Forum

The Israeli military says that Hamas, an Islamist group regarded by much of the international community as a terrorist movement, and other armed factions have fired more than 2,800 rockets from Gaza over the past week.  
  
The Athens winner aiming to become the oldest sprint king,... North Korea PULL OUT of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup... Great Britain is the ONLY major sporting nation where Tokyo... 'It feels totally surreal... I don't think I'll EVER get my...  
  
The Athens winner aiming to become the oldest sprint king,... North Korea PULL OUT of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup... Great Britain is the ONLY major sporting nation where Tokyo... 'It feels totally surreal... I don't think I'll EVER get my...  
  
AMMAN, May 16 (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah said on Sunday that his kingdom was involved in intensive diplomacy to halt what he characterised as Israeli military escalation in the worst Israeli-Palestinian violence in years.  
  
A Palestinian man mourns over the bodies of a family member killed in an Israeli air strike yesterday. According to the Gaza health ministry, daftar slot online 174 Palestinians have died since the start of the conflict on Monday  
  
Fire erupts from the Andalus Tower as it is destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, early on May 16, 2021. Israel pummelled the Gaza Strip with air strikes, killing 10 members of an extended family and demolishing a building housing international media outlets  
  
"Israel carries as the existing occupation force responsibility for the dangerous situation in occupied Palestinian land and what it is causing in violence, killings, destruction and suffering," Safadi said.  
  
Overall outages stood at 12,870 stations, down from 13,450 on Saturday and a peak of more than 16,000, said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, as drivers reduced panic buying and stations replenished supplies.  
  
Almost 60 per cent of people in Japan believe the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should be cancelled, according to a study released on Sunday, as coronavirus infections surge across the country and anti-Olympics protests continue.  
  
Mr Hancock did not rule out the possibility of imposing local lockdowns in areas such as Bolton to stem the spread of the variant, although he said it is 'relatively widespread in small numbers' elsewhere.  
  
Despite Olympic organisers already ruling out any overseas fans to avoid spreading Covid-19, 87.7 per cent of those studied expressed concern that the mass arrival of athletes and staff could spread the virus.  
  
The Health Secretary said on Sunday it is 'appropriate' to push on with the major easing of restrictions in England on Monday despite concerns from scientists that it could be 50 per cent more transmissible than the Kent strain.   
  
A total of 59.7 per cent stated that they were opposed in a two-day telephone survey, which also found more than a quarter, 25.2 per cent, felt the Games should happen without fans, with 12.6 per cent wanting them to go ahead but with limited fan numbers.  
  
The results demonstrate rising opposition to holding the sporting event, put on hold from its planned start in summer 2020 due to the impact of the pandemic, in the current context of a fourth wave of infections including more contagious variants.  
  
England recorded three deaths, within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and 1,471 new daily cases of coronavirus, as the country prepares to open theatres, cinemas and art galleries for the first time this year tomorrow.  
  
Gas stations across the Eastern Seaboard ran dry as drivers hoarded gasoline after learning that the 5,500-mile (8,900-km) Colonial Pipeline had temporarily shut down following the hack, largely seen as the most disruptive cyberattack on record.  
  
Coronavirus cases are on the rise across the country in the last month, with a slow vaccine rate, a lack of hospital beds and the new variants exacerbating the situation - a trend which 90.3 per cent of responses raised concerns about.  
  
Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, said the attack raises concerns that Israel is targeting the media 'to disrupt coverage of the human suffering in Gaza.' He demanded 'detailed and documented justification' for the attack.  
  
Pictured: Medical personnel from a Palestinian Ambulance carry a Palestinian man who was shot and killed in his vehicle by Israeli soldiers, near the Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, 15 May 2021  
  
District Judge Dana Christensen said the state of Montana has no valid reason to require Menges to remain on the registry and cited the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said laws criminalizing consensual sodomy or oral sex were unconstitutional.   
  
For AP journalists, it was a difficult moment.  
Most of the AP staff has been sleeping in the bureau, which includes four bedrooms in an upstairs apartment, throughout the current round of fighting, believing that the offices of an international news agency were one of the few safe places in Gaza.