Israeli and Palestinian supporters rally across US after Hamas attack
Israeli and Palestinian supporters rally across US after Hamas attack: 'This is a moment to not be alone'
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Israel and Palestinian supporters gathered in cities across the U.S. on Sunday as the world watched in shock and horror at the conflict that has killed hundreds and wounded thousands in the Middle East.
A skirmish broke out between opposing demonstrators near the United Nations compound in New York City after a large group of Palestinian supporters rallied in Times Square. Meanwhile, Palestinian Americans protested outside the Israeli consulates in Atlanta and Chicago. The incursion left many Jewish communities and organizations in disbelief — drawing widespread condemnation — as it coincided with Simchat Torah celebrations, a major Jewish holiday.
In San Francisco, a Jewish community gathered at the Congregation Sherith Israel, one of the oldest synagogues in the United States. Some students from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, 25 miles from Gaza, were visiting San Francisco for a week as part of a delegation from the Hillel organization.
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breaking news : Jamie Lynn Spears on ‘Zoey 102’ Reunion Movie: “Pinch-Me Moment
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Trump got detained Americans back from North Korea For Biden | For Biden it won't be so easy
Trump got detained Americans back from North Korea For Biden
it wont be so easy
WASHINGTON — Weeks before a planned summit with Kim Jong Un in 2018, a gleeful Donald Trump welcomed back three detained Americans whose release his administration had secured from the reclusive country of North Korea.
“Frankly, we didn’t think it was going to happen and it did,” Trump said at the time.
For Biden, it won't be so easy. On Tuesday, Pvt. 2nd Class soldier Travis King, ditched a tour group to the Demilitarized Zone and bolted into North Korea, where he was last seen being taken into custody by officials. The disgraced soldier was being sent back to the U.S. to be kicked out of the Army but headed for the fortified nation instead.
King is the latest person during Biden's first term in office to be taken into custody by a hostile nation. While the bizarre circumstances surrounding King's arrest differ vastly from women's basketball player Brittney Griner or Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, his detention has once again put the spotlight on the president's ability to bring imprisoned Americans home.
Negotiating King's release will be an uphill battle precisely because North Korea has rejected previous offers from his administration for unconditional talks, experts say. North Korea has a history of attempting to leverage detainees to extract concessions. To complicate matters, relations are at an all-time low as tensions in the region have surged over North Korea’s ballistic missile launches.
"Now it's up to a negotiation. And unfortunately, we're seeing this so much now with Russia and China and Iran, that we're having to swap our prisoners for people that do a lot more egregious violations. We don't have a lot of leverage over them," House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul told
That, the Republican congressman from Texas said, "Or they're going to try to cut a deal and get something in return."
Biden has relied on prisoner swaps on multiple occasions to bring home detained Americans.
One such exchange, in which the U.S. handed over convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, led to Griner's release. But the deal wasn't a solid win for Biden. The president drew condemnation for his failure to secure the release of a former Marine, Paul Whelan who has been held in a Russian prison on espionage charges since 2018.
Biden said last week that he was willing to entertain a prisoner swap to secure WSJ reporter Gershkovich's release from Russia.
“I'm serious about doing all we can to free Americans being illegally held in Russia or anywhere else for that matter,” Biden said.
The prisoner releases that took place under Trump – including of Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk prior to the Singapore summit – happened in part because North Korea wanted to engage.
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A bus crash in southern Mexico kills 29 people and injures 19 #LIVE
A bus crash in southern Mexico kills 29 people and injures 19.
The accident occurred when the driver lost control of the vehicle in Magdalena Penasco.
29 people were killed in Mexico when a passenger bus plummeted into a ravine Wednesday in the southern state of Oaxaca, police said (AFP)
A passenger bus in southern Mexico lost control, plunged into a 75-foot-deep gully, and killed at least 29 passengers and left 20 injured. The accident happened in the indigenous Mixteca region of Oaxaca state.
