- UN aid agency says Israelis set fire to its East Jerusalem headquarters Axios
- Unrwa Jerusalem HQ closed after 'Israeli extremist' arson attack The Guardian
- UN Palestinian aid agency says Israelis set fire to headquarters The Hill
- Unrwa closes East Jerusalem compound after attacks BBC.com
- UNRWA chief temporarily shuts East Jerusalem HQ after extremists set fire to perimeter The Times of Israel
UN aid agency says Israelis set fire to its East Jerusalem headquarters – Axios
- UN aid agency says Israelis set fire to its East Jerusalem headquarters Axios
- Unrwa Jerusalem HQ closed after 'Israeli extremist' arson attack The Guardian
- UN Palestinian aid agency says Israelis set fire to headquarters The Hill
- Unrwa closes East Jerusalem compound after attacks BBC.com
- UNRWA chief temporarily shuts East Jerusalem HQ after extremists set fire to perimeter The Times of Israel
UN aid agency says Israelis set fire to its East Jerusalem headquarters – Axios
- UN aid agency says Israelis set fire to its East Jerusalem headquarters Axios
- UN Palestinian aid agency says Israelis set fire to headquarters The Hill
- Unrwa Jerusalem HQ closed after ‘Israeli extremist’ arson attack The Guardian
- Unrwa closes East Jerusalem compound after attacks BBC.com
- UNRWA chief temporarily shuts East Jerusalem HQ after extremists set fire to perimeter The Times of Israel
Two skiers killed and one rescued after avalanche in Utah mountains
Search team find man who dug himself out of the snow, and confirm two men, aged 23 and 32, died near Lone Peak
Two skiers have been killed in an avalanche in the mountains of Utah that occurred after several days of spring snowstorms, authorities said.
The victims were two men aged 23 and 32, whose names have not been released.
Continue reading...Unrwa Jerusalem HQ closed after ‘Israeli extremist’ arson attack
Agency chief says compound has suffered a number of attacks with the lives of UN staff ‘at a serious risk’
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has temporarily closed its East Jerusalem headquarters after “Israeli extremists” set fire to the perimeter following weeks of repeated attacks.
“This evening, Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter of the Unrwa headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem,” the head of the agency, Philippe Lazzarini, said on X, lamenting that it was the second attack on the compound in a matter of days.
Continue reading...‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms
Israeli prime minister says country can ‘stand alone’ and cites the ‘heroism and arms embargo’ of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceed with an offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was speaking on Thursday after Israeli and Hamas delegations left the ceasefire negotiations in Cairo.
Continue reading...US facing obstacles getting aid delivered to Gaza after finishing pier construction – CNN
- US facing obstacles getting aid delivered to Gaza after finishing pier construction CNN
- U.S.-Built Pier in Gaza Nears Opening, But Moving Aid In Is No Easy Feat The Wall Street Journal
- Israel-Hamas war: First aid shipment heads to US-built pier – DW – 05/09/2024 DW (English)
- May 8: Aid bound for Gaza being loaded onto ship in Cyprus after US pier completed The Times of Israel
- Biden’s senseless pier plan, the entitlement time bomb and other commentary New York Post
US facing obstacles getting aid delivered to Gaza after finishing pier construction – CNN
- US facing obstacles getting aid delivered to Gaza after finishing pier construction CNN
- U.S.-Built Pier in Gaza Nears Opening, But Moving Aid In Is No Easy Feat The Wall Street Journal
- Israel-Hamas war: First aid shipment heads to US-built pier – DW – 05/09/2024 DW (English)
- May 8: Aid bound for Gaza being loaded onto ship in Cyprus after US pier completed The Times of Israel
- Biden’s senseless pier plan, the entitlement time bomb and other commentary New York Post
US facing obstacles getting aid delivered to Gaza after finishing pier construction – CNN
- US facing obstacles getting aid delivered to Gaza after finishing pier construction CNN
- U.S.-Built Pier in Gaza Nears Opening, But Moving Aid In Is No Easy Feat The Wall Street Journal
- Israel-Hamas war: First aid shipment heads to US-built pier – DW – 05/09/2024 DW (English)
- May 8: Aid bound for Gaza being loaded onto ship in Cyprus after US pier completed The Times of Israel
- Biden’s senseless pier plan, the entitlement time bomb and other commentary New York Post
Israel qualifies for Eurovision song contest final despite protests
Thousands had marched against the country’s inclusion in Saturday’s final but Eden Golan’s entry was voted through
Israel has made it through to the final of the Eurovision song contest, setting the stage for a tense and politically charged event in Malmö on Saturday.
At Thursday’s second semi-final in Sweden’s third largest city, viewers from the competing countries backed the Israeli singer Eden Golan as one of the 10 entries to progress.
Continue reading...‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church
Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times as he detailed how the Catholic church protected him for more than two decades after he admitted to molesting children
Longtime New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker received a special honor from the Vatican nearly 25 years ago despite having confessed to molesting children. Then, for another two decades, church leaders in the city strategically shielded him from law enforcement and media exposure – while also providing him with financial support ranging from paid limousine rides and therapeutic massages to full retirement benefits, according to his own, previously unreported testimony.
