Benjamin Zephaniah, an author, professor and poet whose work, infused with strong social messages, helped inspire a generation of British poets to find their voices, died on Thursday. He was 65. The cause was a brain tumor, which he learned he had eight weeks ago, his family said in a statement. It did not say […]
Benjamin Zephaniah, an author, professor and poet whose work, infused with strong social messages, helped inspire a generation of British poets to find their voices, died on Thursday. He was 65. The cause was a brain tumor, which he learned he had eight weeks ago, his family said in a statement. Over a four-decade career, […]
Israelis gathered again on Thursday evening in the Tel Aviv square where for two months protesters have called for the release of hostages in Gaza, but this time they came to mark the start of Hanukkah. Holding signs that bore the faces of the 138 people still held hostage and wearing T-shirts, necklaces and yellow […]
After a series of Quran burnings in Scandinavia caused uproar in Muslim communities, Denmark on Thursday banned the “improper treating” of religious texts in public. Under a new law passed by Parliament, those found guilty of the crime can be fined or sentenced to up to two years in prison. “Quran burnings must be stopped,” […]
On Wednesday evening, a hard-line Conservative minister, Robert Jenrick, resigned from the British government to protest its new immigration policy. Hours later, in Washington, Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican toppled by his right-wing colleagues as House speaker in October, announced he would resign from Congress. A pair of bitter political exits, on opposite sides of […]
The son of Israel’s former top military commander, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, was among at least two soldiers killed in fighting Thursday in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said. Master Sgt. Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, a reserve soldier in a commando unit, was killed in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza, the military said. General Eisenkot, […]