By Dan Williams, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli aircraft and tanks stepped up strikes in southern Gaza overnight, residents said, after it announced plans to pull back some troops, a move the U.S. said signalled a gradual shift to lower intensity operations in the north of the enclave. Israel says the […]
New York City has plenty of famous nicknames: The City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice, and so on. Now, thanks to a ground-breaking zoning code update, New Yorkers may be excited to embrace one of its newest titles: the “City of Yes.” Earlier in 2023, the […]
The Kansas Highway Patrol is appealing a federal injunction that will block its troopers from using the “two step” traffic stop tactic that a judge ruled had resulted in the agency violating the constitutional rights of motorists. The appeal signals the statewide law enforcement agency will resist in court a mandatory overhaul of its practices. […]
A meeting of the coalition for integrated air and anti-missile defence of Ukraine has been held in Berlin under the chairmanship of France and Germany. Source: European Pravda with reference to the press release of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence Details: Ukraine’s Defence Ministry reports that Lieutenant General Ivan Havryliuk, Deputy Minister of Defence, has met […]
Liverpool’s Cody Gakpo is confident the forward line will step up to cover for the pending absence of Mohamed Salah. Darwin Nunez ended a run of 12 matches without a goal, while Diogo Jota came off the bench to score after a month out injured in Tuesday’s 2-0 Premier League win over Burnley which took […]
Port Hueneme officials declared a local emergency and plan to seek disaster relief after a torrential downpour pummeled local neighborhoods last week. In the heaviest period early Thursday, around 3 inches of rainfall was recorded in just an hour in the Oxnard and Port Hueneme area. Within hours of the deluge, City Manager James Vega […]
FILE – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, shakes hands with Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, right, as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg looks on prior to a meeting ahead of a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, July 10, 2023. The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee was poised on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, to […]
CAHUIDE, Peru – Aedes, a grayish four-propeller drone, whirred off the dirt soccer field in this Amazon village to help do what doctors cannot as climate change threatens this nation with a new era of disease. Named after the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, it quickly rose above the excited gaggle of flip-flopped kids gathered […]
(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s home affairs minister signed planned changes to work permit regulations aimed at fixing a bureaucratic morass that’s frustrating the country’s biggest investors and exacerbating a skills crisis, people familiar with the situation said. Most Read from Bloomberg Now that the changes have been signed by Aaron Motsoaledi, they’ll be gazetted in […]
An organization that’s been conducting clinical trials on MDMA therapy has filed a new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration that would make the drug legal for treating post-traumatic stress disorder if approved. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a non-profit that promotes the regulation of psychedelics, said Tuesday it filed the […]
Harvard President Claudine Gay speaks about antisemitism on campus during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP Harvard President Claudine Gay speaks about antisemitism on campus during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill on Dec. […]
Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez were spotted enjoying a girls’ night out with a group of their famous friends. The 33-year-old singer and the 31-year-old actress stepped out with Cara Delevingne, Zoe Kravitz and Anya Taylor-Joy in New York City on Friday. Swift and Gomez were seen walking into a building during their weekend outing in […]