1 week ago ‘Death is better than displacement’: Gaza City mothers say hunger blocks escape of looming Israeli offensive

Palestinian mothers have warned that their hunger is preventing them from moving away from Gaza City as Israel warned that Gaza’s largest city would be destroyed unless Hamas yields to their terms.

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2 w. ago Hamas accepts new ceasefire deal as Israeli occupation of Gaza City looms

Gaza's Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll from the war had climbed to 62,004, with another 156,230 people wounded

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2 w. ago Cheer up, Ice Cube, your War of the Worlds movie may be really bad, but it's not worthless | Saranka Maheswaran

Awful clunkers occasionally emerge from both Hollywood and Bollywood, but I have found value in most cinematic calamitiesIf the latest adaptation of HG Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, a movie starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, was designed to make us pause and ask questions, it has certainly succeeded. Unfortunately, what a lot of viewers have been asking is why it was inflicted on the public in the first place. Is War of the Worlds “one of the worst movies ever made?”, asked the BBC. “Shockingly bad War of the Worlds is one of the worst movies of the decade,” said the New York Post. “Amazon’s War of the Worlds update should never have been released,” declared the Telegraph.The 2005 adaptation, starring Tom Cruise, was a smash hit. Now people are flocking to the remake to see just how bad a film can be – it’s in the top 10 films watched in the UK and US on Amazon Prime. It seems that we have come to love “bad” films almost as much as those deemed good. The website Rotten ...

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3 w. ago ‘Looming over the city like gods’: the men who changed New York for better and worse

Jonathan Mahler’s new book looks back at the tumultuous period between 1986 and 1990 when figures such as Trump, Koch and Giuliani forever affected the cityJonathan Mahler didn’t plan to publish his new book about New York City from 1986 to 1990, tumultuous years culminating in a historic mayoral election, amid a similarly dramatic campaign for city hall. But he’s not unhappy to do so.The Gods of New York tells how the Democrat Ed Koch sought a fourth term as mayor but by election year, 1989, was widely seen as an “incumbent plagued by scandal, just like Eric Adams now”, Mahler said. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Nascar driver falls from roof of car while celebrating race win and breaks collarbone

Rookie Connor Zilisch cleared of serious head injury in New York‘Grateful it wasn’t any worse,’ says 19-year-old after freak accidentNascar rookie Connor Zilisch has been ruled out of the Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International in New York after breaking his collarbone when he fell off the roof of his car on Saturday.The 19-year-old won the Mission 200 at the Glen Xfinity Series race and climbed out of his No 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet to celebrate. He had one foot on the roof and one on the ledge of the window and was posing for photographs when he lost his balance and tumbled to the ground head-first. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago From finding love and God to gruelling challenges and coming close to death: How Mike Posner's life has changed 11 years on from writing hit single I Took A Pill in Ibiza

The 37-year-old singer is best known for 2010 hit Cooler Than Me, and his 2016 track with Avicii, I Took A Pill In Ibiza.

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3 w. ago As federal takeover threats loom, the city of Washington waits for the White House to make its move

President Donald Trump's promised law enforcement surge in Washington, D

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3 w. ago Kemi Badenoch says case of vile Austrian sex offender 'killed' her belief in God

Kemi Badenoch said her belief in God changed in 2008 when she read the vile story of Josef Fritzl, who locked and repeatedly raped his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar for 24 years

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4 w. ago Canada wildfires: 81 million Americans under air quality alerts as blazes continue

Hundreds of fires across Canada and parts of the US prompt alerts in 14 states from Great Lakes region to the northeastHundreds of wildfires continued to burn across Canada and parts of the US on Tuesday sending smoke from the blazes across the region and reducing air quality in both countries.US air quality tanked from the Great Lakes region to the northeast, making skies hazy from Minneapolis to New York City and even prompting a ground stop at Boston’s Logan international airport due to “low visibility” on Monday. Detroit, New York City and Chicago continued to record some of the worst air quality in the world on Tuesday, according to IQAir, ranking fourth, 10th and 11th respectively. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Canada wildfires: 81 million Americans under air quality alerts as blazes rage

Hundreds of fires across Canada and parts of the US prompt alerts in 14 states from Great Lakes region to the north-eastHundreds of wildfires continued to burn across Canada and parts of the US on Tuesday sending smoke from the blazes across the region and reducing air quality in both countries.US air quality tanked from the Great Lakes region to the north-east, making skies hazy from Minneapolis to New York City and even prompting a ground stop at Boston’s Logan international airport due to “low visibility” on Monday. Detroit, New York City and Chicago continued to record some of the worst air quality in the world on Tuesday, according to IQAir, ranking fourth, 10th and 11th respectively. Continue reading...

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