Some people will do anything to get cheese, no matter the cost.
Contestants at the annual Gloucestershire cheese rolling festival risked injuries as they raced down a steep hill to capture cheese on Sunday. The winner of the women's race, Flo Early, announced her retirement from cheese-chasing after spraining her ankle.
Watch as they tumble for glory and for cheese.
The official competition was canceled in 2010 because of threats made by spectators. But a rogue version survived.
Nowadays, contestants don't even chase after real blocks of cheese. Rather, they're fighting to capture a lightweight foam cheese. The winner is eventually afforded a real cheese for their hard work. Read more...
I only played about an hour of Super Mario Maker 2 for the Nintendo Switch at a preview event, jumping between the course creator, story mode, and course world, and every time I had to switch between modes I was bummed out that I didn't have more time to mess around in the previous one.
That's a fantastic sign.
I never played Super Mario Maker for the Wii U or 3DS because I didn't think I would be into the tedium of laying down platforms, item boxes, and enemies, and I felt like I absorbed enough of the custom levels by watching other people play them online. Boy was I wrong. Read more...
Your computer monitor can really make or break your work experience. If you have a shitty monitor it can be difficult to focus or your work might take a dip in quality. You don’t want that to happen.
If you pictured your setup when you read the words “shitty monitor,” it’s time for a new one. Lucky for you, Dell has a solid 24-inch monitor on sale for $70 off, plus you’ll receive a $50 Dell gift card with your purchase.
The Dell SE2419H has thin bezels and a compact base to maximize screen and desk space. It features an IPS screen with 1920 x 1080 resolution. The monitor has your comfort in mind: Tilt to your preferred viewing angle and give your eyes a break with the flicker-free, anti-glare screen and the ComfortView feature, which minimizes blue light strain. Read more...
Elon Musk’s idea for underground travel in California was tested recently by racing two Tesla cars; one through normal traffic, and the other through the company's sample tunnel. Read more...
Memorial Day weekend marked the unofficial start of beach-read season, which means a new lightweight tablet should be at the top of your "to-buy" list. These ultra-portable gadgets make it possible to take your entire e-book library with you, but don't take up too much room in your tote bag, so you still have room in there for a crisp canned rosé (or three). What's not to love?
Boasting a vivid display and expandable storage, the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1-inch tablet is our favorite model for reading graphic novels and comic books on the go. It just so happens to be on sale at Walmart right now for more than $80 off its usual retail price — a savings of nearly 30% — making now the perfect time to pick one up. Read more...
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Sleep can make or break your day. If you wake up feeling energized and refreshed, concentrating and functioning will be a breeze. On the other hand, if you spend most of your nights tossing and turning, the whole day can feel like a challenge. You’ll be fatigued, irritable, and reaching for the nearest caffeine source. Read more...
MacKenzie Bezos has pledged to give half her estimated $36.6 billion fortune to charity. Her ex-husband hasn't, though!
The newly independent billionaire became one of the richest people in the world after she divorced Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos earlier this year. Now, she's signed onto an initiative called The Giving Pledge, which "invites" the world's wealthiest people to pledge half their money to philanthropic causes, either while they're alive or after their deaths.
Nineteen other people joined the initiative alongside Bezos, including WhatsApp founder Brian Acton and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, according to an announcement from the organization. There are now 204 people committed to the pledge from a total of 23 countries. Notably absent, however, is Jeff Bezos, who has long been criticized for not signing on despite being the richest man in the world. (His net worth is roughly $114 million.) Read more...
You’ve probably heard of smart lighting systems for your home before — the Philips Hue setup is very popular among consumers and smart home aficionados because of its highly customizable nature and intuitive companion app. While the Philips Hue is perfect for indoor ambient lighting, it still leaves one important area out of the equation: Outside. While outdoor lighting may be an afterthought for some, it’s actually quite important for those who live in more rural, less well-lit locales.
The perfect way to solve your outdoor lighting woes, though, is this new smart floodlight kit from Ring — and you can save $30 on one if you purchase on Amazon. Read more...
Warning: The following post contains spoilers for Killing Eve's Season 2 finale.
If Eve Polastri's work-life balance was complicated before, she's really in the shit now.
After a season of increasingly tangled alliances, allegiances, and sexual chemistry (Hugo!), the latest episode of Killing Eve ended with a classic where-will-they-go-from-here moment. It's the job of a season finale to build events to a breaking point, and Killing Eve's "You're Mine" piles on obstacle after obstacle for our titular heroine and her antiheroic counterpart.
The second half of the episode doesn't let up on complications; Villanelle murders Aaron Peel (and Niko's colleague), Carolyn plans to frame her, Eve kills Villanelle's new handler, and finally, Villanelle shoots Eve. Each additional conflict complicates the story and makes it less and less likely for these two to emerge unscathed. Read more...
The obsession with robot vacuums is obviously the fact that they make your life 100 times easier, but there's a hard part to the process: picking one.
"Roomba" and "robot vacuum" are essentially interchangeable terms at this point, but the robot vacuum market ain't what it was in 2005. Though we totally back nearly ever Roomba model, there's a whole new world of brands that you should be considering. Read more...
