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One-third of students not registered for school in Kiryat Shmona, mayor warns
“No parent or resident wants to raise their children like this,” said Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern, who warned that attendance in the North remains inconsistent. Approximately one-third of students have not registered for the upcoming school year in Kiryat Shmona, Mayor Avichai Stern said on Monday, warning that prolonged instability in northern Israel is…
Read MoreMore than 1.5m foreign pilgrims begin Hajj despite Iran war fears
Muslims have begun the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia against the backdrop of a region deeply shaken by the Iran war. Saudi authorities said last week that some 1.51 million pilgrims had arrived from outside the kingdom. That is 11,000 more than last year, despite concerns in the region about a resumption of the…
Read MoreHajj pilgrimage to Mecca begins
On Monday, millions of pilgrims begin arriving in Mina, a small valley five kilometers east of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, where they will spend several nights in what becomes, briefly, the largest temporary city on earth. The tents they sleep in bear little resemblance to what earlier generations encountered: Today’s structures sit on permanent…
Read MoreWhat Dogs See When They Look at Us
Laqueur takes the reader on a nearly encyclopedic trip through this truth and its consequences, ranging from Giotto’s dogs—calm, disengaged witnesses to holy stories (“At a foundational moment of Western art,” he says, “there is the dog doing what dogs do”)—to Bruegel the Elder’s massed and happy hunting hounds in winter, whose barks we can…
Read MoreMark Ulriksen’s “Kings of New York”
For the cover of the June 1, 2026, issue, the artist Mark Ulriksen wanted to celebrate the Knicks, one of the city’s beloved basketball teams. “Their latest star, Jalen Brunson, belongs with the other greatest Knicks of all time,” Ulriksen said. “It would be quite the matchup if they could, in some alternate universe, all…
Read MoreOld clip from Bangladesh falsely linked to electoral clashes in India
At least five people have died in violence erupted in India’s West Bengal after state elections, but a clip circulating on social media of a stick-wielding crowd was not filmed in the country. The footage was in fact captured in neighbouring Bangladesh during protests that ousted the country’s then prime minister Sheikh Hasina. “There is…
Read MoreMore Signs Russia’s Internet Crackdown Is Backfiring
Vladmir Putin has a problem. Despite the almost $3 billion spent on television propaganda, Putin is not as popular in Russia as he would like to be. Over four years after Russia’s invasion, the war in Ukraine continues to grind on. Aiming for total control over the Donbas, which experts are increasingly saying will take…
Read MoreCote and the Risks of the Clubstaurant
The restaurateur Simon Kim opened Cote in the Flatiron district, in 2017, with an alluring conceit: a marriage of two of the great beef-worshipping restaurant genres, the Korean-barbecue joint and the American steak house. He borrowed Cote’s format from the former, with grills inset into tabletops and a classic Korean menu of meat, marinades, and…
Read MoreRussia confirms use of Oreshnik missile against Ukraine
Russia on Sunday confirmed the third use of its new intermediate-range Oreshnik ballistic missile to target Ukraine. The Russian Defence Ministry said it was deployed in response to Ukrainian “terrorist attacks” on Russian civilian targets, the Interfax news agency reported. Ukrainian authorities said the missile struck the major city of Bila Tserkva in the Kiev…
Read More‘Traitor,’ ‘Enemy of Israel’: Dozens protest outside IDF chief’s home after soldier punishment
The protesters held signs reading “traitor, enemy of Israel,” played loud music, and waved Israeli flags. Dozens of activists took part in the protest. Dozens of right-wing protesters gathered outside the home of IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir in a community in the Sharon region, following an incident in which a soldier wearing…
Read MoreZelensky warns of a strike by a Russian Oreshnik missile
Following Kiev’s recent attacks on Russian targets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expects Moscow to launch a retaliatory strike using the much-feared new Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile. “Our intelligence services have received reports based on data received, including from American and European partners, that Russia is preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile,” Zelensky said on…
Read MoreSenegal’s president sacks PM and former ally after months-long feud
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has sacked Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and dissolved the nation’s government after months of tensions between the two men. A shock decree, read out on TV by a presidential aide, said Faye had “ended the duties” of his one-time political ally Sonko and “consequently those of the ministers and secretaries…
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