Services began to come back online on Friday evening after an IT failure that wreaked havoc worldwide. But full recovery could take weeks, experts have said, after airports, healthcare services and businesses were hit by the “largest outage in history”.

Flights and hospital appointments were cancelled, payroll systems seized up and TV channels went off air after a botched software upgrade hit Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

It came from the US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, and left workers facing a “blue screen of death” as their computers failed to start. Experts said every affected PC may have to be fixed manually, but as of Friday night some services started to recover.

As recovery continues, experts say the outage underscored concerns that many organizations are not well prepared to implement contingency plans when a single point of failure such as an IT system, or a piece of software within it, goes down. But these outages will happen again, experts say, until more contingencies are built into networks and organizations introduce better back-ups.

In the UK, Whitehall crisis officials were coordinating the response through the Cobra committee. Ministers were in touch with their sectors to tackle the fallout from the IT failure, and the transport secretary, Louise Haigh, said she was working “at pace with industry” after trains and flights were affected.

A Microsoft spokesperson said on Friday: “We’re aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming.”

Texas-based CrowdStrike confirmed the outage was due to a software update from one of its products and was not caused by a cyber-attack.

Its founder and chief executive, George Kurtz, said he was “deeply sorry for the impact that we’ve caused to customers”, adding there had been a “negative interaction” between the update and Microsoft’s operating system.

CrowdStrike’s stock price fell dramatically over the course of the day, dropping by as much as 13% at some points in trading.

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, said the outage caused “a seizure to the automotive supply chain” while banks in Kenya and Ukraine reported issues with their digital services, and supermarkets in Australia had problems with payments.

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) – the parent company of Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern – warned passengers to expect delays.

According to the service status monitoring website Downdetector, users in the UK were reporting issues with the services of Visa, BT, big supermarket chains, banks, online gaming platforms and media outlets.

The Sky News and CBBC channels were also temporarily off-air in the UK before resuming broadcasting, while Australia’s ABC was also affected.

In financial services, Metro Bank reported problems with its phone lines in the UK and Santander said card payments “may be affected”. Monzo said some customers were reporting issues, while some bankers at JP Morgan were unable to log on to their systems and the London Stock Exchange said there were problems with its news service.

Troy Hunt, a leading cybersecurity consultant, said the scale of the IT failure was unprecedented.

“I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history,” he tweeted.

“This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time,” he added, referring to the millennium bug that worried IT experts in the run-up to 2000 – but ultimately did not cause serious damage.

The UK’s chartered institute for IT, the BCS, said it could take days and weeks for systems to recover, although some fixes will be easier to implement.

“In some cases, the fix may be applied very quickly,” said Adam Leon Smith, a BCS fellow. “But if computers have reacted in a way that means they’re getting into blue screens and endless loops it may be difficult to restore and that could take days and weeks.”

Alan Woodward, a professor of cybersecurity at the University of Surrey, said the fix required a manual reboot of affected machines and “most standard users would not know how to follow the instructions”. Organisations with thousands of PCs distributed in different locations face a tougher task, he added.

“It’s just sheer numbers. For some organisations it could certainly take weeks,” he said.

From Amsterdam to Zurich, Singapore to Hong Kong, airport operators flagged technical issues that were disrupting their services. While some airports halted all flights, in others airline staff had to check-in passengers manually.

Among the companies affected on Friday was Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, which said on its website: “Potential disruptions across the network due to a global third-party system outage … We advise passengers to arrive at the airport three hours in advance of their flight to avoid any disruptions.”

Heathrow, Europe’s biggest airport, said it was “working hard” to get passengers “on their way”.

A spokesperson for Heathrow said: “We continue to work with our airport colleagues to minimise the impact of the global IT outage on passenger journeys. Flights continue to be operational and passengers are advised to check with their airlines for the latest flight information.”

In the US, flights were grounded owing to communications problems that appear to be linked to the outage. American Airlines, Delta and United Airlines were among the carriers affected.

Berlin airport temporarily halted all flights on Friday. The aviation analytics company Cirium said 5,078 flights – 4.6% of those scheduled – were cancelled globally on Friday, including 167 UK departures and 171 arrivals.

GP practices in the UK said they were unable to access patient records or book appointments. Surgeries reported on social media that they could not access the EMIS Web system.

It is understood that 999 services were unaffected by the outage, but the Royal Surrey NHS Trust, in the south of England, declared a critical incident and cancelled radiotherapy appointments scheduled for Friday morning. The National Pharmacy Association confirmed that UK services could be affected.

A spokesperson for Keir Starmer said they were unaware of the problem having any impact on government services, but added they recognised the impact it was having more broadly. Reports from the Netherlands also suggested there may be problems within the health service.

The Israeli health ministry said “the global malfunction” had affected 16 hospitals, while in Germany the Schleswig-Holstein university hospital in the north of the country said it had cancelled all planned operations in Kiel and Lübeck.

Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, issued an emergency declaration stating that certain essential city services including emergency communications were affected by the outage.

The University of Surrey’s Alan Woodward said the outage was caused by an IT product called CrowdStrike Falcon which monitors the security of large networks of PCs and downloads a piece of monitoring software to every machine.

“The product is used by large organisations that have significant numbers of PCs to ensure everything is monitored. Sadly, if they lose all the PCs they can’t operate, or only at a much reduced service level,” said Woodward.

Steven Murdoch, a professor of security engineering at University College London, said many organisations could struggle to carry out the fix swiftly.

“The problem is occurring before the computer is connected to the internet so there is no way to fix the problem remotely, so that requires someone to come out … and fix the problem,” said Murdoch, adding that companies and organisations that have cut back on IT staff or outsourced their IT work would find their ability to address the problem hampered.

However, Ciaran Martin, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, said that unlike adversarial cyber-attacks, this problem had already been identified and a solution had been flagged.

“The recovery is not about getting on top of the situation but getting back up. I think it’s unlikely to be very newsworthy in terms of ongoing disruption this time next week,” he said.

The problems for businesses in the US were also compounded by problems with Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing business that occurred on Thursday.

Reuters contributed to this report

A global technology outage on Friday grounded flights, disrupted health services, crashed payment systems and blocked access to Microsoft services in what experts believe is one of the largest IT failures in history.

