Possessions belonging to ex-Network 10 presenter Jesse Baird, 26, and Luke Davies, 29, were found on Wednesday in a bin in a suburb of the capital.
Police are seeking a man identified by local media as a police officer who once dated Mr Baird to aid inquiries.
But the force told the BBC it could not confirm the person’s identity.
In a statement, New South Wales Police Force said detectives would “continue to look at all past relationships and associations”.
Officers found blood and moved furniture at Mr Baird’s home in the Paddington area, around 28km (17 miles) from Cronulla, the suburb where a worker found the couple’s belongings in a bin.
Blood-stained clothes, a phone and credit cards were among the items found.
CCTV footage showing a white van in the area was also being looked at by police, the news outlet said.
Flight attendant Mr Davies has not been in contact with his family or attended work since Monday, according to police.
Det Supt Jodi Radmore said all lines of inquiry were being investigated and told reporters: “We do believe, from the crime scene at Paddington and from property located at Cronulla, that there has been some sort of incident.”
She added that had given the force “great concerns for one, possibly both their safety”.
“Witnesses described a verbal argument,” she continued, “but it wasn’t reported to police at the time … it was only reported to police yesterday [Monday morning] during canvassing.” https://merujaksore.com/
Warning: Readers may find some of the details below distressing.
Nawara al-Najjar was asleep in the tent that had been her family’s home in Rafah for the last five weeks, just a few hundred metres away from the site of the rescue raid.
Lying on the ground were Nawara, who is six months pregnant, her six children – ranging in age from 13 to four – and her husband Abed-Alrahman.
They had fled from their home in Khan Younis, about 9km (6 miles) north, following the instructions of the Israel Defense Forces who said Rafah was a safe area.
Before falling asleep, the couple discussed what to do about two of their children who had been injured. Their son had been burned by scalding food, and their daughter was recovering from facial paralysis caused by trauma in the early stages of the war.
Before they became refugees, Abed-Alrahman did whatever work he could find to support his family, often as a labourer on farms.
They were a strong couple who always tried to solve problems together.
“My husband was anxious, thinking about how he would find a way to treat them and where to take them,” Nawara says. “Our neighbours said they wanted to take my daughter to a doctor for treatment… So, we decided that he would be in charge of our son, and I would be in charge of my daughter.”
Then something unusual happened. Nawara usually slept surrounded by the children. But that night, Abed-Alrahman asked to change the arrangement. “Before he went to sleep, he asked me to come and sleep next to him. It was the first time he said, ‘Come sleep with me’.”
They fell into the exhausted sleep of refugee life. Then shortly before 02:00 (00:00 GMT), Nawara woke to the sound of shooting.
Abed-Alrahman said he would go out and see what was happening.
Nawara says: “Our oldest son was telling him, ‘Dad, please don’t go out’. [Abed-Alrahman] was trying to reassure him that nothing would happen; my son was telling him not to go out, that he would die.”
Then she felt a searing pain in her head. Shrapnel from an explosion had ripped into the tent.
Nawara started screaming. At first she could not see anything. After some minutes her vision returned in time to see Abed-Alrahman in his death throes. She remembers the “rattle” of his final breaths.
“When my children first saw him, they were screaming, ‘Oh, father, oh father, don’t leave us, don’t leave us’. I told them, ‘Stay away from your father. Just pray for him’.”
Daughter Malak, aged 13, was hit in the eye by a splinter of shrapnel. Four other children sustained minor wounds. They also endured the trauma of what they heard and saw – the explosions and their father being carried away to hospital. Later that night, in a hospital filled with other victims, it was confirmed to Nawara that Abed-Alrahman was dead.
Weeping, she asks: “What was his sin? What was his children’s sin? What’s my sin? I became a widow at 27.
Malak says she was taken to three different hospitals to try and get treatment, but she lost her eye.
“I was not treated immediately. Only after three days was my surgery performed. I was injured in the eye and I was also shot in my waist. I’m in pain, pain, pain.”
Then Malak became distraught, and cried out: “I lost my dad. Enough!”
