Israeli special forces rescued four hostages in broad daylight on Saturday from the Nuseirat refugee district in the centre of the Gaza Strip after 246 days in captivity, the army said. The Palestinian director of the al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah said at least 94 people had been killed and a further 200 injured in […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has released two conservationists who worked to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah before spending five years in prison on espionage charges, local media reported on Tuesday. A report by the Tehran newspaper Etemad said authorities had released Niloufar Bayani and Houman Jowkar on Monday night, who were part of a […]
Even after Britt Reid was charged with driving while intoxicated and causing a February 2021 crash that severely injured a 5-year-old girl, the former Kansas Chiefs assistant coach continued to earn tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees, including from NFL players, in the time before he went to prison. Reid made $486,103 when […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Qatar has freed eight retired Indian navy officers who had been given death sentences for alleged spying that were commuted last year, India’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The eight men were accused of spying while working at Al Dahra, a consulting company in the oil-rich Gulf state that advises the […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose DOHA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel launched a special forces operation that freed two Israeli hostages in Rafah amid air strikes early on Monday, which local health officials said killed 37 people and wounded dozens in the southern Gaza city. A joint operation by the Israel Defence Force (IDF), Israel’s domestic Shin […]
A Qatari court has released eight former Indian naval officers previously on death row for unspecified charges. Seven of the men have already returned to India, Delhi’s foreign ministry said on Monday. In January, authorities said their death sentences had been converted into prison sentences of “varying” lengths. Neither Qatar nor India revealed the charges […]
For months, bits of an asteroid collected by a U.S. probe during a billion-mile trek were out of reach to scientists, locked inside a return capsule in a NASA facility with two stuck fasteners preventing access to the rocky space treasure. This week, NASA won its battle against those fasteners. On Wednesday (Jan. 10), NASA […]
TEL AVIV — All the stories are the same; all the stories are different. They were held underground or aboveground; together with loved ones or separated; cut off from the outside world or keenly aware ofthe catastrophic battle unfolding around them; plunged in grief or unaware of the fate of a husband, a mother, a […]