The cause of the disruptions originated from a cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, which provides software to a wide range of industries. An update to one of CrowdStrike’s pieces of software, Falcon Sensor, malfunctioned, throwing a wrench into computers running Windows, leading to major tech failures around the world, the company said.

Here’s what we know about the outage so far.

Saturday’s headlines are dominated by the fallout from an IT failure that grounded planes, took TV channels off air and played havoc with health services, banking and retail businesses around the world.

The outage was the result of a botched software upgrade by US firm CrowdStrike that hit Microsoft’s Windows operating systems and left workers with a “blue screen of death” as their computers failed to start.

“Recovery from global IT failure ‘could take weeks’,” the Guardian said, adding that airlines, healthcare and retailers were “in chaos after software upgrade glitch”.

The Daily Telegraph splashed on “Holidays in chaos after global IT meltdown”. “Thousands of tourists stranded at start of the summer break and NHS services hit,” it reported.

The Financial Times led its front page with “Global IT outage throws travel, payments and health into chaos”, adding “Microsoft users paralysed”,“Crowdstrike security update blamed” and “Fix likely to take days”.

The Times went with “IT company’s error could be terminal for getaways”, writing that “thousands of families face delays and cancellations after an IT failure grounded flights around the globe on what was set to be the busiest day for international travel in five years”.

“Day the world stood still”, the Daily Mirror headlined, adding that “transport, business, GPs and TV hit by global computer crash”.

The Daily Mail says “Global IT meltdown shows peril of going cashless”, calling the crisis a “digital pandemic”.

The Daily Express splashed on “How on earth did ‘digital pandemic’ paralyse the world?”, continuing: “Massive IT outage wreaks havoc for millions and may take days to fix”.

“Computer says no,” the i reported, adding “global IT crash hits GPs, hospitals, banks, planes and trains”.

The Independent went with “Massive Microsoft meltdown triggers worldwide havoc” and reported that it was the “world’s worst IT outage”, affecting some of its biggest companies.

Elsewhere, Spain’s El País said “Worldwide IT outage”, writing that a “simple anti-virus update blocked essential services around the world”.

In France, Libération headlined its weekend edition “Bug of the year 2024”, noting that the outage highlighted “our dependence on technology and our vulnerability”.

The CrowdStrike outage caused havoc across a swathe of industries spanning the global economy.

Airlines, railways, hospitals, television stations, sports clubs and financial systems were among the sectors hit by the technology glitches, prompting national governments to convene emergency meetings and stock markets to fall.

Travel

The US’s Federal Aviation Administration shut down operations due to the outage. There were about 110,000 commercial flights scheduled worldwide on Friday. By 6am ET, nearly 1,400 of them had been cancelled, according to reports.

US airlines including Delta, United and American grounded flights because of communication problems, while airports descended into chaos and some tourists were hit with large charges for purchasing tickets for new flights after original plans were cancelled.

Some rail transportation was also hit, with the metro system in the US capital, Washington DC, experiencing delays. And New York City’s subway system agency, the MTA, said that “some MTA customer information systems are temporarily offline due to a worldwide technical outage”. It added that train and bus services were unaffected.

In the UK, Gatwick and Luton airports were among the hubs where airline check-in systems were hit, while the biggest commuter rail network, GTR, said its Thameslink and Southern trains were disrupted due to communications systems failing. South Western Railway said all of its ticket vending machines had stopped working, and West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway and TransPennine Express were also affected.

Health

Patients had important hospital appointments cancelled at the last minute in countries including the UK, Germany and Israel – with the Royal Surrey NHS trust, in the south of England, declaring a critical incident and cancelling radiotherapy appointments scheduled for Friday morning.

Doctors’ surgeries in the UK said they were unable to access patient records or book appointments, as they reported via social media that they were unable to access online systems. It is understood that NHS hospitals and 999 services are unaffected by the outage.

Some hospitals in Germany and the Netherlands cancelled operations, while others in Israel and the US said they were also having problems, often related to access to electronic medical records.

In the US, the emergency 911 lines went down in parts of Alaska, with officials posting alternative phone numbers on social media. There were similar problems reported in other states, including New Hampshire and Ohio.

Financial systems

The systems failure threatened to leave people without their weekly wages and monthly salaries as payroll systems seized up.

Melanie Pizzey, the chief executive of the Global Payroll Association, says: “We’ve been contacted by numerous clients already today who have been unable to access their payroll software due to the Microsoft outage and others who have been urged to log out with immediate effect.

“Depending on the length of this outage, it could have very serious implications for businesses, particularly those who process payroll on a weekly basis. Furthermore, we could see a backlog with regard to processing payrolls for the coming month end which may delay employees from receiving their monthly wage.”

In financial services, Metro Bank reported problems with its phone lines in the UK and Santander said card payments “may be affected”. Employees at the US bank JP Morgan were unable to log on to their systems and the London Stock Exchange said there were problems with its news service.

Bloomberg TV reported that it knew of hedge funds that were unable to process certain trades and that “some people had to go home”.

Retail

Retailing payment systems also appeared to have been hit by the systems failure, with some UK shopkeepers erecting “cash only” signs.

A spokesperson for the UK supermarket Morrisons said there were some “isolated incidents” with payment systems during the morning, which were later resolved with systems returning to working normally.

Its rival Waitrose said it was taking contactless payments largely as normal, as well as still processing payments by chip and pin and cash. A spokesperson for the supermarket said it had been able to take card payments throughout the day, but had been “briefly limited on contactless payments”.

Payment systems in some branches of the home improvements store B&Q were also affected, according to reports from customers.

Sport

In France, where the Olympic Games are due to start next week, there were reports of issues.

The organisers of the Games said: “Paris 2024’s technical teams are fully mobilised to limit the impact and we have activated our contingency plans to ensure the continuation of our operations.”

A few football clubs also warned that their ticketing systems are under pressure, with reigning Scottish champions Celtic announcing they were postponing ticket sales. In England Manchester United did the same.

Media

Several French television channels were reported to be experiencing technical problems, including difficulties displaying their graphics and weather maps.

In the UK, Sky News and CBBC were also temporarily off air, before resuming broadcasting.

