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The Israeli military has said it hit a Hezbollah site deep inside Lebanese territory, the latest in a volley of strikes between the two sides amid Israel’s war on Gaza. In a post on Telegram on Wednesday, Israel’s military said the attack on Tuesday night targeted one of the Lebanese armed group’s air defence systems near the central village of Janta, which is located about 79km (49 miles) from the capital, Beirut. This marked a deeper-than-usual incursion into Lebanese territory, where most of the attacks have so far been confined to the south. In parallel overnight strikes, Israel’s air force…

Media organisations including CNN have struggled to grow audiences and revenue and are trying new offerings.CNN is eliminating approximately 100 jobs and plans to debut its first digital subscriptions before the end of the year as the news network leans into reshaping its business. In a memo sent to staff on Wednesday, CNN CEO Mark Thompson noted the news organisation was cutting just 100 jobs out of a total workforce of approximately 3,500. He said that open roles were closed wherever possible in order to minimise the total layoffs. Media organisations, including CNN, have struggled to grow audiences and revenue, and…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Israel’s latest mass evacuation orders for the entirety of Gaza City cause ‘mass suffering’ for Palestinians trapped in war-torn neighbourhoods with no safe exit routes. Source link

Archegos Capital Management founder Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang has been convicted of fraud and other charges by a jury in a Manhattan federal court at a criminal trial in which prosecutors accused him of market manipulation ahead of the 2021 collapse of his $36bn private investment firm. On Wednesday, the jury, which began deliberations on Tuesday, found Hwang guilty on 10 of 11 criminal counts, and Patrick Halligan, his Archegos deputy and co-defendant, guilty on all three counts he faced. Hwang and Halligan sat flanked by their lawyers as the verdict was read by a soft-spoken foreperson. United States District…

The Israeli military has ordered all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south, as it presses ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and centre of the Gaza Strip that has killed dozens of people over the past 48 hours. Leaflets dropped from the air on Wednesday urged “everyone in Gaza City” to leave and to take “safe routes” south towards Deir el-Balah and az-Zawayda. Gaza’s interior ministry has called on residents in Gaza City to refrain from following Israeli evacuation orders, saying the instructions are a part of the Israeli army’s psychological warfare against Palestinians. The…

The US judge said the federal law governing benefit plans did not cover the former employees’ claims.Elon Musk has won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he refused to pay at least $500m of severance to thousands of Twitter employees he fired in mass layoffs after buying the social media company now known as X. United States District Judge Trina Thompson in San Francisco, California ruled on Tuesday that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) governing benefit plans did not cover the former employees’ claims, and therefore she lacked jurisdiction. The case is one of many accusing Musk of reneging…

The woman was charged with collaborating with ISIL and keeping kidnapped Yazidi women in her home in Mosul.An Iraqi court has sentenced a widow of late ISIL (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death for her role in the armed group and for detaining Yazidi women, the judiciary has announced. The court in west Baghdad handed down the sentence to the woman, who is in custody, under Iraq’s anti-terrorism law, according to a statement on Wednesday from Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council. She was accused of collaborating with ISIL and using her home in Mosul to hold kidnapped Yazidi women who…

NewsFeedA former Palestinian bodybuilder who came out of an Israeli prison frail and in poor health after months without charge says he was tortured and abused, and has compared Israeli prisons to the US’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison.Published On 10 Jul 202410 Jul 2024 Source link

Rania traces stars at the Oukaimeden observatory in Morocco’s mountains and shares their beauty with villagers below.The stars in the night skies above Oukaimeden, a remote village in the mountains of Morocco, are a stunning sight to behold. Rania Abdelmoutalib is a PhD student and member of Stargazers of Marrakesh, who volunteers at the Oukaimeden Observatory, where she tracks stars with the giant telescopes poised on the ancient mountains. Each star has a story, a past. She studies and celebrates the heavens, and shares the joys of understanding stars with the villagers who visit the observatory, exploring parallels between events…

For months, Gaza has been teetering on the verge of famine. But several United Nations (UN) human rights experts are now warning that there is “no doubt” famine already exists across the Strip. “Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts, including the special rapporteur on the right to food and the special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, said in a statement on Tuesday. They accused Israel of fomenting conditions which have led to starvation…