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The first strikes hit the enclave shortly before midnight, according to witnesses and Palestinian media reports. Multiple videos circulating online show massive blasts allegedly hitting the strip on Saturday evening. Israeli media suggested that the IDF was retaliating against Hamas, blaming the group for inciting border violence earlier in the …

A recorded multi-member Zoom meeting from the 57th Annual Conference of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has gone viral. In an almost two-minute-long video circulating on Twitter, one of the call member’s windows showed sexual intercourse recorded by another conference participant.  Two people can be seen apparently having sex in …

Putin and Erdogan held phone talks on Saturday, according to the Kremlin press service. The leaders discussed various issues, including the ongoing firefighting efforts in Turkey, where a Russian Be-200 plane recently crashed. They also had “an in-depth discussion” on Afghanistan in light of the Taliban takeover and disintegration of …

Nearly a week after the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, the US and other Western countries are still evacuating their citizens from Hamid Karzai International Airport, which remains the only lifeline between Kabul and the West. After thousands of desperate Afghans stormed the runway and attempted to get aboard …

A three-year old girl, her father, two passers-by, and the gunman’s mother were murdered in cold blood in Plymouth, southwest England last week. Mainstream reports attributed the blame to Jake Davison identifying as an incel, a term short for involuntary celibate. According to them, the subculture is creating dangerous killers.  …

Like everyone else in America, and around the world, I watched the images of the airport in Kabul as people lost their lives desperately clinging to an American transport plane with horror. The American political machine’s indifference to suffering is nothing new, and I have experienced the steam roll emotionally, …

Severe weather warnings have been issued across the northeastern US, as Hurricane Henri tracks northwest across the Atlantic. Henri was upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane by the National Hurricane Center on Saturday morning, and is expected to make landfall on Sunday.  Should it hit Long Island, it …

The charges against Anez, who seized power in the Latin American nation for a year, have been “provisionally classified as genocide, serious and minor injury, and injury followed by death,” Attorney General Juan Lanchipa announced on Friday. According to Bolivian law, the ex-president could face 10 to 20 years in …

Winston Churchill famously defined Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Its unique history and geography have obviously produced a distinctive political culture, but Western efforts to mystify Russia also have the effect of drawing a dividing line between the rational and predictable ‘us’ versus the …

OnlyFans, the subscription site where users pay to receive (typically nude) photos and videos, announced on Thursday that it would ban “sexually explicit conduct.” The ban was presented as a necessity to calm wary investors, who are apparently either concerned about the morality of investing in an amateur porn platform, …