Image caption,Malak al-Najjar, aged 13, lost an eye on the same night of the Israeli military raid
According to the health ministry, run under the direction of the Hamas government in Gaza, at least 74 people were killed during the raid in the early hours of 12 February.
It is not possible to say precisely how many of the dead were civilians and how many were fighters. But witnesses and medical sources suggest a high proportion of the dead were non-combatants. The independent Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, based in Gaza, using details obtained from hospital lists, says 27 children and 22 women were among those killed.
Mohammed al-Zaarab, 45, a father-of-10 from Khan Younis, also fled to Rafah believing it would be safe. He remembers being woken in his tent by the intensity of the assault. “They were shelling with helicopters, with F-16 jets …My son was shot in his hand. Our neighbour was shot in the head.”
The following day, Mohammed’s elderly father felt unwell. He took him to the doctor, but soon after the old man died of a heart attack. “I buried him. Today is the third day in his grave. Why is this happening to us?” he asks.
“Aside from the air strikes, we were hearing tanks in the background, there was active exchange of fire from small firearms, as well as a helicopter gunship that was going over the hospital fighting and firing in all directions. So, it was very, very scary. We thought that this was it.”
Hearing the sound of ambulances, the medics decided to leave the safe room and help. Along with the wounded came women and children seeking shelter.
“The hospital itself is a tent structure. So there were a lot of concerns. Obviously, if there is any strike towards the hospital it will be devastating, but we had to make a decision to save as many patients as possible.”
Image caption,Nawara al-Najjar, sitting with some of her children, was injured by shrapnel that ripped into her tent on 12 February
Many of the dead were thought to be still lying under the rubble of destroyed houses. Another doctor – from the international agency Médecins Sans Frontières – sent a series of anguished voice messages to colleagues in London after sunrise on 12 February.
She described lying across her children’s bodies to protect them as shrapnel flew through the windows of the room where they were sheltering. The doctor has given the BBC permission to quote the messages but wants to remain anonymous.
Her account of what she found after the raid is harrowing.
“At our home when we were checking, I found pieces of human flesh. We found a whole lower limb belonging to a human that we don’t know who he is. When I saw the pieces of flesh on the floor, I cried.”
Since the beginning of the IDF incursion into Gaza, the military has accused Hamas of using the civilian population as human shields, and using medical facilities to conceal military operations and hide hostages.
The rescue of two hostages – Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70 – in Rafah this month was a rare success for the Israeli teams searching for more than 130 people, including two children, still believed to be held captive.
In a statement to the BBC about the events of 12 February, an IDF spokesman said it was “committed to mitigating civilian harm” during military operations. Military lawyers advised commanders so that strikes complied with international legal obligations.
The statement says: “This process is designed to ensure that senior commanders have all reasonably available information and professional advice that will ensure compliance with the Law of Armed Conflict, including by providing ‘Target Cards’ which facilitate an analysis that is conducted on a strike-by-strike basis, and takes into account the expected military advantage and the likely collateral civilian harm, amongst other matters. https://merujaksore.com/
“Even where circumstances do not allow for a targeting process involving this level of deliberate pre-planning and pre-approval, IDF regulations emphasise that commanders and soldiers must still comply with the Law of Armed Conflict.”
The US has proposed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council which calls for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza.
It has also warned Israel against invading the overcrowded city of Rafah.
The US has previously avoided the word “ceasefire” during UN votes on the war, but President Joe Biden has made similar comments.
However, the US plans to veto another draft resolution – from Algeria – which calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
More than a million displaced Palestinians, who represent about half of Gaza’s population, are crammed into Rafah after being forced to seek shelter there.
The southern city, which borders Egypt, was home to only 250,000 people before the war.
Many of the displaced are living in makeshift shelters or tents in squalid conditions, with scarce access to safe drinking water or food.
The UN has issued its own warning that a planned Israeli offensive in the city could lead to a “slaughter”.
Israel launched its operations in Gaza following an attack by Hamas gunmen on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 others taken hostage.
Washington has come under immense international pressure to use its leverage to rein in Israel’s devastating operations, having spent much of the war emphasising its ally’s right to self-defence.
