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Hamas uses Gaza’s rubble as a tactical advantage against the IDF
Hamas apparently believes that the IDF views ruined areas as secure. As such, it thinks that it can move more freely in these areas. Recent terrorist attacks in Gaza against IDF forces have revealed that Hamas and other groups in Gaza are exploiting the landscape to carry out attacks. What this means is that Hamas…
Read MoreRenault Boreal SUV launch set to boost global presence
Renault says it is set to strengthen its global presence with the launch of the Renault Boreal SUV, a new addition to its line-up aimed at markets outside Europe. The Boreal is designed to drive growth and solidify the brand’s presence in the C segment across more than 70 nations. Last year, Renault’s sales reached…
Read MoreSecurity forces kill terrorist who held Emily Damari hostage in his Gaza home
Quneita was a member of Hamas’ Al-Furqan Battalions’ military intelligence battalion, and infiltrated Israel on October 7. Security forces killed the terrorist who held Emily Damari hostage in Gaza, the IDF and Shin Bet announced in a joint statement on Monday. On June 19, the IDF and Shin Bet struck Muhammad Nasr Ali Quneita in…
Read MoreIndia orders airlines to check fuel switches on Boeing jets
India’s aviation regulator has ordered the country’s airlines to inspect fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes, after their reported involvement in a fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in June. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the order comes follows Indian and international airlines already starting to carry out their own…
Read MoreCreepy find: German customs net tarantulas in cookie shipment
German customs officers have discovered a massive haul of about 1,500 tarantulas hidden inside a shipment disguised as cookies, authorities said Monday. The seven-kilogramme (15-pound) shipment from Vietnam was intercepted at Cologne-Bonn airport and emitted a strange smell when opened, customs officials said. Inside the found the venomous arachnids packed into plastic tubes and said…
Read MoreGerman tourist describes 12-day ordeal, lost in Australian wilderness
A German backpacker who survived 12 days lost in Australia’s remote outback has said she is “beyond grateful to have survived.” In her first public statement since being found alive on Friday, 26-year-old Carolina Wilga said she “hit her head significantly” when she crashed her car and became lost after abandoning it in “a state…
Read MoreThe African Union has not announced plans to impeach Kenya’s president
On June 7, 2025, Kenya marked 35 years since the landmark pro-democracy protests of 1990 that pushed for an end to a one-party state, but the day was marred by violence across the country. Along with the unrest, social media posts shared a graphic and claims that the African Union (AU) plans to impeach President…
Read MoreFrom Srebrenica to Gaza, why ‘never again’ keeps failing
The raw statistics speak to the scale of the suffering in two places, separated by decades. Israel has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, many of them women and children, and injured more than 138,000. With constant bombardment, man-made famine, and tactics like declaring a safe zone and then bombing it,…
Read MoreFrance to quicken defense-spending boost in bid to be ‘feared’
PARIS — France will accelerate a hike in defense spending to reach €64 billion (US$75 billion) in 2027, three years earlier than planned, President Emmanuel Macron told troops and military brass ahead of Bastille Day celebrations on July 14. In the face of the greatest threat to freedom since 1945, France needs to step up,…
Read MoreRyan Davis’s Junk-Drawer Heart
On Easter Sunday, the Louisville-based singer-songwriter Ryan Davis opened a matinée show for Bill Callahan in the assembly room of a former Catholic school in Kingston, New York. Indoor concerts during daylight hours can feel uncanny, maybe more so on a holy day—the doors opened at 2 P.M., and someone, possibly Callahan, had nestled colored plastic…
Read MoreA Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain
The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something like a sharpened bildungsroman. The child is nudged forward by an ambitious parent, by an influential teacher, or simply by a curiosity that, like water, insists on finding its way in and out. There’s the…
Read MoreJoost Swarte’s “Sunny-Side Up”
For the cover of the July 21, 2025, issue, the artist Joost Swarte portrays how New Yorkers have been feeling in the midst of a heat wave. “The part of a hot, sunny day I like best,” Swarte said, “is stepping into the shade.” For more covers about heat in the city, see below: Find…
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