Arguably one of the most annoying parts about watching TV is losing the remote. It can have you flipping over couch cushions and losing all trust in your loved ones when they say they aren’t sitting on it.
You can cut this out of your life with an Amazon Fire TV device, which allows you to manage your TV with voice commands. Right now, you can save up to $100 on Fire TV devices at Amazon.
The Fire TV Stick is the most basic of the devices; You simply plug it into your TV's HDMI port and gain access to streaming services like Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, and more. You can also access websites and apps. The Stick comes with an Alexa remote, which gives you the ability to perform Alexa skills and operate your TV with your voice. Normally the Fire TV Stick costs $49.99, but you can grab it on sale for $39.99. Read more...
While today's smartphones are loaded with Google Maps or Apple Maps, they are merely quick solutions for traveling short distances. Believe it or not, getting a dedicated GPS device for your car or truck is still the best way to get to your destination safely and with ease. Read more...
Once again, Australia's "Egg Boy" has proven to be not the hero we deserve, but the one we need.
Will Connolly, you may recall, is the teenager who became an instant star after smashing an egg over the head of a racist, xenophobic Australian politician following the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand. And now he's donating legal funds raised for him on GoFundMe to victims of the shooting.
While it's been known for a few months now that Connolly was going to donate the money, the teen posted on his Instagram account on Tuesday that he finally had made the donation, totaling nearly $100,000. No word if that's in Australian or U.S. dollars and how much, in total, was raised from the GoFundMe campaigns, but we've reached out to GoFundMe for more information. Read more...
Bluetooth speakers allow us to experience music no matter where we go. Whether it's listening to classical pieces from Mozart or the newest BTS song 10 times in a row, you shouldn't have to enjoy your favorites through your phone's speaker and a cupholder. But with so many great Bluetooth speakers to choose from, how do you know which ones are the best? Read more...
If you are looking to expand your computer storage, we have gathered some great deals on WD hard drives, SSDs, and more. Don't be that person that counts on saving all your photos, videos, work, and more onto one hard drive. Trust us, back up is so important, it's better to be safe than sorry
Listening to music can have a profound effect on your state of mind — which could be part of the reason we buy headphones like they're candy. Listening to music (or podcasts, or audiobooks) can be an integral part of getting through that daily commute or transatlantic flight. Read more...
So you're in the market to buy a new laptop? We have some advice: Don't let big tech companies with multimillion dollar marketing campaigns fool you into thinking you have to pay upwards of $1,000 to get a quality notebook.
If you're looking to do something to benefit your health, juicing could be a great place to start. A fresh juice allows you to get the most out of your fruits and vegetables, extracting vitamins and nutrients that would otherwise be depleted through other cooking methods. Not to mention, of course, they can be delicious and refreshing. Read more...
We're calling it now: Air fryers are the Instant Pot of 2019.
We're always on the lookout for new kitchen gadgets that will make cooking easier and more fun — so pumped was an understatement we first heard claims of a countertop appliance that can make our favorite greasy foods less unhealthy, all with speed similar to an Instant Pot. Air fryers started popping into mainstream eye in Spring 2017, and now that they've had their chance to marinate in the market (food pun intended), it feels like an appropriate time to compare the best ones. Read more...
Will you accept this rose? No? Well, we hope you can at least accept this urgent safety interruption.
Fans on the edge of their seat during Monday night's episode of The Bachelorette were upset when severe tornado warnings cut in to the broadcast in Dayton, Ohio.
Fox 45 meteorologist Jamie Simpson noticed that Bachelor Nation was in an uproar on social media, and that some fans were not happy with the interruptions. After he started receiving direct backlash for his weather reporting, he vented a bit on air.
"We have viewers complaining already," he yells, exasperated. "No, we're not going back to the show, folks! This is a dangerous situation! I'm sick and tired of people complaining about this! ... I'm done with you people. I really am." Read more...
The Season 3 date announcement and teaser for Marvel's Jessica Jones reveals a sinister voice declaring our hero is a fraud. But a fraud in what sense? A false idol? A morally malleable detective who just wants to pay the bills? That much we know.
Season 3 has Jessica and childhood bestie Trish rejoining forces against "a highly intelligent psychopath," but the aftermath of Season 2's finale won't be brushed under the rug so quickly.
The final season of Marvel's Jessica Jones hits Netflix June 14. Read more...
There is one frustrating truth about our modern, digital age: Wires are annoying.
As more of us are trying to end cable clutter, may we suggest you go the wireless route for your headphones, too? It's an approach being taken in every aspect of consumer tech, from computer setups to home cinema systems. Headphones are proving to be no different.
More and more companies are releasing headphones that don't require any auxiliary inputs to output audio. And since many smart devices are eliminating the number of input ports they include (we're looking at you, iPhone), this makes sense. Read more...
During Computex, when basically every major PC manufacturer is launching newlaptops, Dell isn't one to be left behind.
On Tuesday, the company announced a freshly redesigned Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 laptop, as well as a new version of its Dell XPS 15 laptop.
