NITRA, SLOVAKIA (VINnews) – Officials say a bus has collided with a truck in Slovakia, killing at least 13 people. Police and firefighters say the accident occurred on Wednesday in the town of Nitranske Hrnciarovce near the city of Nitra, 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Bratislava, the capital. At least 20 other people have been injured. The firefighters say the number of dead and injured still might rise. More details were not immediately available.
RIVERDALE, NY (AP) – Police say a group of burglars stole $140,000 worth of luggage and jewelry from a shopping mall magnate’s New York City mansion. The Bronx home belongs to Don Ghermezian, the CEO of the company that runs Mall of America in Minnesota and the new American Dream complex in New Jersey. The New York Police Department says a group of unidentified people broke into the house, in the affluent Riverdale neighborhood, through a rear window on a balcony on Saturday evening. Police released security camera footage showing four people were involved. The suspects fled the scene. Authorities say Ghermezian was out of town at the time. He told The New York Daily News no one was injured during the burglary. No arrests have been made.
HONG KONG (AP) — Police on Wednesday increased security around Hong Kong and its university campuses as they braced for more violence after sharp clashes overnight with anti-government protesters. Many subway and rail stations were closed after the protesters blocked commutes and vandalized trains. Classes were suspended at schools and universities. Police and protesters battled on multiple fronts overnight at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Gasoline bombs and fires lit the nighttime scene, and the situation remained tense in the morning and early afternoon. A police official warned protesters were carrying out “insane acts” and Hong Kong was on the brink of a total breakdown after more than five months of protests. “Our society has been pushed to the brink...
Palestinian terrorists in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip unleashed a rocket assault on Israel on Tuesday, causing a major hospital to move patients into underground facilities. The Israeli military assisted Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center in evacuating patients in the children’s ward, including prematurely born babies, to safe zones built specifically for emergency operations. Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national emergency medical service, also deployed reinforcements due to the security situation, moving 30 ambulances out of storage and into the field. Over 450 warning sirens were triggered on Monday across Israel, alerting civilians to incoming rockets and allowing them moments to seek shelter in a nearby protected space. At least 40 people were treated for inju...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced Tuesday the planned release of three high-profile Taliban prisoners in exchange for kidnapped American and Australian professors, in a move to jump-start “direct talks” with the Taliban to end the prolonged conflict. Speaking on live television, Ghani said the exchange is intended to help bring “peace and stability” to the country. “In consultations with our international partners, especially the U.S., we have adopted a mechanism and approach to make sure the release of these three men wouldn’t reinforce the … enemy and intensify attacks by them,” he said. All three prisoners are members of the deadly Haqqani network, a hard-line faction of the Taliban. They include Mali Khan, Hafiz Rashid and Anas ...
KVIV, UKRAINE (AP) – The Ukrainian Jewish Committee’s director has harshly criticized a decision by the Ukrainian capital’s legislature to name streets after Nazi collaborators. Eduard Dolinsky said the Kyiv city council ruled Tuesday to name a city street after Ivan Pavlenko, whom he described as a Nazi collaborator and war criminal. Dolinsky said on Facebook Wednesday that Pavlenko led a Ukrainian unit involved in the killing of tens of thousands of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. Dolinsky said that the city legislators also named another Kyiv street after Nil Khasevich, an activist of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who drew anti-Semitic cartoons and was involved in mass killings of Poles during World War II. Dolinsky described the city counc...
President Donald Trump has been threatening for weeks to fire acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, but senior advisers have counseled him to hold off on such a drastic step amid a high-stakes impeachment probe, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Trump has expressed particular anger over Mulvaney’s performance in an Oct. 17 news conference in which Mulvaney stunned White House aides by saying military aid to Ukraine was withheld to pressure its government to launch investigations that could politically benefit Trump, two of the people said. Later, Mulvaney issued a statement saying the media had misconstrued his televised comments and that “there was absolutely no quid pro quo.” Senior advisers have cautioned Trump that removing Mulvaney at such a s...
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she is under pressure from “many, many, many people” to pursue a 2020 White House bid, but she signaled that she isn’t planning to run – at least, not at the moment. Clinton made the remark in a joint interview with her daughter, Chelsea, on BBC Radio 5 Live. The two are in Britain to promote their new book, “Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience.” Advisers to Clinton have said at various times over the past year that she is unwilling to completely shut the door on a potential 2020 bid. In the Tuesday radio interview, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee was asked by host Emma Barnett about her future plans. Clinton replied that she wants to see President Donald Trump &l...
BEIT LAHIYA, NORTHERN GAZA STRIP (AP) – Israeli airstrikes killed more Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza on Wednesday as rocket fire toward Israel resumed after a brief overnight lull, raising the death toll in the strip to 18 Palestinians in the heaviest round of fighting in months. The military said more than 250 rockets have been fired at Israeli communities since the violence erupted following an Israeli airstrike that killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander accused of being the mastermind of recent attacks. Israel stepped up its battle against Iran and its proxies across the region. The latest fighting brought life in much of Israel to a standstill. Schools remained closed in Israeli communities near the Gaza border and restrictions on public gatherings continued as rockets rain...
Terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired rockets into Israel early Wednesday morning and the IDF hit back from the air, in a resumption of violence after an overnight lull. According to medical officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza, nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday. The Israeli military said it took out at least three rocket-launching crews, a military spokesman said. Iran-backed Islamic Jihad confirmed that two of its fighters were killed in separate strikes south of Gaza City during the morning. Medics later said another man was killed by an air strike while on a motorcycle. The worst fighting in months on the Gaza border erupted on Tuesday after Israel killed Abu Al-Atta, a senior Islamic Jihad commander, accusing him of masterminding and planning attacks against Isra...
Emergency first responders from Magen David Adom (MDA) have treated 52 people injured during the Gaza rocket attacks on Israel since the fighting began Tuesday morning, an MDA spokesperson said Wednesday. All but one of the 52 people treated suffered light injuries, MDA reported, including two men ages 30 and 55 who were injured by shrapnel in the Be’er Tuvia area, along with 24 people who suffered light injuries while rushing to bomb shelters. In addition 25 people were treated for shock. One victim, however, an 8-year-old girl from Holon, is currently listed in serious condition after she lost consciousness and collapsed en route to a bomb shelter Tuesday, in what is suspected to be a cardiac arrhythmic event. Read more at Arutz Sheva.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of hate crimes across the United States dipped slightly in 2018 after three consecutive years of increases. The FBI released its annual hate crimes report on Tuesday. There were 7,120 reported hate crimes in 2018, down from 7,175 in 2017. The report shows 24 people were killed and there were 22 report rapes identified as hate crimes. The report is compiled by using data submitted by more than 2,000 law enforcement agencies around the U.S. Religion-based hate crimes decreased by about 8 percent in 2018, with 835 incidents targeting Jews and Jewish institutions. That’s down from 938 incidents in 2017. The Anti-Defamation League said Jews and Jewish institutions continued “to be at the center of religion-based hate crime attacks.”
Rockets damaged a house in southern city of Sderot, Netivot and highway as rocket alerts reach Tel Aviv The Israeli army said that Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip pounded the Jewish state with "substantial" rocket fire Tuesday after Israel killed a commander of Islamic Jihad. "There is substantial fire," army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists in a conference call. Rockets struck the south of Israel and warning sirens wailed in Tel Aviv and other central cities, although there were no immediate reports of hits on the seaside city.   "We are preparing for a number of days of fighting," Conricus said as reports emerged of Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip.  A house was damaged in Israel's southern city of Sderot Tuesday morning by a rocket launched ...
A Russian Navy submarine was spotted in Israeli territorial waters three months ago, it was reported on Monday. According to Yediot Ahronot, the vessel was detected by the Israeli Navy approximately eight nautical miles off the Jewish state’s central coastline. Israel’s territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles into the Mediterranean Sea. After the detection, Israeli naval commanders spoke with their Russian counterparts and the submarine eventually sailed away to the west. The primary concern about a submarine in such close proximity to the shore is not the possibility of a military clash, but rather its intelligence-gathering capabilities. In a statement about the report, the IDF said that “from time to time, navel targets are identified … which may be tak...
Southwest Airlines is operating 49 jets that may not have been properly inspected and should be grounded until it can be determined that they meet U.S. airworthiness standards, according to a top official at the Federal Aviation Administration. The aircraft in question are among 88 used jets purchased from foreign carriers by Southwest between 2013 and 2017. The planes underwent special inspections, including reviews of their maintenance records, before being cleared to fly, according to the FAA. But now the quality of those inspections is being questioned. In a memo sent to FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson last month, labeled “URGENT: Action Required, Southwest Airlines Airworthiness Concerns,” Clayton Foushee, director of the FAA’s Office of Audit and Evaluation, ra...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Kentucky’s Republican governor trailed by thousands of votes in his re-election bid and Democrats took the reins of the Virginia Statehouse, social media posts offered an unsubstantiated explanation for the Election Day results: voter fraud. The messages seized on small-scale voting issues or pushed inaccurate reports to call into question all the election results. Thousands of dead people voted, some claimed. So many Virginia voters were turned away or given misprinted ballots that the results were suspect, a conservative pundit speculated. One Twitter user suggested that the entire state of Kentucky had purchased new voting machines that led to sweeping errors. The online responses provide a glimpse into the type of misinformation that could cloud next...
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 12, 2019 - In a quest to further the growth of their students and teachers, Bais Yaakov of Baltimore was excited to bring in Mrs. Faigie Zelcer of Montreal, the director of Penimi, an organization that educates teachers and parents on raising children in the age of technology.  Mrs. Zelcer began her day in Baltimore with a presentation for teachers at Bais Yaakov High School, where the teachers learned invaluable skills and strategies to communicate with their students.  Later that evening, Mrs. Zelcer spoke to the mothers of Bais Yaakov on the timely topic of Connecting with our Children as they Face the Challenges of the Digital Age.  She discussed how our children are growing up in a world where digital technology affects our lifestyle, culture, and v...
JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed confidence on Monday that it was still possible to achieve a “robust” unity government, saying there was no need for the country to go back to elections. “The worst option of all is a government that is dependent on Arab parties who will want to judge IDF soldiers as war criminals,” said Netanyahu. Furthermore, he said, “there’s no reason to reach a situation where we either assemble this kind of government or go to elections. There is still the option of creating a patriotic and robust unity government.” Netanyahu, Yisrael Beiteinu head Avigdor Lieberman, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin are expected to meet in the coming day...
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