyahu has insisted that this corridor remains key to maintaining the country’s defense and safety in a post-Hamas state. 

The declaration came out during a "heated security cabinet meeting" that further evidenced a divide between the prime minister and the defense minister. Gallant also reportedly accused Netanyahu of imposing his own position on the security establishment. 

DOJ CHARGES HAMAS LEADERS OVER ‘TERRORIST ATROCITIES’ IN OCT 7 ISRAEL ATTACK

"Either keeping the IDF deployed on the Philadelphi Corridor or bringing home the hostages — you are deciding to stay on the Philadelphi Corridor. Does that seem logical to you?" Gallant said, according to a transcript of the meeting. "There are living (hostages) there." 

When Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer countered that the prime minister "can do whatever he wants," Gallant sniped back that Netanyahu "can also decide to have all the hostages killed," which prompted backlash from the other ministers, according to the Times of Israel.

A poll taken after the meeting ended with an 8-to-1 vote to support the position of maintaining a presence in the corridor. Netanyahu ultimately deemed it vital to explain to the public his reason for insisting on that continued presence, leading to Wednesday’s press conference.

Netanyahu listed a few examples of previous deals the U.S. and negotiators offered and Israel agreed to, but stressed that each time Hamas stepped away and refused the deals on the table. 

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"Where I have to be firm, I am firm, and where I have to be flexible, I have been flexible, but the obstacle has been Hamas from the beginning. Everybody knows that," Netanyahu said, stressing that Hamas accepted no version of a deal, making it a moot point to ask if Israel insisted on the corridor control in previous deals.   

A defiant Netanyahu, fielding questions from the press, underscored his commitment to the country’s defense and safety at any cost, declaring that Israel would continue its various humanitarian policies, which he insisted have thus-far proven effective.

He continued to underscore the necessity of including a presence along the Philadelphi Corridor in any ceasefire agreement, or he feared a "recurrence of what happened there before," referring to the Oct. 7 attack. 

In response to a question about former hostage Aviva Siegel, who told a reporter that Netanyahu was "sentencing her husband" to death by insisting on holding the Philadelphi Corridor, Netanyahu said that control of the corridor is the only reason Hamas have even relented on negotiations and the only way they will continue to concede to Israel's points. 

"I'll do everything to make sure that Keith and all the other hostages come back," Netanyahu said. "I'm telling you that if we relieve the pressure, if we get out of the Philadelphi Corridor, we're not going to get the hostages back."

"Certainly, we're going to condemn a lot of them to stay there. We could get a few out, they'll give us that, but they'll leave a lot with them," Netanyahu argued. "We won't have the pressure point and something else will happen. We will not be able to come back."

Activist Greta Thunberg was among six people arrested at Copenhagen University as they protested the institution's connections to Israel on Wednesday.

Thunberg appeared alongside members of the Students Against the Occupation group, an anti-Israel activist group. Thunberg has become internationally famous for her climate activism, but she has participated in a number of anti-Israel protests across Europe as Israel has prosecuted the war in Gaza.

"Students Against the Occupation and I are at the University of Copenhagen's administration building," Thunberg wrote on Instagram. "Police have been called, violently entered the building with a ram wearing assault rifles. They are evicting everyone as we speak."

"Students have been arrested and are being taken to the station this very moment," she later added.

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The student group is demanding that Copenhagen University end all of its partnerships and collaborations with Israeli universities and other institutions.

CLIMATE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG GOES ON TRIAL IN LONDON FOR BLOCKING OIL AND GAS CONFERENCE

The group highlighted the Erasmus student exchange program that CU participates in, allowing Israeli students to study in Denmark. The group also condemns the Niels Bohr Institute, the university's physics department named after the world-famous physicist. Bohr was of Jewish ancestry.

Critics of Thunberg argued that her appearance at the protest was hypocritical, claiming on social media that one of the programs the university has partnered with Israeli groups on is focused on solving climate change. Fox News Digital could not find such a program, but the Niels Bohr Institute does list the "Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth" as a major research topic.