Dell's 13-inch laptop/tablet hybrid has several important upgrades over its predecessor, the most important of them being camera placement — instead of being lodged in the device's "chin" beneath the screen, the camera is now located in the (far more convenient) top bezel.
The XPS 13 2-in-1's screen hasn't suffered for this. It's a 16:10 touchscreen with a 7% larger viewing experience, Dell says, and it can be configured to have up to UHD+ resolution as well as HDR400 certification with Dolby Vision. Other things have been improved as well, including a 19% larger touchpad, and a new hinge design. Still, Dell has managed to make the device 8% thinner than the previous generation. Read more...
Purchasing a new TV is never easy. It seems like it should be a simple decision, but when you're faced with a wide selection of sizes and specs, it becomes apparent that you need to properly think it through.
You might not be clear on what size of screen you need, or even what brand you prefer, but what is usually very obvious is that 4K technology is an essential. Nowadays, 4K TVs are the norm, and the sooner you invest, the better.
To make your decision a whole lot easier, we have done the hard work and lined up a selection of the very best TV deals, including heavily discounted devices from Samsung, Hisense, LG, Toshiba, Philips, TCL, and more. Read more...
Buying a gift for a loved one is rarely easy, but nothing comes close to finding something for your dad. We don't know why, but dads are almost impossible to buy for, but we have a solution.
We're encouraging you to turn away from the novelty T-shirts, craft ale, and BBQ supplies, and consider a DNA test for Father's Day this year. You can give your dad the gift of over 125 personalised reports on his health, traits, and much more.
You can save £40 on a health and ancestry service as part of the 23andMe's Father's Day sale. This usually costs £149, but is available for just £109 until June 17. This deal also includes a free gift wrapping service, so everything is ready to go. Read more...
Springtime means bright blooms, longer days, and a new class that's getting ready to graduate. For you that means watching a woman you're proud of accept her diploma, which also means you need to find the perfect gift for her.
Depending on her interests, your grad might have useful items on her wishlist like kitchen appliances or a new laptop, or she might want something a little more fun like a vlogging camera or some cool gadgets. Regardless, you want to make her feel special for earning her degree and this gift guide is sure to include something she'll love.
There are plenty of ways to say "congratulations," whether that's through a heartfelt piece of jewelry or the latest tech products. You can go as sentimental or as utilitarian as you want — that's the beauty of college graduation. Read more...
The KNOH YouTube account — known for remixing some of our favorite songs by replacing the instruments with unexpected sound effects — is back at it again.
"Billie made some weird sounds throughout the interview, so I decided to use only the sounds she made to make what you hear in the video," the creator wrote in the video's description.
By adjusting the screams, laughs, and several burps Eilish made while attempting to conquer the hot wings, a far more disgusting but equally catchy version of the song was born. Enjoy. Read more...
Without the help of a VPN service, all your data flows through the Internet completely naked and vulnerable, and nobody wants to be in that situation.
In this day and age, it's absolutely vital that you protect your personal and business data, and this is exactly what a VPN does. Using military-grade encryption, a VPN ensures your data and browsing history remain private, as well as providing access to your favourite web sites wherever you are based.
So we have established that it's important you stay protected, but what about your family? With VPNArea you can connect up to six devices at the same time, meaning everyone can enjoy the internet without restrictions and without the fear of being compromised. Read more...
Another week, another Amazon sale. This week, the focus is on Bosch, with products for your DIY projects, home, and garden, all available at reduced prices.
Amazon's "Hero Deals" promotion is bringing you epic deals on top brands, for one week only. Bosch has its turn in the spotlight this week, and we have lined up the very best deals for your consideration.
It's not all about Bosch, though. We have also tracked down the best deals on speakers, laptops, tablets, and a whole lot more. There should be something for everyone.
These are the best deals from across the internet for May 28. Read more...
Apple hasn't (completely) forgotten about its iPod touch.
On Tuesday, the company announced a new version of the device, with Apple's A10 Fusion chip on board, as well as augmented reality (AR) and Group FaceTime support.
With these changes, Apple's portable music player has gotten a much needed update, its first since July 2015.
Another important change: consumers can now choose an iPod touch with 256GB of storage — quite important for users with large music collections.
Image: Apple
The design of the device appears unchanged from the previous generation, home button, bezels and all. The rest of the specs include a 4-inch Retina display, an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.2-megapixel front camera (all the same as in the previous generation of the device). Read more...
Since 1955, there have been fewer than 300 recorded attempts to scale it, roughly a third of how many were made at Everest, its more famous neighbor, last year alone.
Fulton & Roark practically invented solid cologne — the premium alternative to traditional sprays. Now you can try all 8 fragrances for just $16. Plus, each sample pack comes with a $16 credit for your next purchase.
Dayton is currently under a boil-water advisory. And while the storms devastated dozens of buildings and trees, only minor injuries have been reported, officials said Tuesday morning.
Police say one child is dead and 17 others are injured following a mass stabbing near Tokyo. They say the alleged attacker has also died of self-inflicted wounds.
