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The Israeli military's 7th Brigade in southern Lebanon this month. Israel Defense Forces
Israel seeks to remain in Lebanon past Sunday withdrawal deadline
TEL AVIV — The Israeli government is seeking to keep military positions in southern Lebanon past a Sunday withdrawal deadline, set in a November ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, the country’s ambassador to the US said on Thursday.The Israeli military invaded southern Lebanon on October 1 – the culmination of a yearlong, low-level war with Hezbollah, which attacked Israeli-held territory on October 8, 2023, in solidarity with Hamas.The Israeli government has told US President Donald Trump’s administration that it wants Israeli troops to remain in Lebanon for at least an additional 30 days, an Israeli official told CNN. The Israeli security cabinet met Thursday night to discuss the issue.It is unclear whether the Trump administration has responded to the request or...
January 24, 2025

Israel seeks to remain in Lebanon past Sunday withdrawal deadline

In 2020 hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets to protest. In 2025 demonstrations are unlikely
Belarusian opposition denounces election as sham
MINSK — Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refuses to call what's happening this weekend in Belarus an election."It's a sham," the exiled opposition leader says. "This is a military-style operation; a performance staged by the regime to hold on to power."For three decades, the country has been led by an increasingly authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko, now firmly backed by Vladimir Putin who makes use of his neighbor in his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.This Sunday, Belarusians will see Lukashenko's name on the ballot paper once again, with four other names chosen carefully to be no challenge.No independent observers are allowed.The tight controls have been put in place because last time Belarusians voted for a president, the country was swept by giant protests.In...
January 24, 2025

Belarusian opposition denounces election as sham

Ashraf (l) persuaded his sister Julia to join him in the family apartment, which he believed was safe from IDF strikes
Israeli military said bombed apartments were Hezbollah base but most of the dead were civilians
BEIRUT — Julia Ramadan was terrified — the war between Israel and Hezbollah was escalating and she'd had a nightmare that her family home was being bombed. When she sent her brother a panicked voice note from her apartment in Beirut, he encouraged her to join him in Ain El Delb, a sleepy village in southern Lebanon."It's safe here," he reassured her. "Come stay with us until things calm down."Earlier that month, Israel intensified air campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon, in response to escalating rocket attacks by the Iran-backed armed group which had killed civilians, and displaced tens of thousands more from homes in northern Israel.Ashraf was confident their family's apartment block would be a haven, so Julia joined him. But the next day, on 29...
January 24, 2025

Israeli military said bombed apartments were Hezbollah base but most of the dead were civilians

A Chinese court said that Zhou carried out the attack due to his overwhelming debt
China sentences man to death over attack on Japanese school bus
BEIJING — A Chinese man who attacked a Japanese mother and child with a knife and killed a Chinese woman who tried to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to the Japanese government.A Chinese court said that Zhou Jiasheng, 52, had carried out the attack on 24 June after he lost the will to live, following the loss of his job and subsequent debts.The attack had taken place outside a Japanese school in the Chinese province of Suzhou — and was one of three attacks on foreigners in China last year.It comes as Chinese authorities have carried out several high-profile executions in recent days.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters at a press conference that the court ruled that the attack was an "intentional murder" and the penalty was given due to...
January 24, 2025

China sentences man to death over attack on Japanese school bus

Underwater images captured by a Russian NGO appeared to show significant amounts of oil sitting on the ocean floor
Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait
MOSCOW — Oil has leaked into the strait from two ships which ran into trouble during bad weather on 15 December. Volgoneft-239 ran aground following the storm, while Volgoneft-212 sank. ​​Up to 5,000 tons of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analyzed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian scientist called the spill the country's worst "environmental catastrophe" of the 21st Century. "This is the first time fuel oil has been spilled in such quantities," Viktor Danilov-Danilyan — the head of science at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) — said in a 17 January interview with a Russian newspaper. Russian scientists said in December that this spill could be...
January 24, 2025

Russia suffering 'environmental catastrophe' after oil spill in Kerch Strait

A firefighters spray water as he monitor flames caused by the Hughes Fire along a roadside in Castaic, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025
Firefighters make progress on Hughes fire as more fires erupt in Southern California
LOS ANGELES — The Hughes fire erupted late Wednesday morning and charred through more than 40 square kilometers of trees and brush near the Lake Castaic area in less than a day.The fire is located about 60 km away from the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where the devastating Palisades fire has destroyed more than 14,000 structures and continues to burn for a third week.Crews made significant progress on Thursday in containing the fire. They say the Hughes fire is now about one-third contained.But as they made progress, two new fires were reported in the San Diego area in Southern California. Evacuations were ordered but were later lifted after a brush fire erupted late on Thursday in the Wealthy La Jolla neighbourhood, near the University of California, San Diego School of...
January 24, 2025

Firefighters make progress on Hughes fire as more fires erupt in Southern California

Vandals damaged the statue's hand and face and covered it in red paint
Captain Cook statue vandalized ahead of Australia Day
SYDNEY — Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of the Australia Day weekend.It is the second time in 12 months that the statue in Sydney has been vandalized.Australia Day is a national holiday that is held each year on 26 January -- the anniversary of Britain's First Fleet landing at Sydney Cove in 1788. Many Indigenous Australians say the date causes them pain.The local council in Randwick - the suburb where the statue is located - described the vandalism as "a disservice to the community and a disservice to reconciliation".Councillor Carolyn Martin told Sydney radio station 2GB that the vandals had knocked off one hand and parts of the face and nose.The statue -- which was first unveiled in...
January 24, 2025

Captain Cook statue vandalized ahead of Australia Day

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by President Donald Trump, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (R), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), at the announcement of an investment in AI infrastructure
Trump shrugs off Elon Musk’s criticism of AI announcement
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off an ugly back-and-forth between tech CEOs Elon Musk and Sam Altman that pitted one of Trump’s most visible lieutenants against a key participant in a massive $500 billion AI project Trump announced Tuesday.Musk had undercut Trump’s Tuesday Oval Office AI announcement, casting doubt on his X social media platform that any of the participating companies had the money to fund it. But Trump Thursday told reporters at the White House that Musk’s commentary was just a case of bad blood, because he “hates one of the people in the deal” – not an indictment of the viability of the deal he had announced.“No, he hates one of the people,” Trump said, in an apparent reference to Altman. “I’ve spoken to Elon, but—spoken...
January 24, 2025

Trump shrugs off Elon Musk’s criticism of AI announcement

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown speaks up after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, Jan 23, 2025
Trump says he will appeal federal judge's decision to temporarily block birthright order
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional”. The decision came during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.US District Judge John Coughenour repeatedly interrupted a Justice Department lawyer during arguments to ask how he could consider the order constitutional. When the attorney, Brett Shumate, said he’d like a chance to explain it in a full briefing, Coughenour told him the hearing was his chance.The temporary restraining order sought by Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington was the first to get a hearing before a judge and applies nationally.The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and a number...
January 24, 2025

Trump says he will appeal federal judge's decision to temporarily block birthright order

President John F Kennedy was killed while driving through Dallas in 1963
Trump orders plan for release of JFK and MLK assassination documents
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history -- the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr."A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. "And everything will be revealed."The order directs top administration officials to present a plan to declassify the documents within 15 days.President John F Kennedy was killed in Dallas in 1963. His brother Robert F Kennedy was assassinated while running for president in California 1968, just two months after King, America's most famous civil rights leader, was murdered in Memphis,...
January 24, 2025

Trump orders plan for release of JFK and MLK assassination documents

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