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The little airline that could â Lebanon's national carrier braves Israeli airstrikes
BEIRUT (AP) — Since Israel began bombarding Beirut's southern suburbs as part of its offensive against the Hezbollah militant group, Lebanon's national air carrier has become a local icon simply by continuing to do its job.Middle East Airlines is the only commercial airline still operating out of the Beirut airport, located on the coast next to the densely-populated suburbs where many of Hezbollah's operations are based.
Unlike the bruising monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, in which an Israeli strike almost immediately took Lebanon's only commercial... Read More
A UN report says it could take 350 years for Gaza to rebuild if it remains under a blockade
U.N. agencies have long warned that it could take decades to rebuild Gaza after Israel's offensive against Hamas, one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns since World War II.Now, more than a year into the war, a new report speaks in terms of centuries.
The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development said in a report released Monday that if the war ends tomorrow and Gaza returns to the status quo before Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, it could take 350 years for its battered economy to return to its precarious prewar level.
Before the... Read More
Middle East latest: Israeli airstrike levels building in Beirut, Blinken renews Gaza cease-fire push
The Israeli military leveled a suburban Beirut building Tuesday that it said housed Hezbollah “facilities,” sending smoke and debris into the air a few hundred meters (yards) from where a spokesperson for the militant group had just briefed journalists about a weekend drone attack that damaged the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house.The airstrike came 40 minutes after Israel issued an evacuation warning for two buildings in the area.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Tuesday with Netanyahu as part of his 11th visit to the region since the B... Read More
Tropical Storm Oscar disintegrates en route to the Bahamas after killing 6 people in Cuba
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Oscar disintegrated Tuesday as it headed toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people and unleashing heavy rains on an island also hit by an unrelated massive power outage.Oscar's remnants were located some 75 miles (115 kilometers) east-southeast of Long Island in the Bahamas on Tuesday afternoon. The maximum sustained winds dropped to 35 mph (55 kph) as the remnants moved northeast at 12 mph (19 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The... Read More
Former Abercrombie & Fitch chief Mike Jeffries arrested on federal sex trafficking charges
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third man were arrested Tuesday on charges of luring men into drug-laced, outlandish and coercive sex parties held around the world by dangling the promise of modeling for the big retailer's once-defining beefcake ads.For almost 20 years, Jeffries, partner Matthew Smith and their employee James Jacobson used Jeffries’ status, wealth and a web of household staffers to fulfill the couple's sexual desires in what amounted to an international sex trafficking and prostitution business — and... Read More
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