A sworn deposition Hecker gave in private in 2020 shows exactly how high-placed Catholic church officials in New Orleans let him keep his elevated position for years, even after they had been advised to oust him from the clergy and – much later – publicly acknowledged that he was a child predator.
Continue reading...Rafah: UN says 80,000 have fled Gaza city as Israeli strikes intensify – BBC.com
- Rafah: UN says 80,000 have fled Gaza city as Israeli strikes intensify BBC.com
- Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, looming Rafah invasion, Gaza devastation CNN
- Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can't “Evacuate” Safely: UNICEF The Intercept
- Palestinians flee chaos and panic in Rafah after Israel's seizure of border crossing Yahoo! Voices
- Israel’s war on Gaza live: Aid operation ‘completely crippled’ amid attacks | Israel War on Gaza News Al Jazeera English
Rafah: UN says 80,000 have fled Gaza city as Israeli strikes intensify – BBC.com
- Rafah: UN says 80,000 have fled Gaza city as Israeli strikes intensify BBC.com
- Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, looming Rafah invasion, Gaza devastation CNN
- Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can't “Evacuate” Safely: UNICEF The Intercept
- Palestinians flee chaos and panic in Rafah after Israel's seizure of border crossing Yahoo! Voices
- Israel’s war on Gaza live: Aid operation ‘completely crippled’ amid attacks | Israel War on Gaza News Al Jazeera English
Rafah: UN says 80,000 have fled Gaza city as Israeli strikes intensify – BBC.com
- Rafah: UN says 80,000 have fled Gaza city as Israeli strikes intensify BBC.com
- Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, looming Rafah invasion, Gaza devastation CNN
- Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can't “Evacuate” Safely: UNICEF The Intercept
- Palestinians flee chaos and panic in Rafah after Israel's seizure of border crossing Yahoo! Voices
- Israel’s war on Gaza live: Aid operation ‘completely crippled’ amid attacks | Israel War on Gaza News Al Jazeera English
‘We were encouraged to be with younger boys’: breaking down a child molester priest’s secret testimony
In unearthed deposition, Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times, but still provided damning details of decades-long predatory behavior
The Guardian and CBS affiliate WWL Louisiana have obtained a long suppressed, eight-and-a-half-hour deposition of a 92-year-old Catholic priest charged with physically overpowering and raping a boy in a New Orleans church in 1975.
Taken in 2020 as part of a civil lawsuit demanding damages from him and the church, clergyman Lawrence Hecker provides in the deposition the most complete account yet of how the US’s second-oldest archdiocese spent much of its recent history taking extreme measures to keep the public from finding out about his abusive past. The questioning – which the church has fought in court for years to keep hidden – also reveals steps the city’s last four archbishops took to help him avoid accountability for decades.
Continue reading...Jim Chalmers flags cost of living help for job seekers in federal budget
‘There is more than one way to help people who are on income support,’ treasurer says when suggesting rebates and concessions could be boosted
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The federal government is poised to expand rebates and concessions available to job seekers in next week’s federal budget, which is also expected to increase rent assistance.
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, has confirmed that Tuesday’s budget will not increase the jobseeker payment but suggested it would boost concessions linked to social security payments, among a suite of measures designed to offer cost-of-living relief without pushing up inflation.
Continue reading...Taylor Swift debuts new tracks as she returns to The Eras Tour
Pop star thrills Paris crowds with songs from newest album The Tortured Poets Department
Taylor Swift has added her newest album, The Tortured Poets Department, to an already packed setlist as she returned to The Eras Tour after a two-month break.
Swift had described TTPD as “new works reflecting events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time – one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure”. In Paris on Thursday night she put it more succinctly: “Female rage, the musical.”
Continue reading...FBI warns of efforts by China, Russia, Iran to influence election – The Hill
- FBI warns of efforts by China, Russia, Iran to influence election The Hill
- In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 The Washington Post
- FBI warns that foreign adversaries could use AI to spread disinformation about US elections Detroit News
- AI's Capacity to Spoil Elections Could Be Harder to Detect Bloomberg
- How Arizona election workers are preparing for November CBS News
FBI warns of efforts by China, Russia, Iran to influence election – The Hill
- FBI warns of efforts by China, Russia, Iran to influence election The Hill
- In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 The Washington Post
- FBI warns that foreign adversaries could use AI to spread disinformation about US elections Detroit News
- AI's Capacity to Spoil Elections Could Be Harder to Detect Bloomberg
- How Arizona election workers are preparing for November CBS News
FBI warns of efforts by China, Russia, Iran to influence election – The Hill
- FBI warns of efforts by China, Russia, Iran to influence election The Hill
- In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024 The Washington Post
- FBI warns that foreign adversaries could use AI to spread disinformation about US elections Detroit News
- AI's Capacity to Spoil Elections Could Be Harder to Detect Bloomberg
- How Arizona election workers are preparing for November CBS News