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Security & Justice
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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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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
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“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
FC Barcelona Fears First Team Star Will Be Banned From Playing, Reports SPORT
FC Barcelona is concerned that one of its main first-team stars will be banned from playing at the turn of 2025 because of issues related to his registration and Financial Fair Play (FFP) limits according to SPORT, which cited anonymous sources.
Friday, November 1, 2024
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
Tuesday 10 August 2021 12:05:03
Johnny Depp Will Receive San Sebastian Film Festival Achievement Award amid Legal Turmoil
Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival will honor Johnny Depp with its lifetime achievement award as the embattled movie star's legal woes continue.
Depp is set to receive the prestigious Donostia Award in late September, which "recognizes outstanding contributions to the film world," according to the film festival, which called Depp "one of contemporary cinema’s most talented and versatile actors."
USA TODAY reached out to San Sebastian International Film Festival for comment.
The move to honor Depp comes after the actor lost a libel lawsuit last year against a British newspaper that labeled him a "wife beater" in 2018 following Amber Heard's abuse allegations after their short, volatile marriage. A judge ruled the allegations were "substantially true" during the high-profile case.
Depp exited the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise shortly after in November of that year, revealing that Warner Bros., the studio behind the films, requested his resignation "in light of recent events." (The role of the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was instead played by Mads Mikkelsen.)
San Sebastian International Film Festival director José Luis Rebordinos told the Hollywood Reporter that it's not his place to "judge the conduct of members of the film industry.
"The role of a film festival is to select the most relevant and interesting films of the year and to extend recognition to those who have made an extraordinary contribution to the art of film,” Rebordinos told the outlet. "The Donostia Award to Johnny Depp is our recognition of a great actor, a man of cinema with a great career."
His upcoming appearance will mark Depp's third time at the festival. He last attended in 2020 as the producer of "Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane Macgowan," a documentary about the legendary Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. The film won the Special Jury Prize.
The Donostia Award was awarded to Viggo Mortensen last year. Previous honorees include Penélope Cruz, Donald Sutherland, Dame Judi Dench, Danny DeVito, Sigourney Weaver, Ethan Hawke, Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep.