• Donald Trump said he had a “very good call” with Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday and pledged to end Ukraine’s war with Russia. The US Republican presidential nominee posted on Truth Social that as president he would “bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives”. “Both sides will be able to come together and negotiate a deal that ends the violence and paves a path forward to prosperity,” he said. Trump has repeatedly claimed he would end the war quickly, without offering details on how. Zelenskiy said on X that in their conversation he had congratulated Trump on securing the presidential nomination, condemned the assassination attempt on him and agreed to arrange a meeting in person to discuss “what steps can make peace fair and truly lasting”.

• The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said Ukraine was on its way to being able to “stand on its own feet” militarily and more than 20 other countries had pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the US were to withdraw its support under a different president. Blinken was for the first time directly addressing the possibility that Trump could win the November election and back away from commitments to Ukraine.

• A Russian missile hit a children’s playground in Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolaiv on Friday, killing a child and two adults and injuring five others, officials said. The playground was “near an ordinary house”, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, calling on the world to help stop Russian “terror”. He posted photos to Telegram showing what appeared to be at least two dead bodies – one lying under rubble by the entrance to a building, and another in a courtyard – and part of a missile. Windows on a multi-storey residential building had been blown out. The regional governor hailed residents of the city who rushed to the site to help before medics arrived. Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram that another missile had landed elsewhere in the region.

• A nationalist former member of Ukraine’s parliament known for her vociferous campaigns to defend the Ukrainian language has died after being shot in Lviv. Police launched a wide search for the gunman alleged to have shot Iryna Farion, 60, on a street in the western city. The regional governor, Maksym Kozytskyi, said on Telegram that Farion died after being taken to hospital. The interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, earlier said the shooting was being treated as an attempted assassination.

• Russian forces have captured the village of Yurivka in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the Russian defence ministry said on Friday.

• A German national has been sentenced to death in Belarus, the German foreign ministry has said, hours after a Belarusian human rights group said a German combat medic had been sentenced to death by firing squad. The German ministry did not name its national but the Viasna Human Rights Centre said earlier on Friday that Rico Krieger, 30, had been convicted under six articles of Belarus’s criminal code in a trial held at the end of June. The exact allegations against Krieger were not immediately clear. Viasna said the case might be linked to the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, a group of Belarusian volunteer fighters fighting against Russia in Ukraine.

• The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer welcomed Volodymyr Zelenskiy at Downing Street on Friday, calling the visit a “real piece of history”. The Ukrainian president was greeted by the UK cabinet with a standing ovation as he became the first foreign leader to address the cabinet in person since 1997. Starmer said the UK would “double down” on backing for Ukraine, and confirmed he had accepted an invitation to visit Ukraine again in the future. Zelenskiy asked Starmer to “show your leadership” and help with Ukraine’s “long-range capability”.

• Russia has designated pianist Evgeny Kissin as a “foreign agent” because of his support for Ukraine and opposition to the war, state news agency Tass quoted the justice ministry as saying on Friday. Moscow-born Kissin, 52, has won some of Russia’s top artistic awards and is considered one of the world’s finest concert pianists. He has lived outside the country for years and has British and Israeli citizenship.

A nationalist former member of Ukraine’s parliament known for her vociferous campaigns to defend the Ukrainian language has died after being shot in Lviv.

Police launched a wide search for the gunman alleged to have shot Iryna Farion, 60, on a street in the western city.

The regional governor, Maksym Kozytskyi, said on Telegram that Farion had died after being taken to hospital. The interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, had earlier said that the shooting was being treated as an attempted assassination.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was receiving regular reports on efforts to capture the gunman. He said any act of violence was to be condemned.

Farion, a linguist, became a member of the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party in 2005 and was elected to parliament in 2012, but failed in subsequent attempts to win a seat. She had also served on Lviv regional council.

She gained notoriety for frequent campaigns to promote the Ukrainian language and discredit public officials who spoke Russian.

In 2018, when Ukraine was fighting Russian-financed separatists who had seized territory in the east, she called for a drive to “punch every Russian-speaking person in the jaw”.

In the early months of the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Farion denounced Russian-speaking fighters of the Azov regiment who defended the port city of Mariupol for three months.

Although Ukrainian is the sole state language of Ukraine, many of its people speak Russian as a first language, a legacy of Soviet rule, when Ukrainian was under official pressure.

Promoting the language has long been an important issue, with parliament passing legislation to entrench its use in public life and in the services industry.

The foreign minister, Penny Wong, has urged Israel to take “concrete steps” to stop expanding settlements and crack down on extremist settler violence after the international court of justice’s (ICJ) ruling on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.

The court’s historic, albeit non-binding reading, handed down on Friday, found multiple breaches of international law by Israel, including activities that amounted to apartheid.

It ordered Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories “as rapidly as possible” and make full reparations for its “internationally wrongful acts”, in a sweeping and damning advisory opinion that says the occupation violates international law.

In a statement published to X on Saturday, Wong said the Albanese government had been “firm and consistent” that settlement activity was illegal under international law and a “significant obstacle” to peace.

She called for concrete steps from Israel to respond to “extremist settler activity”, while adding the federal government was “carefully considering” detail of the opinion to understand “conclusions reached”.

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“We respect the independence of the court and its critical role in upholding international law and the rules-based order,” her statement read.

“We are carefully considering the detail of the ICJ opinion to fully understand the conclusions reached.”

Wong said the Australian government had “made clear” that anyone identified as an extremist settler would be denied a visa to travel to Australia.

“A just and enduring peace will require the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people to self-determination to be realised,” her statement read.

“We want to see concrete steps taken by Israel to cease the expansion of settlements and to respond to extremist settler activity.”

The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network welcomed the overnight ruling by the ICJ, which concluded Israel was forcibly dispossessing Palestinians of their lands, amounting to an annexation of large parts of occupied territory.

Its president, Nasser Mashni, had urged the federal government to support the ICJ ruling and take concrete steps to sanction Israel, including severing trade ties and recalling the Australian ambassador.

“The ICJ has no enforcement powers of its own, and it is now up to the international community – that is, governments – to pressure Israel to dismantle its apartheid regime and its illegal settlements, put an end to decades of systemic oppression, and restore justice for Palestinians,” he said.

“This ruling leaves no room for equivocation or compromise – Australia must stand firmly and take urgent and decisive steps to hold Israel accountable, including robust diplomatic measures and sanctions.

“Anything less would be a betrayal of this government’s commitment to justice and international law.”

The New Israel Fund Australia said it had warned for many years that Israel couldn’t maintain its status as a liberal democracy while simultaneously maintaining a military occupation.

