Posts by Cosmopolitan Canada
Smoke clouds across Beit Hanun after IAF strikes 35 Hamas targets
Earlier on Saturday, the IAF struck and killed a terrorist in Hezbollah’s anti-tank unit in the area of Khiam in southern Lebanon. Dozens of IAF fighter jets struck over 35 Hamas terror targets in the area of Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Saturday evening. Targets also included underground tunnels…
Read MoreAir India crash victim’s relative ‘can’t be at peace’ until root cause known
The granddaughter of a victim of the Air India Flight 171 crash has said a preliminary report into the incident was “incomplete” and that she “can’t be at peace” without those responsible being held accountable. “It does bring us a little bit closer to understanding what happened,” Ria Patel told BBC’s Newshour, but added: “I…
Read MoreNew secretary-general of International Civil Defence Organization elected
The Secretary-General of the International Civil Defence Organization (ICDO) has been elected at a session held in Baku, according to the Azerbaijan Press Agency (APA) The head of the international relations department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Colonel Arguj Kalantarli, was unanimously elected to the post. Kalantarli delivered a…
Read MoreTeaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison
It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security state prison. There are sixteen students in the class. They are white, Black, Latino. A couple of them are the age of ordinary college kids; most are considerably older. The oldest of…
Read MorePKK disarmament opens ‘new page in history’ for Turkiye, Erdogan says
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the country has begun a new era as the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) began to disarm after a four-decade armed conflict that killed more than 40,000 people. In an address to his party, Justice and Development (AKP), Erdogan said on Saturday that the “scourge of terrorism has entered…
Read MoreMatan Angrest’s bag recovered by IDF from Gaza
His mother, Anat, posted on X/Twitter that “Matan’s bag was returned to me this week in a black plastic bag. How and when will Matan return?” Items belonging to Matan Angrest, understood to be one of the 20 living hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, were recovered by the IDF on Friday,…
Read MoreCause Revealed of Air India Plane Crash: Fuel Was Turned Off and 1 Pilot Blamed the Other, Preliminary Report Shows
NEED TO KNOW Authorities released information following an investigation into what caused the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash on June 12 India’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau said in its preliminary report that the accident was due to fuel to the aircraft’s engines being cut off The passenger plane was carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew…
Read MoreTesla reportedly close to starting sales in India
Tesla’s redesigned Model Y | Image Credits:Tesla Tesla is nearly ready to start selling its electric vehicles in India, according to Bloomberg News, after years of flirting with the idea. The company is about to open its first showroom in Mumbai and could start deliveries as early as August, according to the report. A few…
Read MoreAustralia Post rolls out parcel-only post offices
Australia Post has introduced a modernized post office format designed to make sending, collecting and returning parcels faster and more convenient, as well as its cheapest delivery option in the parcel category. The new stores, called Australia Post Parcels, are dedicated to parcels and facilitating quick customer exchanges with added flexibility through 24/7 self-serve options…
Read MoreGreek parliament passes suspension of asylum claims despite international criticism
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s parliament approved a three-month suspension of asylum claims for migrants arriving from Libya on Friday, despite strong criticism from the United Nations refugee agency and Europe’s top human rights official. The measure suspends asylum application processing for those arriving by sea from North Africa, following a dramatic surge in Mediterranean…
Read MoreAn Adolescent Crush That Never Let Up
John Updike’s professional relationship with The New Yorker began in 1954, when he was twenty-two and the magazine published his poem “Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums,” but his personal fascination began much earlier: he started submitting poems, drawings, newsbreaks, and other creative work to various magazines, including The New Yorker, at the age of thirteen.…
Read MoreIran says a young French-German cyclist is in custody, a French newspaper reports
PARIS (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister has confirmed that his country is detaining a teenage French-German cyclist who disappeared last month, French newspaper Le Monde reported Friday. The cyclist, Lennart Monterlos, “was detained for having committed an infraction,” the newspaper quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi as saying in the interview Thursday. He didn’t elaborate…
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