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Israel-Hamas LIVE: Israeli soldiers storm Gaza’s al Shifa hospital in ‘targeted operation’ to root out Hamas terrorists as doctors inside describe ‘terrifying’ situation for trapped patients
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Migrant barge residents describe conditions like ‘entering Alcatraz’ | Politics | News
Asylum seekers moving onto the Bibby Stockholm migrant boat have likened the conditions to the notorious Alcatraz prison.
The boat, located at Portland in Dorset, has room to accommodate up to 500 people. But one of the first people to move onto it told the BBC it felt like a prison.
The Home Office however says the barge will provide better value for the public purse. It comes as the number of small boats arriving at the British coast continues
Ukraine troops describe tougher fight than expected – EURACTIV.com
Troops at the spearhead of Ukraine’s counteroffensive say a battle last week along the front in the southeast proved to be tougher and bloodier than expected, with plans going awry and an enemy that was well-prepared.
They rode into a kill zone. The timing was off. Many men were lost. In the end, they recaptured the ruined village of Staromaiorske, claiming Ukraine’s biggest advance for weeks.
“The Russians were waiting for us,” said a 29-year-old soldier using the call-sign Bulat,
Horrified bloodied passengers describe sudden rollercoaster drop on Hawaiian Airlines flight
Shocked passengers traveling from Arizona to Hawaii on an Hawaiian Airlines flight said they thought they were on a rollercoaster when their Airbus A330 hit severe turbulence on Sunday.
Kaylee Reyes was traveling with her mother, Tiffany Ann Reyes, who had just returned from the bathroom but had not yet had chance to refasten her seatbelt when she was suddenly flung into the air.
Explaining the panicked situation, she told Hawaii News Now: ‘The plane shook and then went into
A declaration of war: How royal insiders describe Netflix trailer for Harry and Meghan documentary
Harry and Meghan’s new Netflix documentary is being seen as a ‘declaration of war’ by the royals, sources said last night.
A promotional trailer, which was posted online on the second day of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ high-profile visit to the US, dispelled any hopes that the Sussexes are declaring a ceasefire in their acrimonious battle with the Royal Family.
As well as including dozens of supposedly private pictures from their family album, the footage includes a voiceover
“Don’t Describe It, Remember It”
Mavis Gallant, who died in 2014, at the age of ninety-one, would have celebrated her hundredth birthday this month. A prolific short-story writer—she published a hundred and sixteen stories in The New Yorker in her lifetime—Gallant was also a dedicated diarist, who recorded the narrative of her own life for some fifty-five years. The following passages are drawn from her diaries from 1954. Four years earlier, Gallant, who was Canadian, had quit her job as a journalist at the Montreal
Learning Loss Doesn’t Begin to Describe What Happened
On March 4, 2020, a week before the World Health Organization formally declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, Northshore School District, in Washington State, closed its doors, becoming the first in the country to announce a districtwide shift to online learning. Within three weeks, every public-school building in the United States had been closed and 50 million students had been sent home. Half of these students would not reenter their schools for more than a year. No other
NYC subway shooting victims describe moment gunman filled train car with smoke then fired 33 shots
The survivors of Tuesday morning’s subway attack in Brooklyn have described how they sat next to the gunman as he pulled an ax and gun from his duffel bag before he threw a smoke grenade and fired 33 shots, leaving 10 people injured with bullet wounds.
A witness said the suspect said ‘Oops, my bad’, as he opened one of his gas tanks and filled the subway car with smoke when it was between stations, before he pulled out his
Prisons Said It Was COVID Isolation. The Incarcerated Describe Torture.
When Bryan Glant tested positive for COVID-19 in late December 2020, a guard at Monroe Correctional Complex, a prison in Washington, told him he had 10 minutes to pack up his essential items — “just what you need to get through a couple days.” During the walk to the COVID-19 isolation unit, prison staffers told Glant how nice the units were. There would be TVs, video games, daily phone access and outlets to charge tablets equipped with an email-like messaging