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Facebook Tweet Email Link Israel has announced a daily “tactical pause in military activity” in three areas of Gaza to enable more aid to reach people, amid growing international outrage over starvation in the territory. The Israeli military said the move would “refute the false claim of deliberate starvation in the Gaza Strip.” The pause – which will also see the military open up corridors to facilitate aid delivery by the UN and other agencies – has come too late for dozens of Palestinians, with officials in Gaza reporting more deaths from malnutrition and among people desperately trying to get…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Kinshasa, Congo AP — At least 21 people were killed on Sunday in an attack on church premises in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, according to a civil society leader. The attack was carried out by members of the Allied Democratic Force (ADF) around 1 a.m. inside the premises of a Catholic church in eastern Congo’s Komanda. Several houses and shops were also burnt. “More than 21 people were shot dead inside and outside and we have recorded at least three charred bodies and several houses burned. But the search is continuing,” Dieudonne Duranthabo, a…
FAA chief Steve Dickson flies a Boeing 737 MAX, from Boeing Field on September 30, 2020 in Seattle, Washington.Mike Siegel | Getty ImagesAfter spiraling from crisis to crisis over much of the past seven years, Boeing is stabilizing under CEO Kelly Ortberg’s leadership.Ortberg, a longtime aerospace executive and an engineer whom the manufacturer plucked from retirement to fix the problem-addled company last year, is set this week to outline significant progress since he took the helm a year ago. Boeing reports quarterly results and gives its outlook on Tuesday.So far, investors are liking what they’ve been seeing. Shares of the…
Southwest Airlines reported its second-quarter 2025 financial results this week, revealing net income of $213 million and revenue well below Wall Street forecasts.The Dallas-based carrier said second-quarter 2025 passenger revenues reached $6.6 billion, marking a 1.3 percent decrease, year-over-year. Meanwhile, second quarter 2025 operating revenues came in at $7.2 billion, a 1.5 percent year-over-year decrease. Southwest is in the midst of a dramatic transformation that has seen it do away with its “Bags Fly Free” and open seating policies as it looks to become more competitive to please investors.”We continued to make meaningful progress against our transformational plan in the…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong — With her short hair and unshowy clothing, Fan Chunli looks every bit the middle-aged woman from rural China. Among a crowd of youngsters vying to become the next breakout star in one of China’s most popular stand-up comedy contests, she stands out. But when the 50-year-old takes the mic, she beams with life and drips sarcasm, unloading jokes about her abusive ex-husband that bring the audience into a mix of laughter and tears. Hailing from a place where simply knowing how to use the internet “makes me the Elon Musk of my village,”…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Bangkok, Thailand — Cambodia and Thailand exchanged fire across their disputed border for a fourth day on Sunday, hours after US President Donald Trump announced the two Southeast Asian nations had agreed to ceasefire talks and threatened continued fighting would jeopardize their trade deals with Washington. At least 32 people have been killed and more than 200,000 displaced since Thursday, according to Thai and Cambodian officials, in clashes that have rumbled on despite calls from the United Nations, United States and China for the fighting to stop. Both sides have accused the…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — George Lucas is finally coming to the stage at Comic-Con. And while “Star Wars” is sure to get a mention, the 81-year-old is making his debut appearance at the San Diego pop cultural extravaganza for a more earthbound reason: a preview of his long-in-the-works Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. The Sunday panel discussion in Comic-Con’s vaunted Hall H will act as a relatively quiet closing act to the four-day festival that brought its usual series of big, bombastic looks at upcoming sci-fi and superhero projects. The museum-centered session is also meant to be…
Israel’s far-right national security minister denounced the government’s decision to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza, calling it “a surrender to Hamas” and saying he was excluded from the deliberations. “On Saturday night, I was informed by a source in the Prime Minister’s Office that during Shabbat a security consultation took place without me,” Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote Saturday night on social media. Shabbat is the Jewish day of rest, which falls on a Saturday. During Shabbat, observant Jews normally refrain from work, outside of emergencies. “They know very well that, as Minister of National Security, I am available on Shabbat for…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Walls, tall and deadly, line three sides of Gaza. On the fourth lies the sea, stretching out to the horizon. Its waters, and the fish within them, have long nourished Gazans isolated from the outside world. Today, its beaches offer no respite and little shelter for the displaced, with the fishermen that once plied the shores now banned from the Mediterranean, stripping people of another desperately-needed food source. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reiterated a security order banning Gazans from even swimming off the coast earlier this month. And, as Israeli forces patrol the shore with…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A few things have changed for the stars of “Lilo & Stitch” since the movie became the breakout hit of 2025.For 8-year-old star Maia Kealoha, it’s meant no more Doritos – she’s learned she has to keep her teeth clean, especially when doing interviews.Kealoha, Sydney Agudong and Tia Carrere have been doing lots of those, taking a victory lap with “Lilo & Stitch” at Comic-Con 2025 and promoting the film’s release for digital purchase.Another change? Kealoha says with a big grin that she’s been recognized at stores “like five thousand times.”Agudong says the movie “an ode…