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Rescuers searched 30 people who went missing after the ferry sunk on Thursday, and four people died near Bali, an Indonesian resort island the night before.

As of Thursday afternoon, 31 people had been rescued by the ferry’s 53 passengers and 12 crew members, the National Search and Rescue Service said in a statement.

KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost 30 minutes later after leaving Ketapan Port late on Wednesday on a 50-kilometer (30-mile) trip to Bali’s Gilimanuk port, authorities said.

A helicopter and nine boats, including two tugs and two inflatable boats, were searched for survivors with the support of fishermen and land-based people.

Strong waves and darkness, two meters high (6.5 feet) hampered emergency responders overnight, but officials said improvements in weather and sea conditions on Thursday morning were supporting search efforts.

“For today’s search, we are focusing on searching for water as the first victim was found in the water between the location of the accident heading towards Gilimanuk Port,” Surabaya’s search and rescue director Nanang Sigit said in a statement.

Port officers witnessed the sinking before rescuers were warned.

“The ferry could not contact us via radio from the beginning. We could then contact us from other vessels from the same company. But the vessel was already tilted,” Sigit said.

Many of the rescued people were unconscious after hours of drifting in the choppy sea, said Bhanyuwangi Police Chief Rama Samtama Putra.

Indonesian authorities are investigating the cause of the accident. Survivors told rescuers it appears there is a leak in the engine compartment of the ferry, which carried 22 vehicles, including 14 trucks.

Some families arrived at the port panic or crying, seeking information about their loved ones.

Survivors were taken to a nearby medical facility, including Bali’s Jembrana Regional Hospital.

“When the ferry began to tilt, I was initially planning on jumping into the sea, but the ship was sinking quickly so I didn’t jump anymore, but the water that entered the ship had sunk and sank to a depth of about 7 meters (23 feet) so I quickly climbed to the summit.

He and the other three are grouping up in the water, floating with life jackets, he said.

Ferry tragedy is common in Indonesia, an archipelago of over 17,000 islands. There, ferries may be frequently used as a transportation and safety regulation.

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British lawmakers voted Wednesday to ban Palestine Action, a UK-based group aimed at disrupting the operations of arms manufacturers that supply the Israeli government.

Members of the parliament voted between 382 and 26 in support of measures against the group after two Palestinian activists invaded Britain’s largest air force base in central England and caused damage to two military aircraft.

The draft ban will reach the Senate Thursday. If approved by a senator, the ban will come into effect the following day.

A complete ban means that under British law it is illegal to be a member of Palestinian actions or invite assistance. It set up groups on par with terrorist organizations such as Hamas, al-Qaeda and ISIS, sparking criticism from UN experts, human rights groups and politicians.

UK Interior Secretary Yvette Cooper confirmed the government’s intention to ban the group on June 23 after two Palestinian action activists sprayed red paint on two Airbus Voyager turbine engines.

Videos from the scene showed activists spraying red paint on the turbine engines of two Airbus Voyagers. The group says their suspect role in carrying military cargo and it is being used in refueling military aircraft in Israel, the US and the UK.

A source from the Ministry of Defense told CNN at the time that RAF Voyager hadn’t carried anything to Israeli forces or refueled Israeli aircraft.

Palestinian actions announced Monday that they have begun legal proceedings against the government’s decision. Huda Ammori, co-founder of the group, said Crumpdown reflects “many authoritarian regimes around the world that used counterterrorism to crush dissent.”

If the ban comes into force, it is likely that this is the first time in British history that direct action protest groups have been banned under anti-terrorism law, according to some human rights advocates.

People who violate the ban could face up to 14 years in prison, according to the British terrorism police and the government. Police say that even if an individual wears clothing items that “stimulates reasonable doubt” that they are members of the group or supporters, they could face six months of prison or fines.

Human rights groups have been vehemently criticising the government’s moves, saying it is the latest in a series of harsh measures the state has taken to crack down on the country’s legal protests.

Sacha Deshmukh, chief executive of Amnesty International UK, said on June 23 that prohibiting Palestine’s actions could put the fundamental rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression and “illegal interference.”

She wrote to lawmakers on Tuesday to warn that banning the group would be a “serious misuse of the forces of anti-terrorism.”

“To ban Palestine’s actions means that by the end of the weekend, millions of people living in the UK will have restrictions on their freedom of speech,” she said.

UN experts also said they were worried about “unfair labelling of political protests as “terrorists”” in addition to the chorus of increasing criticism on Tuesday.

Others previously shared messages of solidarity with the group. “We’re all Palestinian actions,” Labour MP Zara Sultana posted on X on June 24th.

Palestinian actions called the government’s response to air-based actions “indifference.”

“The real crime here isn’t the spraying of red paint on these war planes, but the war crimes made possible on those planes due to the accomplices of the British government in the Israeli genocide,” the group said in a statement on June 24th.

Kara Fox from CNN contributed to this report.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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Bangladesh’s expelled and self-excluded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to six months in the country’s International Crime Court on Wednesday and sentenced to a trial comp trial, prosecutors said.

Hasina has faced multiple lawsuits since fleeing to India after a fatal student-led protest in August, but it was the first time a former leader has been sentenced by one of them.

Shakil Akhand Bulbul, the leader of the Awami League party’s banned student Wingchhatra League, was also sentenced to two months in the same case, Islamic Prosecutor Muhammad Tajur told reporters. The party was led by Hasina for years.

The three ICT courts led by Judge Golam Mortuza Mozumder said the verdict would be effective upon arrest or surrender, and the prosecutor added that they had verified in their absence.

The light emptying comes from leaked phone recordings where Hasina is said to have said, “There are 227 cases against me, so I have a license to kill 227 people.”

Forensic reports from government investigators later confirmed the authenticity of the audio.

ICT was founded in 2010 by Hasina’s own government in 2010 to test the war crimes of 1971.

The Bangladeshi interim government led by Nobel Prize winner Mohammed Yunus has pledged to retain leaders, including Hasina, and has been responsible for abuse and corruption of rights, including the crackdown on the student-led uprising that overthrew Hasina’s regime in July last year.

The court has so far issued three arrest warrants for Hasina, including charges of crimes against humanity related to the violence in July. Hasina’s Awami League party remains banned, as trials against the party and its former leaders continue.

Hasina supporters dismiss the charges as politically motivated, but the interim government argues that the trial is important to restore accountability and rebuild trust in Bangladesh’s democratic system.