EXPLAINERIsrael’s longest-serving premier has ushered in the country’s most religious and hardline government in history.Following his November 1 election win, Benjamin Netanyahu, informally known as “Bibi”, is set to return as prime minister for his sixth term. His new far-right government – the most religious and hardline in Israel’s history – is made up of ultraorthodox parties, an ultranationalist religious faction and his Likud party. Netanyahu, who is also on trial for corruption, is already Israel’s longest-serving premier, and now ushers in Israel’s most right-wing government. Here is all you need to know about Netanyahu: Netanyahu’s background Netanyahu’s mother, Tzila…
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Gervonta Davis was released on bail on Wednesday after being jailed in Florida on a domestic violence charge. According to a Broward County Sheriff’s Office incident report, Davis allegedly struck a woman on the right side of her head with a “closed hand type slap” in Parkland, Florida on Tuesday afternoon, before being jailed on a misdemeanour domestic charge of battery causing bodily harm. The report states that the woman, who doesn’t live with Davis and whose name was redacted, suffered a small abrasion to the inside of her upper lip on the right side of her mouth.Davis was not…
Several countries have imposed restrictions on travellers from China because of a surge in COVID-19 infections after the country rolled back its stringent “zero-Covid” policy. From the United States to Japan, nations are worried that new variants could emerge from China’s continuing outbreak and that Beijing may not inform the rest of the world quickly enough. There have been no reports of new variants yet, but there is widespread concern over the lack of information and data from China. The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it was very concerned about rising reports of severe cases across China after the country…
Here is the situation as it stands on Thursday, December 29. Fighting Russia has shelled more than 25 settlements around Kherson and Zaporizhia, causing civilian casualties and damaging civilian infrastructure in Kherson city and region, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Fighting was particularly intense around the strategic eastern city of Bakhmut in Donetsk province and Svatove, further north in Luhansk province, Britain’s defence ministry said. Kyiv-based military analyst Oleh Zhdanov noted that Kharkiv city and region have suffered heavy attacks, and a regional gas pipeline has been damaged. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a…
Bikaner and Sidhi, India – Shyam, a truck driver in northern India’s city of Prayagraj, had not had sex with his pregnant wife for six months when he saw an advertisement on the Telegram messaging app promising to make his fantasies come true. Shyam, 44, was impressed by the ad’s formal tone and eagerly followed a link to a pink-themed website, where he was asked to pay a registration fee of 4,000 Indian rupees ($48.28). Shyam made the payment at his local bank and returned home excitedly to access the website, only to be asked to pay an additional 6,000…
Former US pilot faces charges of conspiracy to export defence services to China over training of military pilots.The Australian Attorney-General’s Department has approved a request to extradite a former US Marine Corps fighter pilot to the United States where he faces charges of breaking US arms control laws by engaging in the training of Chinese pilots. Arrested in Australia in October, Daniel Duggan, 54, is accused of money laundering and conspiracy to export defence services to China by instructing Chinese military pilots in how to land on aircraft carriers, according to a 2017 indictment unsealed by a US court in…
The confirmation is the second to occur in less than a week, bringing the total number of identified children to 132.DNA tests have confirmed that a man was snatched from his mother as a baby during Argentina’s last military dictatorship and was illegally adopted by a family in a northern province, a human rights group said on Wednesday. The case, the second announced in less than a week, has increased the total number of successful identifications to 132. The activist group Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo did not release the latest person’s full name, identifying him only as Juan Jose,…
Restrictions come in response to surge of infections across China after Beijing lifted strict policies to contain the virus.The United States will require negative COVID-19 tests for travellers from China, US health officials have said, after Beijing’s decision to lift stringent restrictions to contain the virus. The officials said on Wednesday that the new policy, which will kick in on January 5, will apply to all air passengers over two years old from China, Hong Kong or Macao. Tests must be taken “no more than two days before their departure”, a health official said. Travellers who test positive more than…
The NHL has fined the Toronto Maple Leafs $100,000 for traveling to St. Louis for the team’s game against the Blues outside of the NHL’s mandated travel period. Maple Leafs fined $100,000 for violating Collective Bargaining Agreement: https://t.co/Vzu8gs5ZBy pic.twitter.com/fVL8EEUrn0 — NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) December 28, 2022 The Leafs were in violation of Article 16.5(b) of the league’s collective bargaining agreement which states: No Club shall be required to travel on the day of an NHL Game if the average scheduled flight time for the airplane on which the Club would travel is greater than two and one-half (2 1/2)…
The administration of US President Joe Biden has called the meltdown that led to the cancellation of thousands of flights at Southwest Airlines a “system failure”, blaming the company itself for the crisis. A historic winter storm, dubbed the “blizzard of the century“, had blanketed the country around the holiday weekend, but Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said on Wednesday that the level of cancellations at Southwest cannot be justified by the extreme weather. “We are past the point where they could say this is a weather-driven issue,” Buttigieg said in an interview with ABC News. “Don’t get me wrong, all…