Jesús Romero, state's interior secretary, informed 27 people had died in the crash, including a 1 1/2-year-old toddler. Meanwhile, about 20 people were injured in the accident, some very seriously.
Later his office confirmed that the death toll increased to 29, as two victims died at a hospital.
Romero said the bus driver apparently lost control of the vehicle and plunged into the gully. “It appears that a lack of skill and tiredness caused the accident," Romero said in remarks to a local television station.
The police released photos depicting a devastating scene where the bus had overturned, completely crushing the passenger compartment. The bus was en route from Mexico City to remote mountain villages in the impoverished Mixteca region.
The belongings, bundles, and baskets scattered among the wreckage indicated that the victims were likely individuals who worked in manual labor in the capital and were returning to their hometowns.
The deadly accident follows others on winding, steep roads in remote parts of Mexico. In April, 18 people were killed and dozens were injured when a bus fell off a cliff in western Mexico.
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Como mass shooting: Surveillance video captures moments shooting happens in Fort Worth
Como mass shooting: Surveillance video captures moments shooting happens in Fort Worth
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breaking news : a dream changed his entire life story Ibrahim Richmond
Ibrahim Richmond
He was a Christian priest
Became a Muslim
Doing the holy Hajj
A dream changes his entire life
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I was talking about Ibrahim Richmond, a Christian pastor from South Africa
Recently converted to Islam
He has become the center of discussion around the world
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Recently converted to Islam
This former Christian pastor said about the fulfillment of his dreams
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French Nationalists fighting off the invading rioters. #FrenchRevolution
France will deploy 45,000 security forces amid ongoing riots,
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Friday, as the country is dealing with violent street protests following the shooting of a 17-year-old boy by French police.
This compares with 40,000 mobilized the previous day, as anger over the police killing of a teenager during a police stop Tuesday showed no sign of abating.
A young man died Friday after falling from the roof of a store in northwestern France during overnight protests triggered by the police shooting of a teenager, police said.
The man, around 20, crashed through the roof of a supermarket that prosecutors said had not been the target of any plundering during riots overnight Thursday to Friday, they said.
Rioters loot Apple Store in Strasbourg
Young rioters went on a daylight looting spree Friday in the French city of Strasbourg, targeting an Apple Store and other shops following the fatal shooting of a teen by a policeman near Paris.
Fearing an outbreak of vandalism, police had earlier locked down access to a shopping mall in the center of the eastern French city, where one of the Apple Store's entrances is located.
But groups of youths gathered at another entrance to the store, outside the mall, and began to vandalize it, witnesses said.
"They broke two of the store's windows, and we saw gangs of young people going in and coming out, in and out, trying to steal display items," Corentin Flinck, who works in a neighboring shop, told AFP.
Police used teargas against the looters, he said, as regular shoppers sought refuge inside stores.
Several police arrived to block access to the Apple Stores, and explosions were heard.
Staff at nearby department store Galeries Lafayette lowered metal shutters for protection, as did other stores in the neighborhood.
Several luxury goods shops had already emptied their window displays, but other shops, selling clothes or shoes, were plundered, an AFP reporter said.
Rioters also damaged a police vehicle.
Eleven people were arrested, according to the interior ministry.
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FLOATING CITY ON THE OCEAN CHEST-THIS SHIP IS EQUAL TO 4 FOOTBALL FIELDS-ICON OF THE SEAS
Titanic was once the largest ship in the world.
Times have changed, ships much larger than Titanic are currently under construction in the form of the Khrushchev Icon of the Series, five times the size of the Titanic,
Icon of the Seas is a cruise ship under construction for Royal Caribbean International and will be the lead ship of the Icon class.
It is scheduled to enter service in early 2024 out of PortMiami.
It has a gross tonnage of 250,800,
making her the largest cruise ship in the world by gross tonnage.
In October 2016, Royal Caribbean and Meyer Turku announced an order to build two ships under the project name "Icon".
The ships are expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2023 and in 2025. The ships will be classified by DNV.