Sobremesa is crafting handmade glassware that's as good-looking as it is responsible. Their Blue Rim Juice Glasses are hand-blown by skilled artisans in Guatemala, and each vessel is made from recycled glass that's melted down and repurposed into a sleek, one-of-a-kind vessel.
If you're not using a VPN by now, you should. Private Internet Access is a PC Mag Editor's Choice VPN that offers a secure way to browse the web by masking your identity and unblocking geo-restricted websites — all while letting you surf at fast speeds. Use code WEEKEND25 for an extra 25% off, and snag subscriptions at over 75% off.
Where is all that money coming from? Loose change left in security bins has long been an unusual revenue source for the TSA, and the amount of money left behind continues to grow.
Photos of animals doing human things are popular as memes these days, but the concept is far from new in the history of photography. Photographers were already shooting humorous animal photos over a century ago.
It is likely that honey bees, along with sheep and goats, were among the first creatures to start moving down a path toward domestication when agriculture emerged and spread out of Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago.
You're probably aware that Google keeps tabs on what you're up to on its devices, apps and services — but you might not realize just how far its tracking reach extends.
Compensation for top bosses grew at double the pace of ordinary workers' wages, according to analysis. Topping the list: Elon Musk, with a $2.3 billion package.
Military training shoes have become iconic silhouettes the world over, and Reproduction of Found digs up the very best ones to give their handcrafted treatment to create a versatile, premium sneaker steeped in military heritage.
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump take photos with military personnel aboard the USS Wasp as they participate in a Memorial Day Address in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Japan May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump expects that Japan's military will reinforce U.S. forces throughout Asia and elsewhere, he said on Tuesday, as the key U.S. ally upgrades the ability of its forces to operate further from its shores.
Trump's comments followed his inspection of Japan's largest warship, the Kaga, a helicopter carrier designed to carry submarine-hunting helicopters to distant waters.
The vessel, which will soon be upgraded to handle F-35B short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) jets, sailed to India on a flag-flying mission last year, going through the contested South China Sea, much of which is claimed by Beijing.
"With this extraordinary new equipment the Kaga will help our nations defend against a range of complex threats in the region and far beyond," Trump said in a speech on the ship's hangar deck.
Russian military police last week reportedly carried out a raid against Iranian-backed militiamen stationed at Syria's Aleppo international airport, local media reported.
In the aftermath, several Iranian militia leaders were arrested in what was seen as the latest episode of tensions between Iranian and Russian forces in Syria.
Since the beginning of Syria's civil war in 2011, Russia and Iran have built a strong military presence in the country in support of forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Iran has since deployed thousands of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and allied Shiite militias to Syria, while Russia officially entered the Syrian conflict in September 2015 to help Assad's regime.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a top member of the minority party in the upper chamber, met recently with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a time of escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.
The two had dinner around the end of last month when Zarif was visiting the U.S., sources told Politico.
Feinstein's team said the dinner was designed to update the senator on the situation between the U.S. and Iran and was "arranged in consultation with the State Department." A State Department official said the agency did not ask the California Democrat to meet with Zarif, but did not deny discussions had taken place.
#UPDATE Israelis faced the growing possibility Monday of a new national poll despite a general election last month, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition talks remain deadlocked ahead of a looming deadline https://t.co/FD9tMvf2zU
HAVANA (Reuters) - Israel Hidalgo and his wife left home around 7:30 a.m. to reach a supermarket across Havana because they heard it might be selling chicken, a staple of the Cuban diet increasingly scarce on the shortage-plagued island.
After Cuba started limiting sales this month, partly blaming tightened U.S. economic sanctions on the Communist-run island, the couple wanted to buy as much as possible and lined up for three hours under the Caribbean sun to get tickets guaranteeing them their rations.
Inside, they lined up again to collect two bags of chicken thighs each, as fellow shoppers elbowed one another in pursuit of their own rations, and headed for the checkout feeling like they had won the lottery.
"We were born in this revolution and are used to rough times," said Hidalgo, a 61-year old blacksmith. "We are bracing ourselves for it to get worse."
Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg used a British model to create the Uncle Sam recruiting poster, which is among thousands that have been digitized by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.Bonnie Jo Mount / The Washington Post
The work is a kaleidoscopic walk through history, touching on, among other things, support for the Black Panthers in the 1970s, and propaganda from the First World War.
WASHINGTON — The cavernous room was dark, except for the soft flood lights, and the glow from a nearby computer screen. A digital camera peered down from above. And Kelly Manno and Amelia Brookins carefully arranged the old Bella Abzug campaign poster to be photographed.
Wait. Bella who?
Neither of the young Smithsonian object handlers knew of the formidable New York feminist and three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Brookins said she had heard of Abzug, who died 21 years ago, for the "first time in the poster."
But the National Museum of American History is now finishing a massive project to digitize 18,000 of its old political and military posters to make them easily accessible and to expand awareness of figures and issues long vanished from the headlines.
WASHINGTON — The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015, high in the skies over the East coast. Navy pilots reported to their superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.
"These things would be out there all day," said Lieutenant Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. "Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we'd expect."
