Israeli soldiers have stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last remaining medical facility in the northern Gaza Strip, torching large sections and ordering hundreds of people to leave. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said on Friday that contact had been lost with staff inside the hospital in Beit Lahiya, which has been under siege and heavy pressure from Israeli forces for weeks. “The occupation forces are inside the hospital now and they are burning it,” Munir al-Bursh, the director of the ministry, said in a statement. The Israeli army issued a statement confirming it launched a raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital,…
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The Tigers and free agent infielder Gleyber Torres are reportedly in agreement on a one-year, $15M contract, pending the completion of a physical. Torres, an Octagon client, is expected to be Detroit’s regular second baseman in the upcoming season.Torres, who turned 28 earlier this month, has spent his entire big league career in Yankee pinstripes. The once-vaunted top prospect looked like a breakout star in 2019 when he socked 38 home runs in just 144 games, but Torres wound up settling in as a solid regular at second base rather than the superstar shortstop he appeared to be on the cusp…
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The weather outside may be frightful but the new books inside are delighfulLechatnoir/Getty Images An Increasingly divisive politics. Media technologies that reinforce and radicalise every fleeting opinion. An absolute tsunami of conspiracy theories. Out of the noise and anxiety of our current moment comes a slew of new books that may make 2025 the moment humanity turned a corner, and replaced the heat of partisanship and tribalism with enlightened discourse and real debate. Many of them explain why we think the way we do about the world, and show us how we can change our minds without losing them… Source…
One of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia, came is “suffering from a stifling siege,” Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday after Israeli forces stormed inside and evacuated health workers, patients, and family members. “The operating and surgical departments, laboratory, maintenance, and emergency units have been completely burned, and the fire is now spreading to the buildings,” the health ministry’s statement said. Ambulances have reportedly been dispatched to transfer the injured to the Indonesian Hospital as those inside continue to be evacuated.”There are patients who are threatened with death at any moment due to the harsh…
COMMENT: A reader has submitted this which is typical of every economic decline. The money grab by cities which are desperate for taxes is escalating, law enforcement is no longer about protecting but generating revenue. The confiscation of property obtained through illegal means appears reasonable, yet given this is civil forfeiture, no proof is needed. Houses, cars and other property which are suspected to be anyway connected with criminal activity are being seized without having to prove anything, providing an additional source of revenue for law enforcement agencies. Cars are confiscated because an office “smells” something. The cost of fighting…
The government of Mexico is planning to open twenty-five shelters for Mexican citizens deported by the incoming Trump administration. The shelters will be opened by Trump’s inauguration on January 20, according to comments by Baja California Gov. Marina del Pilar at a press conference Monday reported by Border Report. The temporary shelters will hold about 500 each, totally 12,000. Some will house single men, others will house unaccompanied children, women and family units. In the weeks after the November 5 election, President-elect Trump sparred with Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum over his threat to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada over…
Actress Regina King is bidding 2024 farewell with a touching tribute to her late son.The Oscar-winning actress and standout star of Netflix’s “The Harder They Fall” compiled a special Instagram post on Christmas Day to honor Ian Alexander, Jr., a recording artist and King’s only child.Alexander sadly took his own life in January 2022.Article continues below advertisementRegina King’s ‘Perfect’ Tribute To Her SonMEGAUsing Alexander’s career as a music artist for inspiration, King went on to share seven of her favorite albums from the past year on the social media app.In a caption on her Instagram post, the “Shirley” star explained…
In December, scientists said global warming had helped intensify Cyclone Chino to a Category 4 storm as it collided head-on with Mayotte, devastating France’s poorest overseas territory. DROUGHTS AND WILDFIRES Some regions may be wetter as climate change shifts rainfall patterns, but others are becoming drier and more vulnerable to drought. The Americas suffered severe drought in 2024 and wildfires torched millions of hectares in the western United States, Canada, and the Amazon basin – usually one of Earth’s wettest places. Between January and September, more than 400,000 fires were recorded across South America, shrouding the continent in choking smoke.…
Intelligence report comes days after Ukraine’s president said nearly 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been ‘killed or wounded’ in combat.A North Korean soldier, who was fighting for Russia, has died in Ukrainian captivity due to severe wounds, according to South Korea’s spy agency. The announcement by the National Intelligence Service in Seoul came on Friday, hours after the Yonhap news agency cited the agency as confirming for the first time that Ukrainian forces had captured a North Korean soldier. The report said he was alive, though the location where he was seized was not known. Pyongyang has deployed thousands of…