HONOLULU (AP) — Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last week’s remembrance ceremony marking the 83rd anniversary of the attack. Fernandez died peacefully at the Lodi, California, home of his nephew, Joe Guthrie, on […]
Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bombing inside the interior ministry in Kabul, the movement’s most high profile casualty since it returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Six others died in the blast as Haqqani was leaving his office, interior ministry sources said. Khalil Haqqani was a top member […]
Bob Fernandez thought he’d go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Four months later he found himself shaking from explosions and passing ammunition to artillery crews so his ship’s guns could return fire on Japanese […]
BBC Rihab Faour at her temporary home in Beirut. ‘I have to find something to fill my days,’ she said Rihab Faour fled her home. Then she fled again. Then a third time. Then a fourth. And by the fourth time, a year after the first, she had been fleeing Israeli bombs for so long […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his support for a ceasefire deal to halt Israel’s fighting in Lebanon in a televised address Tuesday evening, projecting a message of victory to his Israeli audience. He spoke of a Hezbollah diminished by the Israeli campaign. “This is not the same Hezbollah – we pushed them back decades,” […]
A banned ethnic separatist group in a restive province claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in Quetta, the provincial capital.
Getty Images A car park close to Baalbek’s Unesco-designated Roman ruins was hit in an Israeli air strike For over two millennia, the Roman temples at Baalbek in eastern Lebanon have stood as some of the finest examples of Roman architecture anywhere in the world. On Wednesday, a car park just metres away from the […]
A Ukrainian vampire drone bombs a Russian turtle tank. Unmanned Systems Forces capture A Ukrainian drone team from the Nemesis group scored one of the more impressive kills of Russia’s 31-month wider war on Ukraine last week when it spotted a fast-moving Russian turtle tank and, carefully leading the speeding vehicle, dropped one grenade to […]
Two decades ago, Shahawar Matin Siraj started to feel uneasy about a plan to bomb a subway station in Manhattan. Osama Eldawoody, a New York City Police Department informant recruited after 9/11, had established himself as a father figure to Siraj, who was 21 when they met. Eldawoody was almost twice his age. He had […]
The joke may finally be on the Joker. Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips’s highly anticipated musical follow-up to his Oscar-winning Joker film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, did not sing at the box office in its opening weekend, earning a lackluster $40 million domestically. Per Variety, Joker: Folie à Deux was initially projected […]
