The head of Israel's military intelligence has resigned over his role in failing to stop the Hamas attacks on October the seventh. Aharon Haliva is the highest-ranking official to step down over the assault, in which about twelve hundred people were killed and more than two hundred others abducted. He said his department had not lived up to the task it was entrusted with. Also in the programme: we look at the impact of Hindu nationalism with our Newshour's correspondent Jamie Coomarasamy...
A Big Mac and fries doesn’t appear to be capturing the attention of consumers for now. McDonald’s stock fell about 3.3% in pre-market trading Tuesday after the fast food giant reported its first quarter earnings. McDonald’s posted lower-than-expected sales for the period. That slowdown was in part due to consumers in the U.S. tightening their wallets —and others staging boycotts related to the Israel-Hamas war. Buyers holding tight “As consumers are more discriminating with every dollar that...
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MCDONALD COUNTY, Mo. — McDonald County High School students spend their day prepping thousands of meals for those in need. More than 200 students in the F.F.A. and "Jobs for America's Graduates," or JAG, programs help package the meals. Ingredients were measured out and packed by the students. Those meals will then be distributed to []
PINEVILLE, Mo. — A first in McDonald County opened today. It's been in the works for the past five years, according to officials with McDonald County Litter Control. A ribbon cutting took place for Pineville's new recycling center on Wednesday. It's located directly behind the McDonald County Circuit Courts Building, and according to officials, has []
A special State Department panel recommended months ago that Secretary of State Antony Blinken disqualify multiple Israeli military and police units from receiving U.S. aid after reviewing allegations that they committed serious human rights abuses. But Blinken has failed to act on the proposal in the face of growing international criticism of the Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza, according to current and former State Department officials. The incidents under review mostly took place in the...
Global military expenditure saw its steepest increase in over a decade in 2023, reaching an all-time high of $2.4 trillion as wars and rising tensions fuelled spending across the world, researchers said Monday. Military spending rose across the globe with particularly large increases in Europe, the Middle East and Asia,
The Lafayette community took a tour around the world at the International Tea event Sunday, where community members from different countries shared their unique teas, snacks and culture.
The US is expected to announce sanctions against a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military.
The company's image recognition technology will be used instead of human analysis, according to the Pentagon.
Israel is ramping up its development of a strategic route that bisects the Gaza Strip, according to new satellite imagery, which shows that Israeli forces have been modernizing two military outposts at the crossroads of key pathways Palestinians used to flee south in the earlier stages of the war. This road, part of the so-called “Netzarim Corridor,” runs east to west from the Gaza-Israel border to the Mediterranean Sea, just south of Gaza City. The Israeli army’s Engineering Corps has...
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