Royal Caribbean applied to register a trademark for "Icon of the Seas" in 2016, which was at the time suggested as an indication of the name of the first ship.
Steel-cutting for Icon of the Seas began in June 2021. In October 2021, Royal Caribbean announced that the first LNG tank for the ship was installed at the Neptun Werft in Rostock, Germany. In December 2021, the floating engine room unit, including the LNG tanks, was towed to Turku by tug.
The keel was laid in April 2022.
In May 2022, Royal Caribbean confirmed that Icon of the Seas would be bigger than the Oasis class.
On 19 June 2023, Icon of the Seas set off for her first set of sea trials after being delayed due to poor conditions.
She returned to the Meyer Turku shipyard on 22 June.
The ship will now have final adjustments made to her systems,
and interior spaces will be completed and furnished during this phase.
Icon of the Seas uses fuel cell technology, supplied by ABB Group.
It is powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), with a gross tonnage of 250,800 GT. The ship has six multi-fuel Wärtsilä engines generating 67,500 kW (90,520 hp) of power. The engines can be powered with both LNG and diesel fuel.
The ship contains other alternative energy features, like the use of fuel cells to produce electricity and fresh water.
Icon of the Seas is the first Royal Caribbean vessel to utilize such technology.
The ship will have a crew of 2,350, and a capacity of 5,610 passengers at double occupancy, or 7,600 passengers at maximum capacity.
Icon of the Seas has 20 decks with 7 swimming pools and 6 water slides. The company claims the ship has the tallest waterfall, the tallest water slide, the largest waterpark, and the first suspend
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Cinematographer Remembers “I think we really need to get away from that
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James Cameron: Titan Sub Tragedy Is Similar to the Titanic Disaster Itself
James Cameron: Titan Sub Tragedy Is Similar to the Titanic Disaster Itself
The Oscar-winning 'Titanic' director weighs in on the "nightmare" tragedy that cost four explorers and a pilot their lives.
Oscar-winning Titanic director James Cameron has weighed in on the Titan submersible tragedy that now appears to have claimed the lives of four passengers and its pilot.
Cameron told ABC News on Thursday: “Many people in the community were concerned about this sub and even wrote letters to the company saying that what they were doing was too experimental and what they were doing needed to be certified,” Cameron said. “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many died as a result. It’s a very similar tragedy at the exact same site. It’s astonishing and really quite surreal.”
Cameron noted that he’s a submersible designer himself and that he understands the challenges of making such a craft work safely and successfully. He defended the practice of deep-sea dives as a whole.
“It’s absolutely critical for people to get the take-home message that deep submersible diving is a mature art,” Cameron said. “The safety record is the gold standard, absolutely, not only fatalities but no accidents. … Of course [what happened to the Titan is] the nightmare that we’ve all lived with, we’ve lived with it in the back of our minds.”
Speaking to BBC News, Cameron added that he knew the sub was doomed soon after the news of it vanishing first broke. “I felt in my bones what had happened,” Cameron said. “For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously — sub’s gone. I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That’s exactly where they found it. [It] felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff.”
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Lost with the Titanic: Will submarine passengers' remains ever be found?
Lost with the Titanic: Will submarine passengers' remains ever be found?
The shock of losing loved ones suddenly is one of the most troubling of tragedies. But add to that the mystery of where their bodies might lie at the bottom of the ocean.
For the families of the explorers who died in the Titan sub implosion, those are feelings likely to haunt them forever, as they have for generations of other families who lost relatives under similar circumstances: the sinking of the Titanic itself over a century ago.
No bodies have ever been found from the wreckage of the Titanic at a depth of 12,500 feet, where over 1,100 passengers are likely to have dissolved after years of salt-water erosion and undersea life foraging the site.
A similar scenario is likely for the Titan submersible. And then, there are the harsh realities of the violent implosion itself.
"It's not so much about deep sea as much as it is about the implosion. The force was compressing so rapidly that those bodies and souls had nowhere to go," said Aileen Maria Marty, an expert in infectious disease and disaster medicine at Florida International University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.
