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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
Tuesday 5 March 2024 18:07:30
Wolff Says Mercedes Need To ‘Look At Ourselves’ As He Reveals Root Cause Of Bahrain Gp Struggles
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell had plenty of positive words to say about the new W15 after pre-season testing and momentum appeared to be building when they placed first and second during Thursday practice at Sakhir.
But after Russell managed to post the third fastest time in qualifying, the Silver Arrows’ weekend took a turn for the worse as both drivers encountered overheating power units on race day and slipped down the order.
Russell ultimately crossed the line in fifth, 45 seconds off race winner Max Verstappen, with Hamilton a few seconds further back in P7 as the seven-time world champion also had to manage a broken seat.
Reflecting on the race in an interview with Sky Sports F1, Wolff said: “Yeah, [we were] far off… I mean, Max was in a different galaxy. We need to look at ourselves, why we lost so much performance on the harder tyre.
“We got the cooling level wrong and therefore you need to lift and coast, you lose performance on the tyre and it was a bit of a vicious circle.
“As the race unfolded we had to lift and coast more to manage the temperatures on the power unit. We closed it up too much, that was the main issue. Then we didn’t have the pace, weirdly.”
Wolff added that Mercedes will be digging through the data and trying to learn as much as possible ahead of this week’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at the very different Jeddah Corniche Circuit.
“It’s weird, because we had some pace in the car, and on the hard tyre we didn’t,” he commented. “I think there’s many mistakes we’ve done, but at the end we’re learning, we have a brand-new car.
“We’ve seen the glimpses of performance but couldn’t materialise any of that today, so I’m really keen to look at the data and see what we can do in Saudi.”
He signed off: “We gave both [drivers] a car that was today not competitive enough for the race. I think we know a few things why but obviously the two of them struggled during the race, you can see that.”
Mercedes sit third in the constructors’ standings, on 16 points, after the first of 24 races in 2024, 11 points behind Ferrari and a further 17 behind reigning world champions Red Bull.
