Daniel Siad, a 69-year-old modelling scout linked to Jeffrey Epstein and under investigation in France, was found dead at his home near Paris. Prosecutors opened an inquiry into the cause of death and said an autopsy will be carried out.
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New ICE data show more than 43,000 people were booked into immigration detention in June, the highest monthly total since President Trump returned to office. The detained population rose again in July, including a sharp increase among people without criminal records.
Local medics said at least 12 Palestinians were killed in three Israeli strikes in Gaza, including a family of six in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood. The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas operative in the family’s home strike and was reviewing the results.
The Pentagon identified Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, as the soldier killed during a controlled detonation of a downed drone at Erbil Air Base in Iraq. A second service member was treated for a minor injury, and the incident remains under investigation.
India’s youth-led Cockroach movement resumed its New Delhi sit-in after police used tear gas and batons against protesters marching toward Parliament. Demonstrators are demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resign over alleged exam system failures.
India’s Cockroach Janta Party says it will stop marching through New Delhi after violent clashes with police, but will continue demanding education reforms and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Police and protesters gave sharply different accounts of the violence that injured scores of people.
United Airlines says it is reviewing a viral video in which an employee appears to threaten to call ICE on passenger Julio Varela during a ticketing dispute at San Francisco International Airport. Varela said his family, all U.S. citizens, was trying to fix an error on his daughter’s ticket.
Joshua Kerry, 28, has been charged with murdering former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe. Counterterrorism police say a possible political motive remains under investigation.