"We analyze the ice samples in our laboratories and study water stable isotopes, greenhouse gas, impurity concentrations, and ice properties," the institute writes on its website, adding that it seeks to "understand both gradual and abrupt climatic changes of the past, present, and future."

Copenhagen police said Thunberg was one of a group of roughly 20 protesters who demonstrated inside a university administration building. Five people were arrested in addition to Thunberg, according to Danish media.

Police have confirmed that Thunberg has since been released.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has announced his plan to move Christmas to October in a bid to distract the public from ongoing political turmoil following the disputed presidential election.

"It’s more evidence that he is desperate to distract people from the fraud he committed on Election Day and the horrible repression we’ve seen in the month since," Daniel Acosta Rivas, an OSINT analyst from Venezuela, told Fox News Digital. 

"It’s not enough that he oppresses us, he also has to mock us," Rivas said. "Just like he can declare himself winner of the election without evidence, on a whim he can decree that Jesus was born on Oct. 1 and that’s when we should celebrate. He is desperate, or he is mocking us – or both."

Maduro made the bizarre announcement during his weekly television appearance on Monday, calling the decision a "tribute" to the people of Venezuela. 

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"It’s September, and it already smells like Christmas," Maduro said. "That's why this year, as a way of paying tribute to you all, and in gratitude to you all, I'm going to decree an early Christmas for October 1." 

Whatever joy Maduro hoped to bring with his tactic, he prompted the opposite. One office worker from the capital Caracas told The Associated Press that "without money and with his political crisis, who can believe that there will be an early Christmas?" 

Jorge Jraissati, a Venezuelan foreign policy expert and president of the Economic Inclusion Group, told Fox News Digital that he was "tempted to believe that Maduro’s irrational mind urged him to start Christmas in October," but that he could not "deny that stories like this portray Maduro as an idiotic character, refocusing people’s attention from the real problems of our country: the fact that our political institutions are hijacked, our economy is destroyed, and millions of people have left our country seeking a normal life."

The announcement also follows international condemnation of Maduro's decision to pursue an arrest warrant for his opponent, Edmundo Gonzalez, whom the international community continues to support as the true winner of the July 28 election despite Maduro and his party's insistence to the contrary. 

VENEZUELA SHOWS DANGER OF DICTATORS WHO USE TECH TO CONTROL PEOPLE

"Maduro and his representatives cannot indefinitely suppress the legitimate aspirations of the Venezuelan people and maintain power by force," U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a press release. "The will of the people and their rights must be respected."

"We reiterate our call for the immediate and unconditional release of those who have been unjustly detained," the statement said. "The path forward should be a peaceful, transparent, and inclusive democratic transition process that puts the well-being of Venezuelans at its center."

Protests broke out across Venezuela after the country’s Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council declared him the winner of the presidential election despite reporting and polling data – which is illegal in the country – indicating a landslide victory for his united opposition.

Maduro first secured office in 2013, but many within and outside the country have alleged from the start that the United Socialist Party of Venezuela has effectively ruled as a dictatorship, leading opposition parties to boycott the 2018 election before deciding to unite behind opposition candidate Gonzalez. 

Regional leaders, such as Argentinian President Javier Milei, declared Maduro’s alleged victory a fraud and demanded evidence to support his claim to victory. 

Both the Carter Center and the United Nations have both declared that the election lacked credibility, with the Carter Center stressing the election "did not meet international standards of electoral integrity and cannot be considered democratic." 

PUTIN ASSISTING MADURO REGIME AMID ONGOING PROTESTS OVER RIGGED ELECTION RESULT

The opposition parties first came out with claims that they had obtained 70% of tally sheets showing the district-by-district results – all of which allegedly showed Gonzalez had won with double the votes Maduro had received, rather than the supposed 51% victory the Electoral Council had announced. 

Maduro countered by ordering the Venezuelan Supreme Court, which he and his party also controls, to conduct an audit of the results. Ultimately – and perhaps unsurprisingly – the court ruled in Maduro’s favor. 

