Middle East crisis live: Qatar says it will reassess its role as mediator in Israel-Gaza war The gulf state’s prime minister said he was making the move due to ‘exploitation and abuse of the Qatari role’ ... 04/17/2024 - 8:44 pm | View Link
How an ‘uncontrollable’ full-scale conflict sparked by Israel and Iran could look The world is waiting for Israel's next move, with analysts saying it could trigger a 'distinctive and historical' regional war ... 04/16/2024 - 11:19 pm | View Link
Macron says Olympic opening ceremony could be moved French President Emmanuel Macron says the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine could be shifted instead to the Stade de France if the security threat is deemed too high. 04/15/2024 - 10:48 am | View Link
15 Gazans dead after Israel shells UN school GAZAN officials said today that at least 15 people were killed when Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a UN school in the northern Gaza Strip. Health official Ashraf al-Kidra said the dead ... 04/13/2024 - 4:23 pm | View Link
Gaza’s historic treasures saved by ‘irony of history’ “All the archaeological remains in the north have been hit,” he told AFP by phone from Gaza. The human toll since the October ... Baptiste Humbert of the French Biblical and Archaeological School in ... 04/13/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.