Hints and tips:
...Israeli forces and Hizbollah have engaged in almost daily exchanges of fire since the war between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7....
...Surely, only if you’d been living in a cave for a decade or so. But perhaps I’m wrong, as I discovered this week at an art-world dinner in Venice....
...I’d quickly respond, “It’s Arabic.” It was complicated enough being a young woman with a foreign accent on the trading floor of a US investment bank in London. No need to confuse people further....
...“That’s when I realised everything I’d been defending was a lie,” said the 26-year-old, who requested his surname be withheld. “America doesn’t care about human rights . . ....
...He said the move “contribute[d] to a climate of self-censorship and hostility towards the press, a trend that has escalated since the Israel-Gaza war”....
...They do have the ability to investigate these types of trades, and we’d be surprised if they didn’t, even if just to figure out if information is (or isn’t!) spreading ahead of this type of event....
...He’d led a group of paramilitaries suspected of murdering up to 40 Catholics. Adair’s crimes were not in the dim, dark past....
...The night they rescued the hostages, missiles rained down and I thought we’d be killed.” The family now planned to join relatives in a tent in a coastal area of the territory....
...In a night of chaos and death, they’d managed to find a single, 25kg bag of flour....
...“They felt we’d given a fair representation of their relatives, given that they had polar opposite views,” he says. “We didn’t want to load the dice one way or the other.”...
...Quite how that squares with Scholz’s declaration that Israel’s security and existence is Germany’s “raison d’état” remains to be seen....
...“They’d lost limbs, or have severe internal injuries which force us to operate to remove organs like the spleen or parts of the liver and intestines.”...
...Current global oil demand is about 102mn b/d....
...“I’m sure [the US] know a strike would increase the legitimacy and popularity of the Houthis, so they’d be doing them a service.”...
...Social Influence Israel grapples with ‘Eichmann’ dilemma over Hamas attack trials World heading for hot 2024 after records ‘shattered’ in 2023, says WMO The west’s handling of the pandemic beat its own...
...The USS Dwight D Eisenhower, an American aircraft carrier, is in the area. Greece and Denmark have said they will also send warships....
...And for example, you know, people here in Paris were talking it through saying, well, Fatah, which controls the West Bank and is kind of the enemy of Hamas, will come under pressure to start arresting Hamas...
...“God, I’d love to do this off the record — but I won’t,” he says, followed by a laugh, near the start of our interview....
...It expects demand to increase by 880,000 barrels a day in 2024, compared with a 2.3mn b/d increase in 2023. Additional reporting by Jamie Smyth in New York...
...Baghdad recalled its ambassador to Tehran over the attack, according to Iraqi state media, and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires....
...“In certain schools in Val-d’Oise [a department north-west of Sarcelles], out of 600 students, not even 60 showed up,” said Taieb, who leads a 40,000-strong Jewish community in the region....
...This month the government banned the internationally well-known activist group Samidoun, declaring it was a front for Hamas....
...Mazyek said one person wrote, with reference to Muslims: “I’d throw these bastards out of the country or just hang them up from the nearest tree.” Others complained of police harassment....
...I asked him why he’d done it. Well, he replied, he’d been a longtime member of an Amsterdam Maoist cell. Each week the group met, in secret, to plot the revolution....
...The concern is that were this to become an all-out conflict between Israel and Hizbollah, then it’d be fighting Hamas in the south and Hizbollah in the north....
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