The court’s ruling certified the results and only further inflamed opposition. Gabriel Boric, the leftist president of Chile and one of the main critics of Maduro’s election scam, blasted the high court’s certification.

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"Today, Venezuela’s TSJ has finally consolidated the fraud," he said on his account, referring to the initials of the high court. "The Maduro regime obviously welcomes with enthusiasm its ruling… there is no doubt that we are facing a dictatorship that falsifies elections."

The Vatican did not respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment by time of publication. 

Fox News Digital’s Stepheny Price and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

An ancient artifact could be right in your own backyard.

This was the case for a mom who was gardening with her baby in the town of Józefów in Poland. 

While gardening in May, they came across a strange object. Curious of the find, they brought it to the Mazowiecki Wojewódzki Konserwator Zabytków (Masovian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments), where it was further investigated.

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Upon further investigation, the object was determined to be an ax from the Neolithic period, also known as the New Stone Age, dating back over 4,000 years, according to a May 25 translated Facebook post from the Masovian Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments. 

After the object was determined to be an ancient find, it was transferred to the Voivodic Monument Protection Office in Warsaw, according to the Facebook post. 

In a follow-up post shared on June 4, the family that found the artifact was honored with a certificate as a token of gratitude. 

ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH ANCIENT TOY IN ICELAND, DISAGREE ON ANIMAL FIGURINE'S CLASSIFICATION

In the post, the family, including the baby, posed for a photo in which the woman who found the object is shown holding the certificate they received.

"We encourage you to follow the model attitude of our guests," the translated Facebook post said. 

This case marks another of many where people have accidentally stumbled upon an object full of historical significance. 

RESEARCHERS UNEARTH FIND DATING BACK 2,400 YEARS IN ANCIENT GREEK CITY

A similar example happened in 2022, when a mother and son were walking their dog in Pagham, England. 

The 12-year-old boy and his mother found a gold bracelet on their walk, which they brought to a local finds liaison officer and later confirmed to be a piece of Roman military jewelry dating to the first century A.D. 

The ancient find was determined as a "relatively rare" one and was brought to the Novium Museum in Chichester, England, once its value was understood. 

Additionally, in April 2024, it was reported that a retired geologist claimed to have found more than 2,500 ancient artifacts from the Bronze Age in Somerset, England. 

The artifacts found by Andrew Beckly included blades and axes and were found under his lawn, according to British news service SWNS. 

The retired geologist came across the finds by digging through the soil in his backyard. 

JERUSALEM — President Biden’s curt response "no" to the question if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing enough to secure the freedom of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza unleashed a storm of criticism.

Biden issued the terse remark on Monday as he headed into the Situation Room, where he and Vice President Harris convened with a hostage deal negotiating team after the murder of 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages by Hamas on Saturday. 

Netanyahu flatly rejected that he and his coalition are responsible for the murders of the hostages. He said, "We didn’t manage to extricate them. We were very close. It’s terrible," he said. "But it didn’t happen because of that decision."

BIDEN CLAIMS NETANYAHU NOT DOING ENOUGH TO SECURE DEAL WITH TERRORISTS

The Cabinet decision involves what Netanyahu described as a "strategic imperative" to retain the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) along the Philadelphi Corridor, which is an 8.7-mile strip of land that runs along Egypt and Gaza and has been a hub for arms smuggling for Hamas.

"It happened, first, because they [Hamas] don’t want a deal," the prime minster said, adding about the hostages,"I look for every means … to bring them home."

When asked by Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Tuesday why Biden was harder on Netanyahu than on the terrorist leader of Hamas, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded that, "The president has been very, very clear about Hamas leaders and what they have done." She continued, "He was asked a question, he answered it directly but Hamas is responsible. They have more American blood on their hands. The president was clear about that in his statement."