In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the incidents were captured on video, including one taken by a plane's camera in early 2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what they are watching.
"Wow, what is that, man?" one exclaims. "Look at it fly!"
U.S. soldiers attend the inauguration ceremony of bilateral military training between U.S. and Polish troops in Zagan, Poland, January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
Once the Iranian Revolution was underway, it became clear that the new regime in Tehran were not going to be our friends. Angry crowds seized the U.S. embassy. The staff was taken hostage. There were no signs the regime planned on giving them back. President Carter green-lighted a rescue mission by U.S. special operations forces. It does not go well. In fact, at Desert One, the designated landing site inside Iran, everything goes wrong. Nobody gets rescued. Servicemen die in a horrible, fiery crash. Maybe, technically this was not a battle, since the only enemies present proved to be misfortune and misjudgment.
Defeat can be an integral instrument of victory.
War is a competition between thinking, scheming, determined adversaries. Gaining a decisive advantage over the enemy is the ultimate high-ground. Sometimes this critical competitive edge comes from losing battles—when the loss sparks the actions that lead to winning.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Japan plans to buy almost 105 new F-35 Lightning ll stealth fighter jets.
"The United States supports Japan's efforts to improve its defense capabilities, and in recent months we have sent them a large amount of military equipment," Trump said at a press conference, announcing Japan's intention to buy 105 US-made stealth warplanes, giving it the largest F-35 fleet of any US ally.
According to the American leader: "(They're) stealth because the fact is you can't see them."
TAIPEI (Reuters) - China responded angrily on Monday as Taiwan confirmed the first meeting in more than four decades between senior U.S. and Taiwanese security officials.
Taiwan's national security chief David Lee met White House national security adviser John Bolton earlier this month, the island's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
The official Central News Agency said the meeting was the first since the island and the United States ended formal diplomatic ties in 1979.
You might've expected celebrations this year to mark 40 years since the US and China "normalised" relations.
These kind of anniversaries are usually met with fanfare — a high-profile state visit, a joint communique.
Instead, Beijing and Washington traded threats in a bruising trade war and navigated a stoush over Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies.
The superpowers are locked in an escalating rivalry, with the tech sector a pawn in their quest for global influence. Even if a trade deal eventuates, it's unlikely to be a circuit-breaker in the tensions that analysts are calling "the new normal".
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Parties committed to closer European Union integration began bargaining over jobs and policy on Monday after an election to the EU parliament which fragmented the center but gave only limited gains to nationalists.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Parties committed to closer European Union integration began bargaining over jobs and policy on Monday after an election to the EU parliament which fragmented the center but gave only limited gains to nationalists.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman announce a coalition agreement, May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
Facing a looming deadline, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struggled to form a new government Sunday, and his party began preparing the nation for the possibility of new elections.
Last month, Netanyahu and his natural allies on the right came out on top in a hotly contested race in which he faced political novice Benny Gantz, a former army chief of staff, running in partnership with centrist Yair Lapid, a former minister of finance.
Under Israeli law, Netanyahu was then tasked to form the next government by President Reuven Rivlin. But with no coalition agreement signed and less than three days left to form the government, Netanyahu may find himself unable to do so.
The missile didn't hit the Israeli aircraft, which was conducting a routine flight over northern Israel, and fell within Syrian territory.
The IAF destroyed a Syrian launcher that fired an anti-aircraft missile at an Israeli plane, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday night, stressing that Israel will not tolerate any aggression against it.
"A short time ago, the Syrian army tried to hit an Israeli plane, it did not succeed," Netanyahu said in a video statement. "The air force in response destroyed the launcher from which it [the missile] was fired. Our policy is clear: we will not tolerate any aggression against us, and we will respond to it with force and firmness."Netanyahu's message came just two hours after he spoke live to the cameras about the current political crisis stemming from his inability to form a coalition, just 48 hours before the deadline to do so expires.
Syria: A video footage was published by the Russian News-Front TV channel shows several soldiers of the Russian special forces being deployed to the front-lines in al-Ghab Plain in northern Hama countryside.
The Russian soldiers were seen walking alongside Syrian troops just 300m away of militant's positions in al-Ghab Plain.
They are tasked with monitoring and observing jihadist rebels movements and positions in bid to coordinate attacks with the Russian air force.
AMMAN, JORDAN — Turkey has equipped an array of mainstream Syrian rebels it backs with fresh supplies of weaponry to help them try to repel a major Russian-backed assault, senior opposition officials and rebel sources said Saturday.
Russia is backing the Syrian army's large aerial and ground assault as it seeks to gain control of the last big stretch of rebel-held territory in the northwest of the country.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad launched the assault last month, saying rebels had breached an existing cease-fire, triggering a civilian exodus by bombarding Idlib and adjacent areas. It has been the biggest escalation since last summer between Assad and his enemies in Idlib province and a belt of territory around it
Hundreds of air attacks help Russian-backed government troops recapture town of Kafr Nabuda as battles rage on.
Syrian government forces pounded positions in the northwest of the country on Sunday as troops on the ground seized a town retaken by rebels days before.
