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6 days ago | bellingcat.com | Pooja Chaudhuri |Eliot Higgins

India and Pakistan have been trading blows in the wake of a militant attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last month. On May 7, India said it had launched missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Pakistan – which denies any involvement in the April attack on the tourists, most of whom were Indian – then claimed to have shot down Indian drones and jets. Claims and counterclaims of ongoing strikes and attacks have been forthcoming from both sides.

2 weeks ago | bellingcat.com | Pooja Chaudhuri

Bellingcat has identified at least 22 villages damaged by airstrikes in Myanmar, despite a temporary ceasefire declared by the State Administrative Control (SAC) or the military junta from April 2 to 22 following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country on March 28. The ceasefire has been extended to April 30. The earthquake’s epicentre was recorded just 16km northwest of Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar, and it struck just before 1pm local time.

1 month ago | bellingcat.com | Carlos Gonzales |Jake Godin

On March 23, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced an operation in southern Gaza’s Tal as-Sultan neighborhood and urged civilians to evacuate using a road north to a humanitarian zone. Hours before the statement was shared online, a rescue convoy was traveling along that same road before all contact was lost. The convoy was made up of aid workers from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Palestine Civil Defense and the United Nations.

1 month ago | bellingcat.com | Jake Godin |Thomas Bordeaux

Scroll Down to view interactive photogrammetry produced for this story; you can expand both models to view them in full screen mode and explore them for yourself. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 165 Palestinian journalists have been killed since the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023. In fact, according to CPJ, last year was the deadliest year for journalists worldwide since they began documenting deaths in 1992.

1 month ago | bellingcat.com | Kolina Koltai

This guide is part of a collaboration between Bellingcat and Evident on detecting AI-generated products. You can watch Evident’s video here. Sipping coffee from a mug carved from mineral rock, its surface glimmering with amethyst, rose quartz and other crystals, sounds almost too magical to be real. And unfortunately, as some shoppers discovered, it was. Ads for crystal coffee cups, like the one shown in the Facebook post below, have appeared across the internet.