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How to Read the Israeli “Kidnapped” Posters

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

Shortly after October 7, after Hamas entered Israel, murdered over a thousand people, and took more than 200 others hostage, the Israeli artists Nitzan Mintz and Dede Bandaid quickly formatted “kidnapped” flyers with the photographs and names of some of the captives. They said their motivation wasn’t political, that they were looking to work through their “fear in a dark time” by keeping public attention on the captives. Soon, Mintz and Bandaid made the flyers available online, translated into 22 languages, and now the images can be found in cities and on college and university campuses around the world, any place that has a stake in the great game of Middle East politics. Even as some Israeli hostages begin to come home, the posters remain flashpoints of global polarization.Some opposed to Israel’s disproportionate assault on Gaza think the flyers are propaganda, a crass manipulation of suffering designed to cement a bond between the United States and Israel and ensure that Washing...

Man United set for another fiery match against Galatasaray with Champions League hopes in peril

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

If it wasn’t the “Welcome to Hell” signs at the airport, it was the bell boy at the team hotel performing a throat-slitting gesture as the players arrived.Or the deliberately timed phone calls during the night to disrupt sleep, and the mud and flags thrown at the bus to the stadium.Or the riot police bundling players down the steps to the locker room with their shields after the match.Manchester United’s first Champions League match against Galatasaray at the Turkish team’s Ali Sami Yen Stadium has gone down in lore. Thirty years later, United is back in Istanbul and again fighting to stay in the competition — something it failed to do back in 1993.“It was probably the most intimidating atmosphere I ever played in,” then-United midfielder Bryan Robson has said.United’s players probably thought their Premier League match on Sunday against a fired-up Everton seething with resentment at the perceived injustice of a 10-point sanction for financial mismanagement was a tough gauntlet to r...

ACC-SEC Challenge and Jimmy V Classic headline busy week for Top 25 teams

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

With Thanksgiving tournaments in the rearview mirror, many Top 25 teams will turn their attentions this week to inter-conference challenges and the annual Jimmy V Classic.The inaugural ACC/SEC women’s basketball challenge will be played with marquee games including No. 18 Notre Dame against No. 20 Tennessee; No. 24 North Carolina playing top-ranked South Carolina and No. 9 Virginia Tech against No. 7 LSU — a rematch of last season’s Final Four matchup.The Hokies, who lost to LSU in the national semifinals last season, will be facing a Tigers team Thursday that is in flux. Star Angel Reese hasn’t played in LSU’s last four games, including missing the school’s two games trip to the Cayman Islands over the holiday.“That’s a deep subject. You ask at every game, you’re gonna get the same answer,” coach Kim Mulkey said following LSU’s win on Saturday over Virginia.LSU also has been playing without guard Kateri Poole for the last few games. Mulkey said that sh...

Elbit: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

HAIFA, Israel (AP) — HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Elbit Systems Ltd. (ESLT) on Tuesday reported net income of $60.7 million in its third quarter.The Haifa, Israel-based company said it had net income of $1.36 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.65 per share.The maker of defense electronics posted revenue of $1.5 billion in the period._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ESLT at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ESLTSource

US tells Israel any ground campaign in south Gaza must be tailored to avoid further significant civilian displacement

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — US tells Israel any ground campaign in south Gaza must be tailored to avoid further significant civilian displacement.Source

41 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in India for 17 days are on verge of rescue, official says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

UTTARKASHI, India (AP) — Officials in India said Tuesday they were on the verge of rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks in the country’s north, after rescuers drilled their way through debris to reach them. The workers are to be pulled out through a passageway made of welded pipes which rescuers pushed through dirt and rocks.“Soon all the laborers brothers will be taken out,” Pushkar Singh Dhami, top official in Uttarakhand state, where the accident occurred, posted on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Kirti Panwar, a state government spokesperson, said about a dozen men had worked overnight to manually dig through rocks and debris, taking turns to drill using hand-held drilling tools and clearing out the muck in what he said was the final stretch of the rescue operation.Rescuers resorted to manual digging after the drilling machine broke down irreparably on Friday while drilling horizontally from the ...

It’s OK to ban wearing religious symbols at work, EU top court rules

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

The EU’s top court on Tuesday ruled that a public administration may ban staff from visibly wearing any sign which reveals philosophical or religious beliefs, in order to create a “neutral administrative environment.”“Such a rule is not discriminatory if it is applied in a general and indiscriminate manner to all of that administration’s staff and is limited to what is strictly necessary,” the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said, according to a press release issued Tuesday.The ruling refers to the case of a woman from the municipality of Ans in Belgium who took her grievance to a local court, claiming her freedom of religion had been infringed and that she was the victim of discrimination after she was prohibited from wearing an Islamic headscarf in her workplace. After the headscarf decision, the municipality altered its terms of employment to prohibit all workers from wearing overt signs of ideological or religious affiliation.A court in Liège aske...

Zemmour dans le viseur des experts modération de Meta pour ses allusions au « grand remplacement »    

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

Le Meta Oversight Board va examiner la décision de Meta de ne pas supprimer une vidéo de l’ancien candidat à la présidentielle Eric Zemmour. Cette vidéo consiste en un extrait d’une interview où le patron du parti d’extrême droite Reconquête! dit s’inquiéter d’un basculement démographique, faisant indirectement référence à la théorie du “grand remplacement”. Dans l’extrait visé posté sur son compte officiel, Eric Zemmour affirme que “quand il y avait quatre Européens pour un Africain, nous avons colonisé l’Afrique”. Or selon lui, désormais, “il y a quatre Africains pour un Européen et l’Afrique colonise l’Europe”.Joint par POLITICO, Samuel Lafont, directeur de la stratégie numérique de Reconquête!, indique attendre de recevoir une notification de cette procédure pour échanger avec Meta.Dans son communiqué de presse, le Meta Oversight Board indique qu’il examinera la décision de Meta de laisser la vidéo sur le site malgré les signalements des utilisateurs. Pour rappel, le Meta O...

US presidents and first ladies to gather for tribute to Rosalynn Carter

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

(CNN) — US presidents and other leaders will travel to Atlanta on Tuesday to bid a final farewell to Rosalynn Carter at a private tribute service that’s among several ceremonies planned through Wednesday in honor of the former first lady.President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, former President Bill Clinton and former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump are expected to attend the tribute service.Former President Jimmy Carter, who is 99 and receiving hospice care at home, is also expected to attend the Atlanta service.Rosalynn Carter, who spent most of her life working on humanitarian projects alongside her husband and was a fierce advocate of mental health reform and destigmatizing mental illness, died on November 19 at the age of 96. Her family said she had entered hospice care two days prior to her death. In May, they said she had been diagnosed with dementia.Ceremonies honoring Rosalynn Carter’s life an...

Rescuers successfully drill through to trapped men in Himalayan tunnel in breakthrough for perilous operation

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:07 GMT

Editor’s note: This is a breaking news story. More to come.New Delhi, India (CNN) — Rescuers on Tuesday successfully drilled through to 41 men trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan tunnel, as a weekslong evacuation effort fraught with uncertainty enters its final stretch.The men have been trapped since November 12 when the part of tunnel they were helping to construct in India’s northern Uttarakhand state gave way, blocking their only exit with more than 60 meters (200 feet) of broken rock, concrete and twisted metal.The breakthrough follows a series of agonizing setbacks, during which rescue efforts were halted when the heavy machinery used to drill through the debris broke down, forcing workers to partially dig by hand and adopt other riskier methods to bring them to safety.Engineers had previously attempted to excavate the debris in the exit shaft using heavy machinery, but were forced to abandon efforts late on Friday after the powerful US-made...