The bombardment helped Russian-backed Syrian soldiers capture the small town of Kafr Nabuda in the north of Hama province, the third time it has changed hands in the latest offensive, sources on both sides said.
Syrian state news agency SANA said Kafr Nabuda town was taken from fighters led by the Hay'et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group.
Greek prime minister's leftist Syriza party suffers big losses in EU parliament and local elections.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he will call snap national elections after suffering a heavy defeat by the opposition conservatives in the European Parliament and local polls.
With an unexpectedly severe pounding at the ballot box on Sunday for his leftist Syriza party, Tsipras decided not to push through to a full term which expires in October.
Austrian lawmakers have voted for a motion of no confidence in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. The vote was called by parties on the left, and supported by Kurz's former far-right coalition partners.
Austrian lawmakers voted for a no-confidence motion against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's government, marking the end of his People's Party's hold on power.
The far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) — Kurz's former coalition ally — joined center-left Social Democrats and the leftist environmentalist Jetzt (Now) party in the motion against both Kurz and his government.
Kurz's caretaker minority government, including experts and senior public servants, was sworn into office last week.
WNU Editor: Chancellor Sebastian Kurz may have been ousted, but he is positioned to do well in the next election. His centre-right People's Party (OeVP) significantly increased its support in yesterday's EU elections .... Austrian centre-right leading in European election vote, far-right third (AFP), and my friends in central Europe are telling me that he will do just as well (if not better) in the next election.
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* Centrist and ruling parties suffered heavy losses across much of Europe as EU Parliament results confirmed * Voters elected anti-EU and anti-immigration parties in record numbers, with Marine Le Pen winning in France * Conversely, left wing and Green parties surged, with Merkel's CDU losing to them rather than right-wingers * Despite anti-EU gains, the legislature is still controlled by a two-thirds majority of Pro-EU parties * Ms Le Pen's National Rally party came just ahead of Emmanuel Macron's En Marche in French vote * Her party toasted 'emergence of new forces' that 'open the way for formation of a powerful group' in Brussels * Spain bucked the trend with ruling Socialists on top but Greek PM called a snap General Election after losses * Italy's Matteo Salvini told supporters 'A new Europe is born', while Silvio Berlusconi was re-elected at 82 * Turnout across the continent is the highest in 25 years - up by around eight percent on 201
Far-right and Eurosceptic parties have won more European Parliament seats than ever before after voters across the continent left their nations' rulers with bloody noses.
Conversely, left wing and pro-EU Green parties also surged amid the highest turnout in 25 years as the 40-year majority held by the two largest centre-right and centre-left groups of parties was broken.
Marine Le Pen's National Rally inflicted a painful defeat - but not a knock-out blow - on pro-European French president Emmanuel Macron before her party called for a 'powerful' group of far-right parties to join forces in the EU Parliament.
In Italy, the League party of hard-line Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, was one of the biggest winners in the European elections, with soaring support that bolsters his role as the flagbearer of the nationalist and far-right forces in Europe and could also shake up politics at home.
Partial results show significant losses for the dominant conservative and center-left blocs, while the Greens, Liberals and euroskeptic parties made gains. The European Parliament is set for a new balance of power.
Millions of voters across the EU cast their ballots on the final day of voting for the European Parliament elections, in a poll that will shape the continent's politics for the next five years.
Preliminary results early Monday morning showed the grand coalition between the center-right European People's Party (EPP) and the center-left Socialist and Democrats (S&D) blocs will lose their majority in 751-seat legislature.
The results indicate the European Parliament will have a new balance of power, with the centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), far-right euroskeptic parties and the Greens/European Free Alliance all making gains.
U.S. deploys 1,500 troops to 'bolster defenses against Iran'. Pictured: An F/A-18E Super Hornet flying above the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. AFP
(Reuters) - The U.S. military presence in the Middle East is at its "weakest in history", a deputy commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards was on Sunday quoted by the semi-official news agency Fars as saying.
U.S. President Donald Trump has tightened economic sanctions against Iran, and his administration says it has built up the U.S. military presence in the region.
It accuses Iran of threats to U.S. troops and interests. Tehran has described U.S. moves as "psychological warfare" and a "political game".
PARIS (Reuters) - Libyan eastern commander Khalifa Haftar has ruled out a ceasefire in the battle for Tripoli and accused the United Nations of seeking to partition Libya, according to an interview published by French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) began an offensive in early April to take Tripoli from fighters loyal to Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj's Government of National Accord (GNA) which has the backing of the United Nations.
The LNA, which is allied to a parallel government in the east, has not been able to breach the southern defenses of Tripoli. The fighting has killed at least 510 people, forced 75,000 out of their homes and trapped thousands of migrants in detention centers.
At least 1.2 million people have died fighting for America during its wars dating back 241 years, according to Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs data.
Most died in battle, while many others never landed abroad but are no less honored on this Memorial Day.
Here's a by-the-numbers breakdown of when and where they died, as of May 27, starting with the American Revolution:
Schools in Afghanistan saw the number of attacks triple in a year, according to UNICEF, stoking further concern of deteriorating security and access to education in the country.
