BERLIN — A man who drove onto the tarmac at Hamburg Airport with his 4-year-old daughter, starting an 18-hour standoff with police that ended with his arrest, was using a rental car and lacked a weapons permit, authorities said Monday. Operations at the airport returned to normal on Monday after the lengthy closure caused by … Read more
German police has advised travelers not to use Hamburg airport due to a developing hostage situation ByThe Associated Press November 5, 2023, 3:47 AM Police vehicles block access to Hamburg Airport during an operation, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany. The airport was closed to passengers and flights were canceled Saturday night after a … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — The latest hostage video released by Hamas is disturbing, manipulative and revealing. Three women sit on cheap plastic chairs pushed against a tiled wall, somewhere in Gaza. It looks like a waiting room for some fearful appointment. Are they underground, in the militants’ vast tunnel … Read more
LONDON — Abigail Edan is just 3 years old, yet when Hamas militants stormed her kibbutz, Kfar Azza, on Oct. 7 and killed her parents, she knew enough to run to a neighbor’s for shelter. The Brodutch family — mother Hagar and her three children — took Abigail in as the rampage raged. Then all … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — Released Israeli hostage Yocheved Lifshitz described on Tuesday the “unimaginable hell” of her kidnapping ordeal that included being thrown over the back of a motorcycle, beaten by sticks and held in a “spiderweb” of wet tunnels after she was abducted from a kibbutz in … Read more
Ahmed alleges that the companies are failing to implement systems that automatically detect violent extremist content as effectively as they detect some other kinds of content. “If you have a snatch of copyrighted music in your video, their systems will detect it within a microsecond and take it down,” Ahmed says, adding that “the fundamental … Read more
Tori Spelling and her children were forced to evacuate their homes on Wednesday when the SWAT team rolled into her neighborhood to deal with an armed gunman in a neighboring residence. Spelling was photographed outside her rental home in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon, as an armed SWAT team dealt with a man armed with an … Read more
Because of the fracture in her leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket ByJOHN LEICESTER Associated Press October 18, 2023, 2:47 PM Karin Journo takes a selfie before she went to the Tribe of Nova music festival. Saturday’s attack on the open-air … Read more
Across 75 years, Israel has built itself around a military so formidable in battle that the country qualifies as a warrior state. But for the 2,000 years before that, the story of the Jews was one of perseverance through persecution, flight, and the kind of intimate, house-to-house slaughter Israelis awoke to on the morning of … Read more
The scene as recounted by Eyal Nouri is almost too painful to tell: his uncle, Said Moshe, was killed in front of his aunt, Adina. His last sighting of Adina is from a photograph posted online: “You see her on a motorcycle,” Eyal says. “She’s sitting in the middle between the two terrorists. Think about … Read more