Happy Thursday and welcome to your wrap of the key headlines from around the world.
First up, The Atlantic magazine has published the full contents of a group chat its editor was accidentally added to that discussed pending US military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Jeffrey Goldberg, who is the magazine’s editor-in-chief, was accidentally added to the chat with other top security officials by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz. His initial story, which was published on Monday, withheld some of the texts because it contained information that could be used to harm the American military.
But Goldberg has decided to release the full texts after President Donald Trump and others said none of the messages were classified and they did not contain “war plans” as Goldberg’s initial story said.
As CNBC reports, the messages from Waltz spell out in detail the exact timeline the strike will follow, including the aircraft carrying it out. It is followed up by updates on the fall out of attack.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X, homing in on the magazine’s decision to call the thread “attack plans” not war plans.
“The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT war plans,’” Leavitt wrote. “This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
To Gaza, where Al Jazeera reported thousands of Palestinians have marched between the wreckage of a heavily damaged town in the northern part of the territory overnight, chanting against Israel and Hamas in a rare display of anger against the militant group.
In the town of Beit Lahiya, where similar protests took place, about 3000 people protested with many chanting “the people want the fall of Hamas”.
“Our children have been killed. Our houses have been destroyed,” said Abed Radwan, who told The Associated Press news agency that he joined the protest in Beit Lahiya “against the war, against Hamas, and the [Palestinian political] factions, against Israel, and against the world’s silence”.
At least 38 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, according to data from the local health ministry.
Gaza building devastation.
To South Korea, where wildfires continue to rage across the southeastern region of the country. The Korea Herald reported the fires have killed at least 24 people and injured 26 others, with strong winds and dry weather causing them to spread rapidly eastwards.
Acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said in a national address earlier in the day that South Korea was confronting the worst wildfire in its history.
The blaze in Uiseong-gun is affecting 15,158 hectares of land as of Wednesday, equivalent to the size of one-quarter of Seoul, marking the third-biggest in the country’s history.
Meanwhile, in Brazil, The Guardian reported the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly orchestrating a plot to seize power via military coup, after the country’s supreme court decided he should face criminal prosecution. If found guilty, he could face a 40-year prison sentence.
The top court found there was sufficient evidence that Bolsonaro and seven of his allies formed a sprawling conspiracy to keep him in power after he narrowly lost the 2022 presidential election to his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Jair Bolsonaro.
To India, where the BBC reported the country’s top court has put on hold a lower court’s decision, which said that grabbing the breasts of a girl and breaking off the drawstring of her lower garment could not be considered an attempt of rape.
The Allahabad high court had ruled last week that the offence could only be described as "aggravated sexual assault", which comes with a lesser punishment. The Supreme Court judges said some of the comments showed “a total lack of sensitivity” from the judge who wrote it.
The case involved an 11-year-old girl whose mother has alleged the two accused men offered a lift to her daughter on their motorbike promising to drop her home. She sent the child with the men who were from the same village and known to them.
"The accused persons stopped their motorcycle on the way to the village and started grabbing her breasts," the high court order said, adding that one of the men dragged her beneath a culvert and "broke her pyjama [lower garment] string," according to the prosecution.
She was later rescued by nearby villagers.
And, finally this morning, an Australian senator has gone viral for bringing a dead fish into the senate as debate raged over the government’s changes to federal environment laws.
The proposed changes, reported by the ABC, were designed to allow salmon farming to continue in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, by reducing the rights of the public and other interest groups to review prior government decisions.
It was one of the last acts of parliament before the election.
The debate prompted theatrics from Green Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who waved a dead fish that was wrapped in plastic in the senate. “On the eve of the election, have you sold out your environment credentials for a rotten, stinking, extinction salmon? Extinction salmon!”
Labour Senator Jenny McAllister responded that Australians deserve better from their representatives than stunts.
