The attacker killed two visitors to Djerba’s Ghriba Synagogue and a security guard before being shot dead.Two visitors, a security guard, and their attacker have been killed near a synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel during an annual pilgrimage each year. Djerba – a holiday destination off the coast of southern Tunisia, 500 km (300 miles) from the capital Tunis – is home to Africa’s oldest synagogue and the annual pilgrim has had tight security since al-Qaeda attacked the religious site in 2002 with a truck bomb that killed 21 Western tourists.…
Author: National Tone
On the one hand, it’s a deeply cynical, destructive, and indeed existential argument. On the other hand, a lot of people bought it. The good news is that Trump is not currently president. The bad news is that on his way out, he dealt a near-fatal blow to those institutions when he encouraged supporters to “fight like hell” and march on the Capitol. Sure, the system held up and rebuffed Trump’s play. But the cost was deep disarray, a rattled political realm that has not yet fully contended with the image of one president tarnishing the system. In a democracy…
Arizona’s Clayton Keller, Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang and Chicago’s Alex Stalock are the Masterton Trophy finalists for the 2022-23 season, the NHL announced Tuesday. The Masterton Trophy is presented annually “to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey,” according to the NHL. Keller, 24, is coming off his best NHL season, setting career highs in goals (37) and assists (49). This comes after fracturing his femur on March 30, 2022, in an awkward crash into the boards during a game against San Jose. The forward had to undergo a summer of rehab in order…
Holders Real Madrid and Manchester City draw 1-1 in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal in Madrid.Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne powered home a rasping low shot from distance in the 67th minute to earn his side a 1-1 draw at Real Madrid in their Champions League semifinal first leg. City dominated the match on Tuesday in the early stages but it was Real who took the lead as Vinicius Jr netted a brilliant curling strike from the edge of the area that flew into the top-right corner with Real’s first shot on target in the 36th…
In July, the Taliban announced a meeting of handpicked clerics to decide on the fate of the education ban. But only two clerics came in support of the girls’ education. Since then, the Taliban has not made any progress on whether they are willing to compromise“Initially, we were hopeful that they would reopen schools, but with the passage of time, we noticed that, no, they are doing something else. They just issue anti-women verdicts after each day,” Nazhand said. “I don’t think that they are willing to reopen schools, the Taliban don’t have any problem with girls’ schools, but they…
South Africa’s place in this year’s Cricket World Cup was confirmed on Tuesday after the first of three one-day internationals between Bangladesh and Ireland was abandoned because of rain.Ireland needed to win all three matches in the series to stand a chance of claiming the final automatic qualifying place for the World Cup via the ICC ODI Super League, at the expense of the Proteas. Instead, the Irish must go through final qualifying in June and July, after rain interrupted their reply to Bangladesh’s 246-9.Ireland were 65-3 after 16.3 overs when the rain came around 4.45pm at The County Ground…
Toronto Raptors forward O.G. Anunoby has been named to the NBA all-defensive second team. Anunoby averaged 16.8 points, 5.0 rebounds, and career highs in both steals (1.91) and blocks (0.75), in 67 games this season. He led the NBA in steals per game and total steals (128), becoming the first Raptor to achieve either feat. Toronto also led the NBA in steals per game with 9.4. The closest teams were New Orleans and Memphis at 8.3. The six-foot-seven, 232-pound Anunoby received 14 first-team votes and 53 second-team votes. He is joined by Memphis guard Dillon Brooks of Mississauga, Ont., Boston…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says in a damning new report that the Israeli military has taken no accountability for its killings of at least 20 journalists, 18 of whom were Palestinian, over the past 20 years. The press freedom watchdog said it had found “a pattern of the killings of journalists by [Israeli military]” in its report, Deadly Pattern, published on Tuesday. “No one has ever been charged or held accountable for these deaths … severely undermin[ing] the freedom of the press,” it added. The CPJ said Palestinians make up 80 percent of journalists and media workers killed…
In the past, I found it easy to root against the imperialist teams, but that calculus gets complicated the more those teams change. Paris-born star Kylian Mbappé is the son of a Cameroonian father and a mother of Algerian descent. Canada’s Alphonso Davies was born in a refugee camp in Ghana. Twelve of the 26 players on the US team are Black, as many as the 1994, 1998, and 2002 teams combined.One of them, Sergiño Dest, was born in the Netherlands to a white Dutch mother and an American father whose ancestry traced to Suriname. On Tuesday, in the game’s…
Gaza City – Adeeb al-Rabai had just fallen asleep in his home in Gaza City when he was awakened by the sounds of bombing in the very early hours of Tuesday. “I thought I was dreaming until I realised that the bombing was on my building,” the 60-year-old lawyer said. Israel had launched air raids on several areas across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 13 people, including six women and four children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Among the dead were three members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement. “It’s a civilian residential building,” al-Rabai said,…