According to a report released Monday, there were 192 attacks on schools in 2018, up from 68 in 2017.
UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore called the attacks senseless, adding that “education is under fire” in Afghanistan.
“The killing, injury and abduction of teachers, and the threats against education, are destroying the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of children,” Fore said.
The number of attacks was previously seeing a decline up till 2015. The 2018 parliamentary elections, which led to the closure of schools to be used as voter registration and polling centers, was one factor that caused the spike in violent incidents, the report said.
According to the report, close to half of all school-aged children in Afghanistan between the ages of 7 and 17, totaling an estimated 3.7 million, do not attend formal schools.
Girls account for about 60% of the children not attending school; Human Rights Watch cites discriminatory attitudes towards girls, child marriage and administrative barriers as among the reasons for the disparity. For five years under hardline Islamist Taliban rule, nearly all female education was prohibited in the country.
Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates of the world at 31%, according to the World Bank.
A Japanese man who swallowed 246 packets of cocaine died while on a flight from Bogota to Tokyo on Friday, Agence France-Presse reports.
Authorities identified the man only as 42-year-old Udo N in a social media post Monday.
The incident prompted the Aeromexico flight to make an emergency landing in the northern Mexico state of Sonora after flight attendants noticed that he was having seizures. Paramedics then boarded the plane and declared the man dead.
Prosecutors said the cause of his death was cerebral edema — a swelling of the brain — caused by the drug overdose. According to an autopsy, the man had 246 packets of cocaine, each measuring about 0.4 inches by 1 inch, in his stomach and intestines.
The plane, which had 198 other passengers on board, resumed its flight to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport after the body was removed.
Swallowing drugs, despite its hazards, is one way smugglers use to transport narcotics due to the ability to bypass security systems and screening processes.
Earlier this month, two Thai nationals who were traveling to Bali were arrested after ingesting almost two pounds of methamphetamine, according to the Bangkok Post. Last year, a Brazilian student died after one of the cocaine pellets he swallowed ruptured inside him when he was flying from Lisbon to Dublin, the Irish Times reports.
(DENVER) — A Colorado climber died shortly after getting to the top of Mount Everest and achieving his dream of scaling the highest peaks on each of the seven continents, his brother said Monday.
Christopher Kulish, a 62-year-old Boulder attorney, died Monday at a camp below the summit during his descent. The cause isn’t yet known, said his brother, Mark Kulish of Denver.
Christopher Kulish had just reached the top of Everest with a small group after crowds of hundreds of climbers congested the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) peak last week, his brother said.
“He saw his last sunrise from the highest peak on Earth. At that instant, he became a member of the ‘7 Summit Club,’ having scaled the highest peak on each continent,” Mark Kulish said in a statement.
He described his brother as an attorney in his “day job” who was “an inveterate climber of peaks in Colorado, the West and the world over.”
“He passed away doing what he loved, after returning to the next camp below the peak,” Mark Kulish said.
About half a dozen climbers died on Everest last week, including Don Cash of Utah, who also had fulfilled his dream of climbing the highest mountains on each continent. Most of them died while descending from the summit during only a few windows of good weather each May.
Most are believed to have suffered from altitude sickness, which is caused by low amounts of oxygen at high elevation and can cause headaches, vomiting, shortness of breath and mental confusion.
There are 41 teams with a total of 378 climbers permitted to scale Everest during the spring climbing season. An equal number of Nepalese guides are helping them get to the top.
Christopher Kulish also is survived by his mother, Betty Kulish, and a sister, Claudia.
(RIO DE JANEIRO) — Forty-two inmates were killed at three different prisons in the capital of Brazil’s northern Amazonas state Monday, authorities reported, a day after 15 died during fighting among prisoners at a fourth prison in the same city.
The Amazonas state prison agency said all 42 prisoners found dead in Manaus on Monday showed signs of asphyxia.
The killings across the city’s prisons recalled early 2017 when more than 120 inmates died at the hands of other prisoners during several weeks of fighting among rival crime gang members at prisons in northern states. Many of those victims had their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ripped out.
On Sunday, 15 inmates were killed during a riot at Manaus’ Anisio Jobim Prison Complex, where 56 prisoners died in the violence two years earlier.
Local authorities said prisoners began fighting among themselves before noon Sunday, and security reinforcements were rushed in and managed to regain control within 45 minutes.
Little information was released about Monday’s killings.
Brazil’s justice and public security ministry said it was sending a federal task force to help local officials handle the situation.
“I just spoke with (Justice) Minister Sergio Moro, who is already sending a prison intervention team to the State of Amazonas, so that he can help us in this moment of crisis and a problem that is national: the problem of prisons,” Amazonas state Gov. Wilson Lima said.
Several drug-trafficking and other criminal gangs in Brazil run much of their day-to-day business from prisons, where they often have wide sway. The 2017 slayings were largely gang-related, prompting authorities to increase efforts to separate factions and frequently transfer prisoners.
Authorities have not yet said whether gang wars were behind the latest blood-letting.