“It is possible to invest in peace and security instead of occupation,” it said.

The federal government has been consistent in its backing of a two-state solution but has given no hint of when it would be prepared to recognise a Palestinian state.

Its stance prompted former Labor senator Fatima Payman to cross the floor to side with the Greens last month on a motion declaring an urgent need “for the Senate to recognise the state of Palestine”. Payman subsequently resigned from the party.

Wong had unsuccessfully sought to amend the motion’s wording to specify that recognition of Palestine could occur “as part of a peace process in support of a two-state solution and a just and enduring peace”.

The UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian territories “as rapidly as possible” and make full reparations for its “internationally wrongful acts” in a sweeping and damning advisory opinion that says the occupation violates international law.

In a historic, albeit non-binding, opinion, the court found multiple breaches of international law by Israel including activities that amounted to apartheid.

It will make sobering reading for Israel’s allies, with the court advising that other states are under an obligation not to recognise the occupation as lawful nor to aid or assist it.

Reading the court’s opinion on Friday, the president of the ICJ, Nawaf Salam, said: “The court considers that the violations by Israel of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force and of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination have a direct impact on the legality of the continued presence of Israel, as an occupying power, in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“The sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying power, through annexation and an assertion of permanent control over the occupied Palestinian territory and continued frustration of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, violates fundamental principles of international law and renders Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory unlawful.”

The opinion was provided in response to a request from the UN general assembly in 2022. It precedes the Gaza conflict and is not directly linked to it but will add to the pressure on Israel – and its allies – to bring an end to its military offensive, in which it has killed more than 38,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry.

Israel’s military operation in Gaza, which began after the 7 October attacks in which Hamas-led militants killed almost 1,200 people and took 250 people hostage, is the subject of a separate case at the ICJ brought by South Africa, which accuses it of genocide in its response to the killings on Israeli soil.

Responding to the ICJ’s opinion on Friday, the office of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed the court’s decision as “historic” and a “victory for justice” and said Israel must be compelled to implement it. The Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, called it a “watershed moment”.

But the office of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a statement: “The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land – not in our eternal capital Jerusalem, nor in our ancestral heritage of Judea and Samaria [the occupied West Bank].

“No decision of lies in The Hague will distort this historical truth, and similarly, the legality of Israeli settlements in all parts of our homeland cannot be disputed.”

The UN secretary general, António Guterres, would promptly transmit the advisory opinion to the 193-member world body and “it is for the general assembly to decide how to proceed in the matter”, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said.

The secretary general reiterated his call for Israel and the Palestinians to engage “on the long-delayed political path towards ending the occupation and resolving the conflict in line with international law, relevant UN resolutions and bilateral agreements”, the spokesperson said.

Breaches of international law identified by the court included:

• Forcible evictions, extensive house demolitions and restrictions on residence and movement.

• The transfer by Israel of settlers to the West Bank and East Jerusalem and maintenance of their presence.

• Its failure to prevent or to punish attacks by settlers.

• Restricting the access of the Palestinian population to water.

• Israel’s use of the natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territory.

• The extension of Israel’s law to the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The Hague court found Israel was in breach of article 3 of the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (CERD), which says: “Parties particularly condemn racial segregation and apartheid and undertake to prevent, prohibit and eradicate all practices of this nature in territories under their jurisdiction.”

Salam said: “The court observes that Israel’s legislation and measures impose and serve to maintain a near-complete separation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem between the settler and Palestinian communities. For this reason, the court considers that Israel’s legislation and measures constitute a breach of article 3 of CERD.”

As well as ordering an end to the occupation as soon as possible, the court, which consists of 15 judges, said Israel must put an end to all unlawful acts, including ceasing all new settlement activity and repealing legislation that maintains the occupation, including that which discriminates against Palestinians or seeks to modify the demographic composition of any parts of the occupied territory.

Salam said reparations included restitution, compensation and/or satisfaction, defining the former as “Israel’s obligation to return the land and other immovable property, as well as all assets seized from any natural or legal person since its occupation started in 1967, and all cultural property and assets taken from Palestinians and Palestinian institutions, including archives and documents”.

“It also requires the evacuation of all settlers from existing settlements and the dismantling of the parts of the wall constructed by Israel that are situated in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as allowing all Palestinians displaced during the occupation to return to their original place of residence.”

He said where reparations were materially possible, compensation should be paid instead.

Israel did not participate in the proceedings, which featured arguments from an unprecedented 52 states, but it submitted a written argument in July last year, urging the ICJ to dismiss the request for an opinion. It said the questions put to the court were prejudiced and failed to “recognise Israel’s right and duty to protect its citizens”, address Israeli security concerns or acknowledge Israel-Palestinian agreements to negotiate issues, including “the permanent status of the territory, security arrangements, settlements, and borders”.

The court said it had taken account of Israel’s security concerns but they could not “override the principle of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force” and imposing restrictions on all Palestinians was “disproportionate”.

Israel’s foreign ministry rejected the opinion as “fundamentally wrong” and one-sided, and repeated its stance that a political settlement in the region could only be reached by negotiations.

Philippe Sands KC, who acted as counsel for Palestine in the proceedings, said: “This is as clear and far-reaching ruling as I have come across from this court.

“Its legal consequences are entirely without ambiguity, its political consequences far-reaching.

“Among the many practical consequences, the court has made clear its view, by an overwhelming majority, that the US and other embassies in Jerusalem are illegal and must be removed for international law to be respected.”

Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the 1967 six-day war. It has annexed East Jerusalem in a move that is not recognised internationally and considers the West Bank, to which it has moved people in settlements, to be disputed territory.

While it withdrew its military and settlements from Gaza in 2005, the ICJ said its continued control over the strip, which had increased since 7 October, meant it was still occupied along with East Jerusalem and the West Bank, together constituting the occupied Palestinian territory.

Adidas has pulled images of the model Bella Hadid from adverts promoting a sports shoe first launched to coincide with the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

The German-based sportswear company said it was “revising” its campaign after criticism from Israel over Hadid’s involvement.

The SL72 trainers, described by Adidas as a timeless classic, were promoted by Hadid, an American whose family has its roots in Palestine.

The model, who previously drew the ire of the Israeli government for allegedly chanting the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, has been accused of antisemitism.

