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Live updates | Deluge of Israeli airstrikes destroy apartments in Gaza refugee camp

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

A deluge of Israeli airstrikes Tuesday on a refugee camp near Gaza City demolished apartment buildings, leaving gaping holes where they once stood, while ground troops battled Hamas militants across northern Gaza. Buoyed by the first successful rescue of a captive held by Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a cease-fire and again vowed to crush the militant group’s ability to govern Gaza or threaten Israel.Though more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have fled their homes, several hundred thousand remain in the north, where Israeli troops and tanks have reportedly advanced on multiple sides of Gaza City.The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has reached 8,525, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 122 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids.More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most of them civilians slain in the initial Hamas rampage that started t...

Migrant with 3 kids shares story after release from Denver shelter

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver released about 190 migrants from local shelters Tuesday, deactivating the cold weather shelter plan now that the temperatures are warming back up.Carolina Montilla is a Venezuelan mom who migrated here to Denver with her three children, ages 9, 11 and 12."We went through a jungle, we went through a river, we ran out of food. In one country we were robbed,” Montilla said.Montilla said her family made it to Texas where they couldn’t find work and begged to get enough money to come to Denver. FOX31 asked why.“Because we want a future,” she said. “We want to work.”'We don't have anywhere to stay'The future is uncertain today for Montilla and her children.“We don’t have anywhere to stay,” she said.As of Monday, Denver reports it's sheltered and supported 25,801 migrants from the southern border at a cost of more than $29 million, and some 2,170 people were being sheltered. How much you need to make to be ‘middle class’ in Denver The city has recently changed the...

Ballot box destroyed by truck in Aurora

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Suspicions have arisen in Aurora about why a voter ballot box was plowed down by a construction truck just a week before the Nov. 7 election.The box is located at 1585 Kingston near Colfax Avenue. Caught on camera: Truck driver’s dash cam captures intense crash on I-70 Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum told FOX31 the incident is under investigation and provided the Problem Solvers with a video showing what happened.“A dump truck was pulling away from where it was working and happened to run into the box,” Zygielbaum said.Dr. Thomas Mayes is president of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, pastor of the adjacent Living Water Christian Center and at-large candidate for Aurora City Council. Mayes told FOX31 his first reaction to learning the box was struck was suspicion.“I’m taking it personal, because this particular ballot box is at my church, my name is on the front of the church, my name is on the ballot. It looks to me like a form ...

Miami Police officer charged with DUI after being found passed out in car with gun

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

A Miami Police was arrested and was charged with DUI.Joevanih Sauvgere, 31, was arrested and booked into jail Tuesday morning, but has since bonded out. According to an arrest report obtained by 7News, 31-year-old Joevanih Sauvgere was found passed out in a personal vehicle, with a gun on his lap.7News was also told that he was first spotted by a Miami-Dade Schools Police Officer in that vehicle at Northwest 62nd Street and Sixth Avenue.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

The EU at 30: Looking forward and back

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

Dermot Hodson is author of “Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It,” published by Yale University Press.The European Union turns 30 today.The Maastricht Treaty, which entered into force on November 1, 1993, envisioned nothing less than “a new stage in the process of European integration,” which would help end “the division of the European continent.” For all its faults, the EU has honored these aspirations, admitting 16 new members over the last three decades and fostering a spirit of cooperation that no other international organization has matched.But for all its achievements, the EU still struggles to defend the ideals of unity, solidarity and harmony symbolized by the circle of stars on its flag.Today, the mood in Brussels is somber, just as it was in 1993, when the EU was established on the edifice of the older European Community. Then, as now, the bloc faced sluggish economic growth, a political agenda partly shaped by right-wing populists, and bloody ...

Egypt’s envoy to Brussels accuses West of pro-Israel bias

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

BRUSSELS — Egypt’s envoy to Brussels slammed the West’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war, accusing it of having a pro-Israel bias that he says is damaging its reputation in the Middle East.In an interview in his Brussels residence, Cairo’s top diplomat in the EU capital, Badr Abdelatty, also stressed his country will not accept Palestinian refugees fleeing from Gaza.“We will not allow the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and to have another Nakba [or “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the mass uprooting of Palestinians in the war over Israel’s creation in 1948] at the expense of the neighboring countries, whether it’s Jordan or Egypt,” Abdelatty told POLITICO.After Hamas killed more than 1,400 people on October 7, Israel launched airstrikes and, recently, ground operations across Gaza, killing more than 8,500 people, including thousands of children, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Israel has rejected calls for a cease-fire and U.S. Preside...

