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Security & Justice
Captured Hezbollah Operative May Have Been Israeli Double Agent, Report Suggests
The alleged senior Hezbollah operative abducted by Israeli special forces last week in Batroun may have been operating as a double agent, according to a report by The Telegraph.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Lebanon’s Probe into Israeli Raid Expected to Take Days as Security Officials Weigh Theories
Lebanese authorities are ramping up investigations into an Israeli commando raid last week in the northern coastal city of Batroun, during which Imad Amhaz, a Hezbollah official, was snatched.
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
Thursday 28 December 2023 15:31:11
The Crown's Dominic West Details Fallout With Friend Prince Harry
Prince Harry sent his friendship with Dominic West to the Tower.
When The Crown star stepped up to take on the role of Prince Charles during Netflix show's final two seasons, it wasn't his first glimpse at royal life. After all, once upon a time, the Duke of Sussex counted the actor as a friend after the duo trekked along the Langjökull Glacier in Iceland as part of the 2013 Walking With the Wounded challenge.
But that's not to say Dominic reached out to Harry for advice on playing a royal as the two aren't exactly on speaking terms today.
"No, we sort of—no," The Wire alum told Times Radio in an interview released Dec. 24 of whether he reached out to Harry. "I said too much in a press conference and so we didn't speak after that."
As for what exactly he said to make Harry put a freeze on the friendship? "I think I was asked what we did to celebrate when we got there," Dominic noted, "and probably said something too much."
While Dominic West, who was joined by costar Jonathan Pryce in the interview, didn't elaborate further on his and Harry's falling out, he appeared to be referencing comments he made in 2014 about the group's rowdy celebrations after finishing their journey to the Arctic.
"Most of us, Harry included, just went on a two-day bender," Dominic revealed in a press conference at the time, per ABC News, "with the Icelandic truck drivers who had brought some lethal home brew with them."
The Affair star, who also cited Harry's ability to construct the group's temporary toilets, added that their post-trek partying included drinking champagne out of the prosthetic legs of fellow hiker Duncan Slater.
But while Dominic wasn't able to get Harry's advice while gearing up to play his dad on The Crown ahead of assuming the role for season five, the duke did help shape the 54-year-old's performance on the sixth and final season of the series.
In fact, Harry's memoir Spare proved vital in helping prepare Dominic for the emotional moment Charles reveals to young Harry and his brother Prince William that their mom Princess Diana had died. "I bought it immediately," Dominic told Variety in an interview published Dec. 14, "and I think it did slightly affect the way we played that key scene where he wakes Harry up."
As for whether Harry will see how his recollections shaped his former pal's performance, he's admitted to tuning into the royal drama.
"It's fictional, but it's loosely based on the truth," he explained on The Late Late Show in 2021. "I am way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family or my wife or myself. Because it's the difference between, that is obviously fiction, take it how you will, but this is being reported on as fact because you're supposedly news. I have a real issue with that."