Israel’s official account on X said it objected to Hadid as “the face of [the Adidas] campaign” in a post that noted that “eleven Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the Munich Olympics”.

Hadid has repeatedly criticised the Israeli government and supported Palestinians over the years and on 23 October made a statement on Instagram lamenting the loss of innocent lives while calling on followers to pressure their leaders to protect civilians in Gaza.

Adidas said in a statement that the campaign for the SL72 shoe “unites a broad range of partners”. It said: “We are conscious that connections have been made to tragic historical events – though these are completely unintentional – and we apologise for any upset or distress caused.

“As a result, we are revising the remainder of the campaign.”

It did not set out what changes would be made. Other advertising images showing Adidas brand ambassadors including the French footballer Jules Koundé, the US rapper A$AP Nast and the Chinese model Sabrina Lan remain online.

Members of the Palestinian group Black September broke into the Olympic village on 5 September 1972. Eleven members of the Israeli team were taken hostage and killed.

It is not the first time that the sportswear company has cut ties with celebrity ambassadors after accusations of antisemitism.

Adidas ended its partnership with the rapper Kanye West in October 2022, saying it “does not tolerate antisemitism” after the rapper was suspended from Instagram and Twitter over offensive posts.

It said the comments and actions from West had been “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous and violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness”.

A beleaguered Joe Biden entered potentially the most decisive weekend of his 50-year political career on Friday as the growing list of Democratic members of Congress calling on him to step aside surpassed 30, with the latest being the Ohio senator Sherrod Brown.

Biden is recovering from Covid-19 in self-isolation at his home in Delaware and reportedly feeling “angry and betrayed” by allies and speculation mounted that he might be preparing to announce his withdrawal from the race.

Advisers were reported to be discussing the details, timing and setting of a possible withdrawal announcement, and a mood of resignation before Biden’s departure was said to be rampant among his campaign staff.

With six in 10 Democratic voters telling an AP-Norc Centre for Public Affairs Research poll released on Friday that Kamala Harris would make a good president, allies of the vice-president were making discreet preparations for her to assume the top of the presidential ticket, courting donors and crafting a new message to be used in the event she becomes the candidate.

A rare glimmer of light for Biden came in a letter on Thursday signed by more than 1,400 Black female supporters, who argued that he should remain the candidate, and that any attempt to change the ticket would “circumvent the will of millions of voters who participated in a democratic process” in the primaries. Another public statement of support on Thursday came from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman, who during an Instagram live stream on Thursday urged Democrats to reconsider their efforts to push Biden out.

On Friday, Bernie Sanders also urged support for Biden.

The Congressional Hispanic caucus’s campaign arm also announced on Friday that it was endorsing Biden, which is no surprise given the group’s opposition to Trump but noteworthy at a moment when the president is fighting for his political life. “Another Trump presidency would be disastrous to the Latino community across the country,” the group’s chairwoman, Linda Sánchez, said.

But with more than 30 Democrats in Congress, including the leading California representative Adam Schiff, having now called on Biden to step down, the president was said to be angry at senior figures in the party for encouraging the discontent. Chief among them is Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker who has tried to persuade Biden of his declining poll numbers, as well as Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, who Biden reportedly feels have undermined him through their conspicuous silence.

Late on Friday evening, Senator Brown released a statement: “At this critical time, our full attention must return to these important issues. I think the president should end his campaign.”

After weeks of defiantly stating that he will remain the Democratic nominee, despite concerns about his age and mental acuity in the wake of last month’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump, some media outlets were reporting that Biden was reconsidering his position. “Reality is setting in,” a source close to Biden told the New York Times, adding that it would not be surprising if Biden announced his withdrawal soon to allow Harris to take the nomination.

“I don’t see how [Biden] can outmanoeuvre the sustained attacks,” Politico quoted a Democratic figure close to the White House as saying. “It feels like the ending is near.”

Biden’s resolve had reportedly been shaken by a combination of the intensive machinations of Pelosi, fresh poll data from swing states showing his path to an electoral college victory narrowing, and a boycott by key donors, the latest of whom reportedly was the Silicon Valley billionaire Michael Moritz.

Pelosi, long one of his most important allies, is said to have used her knowledge of polling data and the political map to persuade him that his position is weak.

Biden has repeatedly insisted that he has polling evidence showing he could win, relying on data from his aide Mike Donilon. But when he made the argument to Pelosi in a recent phone call, she told him to “put Donilon on the phone” so she could counter it with her own polling and implying that the president was not being kept informed, the New York Times reported.

Public pressure intensified further on Thursday when the Senate Democrats Jon Tester of Montana and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico publicly urged Biden to step aside. Many more than the 30-plus congressional Democrats who have publicly called for his withdrawal have done so in private.

Four House members – Jared Huffman of California, Marc Veasey of Texas, Chuy Garcia of Illinois, and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin – issued a plea jointly Friday.

“They wrote to Biden: “Mr President, you have always put our country and our values first. We call on you to do it once again, so that we can come together and save the country we love.”

Three further separate calls were made by Zoe Lofgren of California, a close Pelosi ally, Sean Casten of Illinois, and Greg Landsman of Ohio, whose seat is one of the Republicans’ top targets in November’s election.

Allies of Pelosi depicted her as exercising sensitivity towards Biden – by recognising his achievements as president, long record of political service and the fact that he has Covid – while subtly using gentle persuasion.

“She’s like a magician,” one source told the Hill. “She’s extraordinarily intentional. She’s trying hard to keep the balance and helping him reach a decision by gently pulling, never pushing.”

That cut little ice with Biden’s allies, one of whom compared his fate to Julius Caesar.

“People who have known this man for 30, 40 years are stabbing this man in the front and the back,” a senior campaign and administration aide told Politico. “They are JULIUS CAESAR-ing this man.”

Biden himself was reported to share such sentiments, telling aides that he feels “hurt and betrayed” at how the party’s leading figures – who he has previously derided as “elites” – have tried to push him out.

One Biden ally told NBC News that the party leaders now trying to force him from the ticket were to blame for Trump’s victory in the 2016 election.

“Can we all just remember for a minute that these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us all Donald Trump? In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, [Chuck] Schumer [the Democratic Senate majority leader] pushed Biden aside in favour of Hillary; they were wrong then, and they are wrong now,” the source said.

