Israeli politicians and generals have said that the two-day operation in Jenin had made it clear that the refugee camp would “would not serve as a haven for terror”.
Commanders on the ground, however, painted a different picture.
An English tourist accused of defacing the Colosseum has said he was not aware of the age of the ancient monument.
Ivan Dimitrov, a 27-year-old fitness instructor living in Bristol, wrote a letter of apology to the Rome mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, after allegedly engraving his and his girlfriend’s names into an internal wall of the 2,000-year-old landmark with a key.
A Syrian website run by opponents of the Assad regime recently reported that in early June that Russian military officials in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Province met with Iranian operatives. The primary agenda of the Russian-Iranian meeting was reportedly “to discuss expelling the United States from Syria, which may indicate Russia’s intent to facilitate Iranian-backed attacks on US forces.”
After a series of Iran-directed attacks on U.S. military outposts in Syria and the kinetic responses from American forces, leaked documents indicate that Iran is planning to target US armored vehicles in Syria by with remotely-detonated roadside bombs.
On MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki, the eponymous host dedicated the portion of her program where she appears to go off script and gives her often delusional opinions on the news of the week. This Sunday was no different as the former Biden administration Press Secretary concocted a bizarre conspiracy theory that the Republican Party is rehashing the so-called “southern strategy” (which itself is a debunked conspiracy theory) to “recruit” Muslim Americans to “go after” transgender people.
English rock star Morrissey sang about the potential origins of the infamous Notre Dame fire while kissing a rosary at a recent concert.
Video of the moment began circulating on social media Monday, which showed the former frontman for The Smiths passionately singing about the fire, questioning if it could have been an act of terrorism …
‘Smallville’ actor Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty over her role in a sex-trafficking case tied to the cult group NXIVM, has been released from prison a year early.
Mack, who began serving a three-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, in September 2021, was released on Monday, according to federal prison records.
Best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on Smallville, Mack, 40, pleaded guilty in 2019 to charges that she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for NXIVM leader Keith Raniere.
More than 1,500 lobbyists in the US are working on behalf of fossil-fuel companies while at the same time representing hundreds of liberal-run cities, universities, technology companies and environmental groups that say they are tackling the climate crisis, the Guardian can reveal.
Lobbyists for oil, gas and coal interests are also employed by a vast sweep of institutions, ranging from the city governments of Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia; tech giants such as Apple and Google; more than 150 universities; some of the country’s leading environmental groups – and even ski resorts seeing their snow melted by global heating.
What a scam.
Just Stop Oil protesters stormed Court 18 at Wimbledon on the third day of the Championships.
Two individuals were seen breaching security measures and getting onto the playing surface at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club’s (AELTC) showpiece court, where they threw orange ticker tape.
Just Stop Oil have disrupted Wimbledon, saying: 'We can't leave it to the next generation to pick up the pieces.'
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A growing number of Canadian couples and singles live in homes with vacant bedrooms, a phenomenon that is coming to light as local governments across the country grapple with acute housing needs.
The percentage of singles and couples who live in homes that have a minimum of three bedrooms increased to 29 per cent in Canada in 2021, according to an analysis by The Globe and Mail of census numbers for that year. That compares with 26 per cent in 2006, according to the corresponding census.
Tired of movie critics falling over themselves to praise ‘box-ticking’ box office duds? Luckily, one lifelong film buff has the antidote
Politics, banking, schools, corporations, the military: the dread woke agenda gets everywhere these days. And regrettably, even film reviews aren’t immune. While writing about the latest cinema releases, critics are increasingly pushing an insidious leftist agenda in their work – the same one being covertly peddled by the Hollywood studios themselves. Or at least, that’s the claim of a small but flourishing new website which has, since February, been trying to bring a very different voice into the mix.
OTTAWA – A million-dollar bounty being offered by Hong Kong police for the capture of exiled democratic activists has supporters renewing calls for Canada’s former chief justice Beverley McLachlin to resign from the region’s highest court, saying her continued presence legitimizes China’s persecution of activists.
Ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s sparked outrage with a July 4th tweet calling for the United States to return ‘stolen indigenous land’ starting with giving Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux tribe.
The company, which was founded by longtime Bernie Sanders allies Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenwood but has since been sold to British multinational Unilever, tweeted the message to its 494,000 followers.
Ben & Jerry’s Canada links back to a Land Back fake graves conspirator screed.
BJ’s parent Unilever has just been named a a sponsor of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The warning and probation measures previously levied by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) against a military member for her refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 were “unreasonable and unjustified,” an independent military administrative tribunal has ruled.
“The CAF vaccination policy was unreasonable because it was overly broad and disproportionate in its application,” wrote Nina Frid of the Military Grievances External Review Committee (MGERC) in a May 30 ruling.
It isn’t all raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. The theatre behind a new production of The Sound of Music is facing criticism for its use of a trigger warning to caution audiences that it touches on “Nazi Germany and the annexation of Austria”.
Chichester Festival Theatre, where the revival of the stage show opens next week, is warning prospective ticket buyers that some of them “may find certain themes distressing”.
Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney was called to the Ontario bar just three days before the Ford government announced she was getting a special title for lawyers that has been widely denounced as a patronage honour, the Star has learned.
The government declared Friday afternoon that it was re-instituting the honorary title of “King’s Counsel” for “lawyers who have demonstrated a commitment to the pursuit of legal excellence in service to the Crown, the public and their communities.”
This is just sad. Can’t be happy with what she has so grasps at a silly bauble. I wonder if it came in an envelope.
