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The commandos came in helicopters, on a nearly moonless night. The guards outside the secret weapons lab in northwestern Syria had already been killed in a short series of airstrikes when the thrumming of Israeli Air Force helicopters approached. At first the Sept. 8 strike seemed like many others carried out by Israel, which had … Read more
Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis enters the record books with a century in the second Test against New Zealand in Galle. Sri Lankan middle-order batsman Kamindu Mendis stormed into the record books in Galle on Friday when he became just the fourth cricketer to make 1,000 runs inside 13 Test innings. The 25-year-old has played just … Read more
Anti-Israel protesters menacingly chanted “We’re gonna get you” outside of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Big Apple hotel Thursday night, a day before he’s expected to speak at the United Nations. The rowdy demonstrators swarmed the outside of the Loews Regency New York Hotel on Park Ave. and E. 62nd St. where they said Netanyahu … Read more
Year-long sentence for football fan who racially abused Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior and Villarreal’s Samuel Chukwueze. A Mallorca fan who racially abused Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior and former Villarreal player Samuel Chukwueze was sentenced to a year in prison and issued a three-year stadium ban on Thursday. The supporter was “found guilty of two … Read more
Palestinian authorities demand answers after Israel sent a truck containing 88 decomposed bodies to Gaza. Since October 7, Israeli forces have returned hundreds of bodies to Gaza, many decomposed and unidentifiable. But on Wednesday, Palestinian authorities refused to accept a container with at least 88 corpses – until Israel provides full data with the victims’ … Read more
“We probably wouldn’t have done what President Zelenskyy did two and a half years ago, because it’s irresponsible,” the political director said. “Because obviously he put his country into a war defense, all these people died, all this territory was lost — again, it’s their right, it’s their sovereign decision, they had the right to … Read more
Israel’s war on Gaza has ground its vital economic sectors to a halt. Almost a year into the war on Gaza, Israel’s economy is facing its deepest decline in years. Military spending is ballooning, borrowing is rocketing and revenues are drying up. International trust in its economy is waning. Thousands of highly educated and skilled … Read more
Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer for Aafia Siddiqui, who he says is a victim of circumstance following the 9/11 attacks. In part 1 of this episode of Centre Stage, our guest is Clive Stafford Smith, a civil rights lawyer and legal counsel for many of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. His best known client is Aafia … Read more
Tropical Storm John was strengthening over the Pacific Ocean on Thursday and was forecast to become a hurricane and make landfall in Mexico, where it killed at least two people earlier in the week. The storm was forecast to regain hurricane status before making landfall Thursday night near the southwestern city of Lázaro Cárdenas, the … Read more
World leaders meet at the United Nations amid growing fears of an all-out regional war. The United Nations General Assembly is under way in New York. After almost a year of Israel’s war on Gaza, world leaders continue to talk about bringing an end to the conflict. But with the largest Israeli assault on Lebanon … Read more