“Perhaps we should learn a few lessons from 2016; one of them is polls are BS. And two, maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden is more in touch with actual Americans than Obama-Pelosi-Schumer?”

Biden’s campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, continued to stress that Biden had “work to do” but said the campaign did not have its “head in the sand”.

Emphasizing that Biden’s campaign trail appearances have been reassuring to the campaign, she said: “The more and more people that see Joe Biden out there post-debate they are reassured.”

Such defiance seemed increasingly rare inside the Biden campaign, however, with CNN reporting that some staff had undergone a “quiet quit” process. “I don’t think you can find a person who is off the record saying he should stay in,” one said. “There’s a growing sense that it’s game over.”

Lauren Gambino contributed reporting

A beleaguered Joe Biden entered potentially the most decisive weekend of his 50-year political career on Friday as the growing list of Democratic members of Congress calling on him to step aside surpassed 30, with the latest being the Ohio senator Sherrod Brown.

Biden is recovering from Covid-19 in self-isolation at his home in Delaware and reportedly feeling “angry and betrayed” by allies and speculation mounted that he might be preparing to announce his withdrawal from the race.

Advisers were reported to be discussing the details, timing and setting of a possible withdrawal announcement, and a mood of resignation before Biden’s departure was said to be rampant among his campaign staff.

With six in 10 Democratic voters telling an AP-Norc Centre for Public Affairs Research poll released on Friday that Kamala Harris would make a good president, allies of the vice-president were making discreet preparations for her to assume the top of the presidential ticket, courting donors and crafting a new message to be used in the event she becomes the candidate.

A rare glimmer of light for Biden came in a letter on Thursday signed by more than 1,400 Black female supporters, who argued that he should remain the candidate, and that any attempt to change the ticket would “circumvent the will of millions of voters who participated in a democratic process” in the primaries. Another public statement of support on Thursday came from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman, who during an Instagram live stream on Thursday urged Democrats to reconsider their efforts to push Biden out.

On Friday, Bernie Sanders also urged support for Biden.

The Congressional Hispanic caucus’s campaign arm also announced on Friday that it was endorsing Biden, which is no surprise given the group’s opposition to Trump but noteworthy at a moment when the president is fighting for his political life. “Another Trump presidency would be disastrous to the Latino community across the country,” the group’s chairwoman, Linda Sánchez, said.

But with more than 30 Democrats in Congress, including the leading California representative Adam Schiff, having now called on Biden to step down, the president was said to be angry at senior figures in the party for encouraging the discontent. Chief among them is Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker who has tried to persuade Biden of his declining poll numbers, as well as Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, who Biden reportedly feels have undermined him through their conspicuous silence.

Late on Friday evening, Senator Brown released a statement: “At this critical time, our full attention must return to these important issues. I think the president should end his campaign.”

After weeks of defiantly stating that he will remain the Democratic nominee, despite concerns about his age and mental acuity in the wake of last month’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump, some media outlets were reporting that Biden was reconsidering his position. “Reality is setting in,” a source close to Biden told the New York Times, adding that it would not be surprising if Biden announced his withdrawal soon to allow Harris to take the nomination.

“I don’t see how [Biden] can outmanoeuvre the sustained attacks,” Politico quoted a Democratic figure close to the White House as saying. “It feels like the ending is near.”

Biden’s resolve had reportedly been shaken by a combination of the intensive machinations of Pelosi, fresh poll data from swing states showing his path to an electoral college victory narrowing, and a boycott by key donors, the latest of whom reportedly was the Silicon Valley billionaire Michael Moritz.

Pelosi, long one of his most important allies, is said to have used her knowledge of polling data and the political map to persuade him that his position is weak.

Biden has repeatedly insisted that he has polling evidence showing he could win, relying on data from his aide Mike Donilon. But when he made the argument to Pelosi in a recent phone call, she told him to “put Donilon on the phone” so she could counter it with her own polling and implying that the president was not being kept informed, the New York Times reported.

Public pressure intensified further on Thursday when the Senate Democrats Jon Tester of Montana and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico publicly urged Biden to step aside. Many more than the 30-plus congressional Democrats who have publicly called for his withdrawal have done so in private.

Four House members – Jared Huffman of California, Marc Veasey of Texas, Chuy Garcia of Illinois, and Mark Pocan of Wisconsin – issued a plea jointly Friday.

“They wrote to Biden: “Mr President, you have always put our country and our values first. We call on you to do it once again, so that we can come together and save the country we love.”

Three further separate calls were made by Zoe Lofgren of California, a close Pelosi ally, Sean Casten of Illinois, and Greg Landsman of Ohio, whose seat is one of the Republicans’ top targets in November’s election.

Allies of Pelosi depicted her as exercising sensitivity towards Biden – by recognising his achievements as president, long record of political service and the fact that he has Covid – while subtly using gentle persuasion.

“She’s like a magician,” one source told the Hill. “She’s extraordinarily intentional. She’s trying hard to keep the balance and helping him reach a decision by gently pulling, never pushing.”

That cut little ice with Biden’s allies, one of whom compared his fate to Julius Caesar.

“People who have known this man for 30, 40 years are stabbing this man in the front and the back,” a senior campaign and administration aide told Politico. “They are JULIUS CAESAR-ing this man.”

Biden himself was reported to share such sentiments, telling aides that he feels “hurt and betrayed” at how the party’s leading figures – who he has previously derided as “elites” – have tried to push him out.

One Biden ally told NBC News that the party leaders now trying to force him from the ticket were to blame for Trump’s victory in the 2016 election.

“Can we all just remember for a minute that these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us all Donald Trump? In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, [Chuck] Schumer [the Democratic Senate majority leader] pushed Biden aside in favour of Hillary; they were wrong then, and they are wrong now,” the source said.

“Perhaps we should learn a few lessons from 2016; one of them is polls are BS. And two, maybe, just maybe, Joe Biden is more in touch with actual Americans than Obama-Pelosi-Schumer?”

Biden’s campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, continued to stress that Biden had “work to do” but said the campaign did not have its “head in the sand”.

Emphasizing that Biden’s campaign trail appearances have been reassuring to the campaign, she said: “The more and more people that see Joe Biden out there post-debate they are reassured.”

