An Illinois teenager released on Friday by Hamas after 13 days in captivity is ‘doing very well,’ her father said, with new footage showing the dramatic moment she and her mother were handed over to the Red Cross.
Natalie Shoshana Raanan, 17, and her mother Judith Tai Raanan, 59, arrived back in Israel late on Friday, the Israeli government confirmed, having left Gaza via an Egyptian-controlled crossing.
The Raanans walked out of Gaza without obvious visible physical injuries, getting out
The White House was scrambling to backtrack on Friday night after President Joe Biden, asked whether he was now pushing Israel to delay its invasion of Gaza for the sake of the hostages, replied: ‘Yes’.
Two Americans were released by Hamas on Friday, after being kidnapped on October 7 and held in Gaza for 13 days. A further 200 hostages are believed to remain in Hamas captivity.
Israel’s military has been given the green light to invade, and on Thursday
Andrew Tate has been released from house arrest after winning his appeal but will not be allowed to leave Romania following rape and sex trafficking charges. The influencer has not been able to leave his home for over six months.
Tate and his brother Tristan, as well as two Romanian women, were released on Friday under judicial control. They are ordered to face trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
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Since the news of her freedom, there have been questions over why Brittney Griner was released and how the United States was able to order her freedom from Russia.
Griner is a professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women’s National Basketball Association. She was detained on February 17, 2022 at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, after Federal Customs Service agents found vaporizer cartridges containing less than a gram of hash oil in her luggage and arrested … Read more
Like most nations, but more acutely, the Ireland of the late nineteen-fifties and the sixties was torn between isolation and community. Most important, it had to navigate a path between the claims of the Church and the secular appeal of the new. The country’s apparent strengths—its population’s ethnic and religious homogeneity, its battle-scarred unity against the old colonial aggressor, the romantic brilliance of its self-mythologizing—were the very forces that were pushing it toward disruptive upheavals. O’Toole is almost Hegelian in
