Athens — As the United States wages a costly war with Iran and Europe struggles with the grinding conflict in Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Acropolis on Wednesday and reached back more than two millennia to argue that the answer to the West’s current problems can be found, at least in…
A police officer and a man were wounded in an exchange of gunfire Sunday near a synagogue in Ontario as members of the Jewish community marked Yom Kippur, authorities said. The man was hospitalized in life-threatening condition. The province’s Special Investigations Unit said the exchange of gunfire happened near the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in…
A Michigan synagogue is reopening in time for the Jewish High Holidays, six month after it was targeted in a terror attack. The congregation at the Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan, one of the largest synagogues in the country, returned to its sanctuary last week for the first time since March to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the…
French authorities have launched an investigation after female employees at Paris’s Eiffel Tower were taken off duty for a private visit by a Hindu religious group, leading to a staff strike and Monday closure at the iconic landmark. Eiffel Tower staff union representative Diane Davoine told Reuters a group of 100 or so people linked…
A 17-year-old North Carolina girl who recorded a livestream of a shooting that killed three people at a San Diego mosque in May, and disseminated the attackers’ white supremacist writings, has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting, a district attorney said Monday. The girl’s name was not immediately released during a news conference announcing…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, apologized to the state’s Jewish Democratic Caucus on Saturday for comments he made after an attack on a synagogue in March, which he tied to Israel’s actions in the Middle East. “My comments may have been misconstrued to justify something I did not mean to…
The initial findings of the second post-mortem examination of 25-year-old business owner Mir Raza Ali revealed multiple injuries and a congealed black substance in his mouth and throat, Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said on Saturday. Raza, owner of eatery Wafflix, had gone missing on July 28. The 25-year-old’s body was found a day later…
Emmy Award-winning actors Juno Temple and Hannah Waddingham share their thoughts on returning to “Ted Lasso” for a fourth season after a three-year hiatus. Temple returns as publicist Keeley Jones while Waddingham is back as club owner Rebecca Welton. Source link
Ege-Cap Ferret, France — French authorities gave the go-ahead Thursday for 84,000 evacuees forced out by a monster wildfire to go back to their homes in southwest France, the strongest sign yet that firefighters are turning a corner in their battle against the flames that have burned an area four times the size of Paris. The…
Athens, Greece — A man stabbed two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece’s top tourist attraction, police said. The assailant attacked a man and woman, both Greek Americans, with a knife near the entrance of the Acropolis Museum, which lies at the foot of the Acropolis hill. The woman suffered light…