Such defiance seemed increasingly rare inside the Biden campaign, however, with CNN reporting that some staff had undergone a “quiet quit” process. “I don’t think you can find a person who is off the record saying he should stay in,” one said. “There’s a growing sense that it’s game over.”

Lauren Gambino contributed reporting

A disused factory in Dublin earmarked to house asylum seekers has been set on fire following a protest at the site.

More than 1,000 people were protesting at the former Crown Paints building in Coolock on Friday night, in the north of the Irish capital, and gardaí were on the scene.

A number of speeches were given outside the derelict factory, with protesters seen holding signs that read “Irish Lives Matter” and “The Irish People”.

A police spokesperson said: “Gardaí are currently responding to a public order incident occurring at a premises on the Malahide Road, Coolock.

“A small fire which broke out at the same location a short time ago is being attended to by Dublin fire brigade. No injuries have been reported.”

The protest had moved on to the gardaí station in Coolock before returning to the disused building as disorder broke out among the crowd, PA reported.

The protest was organised by a group called Coolock Says No protesting against government plans to use the former factory to house asylum seekers.

Organisers said in advance that it would be a peaceful event after violent scenes in the area earlier in the week. But after a number of the protesters dispersed, a fire broke out at the factory.

Taoiseach Simon Harris warned that anyone who engages in “thuggery” while taking part in protests at Coolock would “face the full rigour of the law”.

Speaking in Donegal, he said: “In relation to protest, anybody in Ireland is legitimately entitled to protest, it is a key tenet of our democracy and it is something I would always support the right that people have to protest.

“But I have to say what we have seen in recent days has not been that. What we have seen in recent days has been an attempt by a relatively small number of people to engage in lawlessness, to engage in thuggery and to engage in criminal activity.

“That is why there have been several arrests, it is why more than 19 people appeared before the courts in recent days. It is why a number of people have now been charged with criminal offences.”

Violence escalated at the site earlier this week when agitators, some masked, set machinery on fire and hurled rocks, bottles and fireworks at police. A security guard was taken away on a stretcher and several police vehicles were damaged.

It comes amid increased tension in Ireland in relation to asylum seekers. Earlier this week, people armed with knives and pipes reportedly attacked 15 asylum seekers sheltering in tents in central Dublin, forcing them to flee.

The attack reportedly occurred after asylum seekers from Somalia and Palestine erected a makeshift camp on City Quay and some tents were slashed and thrown in the Liffey River after the refugees fled to a police station.

Since 2022 there has been a sharp increase in arson on properties across the country linked to accommodating asylum seekers, with a riot erupting in Dublin last November.

The Bangladeshi government has declared a national curfew and announced plans to deploy the army to tackle the country’s worst unrest in a decade, after student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates.

“The government has decided to impose a curfew and deploy the military in aid of the civilian authorities,” a government spokesperson said late on Friday.

AFP reported that at least 105 people have died in the unrest, which poses an unprecedented challenge to the government of Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, after her 15 years in office.

Earlier on Friday, a communications blackout was imposed across the country, with mobile internet access and social media blocked by the government.

TV news channels were off air after the state broadcaster’s headquarters in Dhaka was stormed and set alight by protesters, and several news websites were down.

A group of protesters stormed a jail in Narsingdi, a district just north of the capital, and freed its inmates before setting the facility on fire. According to Agence France-Presse, hundreds of inmates were released.

Key government websites, including that of the central bank, the police and the prime minister’s office, also appeared to have been hacked by a group calling itself “THE R3SISTANC3”. A message posted across the prime minister’s office website on Friday called for an end to the killing of students, saying: “It’s not a protest any more. It’s a war now.”

Another message posted on the website read: “The government has shut down the internet to silence us and hide their actions. We need to stay informed about what is happening on the ground.”

The protests began this month on university campuses as students demanded an end to a quota system that reserves 30% of government jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971.

Those protesting have argued that the policy is unfair and discriminatory as young people struggle for jobs during an economic downturn and instead benefits members of the ruling Awami League party, which is led by the Hasina.

Pro-government student groups have been accused of attacking the protesters, and police have routinely fired teargas and rubber bullets into the crowds, leaving thousands injured and dozens killed.

Despite the ban on public rallies and gatherings, student groups still took to the streets on Friday. The sounds of gunfire and stun grenades could be heard coming from areas close to universities in Dhaka. According to reports, police were seen firing live ammunition to break up demonstrations and protesters accused police of being responsible for a large proportion of the fatalities.

Witnesses said the protests had begun to take on a much broader anti-government tone against Hasina and her party, with slogans calling her an “authoritarian dictator” and demanding her resignation.

Hasina has ruled since 2009 and overseen a vast and severe crackdown on political opponents and critics while corruption has flourished. Critical figures are routinely picked up in “enforced disappearances” by paramilitary forces and tens of thousands of political opponents have been jailed. She won a fifth term in January in an election widely documented as being heavily rigged.

Clashes between heavily armed riot police and protesters, many wielding batons and bricks, have spread across the country, with vehicles set ablaze in the streets and thousands left injured. On Thursday protesters stormed the headquarters of the state broadcaster, Bangladesh Television, and set it on fire. Authorities said the building was safely evacuated.

The Dhaka Times said one of its reporters, Mehedi Hasan, was killed while covering clashes in the capital.

Access to social media was restricted after the telecommunications minister, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, said it had been “weaponised as a tool to spread rumours, lies and disinformation”.

Hasina, 76, ordered that all universities and colleges be shut indefinitely after the clashes. In a speech on Wednesday night, she had condemned the “murder” of students killed in the protests and promised justice, telling students to wait for an supreme court order on the quota system, but it did little to quell the unrest.

The prime minister was earlier accused of inflaming tensions after she defended the quotas and appeared to refer to protesters as “razakars”, a derogatory slur meaning those who betrayed the country by collaborating with the enemy, Pakistan, during the war of independence.

The quotas that sparked the protests were abolished in 2018 but brought back last month after a court ruling, prompting outrage among students. About 40% of young people in Bangladesh are unemployed as the economy has foundered post-Covid, and government jobs are seen as one of the few means of secure employment. Young people say the quotas make it very difficult to get the jobs on merit.

Hasina’s party, which was set up by her father, who led the independence fight for Bangladesh, is accused of disproportionately benefiting from the system.

