A senior Hezbollah commander has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. Mohammed Qassem Al-Shaer, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was killed in a strike on the village of Qaraoun in the western Beqaa Valley on Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The IDF said Al-Shaer had “advanced numerous terrorist activities against the state of ...
Dozens of people have been arrested after protesters clashed with police at a major defense expo in Australia on Wednesday, which saw some demonstrators set fire to bins and target police horses and officers respond with pepper spray, according to local media. Police officers struggled to control the crowd of around 1,200 people who tried to block attendees from entering ...
Lurking in the bushes near Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is a unit of men who have two things in common: The short amount of time they have served defending their nation and time spent behind bars. The 15 infantry men of the 59th Brigade, part of the Shkval – or wind gust – battalion are former prisoners. Convicted of a ...
Planning regulation is slowing down the rollout of faster internet, the chief executive of BT’s consumer division has told Sky News. Planning rules were said to be the “key barrier” to implementing 5G mobile phone signal by BT consumer division CEO Marc Allera. He described the legislation as “very arcane and really not favourable to rolling out digital infrastructure at ...
Scientists tracking the spread of dengue fever have named popular European holiday destinations they say are at risk from future outbreaks. The disease is carried by Asian tiger mosquitos, which are becoming more common in Europe, including parts of southern France, Italy and Spain. The mosquito was even spotted at the Paris Olympics this summer. Dengue fever can cause severe ...
Australia plans to set a minimum age for children to access social media due to concerns about mental and physical health. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government would soon trial age verification technology before banning children from opening social media accounts later this year. He said the limit would likely be between the age of 14 and 16. “I ...
A tiny knee bone linked to a common type of arthritis may have helped humans to evolve from walking on all fours to standing upright, scientists suggest. Little is known about the lateral fabella, a bone buried in the tendon below the knee which is about the size of a sesame seed and is found in around 39% of the ...
Former president Donald Trump pressed ahead with his ongoing effort to erode confidence in U.S. elections during his debate Tuesday night with Vice President Kamala Harris, repeating his false claim that he won the 2020 vote, refusing to condemn the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, and claiming without evidence that Democrats are helping millions of noncitizens cast ballots this fall. ...
Tuesday’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump was as widely anticipated in some D.C. neighborhoods as a championship game. So, residents took to bars, cafes and campus centers to watch and fend off nerves with a drink or two in hand and sympathetic ears nearby. On Tuesday, students at Howard University were eager to get ...
Vice President Kamala Harris made a sharp, fiery case against Republican nominee Donald Trump during a freewheeling debate Tuesday, blasting the former president’s character and preoccupation with himself while pressing him to task on issues including abortion, democracy and foreign policy. Trump used the head-to-head event to attack Harris as a “Marxist” masquerading as a moderate and repeatedly turned the ...