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Month: September 2024

Attacks between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah raise fears of a wider Mideast war with Iran proxies

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Cross-border attacks between Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah have reignited concerns that the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip could break out into a regional conflict, nearly a year after it began. That wider war could draw in Iran, and other regional militias that it has

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UK political magazine The Spectator’s new editor is Michael Gove

LONDON (AP) — Michael Gove has been appointed the editor of The Spectator, one of the world’s oldest political magazines. Gove was a longtime U.K. Cabinet minister under successive Conservative Party governments. Wednesday’s announcement came little more than two weeks after billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Marshall bought the magazine via his company Old Queen

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Several arrested after American woman dies in first use of controversial suicide pod

Story by Reuters Zurich, Switzerland (Reuters) — Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to kill themself was used for the first time, authorities said on Tuesday. Police in the northern canton of Schaffhausen bordering Germany said the so-called “Sarco” capsule had been deployed in a

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Aaron Hernandez ‘American Sports Story’ series wants to show a different view of the disgraced NFLer

Associated Press From a podcast to multiple documentaries, the rise and fall of the once revered NFL star Aaron Hernandez is certainly well documented. An FX limited series is latest to rehash the saga, attempting to go beyond the headlines and dig deeper into his story. “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” stars Josh Andrés Rivera

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US ‘intensely tracking’ ongoing threat by Iran against current and former US officials, Blinken says

By Jennifer Hansler, Kate Sullivan, Rashard Rose and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — The US government is “intensely tracking” an ongoing threat by Iran against current and former US officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. “This is something we’ve been tracking very intensely for a long time, an ongoing threat by Iran against a number

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