From WWE wrestling to global AI summit: The unlikely rise of Michelle Donelan

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

LONDON — Britain’s tech chief is no stranger to dealing with big egos. She used to promote superstar wrestlers.U.K. Science and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan’s past career as a marketeer for WWE wrestling may stand her in good stead at Bletchley Park on Wednesday, as she hosts representatives from more than 100 tech companies, countries and academic institutions on the first day of a U.K.-hosted summit which aims to grapple with one of the biggest challenges of our time — the rise of artificial intelligence. Working at the fast-paced WWE was “very much like” being at her busy Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Donelan tells POLITICO — somewhat improbably — in an eve-of-summit interview at her sparsely-decorated office on Whitehall.The oddball world of commercial wrestling was also good training for politics. “It was an eye-opener to different personalities, and how to deal with those different personalities,” she says — ideal for “deal...

Ravens stand pat at NFL trade deadline: ‘We have an excellent roster’

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

The Ravens are standing pat.The NFL trade deadline came and went Tuesday without Baltimore making a move. Coach John Harbaugh said the day before that he thinks the team has everything it needs in terms of players to be successful, and the lack of adding to the roster seems to indicate general manager Eric DeCosta feels the same.DeCosta, who typically does not speak to the media during the season, was unavailable for comment.“Do we have a specific overarching have-to-have guy? No,” Harbaugh said Monday. “We have an excellent roster.”Though the NFL trade deadline doesn’t produce the same flurry of activity that is seen in other sports such as the NBA and MLB, there were deals to be made.The San Francisco 49ers strengthened their already elite defense by reportedly trading a 2024 third-round pick for Commanders star defensive end Chase Young. Washington also unloaded their other defensive end, Montez Sweat, to the Chicago Bears for a second-round draft pi...

Depeche Mode goes big at TD Garden

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

Depeche Mode stood in front of a 40-foot, ultra-high def video screen with a 35-foot, twitching neon “M” at its center. Lights strobed, lasers beamed, images flashed on the screen with impossible brightness. None of it distracted from David Gahan.DM frontman Gahan captured everyone’s attention at the packed TD Garden on Tuesday. The singer, in perfect impassioned and overwrought voice, moved around the stage like a flamenco dancer, a ballerina, a stripper, a devilish imp, and a kindly guide across the void and into a throbbing discotheque.The band’s first Boston concert in more than half a decade had the makings of a goth prom  — Depeche Mode on Halloween, c’mon, sublime! But Depeche Mode’s art is both too monolithic and personal, too absolutely connected to the broken parts of the world, the broken parts in us, to have even a whiff of kitsch.Gahan and Martin Gore started the show by chanting to the crowd, to the world, into that void: “No rain, no clouds, no pain, no shrouds, no fi...

Chicago lawyer stands out for ability to overturn wrongful convictions

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:28 GMT

CHICAGO — For the last 15 years, one Chicago lawyer has stood out for his ability to overturn wrongful convictions. Josh Tepfer is an attorney at the Chicago law firm Loevy & Loevy, where a team of lawyers, investigators, paralegals and case managers operate what’s known as the Exoneration Project. Over many years, Tepfer has established himself as the most accomplished exoneration lawyer around, responsible for almost 300 exonerations.Tepfer ultimately helped right wrongs that cost two men dearly.  From Melrose Park to Memphis: Native suburban boy’s Halloween costume pays homage to Cubs’ Harry Caray Terrill Swift, who was given a 30-year sentence for the rape and murder of a woman on Chicago’s South Side when he was 17 and Francisco Benitez, who was given a life sentence for murder on the West Side. Both were wrongly convicted and Tepfer helped set them free."Josh seems to overturn convictions," Jon Loevy, from Loevy & Loevy, said. "He does mass exonerations, where h...