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A U.S. commander went to Israel amid fears of Iranian assault
A senior U.S. army commander traveled to Israel yesterday to coordinate with prime officers there on what is predicted to be imminent retaliatory motion by Iran, in addition to to debate the conflict in Gaza, officers stated.
Iran’s leaders have repeatedly vowed to punish Israel for an April 1 strike in Syria that killed a number of senior Iranian commanders. U.S. officers have stated they’re bracing for a attainable Iranian response, and Israel has put its army on alert.
The basic’s go to got here a day after President Biden stated that Iran was threatening a “important” assault. Biden acknowledged that regardless of current friction, U.S. assist for Israel “is ironclad” within the occasion of an assault by Iran.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that, amid the conflict in Gaza, Israel was “ready for situations involving challenges in different sectors.” He added, “We have decided a easy rule: Whoever harms us, we’ll hurt them.”
Hostages: A prime Hamas official stated that it didn’t have 40 dwelling hostages who met the standards for an change below the proposed cease-fire settlement with Israel, elevating fears that extra could be dead than beforehand thought.
Hunger disaster: Samantha Power, the top of U.S. Agency for International Development, informed lawmakers this week {that a} famine was underway in northern Gaza.
O.J. Simpson died at 76
O.J. Simpson, the soccer star and actor who was acquitted in a 1995 trial of killing his former spouse and her pal, died Wednesday at 76.
Simpson’s trial for the deaths of his former spouse, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman — a nine-month courtroom drama in Los Angeles — grew to become a nationwide sensation and an inflection level on race in America. It was known as “The Trial of the Century” by some information retailers, and Simpson’s acquittal left many Black folks jubilant and plenty of white folks aghast. (Read our 1995 protection of the decision.) In the aftermath, the case grew to become the grist for tv specials, movies and greater than 30 books.
In 1997, a civil go well with held Simpson responsible for the deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million in damages. It was a vindication of kinds for the households of the victims and a blow to Simpson, who stated he couldn’t pay.
Career: Simpson gained the Heisman Trophy because the nation’s finest faculty soccer participant in 1968, and a few magazines known as him the best operating again within the historical past of the faculty sport. Here’s a timeline of his life.
Ukraine passes a invoice to refill the ranks
Ukraine’s Parliament handed a mobilization legislation, an effort to replenish its exhausted and depleted combating forces, that are struggling to carry again Russia. Earlier this month, Kyiv lowered the draft age to 25, unsettling many younger males and their households.
The invoice has incentives for volunteers and advantages for the households of those that die in battle — in addition to new penalties for evading conscription. Importantly, it doesn’t have a timeline for demobilization, one thing troopers and their households had been demanding. Many younger Ukrainian males are ready in concern to be known as for service.
Population: Ukraine’s seek for new troopers has one other vital drawback — an absence of younger males. These charts clarify the century-old dilemma, however the primary query is whether or not the nation can replenish its ranks with out decimating a technology.
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Remembering Taro Akebono
Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born wrestler who grew to become sumo’s first foreign-born yokozuna, or grand champion sumo wrestler, died this month at 54.
When he grew to become Japan’s sixty fourth yokozuna in 1993, he shattered a cultural ceiling: The council that awards the title had beforehand maintained that no foreigner may possess the requisite dignity to carry it. Akebono would go on to achieve acceptance and recognition partially as a result of folks appreciated his devotion to the game.
Akebono gained a complete of 11 grand championships. His success drove a resurgence in sumo’s reputation, and set the stage for an period throughout which foreign-born wrestlers dominated its prime ranges.
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