While it has vowed to block the Algerian draft, its rival text does register opposition to Israel’s plans.
Talks will begin on the US draft this week, but it is not clear when or if the proposal might be put to a vote. Under the UN charter, members “agree to accept and carry out” decisions made by the Security Council – in contrast with decisions made at the General Assembly, which are non-binding.
It is the first time the US has called for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza at the UN, having vetoed previous resolutions using the word.
The US draft also states that a major ground offensive in Rafah would result in more harm to civilians and their further displacement, including potentially into neighbouring countries – a reference to Egypt.
It also says such a move would have serious implications for regional peace and security.
The draft resolution calls for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza as soon as practicable, echoing remarks by President Joe Biden in his conversations with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week.
Mr Netanyahu has so far resisted international pressure to reconsider the plan – vowing to rescue remaining hostages and defeat Hamas throughout Gaza. https://merujaksore.com/
Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz has warned the manoeuvre will be launched unless Hamas frees all its hostages by 10 March. The date marks the start of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.
The Arab group of nations says the Security Council cannot turn a deaf ear to the pleas of the international community demanding a ceasefire.
UK Special Forces blocked Afghan troops they had fought alongside from relocating to the UK after the Taliban seized power, BBC Panorama can reveal.
Leaked documents show special forces rejected applications despite some containing compelling evidence of service alongside the British military.
Afghan commandos accompanied British special forces on some of the most dangerous missions of the conflict.
The Ministry of Defence said it was conducting an independent review.
When the Taliban swept to power in August 2021, members of Afghan Special Forces units CF 333 and ATF 444 – known as the “Triples” – were among the groups most at risk of reprisal, having supported UK Special Forces in their fight against the Taliban.
They were eligible to apply for resettlement to the UK under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (Arap) scheme, but hundreds had their applications rejected. Dozens have reportedly been beaten, tortured, or killed by the Taliban since.
The Armed Forces Minister, James Heappey, has now announced a review of about 2,000 applications after admitting that the decision-making process behind some rejections was “not robust”.
The documents seen by Panorama include a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) document showing that since at least 2023 all Triples applications reaching a basic threshold were sent to UK Special Forces for approval or denial of sponsorship.
The SOP document, which was obtained by the investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports and shared with Panorama, shows that if UK Special Forces denied sponsorship, the applicant was automatically deemed ineligible and a rejection letter was sent out.
Panorama has also seen internal Ministry of Defence emails in which civil servants administering the relocation scheme describe being unable to challenge special forces’ rejections, even when they believed there was a strong case for resettlement.
Former members of the SAS, the army’s elite special forces regiment, have now told Panorama that they believe the veto outlined in the SOP document represents a clear conflict of interest for UK Special Forces.
The public inquiry has the power to compel witnesses who are in the UK, but not non-UK nationals who are overseas. If the Afghan Special Forces members were in the UK they could be asked to provide potentially significant evidence.
“It’s a clear conflict of interest,” said one former UK Special Forces officer.
“At a time when certain actions by UK Special Forces are under investigation by a public inquiry, their headquarters also had the power to prevent former Afghan Special Forces colleagues and potential witnesses to these actions from getting safely to the UK.”
Another former UK Special Forces officer who spoke to the BBC said: “At best it’s not appropriate, at worst it looks like they’re trying to cover their tracks.”
A spokesperson for the public inquiry team told Panorama that it could not comment on specific witnesses but was “aware of the recent press articles about the Triples” and would “continue to ask anyone with relevant information to come forward”.
Panorama has spoken to former members of the Triples who had their relocation applications rejected in 2023 and say they witnessed or reported what appeared to them to be war crimes committed by UK Special Forces.
We have also seen the documents submitted by two former Triples officers along with their applications to the Arap scheme. They include:
An official invitation to SAS headquarters in Hereford to give a talk about the Triples
Letters from the British embassy regarding pay
Photographs with two directors of UK Special Forces and a British ambassador
Photographs with Gen David Petraeus, commander of the Nato coalition and all US forces in Afghanistan
A letter from a British officer describing an applicant as part of the “UK mentored Afghan SF” unit
Previous visas to enter the UK
The officers behind these applications were both denied entry to the UK.