Caroline Glick, a former adviser to Netanyahu and columnist told Fox News Digital, "From the outset of the war, U.S. pressure has been exerted on Israel alone. The war would have been over months ago if the U.S. had permitted Israel to lay siege on Gaza and pressured Egypt to permit Gazans to either shelter in Egypt for the duration of the war or seek shelter in third countries by exiting Gaza through Egypt. Rather than stand with Israel, the U.S. preserved Hamas in power by demanding that Israel keep Gaza fully supplied through humanitarian aid which has been distributed, or ransacked, by Hamas and so preserved Hamas in power."

Glick continued, "The U.S. pressure for a hostage deal is not directed against Hamas, which is holding the hostages, and as we saw over the weekend, executing them in cold blood. It is directed solely against Israel. The Biden-Harris administration's pressure is not geared towards rescuing the hostages. It is geared towards rescuing up to 20% of the hostages in exchange for a full cessation of the war, while Hamas is still in charge of Gaza and capable of reconstituting its terror forces in short order if Israel relinquishes its military control over Gaza's international border with Egypt."

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While some media outlets said there were 300,000 protesters in Tel Aviv on Sunday demanding that Netanyahu cut a deal with Hamas to free the remaining hostages, Israeli police reportedly put the number of protesters at around 80,000. On Monday, the Israeli labor union federation Histadrut engaged in a general strike to force Israel’s prime minister to pull the plug on the war against Hamas and secure the release of the remaining hostages.

The general strike and mass protest, however, were not a broad-based movement that would force the collapse of the government or strong-arm Netanyahu into, from his perspective, a concessionary deal that abandons the security of the Jewish state in Gaza.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Netanyahu accepted a cease-fire and hostage deal two weeks ago. The terrorist organization Hamas was the deal-breaker. From the Israeli government’s perspective and American experts on terrorism, there is a belief that the U.S. and other Western powers are not imposing severe pressure on Hamas and its patron, Qatar, to release the hostages.

NETANYAHU MOURNS DEATHS OF 6 HOSTAGES RECOVERED IN GAZA, VOWS TO 'SETTLE ACCOUNTS' WITH HAMAS

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told Fox News Digital, "On a day when Israel is mourning, literally weeping, for its murdered hostages, Biden should be saving his criticism for Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, not Israel’s democratically elected leader."

Friedman, who served under President Trump, said "Biden and Harris have been wrong and catastrophically weak at every turn in this conflict. They even tried for weeks to keep Israel out of Rafah where the hostages were being hidden. They have no credibility and repeatedly blame Netanyahu for their failures, widening the traumatic rift within Israeli society."

Freeing the hostages remains a top priority for the Netanyahu and the Biden administrations, but many don't feel enough has been done to free them from the terrorists.

Aviva Siegel, a former Hamas hostage in Gaza whose 65-year-old American husband, Keith, is still being held there, told Fox News Digital, "I want Keith back alive and I don’t want to think about Keith coming home in a coffin."

Siegel spent 51 days in Hamas captivity. She said the conditions are "brutal" and "I had an infection. The water is not clean and the food cannot be eaten."

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She added, "The Israeli government is not doing enough. They are not bringing them home."

When asked about the Israeli government’s insistence that it hold sections of Gaza for security, she said, "I am not a politician. I do know that I have a heart. I am against wars and I am a peacemaker. I have been talking for nine months. I am very worried about Keith."

Siegel said that "All the hostages need to be taken out before they are killed. I am so lucky to be sitting here and talking. The hostages don’t deserve to be in such bad conditions with no water and human rights. Wake up world. I went through hell."

Joel Rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state who served in the Obama administration, told Fox News Digital, "President Biden has been unflinching in his support for Israel’s war against Hamas, not to mention his powerful backing of Israeli security against recent Iranian threats, including this past April. So, when it comes to the war against Hamas, Israel has had no greater ally than the United States. That’s why when President Biden says that a deal for a hostage release is on the table and that Prime Minister Netanyahu should go for it, we should be confident that he believes that the risks posed by such a deal would be manageable."