Marty said that because of the way the sub imploded and likely crushed the bodies inside, "it’s very, very unlikely you’ll find any distinguishable body parts."
The conditions of the deep sea are so unknown and challenging and the implosion so catastrophic that the families of the five people who died could be long left with questions about what exactly happened to them.
On the ocean floor where the search crews found parts of The Titan 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on Thursday, there is immense pressure, absolute darkness and extremely cold temperatures.
The Coast Guard said Thursday they did not know if they would be able to recover the five bodies.
The five passengers who were in the Titan submersible when it imploded on the mission were OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, French maritime and Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet, one of the richest men in Pakistan Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood.
They each paid $250,000 to take the voyage, which was promoted as an “extraordinary” expedition for travelers to become one of the few to “see the Titanic with your own eyes,” according to OceanGate’s archived itinerary of the mission. It was OceanGate’s third annual expedition to the Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank in 1912, killing about 700 of the roughly 2,200 passengers and crew.
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Jennifer Lawrence Says She’s “Nervous” to Work With Method Actors
Jennifer Lawrence Says She’s “Nervous” to Work With Method Actors
Shares Lesson Learned From Christian Bale’s Acting Technique.
The Oscar-winning actress opened up about how she gets into character for films on a recent episode of 'Hot Ones.'
Every actor has their own acting techniques, but for Jennifer Lawrence, there’s one in particular that makes her quite apprehensive.
During an interview on Thursday’s episode of Hot Ones, the No Hard Feelings star was asked about the difficulties she may face when working with someone who has a different type of acting prep.
“I would be nervous to work with someone who’s Method [acting],” she responded. “Because I would have no idea how to talk to them, ’cause like, do I have to be in character? That would just make me nervous.”
Throughout the industry, Method acting had been continued to be a highly discussed topic, with people on both sides supporting and opposing it. Several actors have also been outspoken about their opinions, including Andrew Garfield and Jeremy Strong, who have dove into the immersive acting approach for roles, as well as Brian Cox, who has publicly expressed his disapproval.
As for her own ways of getting into character, Lawrence explained how her techniques have changed throughout her career and she credits one Oscar-winning actor for giving her a new idea.
“I had always been very on/off on/off until I did American Hustle and worked with Christian Bale, who I noticed when the camera started rolling and the crew started preparing and it would be about 10 seconds to action, he [Bale] would start getting ready,” the actress said. “I saw that and was like, ‘That seems like a really good idea.’ So then I started to do that.”
Lawrence has made her name in Hollywood throughout the last decade, with starring roles in The Hunger Games franchise, Winter’s Bone, American Hustle, X-Men franchise, Don’t Look Up, Mother! and Silver Linings Playbook, which earned her an Oscar for best leading actress.
Later during the interview, Lawrence was also asked about what skills she had learned for roles that have been transferable to her everyday life.
“I learned how to pick locks on Red Sparrow. I haven’t used it, but to know that I could is cool,” she quipped, before adding that she also learned how to hold a falcon for Serena.
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Tom Cruise Thanks Rome For Helping Make ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Possible
Tom Cruise Thanks Rome For Helping Make ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Possible.
Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie and the cast of 'Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One' celebrated the film's world premiere in the Italian capital on Monday.
Giant screens, a gang dressed in the full, black Mission: Impossible look, a red carpet in a semicircle, with Tom Cruise standing at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome with the entire Piazza di Spagna below him, watching every move and hanging on every word.
The world premiere of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One in Rome Monday night was more than just another red carpet gala, it was a declaration of love to cinema, to movie theaters and to Italy itself. The applause was not just for the star or the franchise, who returns as the increasingly pained, almost fragile Ethan Hunt in the seventh edition of the film series he started back in 1996, but for the system it represents. Cruise represents that system. Standing in front of this crowd of journalists and fans, he is the savior of the big screen, the one who demands his films be released in theaters, no ifs and or buts. As it was with Top Gun: Maverick, so it is with the seventh Mission: Impossible. Cruise is the one who insists his films release in accordance with the old “windowing” system, making sure theatrical exhibitors get as big a share of the profits as possible before the various other platforms get a hand in.