They told Panorama they are now in hiding in Afghanistan, moving from house to house, unable to stay with their families or to work.
One said he had been interrogated and beaten by the Taliban before he went on the run, the other said he had escaped first but that he heard the Taliban had gone to his home looking for him.
“I’m living in a very bad situation. I am in hiding and mostly my family can’t live together and we cannot go out and we cannot work,” he said. https://merujaksore.com/
“I was sure that my British colleagues and friends, who we worked for several years alongside, would help me to evacuate to safety. Now I feel that the sacrifices I made have been forgotten.
Israel Defense Force (IDF) troops entered the complex on Thursday, saying intelligence indicated hostages taken by Hamas were being held there.
The WHO said it had not been allowed to enter the site to assess the situation.
Israel has been focusing its campaign against Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis and has indicated it may continue south to Rafah.
“Nasser hospital in Gaza is not functional anymore, after a week-long siege followed by the ongoing raid,” head of the WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, posted on X, formerly Twitter.
“Both yesterday and the day before, the WHO team was not permitted to enter the hospital to assess the conditions of the patients and critical medical needs, despite reaching the hospital compound to deliver fuel alongside partners,” he said.
“There are still about 200 patients in the hospital. At least 20 need to be urgently referred to other hospitals to receive health care; medical referral is every patient’s right.”
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says only four medical staff were left in the hospital trying to care for the remaining patients.
One source inside the hospital, who did not want to be named, told BBC News that 11 patients had died due to interruptions in the supply of electricity and oxygen, and that several doctors had been arrested.
Yesterday, the Israeli military said its troops had been told to keep the hospital running and that food and water had been delivered. Asked about the state of the hospital this morning, an army spokesman said only that they were checking.
Fighting has raged around the Nasser site for weeks. Israel has repeatedly claimed Hamas is using hospitals, along with schools, as operational bases.
The Israeli military says it has killed about 20 Hamas fighters and seized numerous weapons in the area of the hospital.
“Over the past day, dozens of terrorists were eliminated and large quantities of weapons were seized,” the IDF said.
At least 1,200 people were killed during attacks in Israel by Hamas-led gunmen on 7 October last year.
In response, Israel launched a military campaign in the Gaza Strip. More than 28,400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and more than 68,000 wounded since the war began, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Despite the continued fighting in Gaza, efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have been taking place in Cairo in recent days – although Qatari mediators said recent progress was “not very promising”.
“The pattern in the last few days [is] not really very promising but, as I always repeat, we will always remain optimistic and will always remain pushing,” said Sheik Mohammed, speaking at a meeting of world leaders at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he sent negotiators following a request from US President Joe Biden, but added they did not return for further discussions because Hamas’s demands were “delusional”.
Hamas has blamed Israel for a lack of progress in achieving a ceasefire deal.
The group has laid out a series of conditions, including the exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, full withdrawal of Israel’s forces and an end to the war after a 135-day pause in fighting, broken into three phases.
Mr Netanyahu has also reiterated the Israeli government is continuing to push its ground invasion of Gaza further south, taking in the area of Rafah, despite international pressure not to do so without first having a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians who fled there during the early days of the war.
Some 1.5 million people are in Rafah, close to the border with Egypt, after being told by Israeli forces to seek safety there while Hamas targets were attacked in northern, then central, Gaza.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday reiterated his opposition to any forced displacement of Palestinians into Egypt’s Sinai desert. https://merujaksore.com/
In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, both leaders agreed instead on the “necessity of the swift advancement of a ceasefire”, according to a summary.
Mr Sisi has long maintained that the only solution is an independent state for Palestinians.
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Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan suara sementara di situs Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU), hingga pukul 07:30 WIB, Sabtu (17/02) dengan data masuk mencapai 49,69%, Komeng meraup 1.380.427 suara (12,26%).
Pengamat politik dari Badan Riset dan lnovasi Nasional (BRIN), Devi Darmawan, mengatakan bahwa dalam politik Indonesia, masih sangat ditentukan oleh sosok dan figuritas, ketimbang pengalaman dan gagasan. https://merujaksore.com/
At one point, Mbappe was exiled from the first-team squad and left out of the club’s pre-season tour of Asia.