"In fact, the president isn’t alone in this assessment. Israel’s security establishment, its defense minister and its negotiators all believe that now is the right time to make a courageous decision to close the deal, not to put up additional conditions like the one regarding the Philadelphi Corridor, whose risks can be mitigated. What we just witnessed with the recent despicable murder of the six hostages is that Hamas once again has shown us who it is: a murderous terrorist group willing to kill hostages in cold blood,"added Rubin.

He noted, "That is who they are and that is how they will continue to act. Knowing this makes it clear that the single most effective way to get the hostages out alive still is, and has been, a diplomatic deal like the one from last November. And remember, a deal is not a gift to Hamas. The gift would instead be given to the kidnapped Israelis, Americans and other nationals who will get out of Gaza alive. Indeed, this would be a gift for all of Israel and the decent people of the world." 

Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un may have ordered at least 30 government officials to be executed after the devastating floods over the summer that killed thousands, according to a new report from South Korea.

The South’s TV Chosun reported Tuesday that North Korean authorities sentenced between 20 and 30 people to capital punishment last month for their failure to stop the deadly flooding. 

An official was quoted as telling the outlet, "Twenty to 30 cadres in the flood-stricken area were executed at the same time late last month." 

While it’s difficult to know the details given the North’s extreme secrecy, the North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has reported that Kim ordered authorities to "strictly punish" the officials after catastrophic floods hit the Chagang Province, near the border with China, in July. 

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North Korean state media reported that heavy rains in late July left more than 4,000 homes as well as numerous other public buildings, structures, roads and railways flooded in the northwestern city of Sinuiju and the neighboring town of Uiju.

Kim blamed public officials who had neglected disaster prevention for causing "the casualty that cannot be allowed."

The North has rebuffed offers of aid from China, Russia and even South Korea, with whom tensions remain at all-time highs. 

Kim made a two-day tour of Uiju in early August to meet flood victims and discuss recovery efforts. While touring there, Kim was quoted by KCNA as accusing the South of exaggerating the extent of the damage from the floods, decrying it as a "smear campaign" and a "grave provocation" against his government. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday unsealed criminal charges against Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and other leaders of the brutal organization over the "terrorist atrocities" of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel.

The criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York City includes charges of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, resulting in death. 

It also accuses Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah of providing financial support and weapons, including rockets, that were used in the attack.

The complaint marks the first time that U.S. prosecutors have formally called out the masterminds of the Oct. 7 massacre. 

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"The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a video address. "These actions will not be our last. The Justice Department has a long memory. We will pursue the terrorists responsible for murdering Americans – and those who illegally provide them with material support – for the rest of their lives."

Hamas stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 Israelis and taking hundreds more hostage. 

Tuesday’s charges come days after Israel Defense Forces recovered the bodies of six hostages – including 23-year-old Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin – in the tunnels beneath Rafah in the Gaza Strip.  

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Hamas chief Sinwar is believed to be hiding out somewhere in Hamas' vast tunnel network beneath Gaza. It's unclear how much contact he has with the outside world.

Sinwar was appointed the overall head of Hamas after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and sits atop Israel's most-wanted list. 

Other Hamas leaders charged include Haniyeh; Marwan Issa, the deputy leader of Hamas' armed wing in Gaza who helped plan last year's attack and who Israel says was killed when fighter jets struck an underground compound in central Gaza in March; Khaled Mashaal, another Haniyeh deputy and a former leader of the group; Mohammed Deif, Hamas' longtime shadowy military leader, who is thought to be dead following an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza in July; and Ali Baraka, Hamas' head of external relations.

The DOJ said at least one person – whose name they did not specify in the complaint – is "expected to be first brought to and arrested in the Southern District of New York." 

Fox News’ David Spunt and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The world's largest ocean basin is also the oldest. 

A basin is "a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface," according to National Geographic. 

The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ocean basin in the world, according to the National Ocean Service's website. There are three major types of basins, which are drainage, structural and ocean, according to the source.

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The Pacific Ocean spans around 63 million square miles and could theoretically hold all the world's continents within its massive size, according to the National Ocean Service. The Pacific Ocean covers more than 30% of the Earth's surface.

