Tag: Shadow

Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom caught in Iran-Israel shadow war

By Samia Nakhoul and Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the U.S.-allied kingdom to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter. The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to […]

Punxsutawney Phil’s babies have been named Shadow and Sunny

Punxsutawney Phil’s offspring now have names that just might help the famed weather-forecasting groundhog to predict when spring will begin. Phil’s human handlers chose Mother’s Day to announce that the two kits born this spring to Phil and his partner, Phyllis, are named Sunny and Shadow. Sunny is a female, Shadow a male. Each spring, […]

Sweden’s Eurovision brings kitsch in the shadow of Gaza

After a run-up in the shadow of the war in Gaza, the Eurovision Song Contest final gets underway on Saturday in Sweden’s Malmo, where representatives from 26 countries will compete. Up to 30,000 demonstrators are expected to protest against Israel’s participation in the competition over its offensive in Gaza on Thursday, when the country’s representative […]

In the shadow of Gaza war, Israelis observe Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israel is on Monday commemorating the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Holocaust, as the Palestinian Islamist Hamas group holds more than 100 hostages from Israel. On Monday morning, sirens blared for two minutes across the country to commemorate the catastrophe. Cars stopped on the streets and […]

Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz in shadow of Oct 7 attacks

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) – Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp on Monday for the annual March of the Living ceremony in Poland. Walking along the three kilometre (1.8 mile) path towards the crematoria of Birkenau, they […]