However, an agreement was reached that ensured PSG would not lose out when Mbappe eventually left and the terms of his now seemingly inevitable exit are still to be confirmed.
The forward has a one-year extension clause, so it is expected his departure will involve either a sale with a transfer fee or financial sacrifices on the player’s part.
Whilst PSG would have wanted Mbappe to remain at the club, his exit looks set to come as they aim to build a younger squad and move away from the ‘Galacticos’ plan, that has also seen Argentina forward Lionel Messi and Brazil international Neymar leave since the end of last season.
It is estimated Mbappe, who won the World Cup with France in 2018, earns around €200m per year (£171m).
PSG are 11 points clear of second-placed Nice at the top of the French league and will also play Nice in the quarter-finals of the domestic cup.
The French champions beat Real Sociedad 2-0 in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League encounter on Wednesday, with Mbappe scoring the opener.
It was his fourth goal in Europe’s top competition this season, while he has 20 goals in the domestic league in the present campaign.
Overall, he has 243 goals and 93 assists in 290 games for PSG and has helped the club to five Ligue 1 title wins.
He scored 27 goals and registered 13 assists in 60 games for Monaco.
Mbappe was set to leave PSG on a free transfer at the end of the 2021-22 season but ultimately signed a two-year contract extension, with the option of a further year.
However, after Mbappe told PSG he would not agree to the additional 12 months of the deal, he was not selected for their pre-season tour to Japan last July.
He subsequently refused to meet with representatives of Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal, who made a world-record £259m offer for him.
The striker later returned to first-team training following what PSG said were “very constructive and positive” talks.
Mbappe turned down a move to Real Madrid when he agreed to his current deal with PSG in May 2022.
He scored a hat-trick in the 2022 World Cup final but finished on the losing side as Argentina won on penalties, and Mbappe was subsequently appointed captain of France after Hugo Lloris retired from Les Bleus duty.
On Friday, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was asked whether his club would be interested in the Frenchman.
“When there is a player of that calibre, we always have to be in the conversation, but it looks a different way,” he replied. https://merujaksore.com/
Eighteen others are said to have been wounded in the strike not far from the Ukrainian border.
Videos circulating on social media showed several ambulances parked outside a heavily damaged shopping centre with shattered windows.
Russian officials said air defence systems had shot down 14 Ukrainian missiles over the Belgorod region.
Russian Zvezda TV, which is closely affiliated with the ministry of defence, said one rocket hit a shopping centre and one landed on the city’s sports stadium.
Belgorod lies about 30km (19 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
A drone and rocket attack in December killed 25 people and wounded another 100 in the deadliest strike on Belgorod so far.
Last night, Russia fired 26 missiles at Ukraine, killing a 66-year-old woman in Chuguyiv, near Kharkiv in the east, and wounding several more people.
Meanwhile, the battle for Ukraine’s eastern town of Avdiivka rages on.
Some Ukrainian soldiers have told the BBC that the town could fall at any moment, describing severe shortages of weapons and ammunition.
Nato Secretary General, Jen Stoltenberg warned on Thursday that the US failure to approve continued military assistance to Ukraine is already having an impact on the battlefield. https://merujaksore.com/
Avdiivka is a key location because it is a gateway to the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk. It has been effectively on the front line since 2014 when the conflict in eastern Ukraine started.
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Alhasil KPU hanya bisa mengakomodasi 3.266 pekerja IKN untuk mencoblos di tempat pemungutan suara (TPS) di sekitar wilayah IKN. Padahal, menurut data yang diterima KPU dari Otorita IKN, jumlah pekerja mencapai 15.000 orang.
“Kami bersurat lebih dari tujuh kali, kami sosialisasi luar biasa intensnya bahkan kami difasilitasi oleh Polda untuk bertemu dengan empat balai besar di bawah kementerian agar segera memberikan data,” kata Irwan kepada BBC News Indonesia, Minggu (11/02). https://merujaksore.com/