Of the world's oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern), the Pacific is also the oldest and the deepest. 

Researchers have dated back the oldest rocks of the Pacific Ocean 200 million years, according to the National Ocean Service. 

The average depth is around 13,000 feet, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration, though there are areas far deeper. 

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The Challenger Deep is the deepest part of the Ocean, found in the Mariana Trench. 

This area of the Pacific Ocean is around 35,876 feet deep, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration. Explorations of the Challenger Deep are quite rare. The most frequent visitor to the deepest part of the ocean is retired U.S. Navy officer Victor Vescovo, who holds various Guinness World Record's for his historic dives. "Titanic" director James Cameron, is another who has visited the ocean's deepest point. He made his dive in March 2012 and a film came out about his journey called "Deepsea Challenge" in 2014. 

Also located around the Pacific Ocean is the Ring of Fire. This is where the most active volcanoes are located. In fact, there are over 450 volcanoes located throughout the Ring of Fire, according to NOAA Ocean Explorer.

The underwater path is also susceptible to frequent earthquakes, according to National Geographic. 

The Ring of Fire is about 24,900 miles long, according to the source. Of all the Earth's volcanoes, 75% are located along this path, and 90% of earthquakes happen here, according to National Geographic.  

Despite the path's name, it actually takes the shape of a horseshoe, rather than a ring, and was formed due to plate tectonics.

A new United Nations report determined that executions surged in Iran during the month of August, leading experts to urge the country’s government to stop the unlawful spree. 

"We are deeply concerned by this sharp rise in executions," U.N. experts, including special rapporteurs on human rights, said in a press release from the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights. 

"According to information received, of the 93 executions in August, only a fraction is officially reported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, highlighting the urgent need for transparency," the experts added. 

The U.N. reported that nearly half of all executions carried out last month occurred in response to alleged drug offenses, which the experts stressed went against "international standards." 

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"Countries that retain the death penalty must ensure that individuals are not subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment throughout the criminal justice process," the experts said. 

"Wrongful executions are irreversible. The current implementation of the death penalty in the Islamic Republic of Iran leaves us extremely concerned that innocent individuals may have been executed," the experts added. "We renew our appeal to Iranian authorities to halt executions of all individuals sentenced to death," 

Drug offenses have become a leading rationale for the Iranian government to carry out executions, which have hit an eight-year high, according to Amnesty International. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which counts Iran among its members, limits the death penalty to only the "most serious crimes," which does not include drug offenses. 

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The non-profit alleges in a report released earlier this year that Iran’s executions started to increase following the 2022 unrest that resulted from the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died under suspicious circumstances after a clash with Iran’s morality police due to allegedly not correctly wearing her hijab headscarf. 

In the report, Amnesty International characterizes Iran’s use of executions not as a tool of punishment but of intimidation, seeking to "instill fear among the population and tighten their grip on power." 

Iran this year has executed over 400 people, including over a dozen women – putting the country on track to match the roughly 850 executions in 2023, most of which punished political dissidents. 

"Never-mind the change at the top: Musical chairs between Iranian presidents has had zero bearing on the plight of the Iranian people to include rights violations and executions at home," Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital. 

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"Tehran’s true face is on display here," Taleblu argued. "A rise in executions including for alleged drug-related offenses is a feature, not a bug, of the vision the Islamic Republic has for order at home."

"Show trials, forced confessions, and violations of due process feature all too prominently in these death sentence cases," he added. 

The U.N. highlighted the case of Reza Rasaei, an Iranina-Kurdish protester whom authorities punished based on a "confession reportedly obtained through torture." 

The government alleged that Rasaei was involved in the death of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member, and it pursued execution even after co-defendants retracted their testimonies about his involvement and a forensic medical examiner challenging Rasaei’s involvement. 

The special rapporteurs serve as part of the Special Procedures group on the Human Rights Council, pursuing fact-finding missions and monitoring "mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world."