Pierre Prakash, the Asia director of the International Crisis Group, said the protests were a reflection of growing frustration on the streets at the erosion of democracy and the country’s economic distress, which has led to high inflation and rising unemployment.

“The protests reflect deep political and economic tensions in Bangladesh. For several years Bangladesh’s economy has been struggling and youth unemployment is a serious problem,” he said. “With no real alternative at the ballot box, discontented Bangladeshis have few options besides street protests to make their voices heard.”

Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general, said they were following developments in Bangladesh and urged restraint on all sides.

A Marine who stormed the US Capitol and apparently flashed a Nazi salute in front of the building was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison.

Tyler Bradley Dykes, of South Carolina, was an active-duty US marine when he grabbed a police riot shield from the hands of two police officers and used it to push his way through police lines during the attack by a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters on 6 January 2021.

Dykes, who pleaded guilty in April to assault charges, was previously convicted of a crime stemming from the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dykes was transferred to federal custody in 2023 after he served a six-month sentence in a state prison.

US district judge Beryl Howell sentenced Dykes, 26, to four years and nine months of imprisonment, the justice department said.

Federal prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of five years and three months for Dykes.

“He directly contributed to some of the most extreme violence on the Capitol’s east front,” prosecutors wrote.

Dykes’ attorneys requested a two-year prison sentence. They said Dykes knows his actions on January 6 were “illegal, indefensible and intolerable”.

During the sentencing hearing, Dykes said that he still stood with Trump and that he supports him “to be the next president of our country”.

“Tyler hates his involvement in the Capitol riot,” his lawyers wrote. “He takes complete responsibility for his actions. Tyler apologizes for those actions.”

Dykes, then 22, traveled to Washington to attend the Republican Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally with two friends from his hometown of Bluffton, South Carolina. After parting ways with his friends, Dykes ripped snow fencing out of the ground and pulled aside bicycle rack barricades as he approached the Capitol.

Later, Dykes joined other rioters in breaking through a line of police officers who were defending the stairs leading to the Capitol’s East Rotunda doors.

“After reaching the top of the stairs, Dykes celebrated his accomplishment, performing what appears to be the ‘Sieg Heil’ salute,” prosecutors wrote.

After stealing the riot shield from the two officers, Dykes entered the Capitol and held it in one hand while he raised his other hand in celebration. He also used the shield to assault police officers inside the building, forcing them to retreat down a hallway, prosecutors said.

Dykes gave the shield to an officer after he left the Capitol.

Dykes denied that he performed a Nazi salute on 6 January, but prosecutors say his open-handed gesture was captured on video.

In August 2017, photos captured Dykes joining tiki torch-toting white supremacists on a march through the University of Virginia’s campus on the eve of the Unite the Right rally. A photo shows him extending his right arm in a Nazi salute and carrying a lit torch in his left hand.

In March 2023, Dykes was arrested on charges related to the march. He pleaded guilty to a felony charge of burning an object with intent to intimidate.

Dykes briefly attended Cornell University in the fall of 2017 before he joined the US Marine Corps. In May 2023, he was discharged from the military under “other than honorable” conditions.

“Rather than honor his oath to protect and defend the constitution, Dykes’s criminal activity on January 6 shows he was instead choosing to violate it,” prosecutors wrote.

More than 1,400 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot.

More than 900 of them have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from a few days to 22 years.

Two Australians and three Indonesians have survived a tourist helicopter crash in Bali after it became entangled in a kite string, officials say.

The Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter, owned by PT Whitesky Aviation, came down in Pecatu village in the coastal area on the southern side of Bali, a statement from Indonesia’s transportation ministry said.

Photos circulated by Indonesia’s search and rescue agency showed the helicopter, which had five people on board including the crew and passengers, crashed on a limestone cliff.

“All victims could be evacuated safely,” said a written statement from the agency in Bali on Friday. Three of them were taken to hospital for further treatment.

Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation of about 270 million people, has been plagued by transportation accidents in recent years, including plane crashes and ferry sinkings.

Authorities said a team was being sent to the crash site for further investigation.

Police in Florida are urging people to stop taking selfies with a “depressed” black bear spotted loitering morosely on a roadside.

The unhappy animal took up residence on the north side of Highway 98 in Santa Rosa Beach earlier this week and, according to a Facebook post by the Walton county sheriff’s office, quickly attracted unwanted attention from passing motorists.

“Onlookers were trying to take selfies with the bear and he’s clearly not in the mood for pictures. The bear has shown signs of severe stress,” the post said.

It described the large male bear as “stressed, depressed, lemon zest” and urged the public not to approach a black bear at any time, “especially those that are showing aggression like this big fella”.

Rangers from the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission (FWC) were dispatched to investigate after a call from the sheriff’s office reported “crowds of onlookers stopping to take photos of the bear”, which was sitting beside a telegraph pole.

An FWC spokesperson said in a statement that by the time its officers and biologists arrived, “the bear had dispersed and walked off into the adjacent woods”.

It said that, based on images shared with staff: “The bear did not appear to be injured. It may have just been overheated and was resting before moving on.”

Black bears are a common sight in many areas of Florida, especially in the spring and summer when juveniles begin to leave their mothers’ home ranges and seek out new habitats.

“Typically, bears will move along on their own. If you see a bear, give it space, don’t try to approach it, and never feed it,” the spokesperson said, pointing to the advice website bearwise.org.

“Crowding around any bear is never recommended, as bears can become defensive when threatened. Always give bears as much space as possible.”

In February, a homeowner in Santa Rosa Beach recorded a video of a black bear walking through her yard and knocking on the front door. Other recent encounters elsewhere in Florida have included a bear touring the campus of the University of Florida in June; and the capture and relocation of a black bear in May after it was spotted roaming Fort Myers downtown. Authorities said in every case the bear involved was looking for food.

There are an estimated 4,050 black bears living in the wild in Florida, according to FWC figures.

Last month Ron DeSantis, the state’s rightwing Republican governor, signed into law a controversial bill that allows the public to shoot and kill bears for a perceived threat to “a person, pet or dwelling”.

The legislation was drawn up by the Republican state congressman Jason Shoaf, a keen hunter according to his biography, who claimed in February that “bears high on crack” were breaking into people’s houses and “tearing them apart”.

At the time the Guardian was unable to find a single documented incident of any bear in Florida ingesting crack, and Shoaf did not return a request for clarification.