Source: Sky News
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
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Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Saturday 11 December 2021 14:09:23
Taylor Swift Facing Lawsuit over Claims She Copied Lyrics for Hit Single Shake It Off
Singer Taylor Swift is facing legal action from songwriters who claim she copied their lyrics in her 2014 hit single Shake It Off.
On Friday, a judge in California rejected a bid by the Grammy-winning performer to throw out a lawsuit that says she took wording from the 2014 song Playas Gon' Play by R&B girl group 3LW.
District judge Michael Fitzgerald said there were "enough objective similarities" between the two songs that the case should go to a jury trial.
In Shake It Off, Swift sings: "The players gonna play, play, play, play, play, and the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate."
Playas Gon' Play, written by Sean Hall and Nathan Butler, included the phrases "players, they gonna play, and haters, they gonna hate".
Hall and Butler said the combination of players with haters was unique to its use in their song.
They are seeking unspecified damages.
A spokeswoman for Swift gave no comment to Reuters on Friday.
In 2017, her representatives had called the songwriters' claim of copyright infringement "ridiculous" and "nothing more than a money grab".
Their case had been thrown out in 2018 but the pair appealed and suit was revived.
