The Lebanon explosions raise a question: In the smartphone era, who is still using pagers? The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in a house beyond any town in rural ... 09/20/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
Doctors and first responders are among those who still use pagers The explosions of devices in Lebanon this week returned the spotlight to the 70-year-old technology that remains popular with medical professionals and emergency workers. 09/20/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
Lebanon is rocked again by exploding devices as Israel declares a 'new phase' of war Walkie-talkies and solar equipment exploded in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon on Wednesday in an apparent second wave of attacks a day after pagers used by Hezbollah blew up. 09/18/2024 - 11:15 am | View Link
What to know about the deadly pager explosions targeting Hezbollah Pagers used by hundreds of members of Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria. The attack killed at least 12 people, including two children, and wounded thousands more. 09/18/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Casper Warbirds' inaugural hockey game is set for Saturday night The Warbirds, Casper’s newest sports team, are set to open their inaugural season at home on Saturday evening. They’ll take on Wyoming’s only other National Collegiate Development Conference team in ... 09/17/2024 - 1:03 pm | View Link
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Monday called on residents of southern Lebanon to immediately evacuate homes and other buildings where it claimed Hezbollah stores weapons and said it was carrying out “extensive strikes” against the militant group.
It was the first warning of its kind in nearly a year of steadily escalating conflict and came after a particularly heavy exchange of fire on Sunday.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters reject an old guard accused of leading the country into economic crisis.
Dissanayake, 55, who ran as head of the Marxist-leaning National People’s Power coalition, defeated opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and 36 other candidates in Saturday’s election.
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Dissanayake received 5,740,179 votes, followed by Premadasa with 4,530,902.
In a brief speech, the new president pledged to work with others to take on the country’s challenges.
“We have deeply understood that we are going to get a challenging country,” Dissanayake said.
(DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip) — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas command center in what used to be a school.
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Another 30 were wounded in the strike on the school in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, the ministry said in a statement.
Kamala Harris still has time to change direction on U. S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that could secure her the presidency, reduce further damage to Washington’s standing internationally, stop what many—including many Jews, Israelis, and Holocaust scholars—have called a genocide in Gaza, and prevent a regional war.
U. S., U. K. and United Nations officials urged restraint as tensions ramped up between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. After days of escalating conflict, Israel carried out extensive airstrikes targeting Southern Lebanon on Sept. 19 and Hezbollah retaliated on Sept. 20, prompting fears of further conflict and a wider Middle East war.
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court upheld the legality of the death penalty but moved to limit its use, in a decision that strikes a balance between keeping the punishment’s deterrent effect and preventing its abuse.
The court on Friday affirmed the constitutionality of capital punishment but restricted its use to only the most serious crimes, while emphasizing the need for better safeguards.