Before kicking off his red carpet marathon, in which he seemed determined to greet every single guest, Cruise reminded the crowd of “how important it is to show not only that you can still make movies but also that you can get back to filling theaters after the most difficult time the world, and this art form, has been through.”
Cruise recalled how Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was shot in Venice and Rome “in full COVID. “It was very important to do that to show everyone that the pandemic was not going to kill cinema,” he said. “I have to thank everyone, with our very strict safety protocols and the help of this country, together we did something extraordinary.”
Looking down from the Spanish Steps, Cruise recalled a scene the film shot in this iconic landmark.
“We turned this wonderful square, for a day, into an open-air set when we shot here and it was fantastic,” he said. “We did it by closing it off to the public, and I admit it’s one of those things that I regularly ask studios for.”
He continued, “I love doing these things and organizing them. I love to travel not only to promote my films, but also, above all, to make them, because this allows me to promote and teach my know-how, and in doing so help the whole industry, all over the world, to grow. That’s why when I take films to different countries, I review them in that language and try to see the best of their filmmaking at that time in their theaters.”
Nearly 61 years old, Cruise has not lost his childlike smile, or, he admits, his youthful ambition. “Ever since I was a child I used to look at the tallest buildings, the skyscrapers, and imagine how to climb them, or even better, how to get down from the top to the ground. Without using ladders, of course, but also without losing my life,” he added. “I think it’s that childhood dream that always pushes me further and makes me face these challenges myself.”
Cruise’s race through downtown Rome, in a vintage yellow Fiat 500, in the first Mission: Impossible is already part of the collective cinematic imagination. The mad dash between Rione Monti, Via dei Serpenti lapping Colle Oppio, through the streets around Santa Maria Maggiore before taking the less conventional descent down the Trinità dei Monti staircase, skidding to a halt at the bottom of the Spanish Steps. “I love Rome, it’s a wonderful city. I’m completely crazy about it and it’s been great to work here,” he said. “I thank you for welcoming me and how well it has allowed us to work.”
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China Box Office: ‘The Flash’ Opens Sluggishly, ‘Elemental’ Fizzles.
China Box Office: ‘The Flash’ Opens Sluggishly, ‘Elemental’ Fizzles.
Despite their soft ticket sales, both films received fairly good reviews from Chinese filmgoers.
Warner Bros.’s The Flash and Disney/Pixar’s Elemental both got off to a slow start in China over the weekend, much like they did in North America.
The two films earned quite positive social scores from the Chinese filmgoers who did see them, but their actual ticket sales left a lot to be desired.
The Flash opened in first place with $13.8 million, including previews, while Elemental debuted in third with just $5.3 million, according to data from regional consultancy Artisan Gateway. Local ticketing giant Maoyan currently projects The Flash to top out at about $27 million and Elemental to finish with around $18 million.
The Flash has social scores of 9.3 from Maoyan, 9.5 on Tao Piao Piao, and 8 from Douban — healthy ratings for a U.S. superhero title. Elemental scored 9.3/9.2/7.4 from the same services. Neither title seems to have had enough buzz to fill cinema seats with Chinese consumers, however.
Last week’s box office champ, Paramount’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts slid 69 percent to second place, adding $12.4 million for the frame. The film has earned $61.7 million over two weeks in local theaters, a solid showing in the current challenging release environment for Hollywood films in China, but considerably less than earlier installments in the Transformers franchise.
Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse fell to fourth in its third weekend of release, earning $3.7 million. Its current total is $41.3 million.
This summer, Chinese regulators are giving Hollywood titles attractive release dates and plenty of lead time for local marketing campaigns. But that hasn’t translated into impressive ticket sales, so far. Next up for the studios in China will be Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on June 30, followed by Barbie on July 21.
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