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Israel names IAI CEO Boaz Levy chairman in first for state-owned defense company
Boaz Levy ,President & CEO, Israel Aerospace Industries (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) Defense Minister Israel Katz and Minister in charge of the Government Companies Authority Dudi Amsalem signed the official appointment letter on May 13. Israel appointed Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) CEO Boaz Levy as chairman of the company’s board of directors, marking the…
Read MoreHistoric Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii church reopens in Little Italy after renovation: EXCLUSIVE
A historic church in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood is re-opening its doors after a two-year renovation. The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei is the oldest continuing Italian-American Roman Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Chicago. ABC7 got an exclusive tour of the renovations before Friday night’s festivities. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click…
Read MoreHonda establishes digital subsidiary to unify India mobility services
Honda Motor has incorporated a new Indian subsidiary, Honda Digital Innovation India (HDII), to consolidate and expand its digital services across the country’s automobile sectors. The company said the new subsidiary will use digital technologies and customer data produced through Honda’s motorcycle and automobile operations in India, which it described as a strategically important future…
Read MoreRostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
Other songs on “American Stories” are more personal. “Like a Spark” opens with a blues riff played on a nylon-string guitar, offset by the appearance of a saz, a long-necked Turkish lute that’s omnipresent in Middle Eastern music. The combination is dizzying, but lovely. “At some point, I started bringing in pedal steel, and that…
Read MoreFive Italians die during cave dive in Maldives
Five Italians have died in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives, the foreign ministry in Rome has said. “The divers are believed to have died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres (164ft),” the ministry said, adding that this happened in Vaavu Atoll. The Maldives’ military said one body had…
Read MoreLocal Media Is Thriving in E-mail Newsletters
When I first moved to Brooklyn, in 2010, a small, stapled, glossy print product became my guide to my new neighborhood of Bushwick and beyond. The L Magazine covered the hipster-ridden stretch of the L train into Williamsburg, listing happy-hour deals, chronicling restaurant openings, and reviewing art exhibitions. Given out for free in streetside orange…
Read MoreCanada is offering free access to its national parks this summer
From the glacial lakes of Banff to the tablelands of Gros Morne, Canada’s national parks offer spectacular vistas that need to be seen to be believed. If you’re visiting this summer, you won’t have to pay a penny to see them either, as Parks Canada is waiving entry fees for all visitors from 19 June…
Read MoreThe Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
Despite such philosophizing, “The Wizard of the Kremlin” can only superficially be called a movie of ideas; it’s a movie of strategies rather than of ideologies, of how power is used rather than why. Assayas takes a cynical and clichéd view regarding temptation and corruption, worldly rewards of security and pleasure, even ego and pride,…
Read MoreGermany banks on new gas-fired power plants to secure energy supply
The German government has paved the way for the construction of new gas-fired power plants in an effort to plug holes in the electricity supply from renewable energies. The move, passed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Cabinet on Wednesday, is intended to ensure the security of electricity production in Germany. “Renewable energies need life insurance, and…
Read MoreChina Comes For Volkswagen’s Factories
china comes for volkswagen s factories Volkswagen’s cost-cutting campaign in Germany has reached a point where even the company’s labor union is entertaining the idea of Chinese automakers building vehicles inside underused VW factories. That sentence would have sounded borderline absurd a decade ago. Germany’s IG Metall union, one of the most influential labor organizations…
Read MoreReport: Sexual violence ‘integral’ to October 7 Hamas attack on Israel
Systematic sexual violence occurred during the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 and throughout the captivity of numerous hostages, according to an extensive report published on Tuesday by an independent commission in Israel. The Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children released its findings following an investigation…
Read MoreGerman couple jailed in Spain after children kept in ‘house of horror’
A German couple have been sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison in Spain after locking their three children in a “house of horror” filled with rubbish for three and a half years. A court in the northern city of Oviedo on Monday found the 54-year-old man and his 49-year-old wife guilty of…
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