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Israeli troops on Tuesday demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the occupied West Bank last year, the military said. The residences of Mohammed Jaradat and Jit Jaradat in the West Bank were demolished early Tuesday, the military said. The men are accused of shooting at a car driving near the outpost of Homesh, killing a Jewish seminary student and wounding two others. The military said earlier the demolition took place late Monday.
Source: apnews.com
In the past fortnight, New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland have been pummelled by heavy downpours that have caused floods and killed 20 people. The threat has now intensified in Sydney, which has been hit by widespread flash-flooding. Two bodies - believed to be of a woman, 67, and her son, 34 - were found in a Sydney canal on Tuesday. NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said 40,000 residents in the state had been ordered to evacuate, and another 20,000 people were on standby.
Source: bbc.com
"Iran's second military satellite -- named Nour-2 -- has been launched into space by the Qassed rocket of the aerospace wing of the Revolutionary Guards and successfully placed in orbit 500 kilometres (310 miles) above the Earth," the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Source: france24.com
Animal activists criticise removal of bear known as Juan Carrito, taken to an enclosure for ‘problem’ animals. The rare brown bear became famous after breaking into a bakery and feasting on the biscuits. The two-year-old animal had been tranquillised and banished to a remote area of the national park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise after his midnight feast at the bakery in early December. But a week later the animal returned to Roccaraso, a ski resort, where he was filmed in the snow shrugging off a dog biting and barking around him.
Source: theguardian.com
Turkey and Israel will seek to overcome years of animosity and insults when their presidents meet for the first time in more than a decade this week, expanding a recent Turkish charm offensive with regional rivals. Turkey's efforts to repair its frayed relations in the Middle East led President Tayyip Erdogan to announce in January that he had invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog for Wednesday's talks, which both sides say will explore ways to deepen cooperation.
Source: reuters.com
A battered old Harry Potter book picked up for 50p in a charity shop is expected to sell for up to £3,000 at auction. The rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was printed in 1997 and is one of just 500 hardback copies from the first run. The JK Rowling novel is to be auctioned on Wednesday at Hansons in Staffordshire, with a guide price of £2,000 to £3,000.
Source: bbc.com
Robert Pattinson's pitch-black superhero adventure "The Batman" collected a mighty $128.5 million in its box office debut, marking the best opening weekend of 2022 by a landslide. But what is more impressive: it's only the second pandemic-era movie to cross the $100 million mark in a single weekend, a feat first achieved by "Spider-Man: No Way Home," which launched last December to a historic $260 million.
Source: reuters.com
Alexander Zverev was handed a suspended sentence on Monday following his violent outburst and disqualification in Acapulco last month, the ATP Tour said. The 24-year-old Olympic champion was banned for eight weeks and fined an additional $25,000 following his Mexico meltdown. The world number three had already been fined $40,000 for verbal abuse and unsportsmanlike conduct. However, both the ban and additional $25,000 fine will be suspended provided Zverev does not incur a further code violation in the 12-month period ending February 22, 2023.
Source: france24.com
Hundreds of residents in the US state of Florida were evacuated from their homes after a rash of wildfires that ignited dead vegetation swept through the area. The blazes across Florida’s Panhandle on Monday scorched 4,800 hectares (12,000 acres) of land and were 10 percent contained as the fire burned near communities east of Panama City, Florida Forest Service spokesperson Joe Zwierzchowski said. No injuries or fatalities have been reported.
Source: aljazeera.com
The official global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 6 million on Monday — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over.
Source: apnews.com
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba have agreed to meet on Thursday, Turkish top diplomat Mevlut Cavusoglu has said, in what would be the first potential talks between the two officials since Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Source: aljazeera.com
Political decisions must be taken within days to end the indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal after 11 months, the talks' coordinator, Enrique Mora of the European Union, said on Monday. After intensive talks between Tehran and world powers in Vienna, all parties involved in the negotiations have said an agreement was close, but there are still some significant differences to overcome between Washington and Tehran and the war in Ukraine has also begun to impact the negotiations.
Source: reuters.com
Toyota is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan starting Tuesday, because of a “system malfunction” that a domestic supplier suspects is a cyberattack. Kojima Industries Corp., based in Toyota city in central Japan, said Monday the problem could be a cyberattack as an error was detected in its computer server system. As a result, the company said its system could not communicate properly with Toyota or monitor production, although there was nothing physically wrong with the production equipment.
Source: apnews.com
Russian Valery Gergiev will not conduct the orchestra at Milan's La Scala this week after he failed to condemn the invasion of Ukraine, the city mayor said on Monday. Gergiev -- general director of the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre and regarded as close to Russian President Vladimir Putin -- conducted "The Queen of Spades", an opera based on Alexander Pushkin's novel at La Scala on Feb. 23. The show will run until March 15 and the next performance will be on Saturday.
Source: reuters.com
Rescuers on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have retrieved more bodies after a strong earthquake two days ago, raising the death toll to 11 while another 400 were injured and thousands displaced.
Source: theguardian.com
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 20 civilians in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo overnight, according to a local resident and an activist who criticised the failure of Congolese and Ugandan forces to stop the repeated massacres. The attack late on Sunday evening in the village of Kikura was blamed by the resident and the activist on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan militia that has killed thousands of civilians in eastern Congo since 2013.
Source: reuters.com
Eight people have died, more are missing and hundreds have been rescued as flooding hits Brisbane, Lismore, Murwillumbah and Grafton.
Source: bbc.com
"CODA," a heartfelt indie drama about a struggling deaf family, won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday, boosting its hopes as a potential dark horse for next month's Oscars.
Source: france24.com
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