Moro had to send a federal task force to help tame violence in Ceara state in January that local officials said was ordered by crime gang leaders angered by plans to impose tighter controls in the state’s prisons.
At least three people have died and more than a dozen others were injured when a man began stabbing children and other passengers waiting for a bus in a residential district on the southern outskirts of Tokyo Tuesday morning.
Local media cited police saying the suspect, a man believed to be in his 40s or 50s, died shortly after he was apprehended in critical condition.
The attack took place near a bus stop in Kawasaki City on the outskirts of the capital, where the children were on their way to school, according to Kyodo news agency.
According to Japanese broadcaster NHK, a bus driver saw the man holding a knife in each hand while walking towards the bus. He started attacking the children and ran away after the driver yelled at him.
The man reportedly stabbed himself in the neck and subsequently died from the injuries.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reports that police confirmed a young girl was among the fatalities, and later confirmed that a man in his 30s had also died due to his injuries.
Another 16 people, mostly children, are believed to have been injured in the attack. Earlier reports cited police saying the number of injured was 19.
In a televised statement, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed “strong indignation” over the attack and offered his condolences to victims of what he described as a “harrowing incident.”
No motive for the attack has yet been established.
Violent attacks are rare in Japan, which has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. But the country has seen some high-profile killings, including the stabbing of 19 at a disabled home in 2016.
This story is developing, please check back for updates.
(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Syria said an Israeli attack against a military post in the country’s south on Monday killed a soldier and injured another. Israel, in a rare statement acknowledging firing into Syria, said it was responding to an anti-aircraft fire from Syria against one of its combat planes.
The back-to-back statements come amid heightened regional tension over Iran’s role in Syria and other parts of the Middle East. They also follow a number of reported Israeli strikes on Syria in the past ten days, according to state run media.
Israel does not usually comment on reports concerning its strikes in neighboring Syria, though it has recently acknowledged striking Iranian targets there.
Syrian state TV al-Ikhbariya quoted a military official saying that the Israeli attack came shortly after 2100 local time (1800GMT) and targeted a military outpost east of Khan Arnabeh, a town in Quneitra on the edge of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. An earlier statement on state media said one military vehicle was also damaged when a rocket landed in Tal al-Shaar in Quneitra.
Israel said it was responding after an anti-aircraft fire from Syria targeted one of its combat planes in Israeli airspace.
A statement from the Israeli army said that earlier Monday a Syrian anti-aircraft system fired at one of its aircraft “as it was carrying out a routine flight in Israel. The projectile landed in Syrian territory. In response, we targeted the Syrian launcher that was responsible for firing it.”
The Israeli military “sees any threat against its aircraft with great severity and takes measures to defend them.”
Israel’s prime minister said in statement shortly afterward that the Syrian army “tried to harm an Israeli plane, it didn’t succeed.”
“Our policy is clear — we are not prepared to tolerate any aggression against us, we will retaliate against it forcefully and decisively,” the statement said.
Syrian media had reported earlier this month two incidents in which Israeli strikes hit inside southern Syria.
(VIENNA) — Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was ousted by parliament in a no-confidence vote Monday, paving the way for a new election. The young leader, riding high in popular support, defiantly vowed that he and his center-right People’s Party would return to power with increased strength.
The vote capped a week of turmoil at the top in Austria that started when Kurz pulled the plug on his coalition with the far-right Freedom Party after a video emerged showing that party’s leader appearing to be offering lucrative government contracts to a purported Russian investor.
A new election is already planned for September and President Alexander Van der Bellen needs to appoint a caretaker government to serve until then.
Less than three hours after losing his job, Kurz appeared before a cheering crowd outside party offices in Vienna, pledging that “the changes that we began two years ago will not end today.” He said he looked forward to helping the interim government ensure stability in the coming months, and would fight to win back his position.
“In the end, the people will decide in September, and I’m happy about that,” he said to chants from the crowd of “Chancellor Kurz!”
He lashed out at the Freedom Party as well as the opposition Social Democrats, who brought the no-confidence vote, saying from them “we have only heard one thing, that Kurz must go. That’s the only platform of those two parties and I’m afraid to say I must disappoint them both: I’m still here.”
No-confidence votes are common in Austrian politics, but this is the first one to have succeeded in its modern history. The result makes Kurz the shortest-serving chancellor since 1945 with 525 days in office, according to the Austria Press Agency.
Kurz now loses the advantage of campaigning as an incumbent chancellor but remains popular and his center-right party finished first Sunday in Austria in the European Parliament election with 34.9% support, a gain of almost 8 percentage points over 2014.
The 32-year-old, who became Europe’s youngest leader when he was sworn in just before Christmas 2017, remained composed earlier in the day amid withering criticism from opponents in parliament before the no-confidence vote.
He told the body that he was “proud and satisfied with the work we have done as a government in the past year and a half” and pledged to work constructively with the caretaker government.
“We will certainly not put any stones on the path of the next government,” he said. “We will support them as much as possible.”
Van der Bellen told reporters later that Kurz’s government would be officially dismissed on Tuesday but ministers would be left in their positions until a new government can be appointed, hopefully by Friday.
He said he needed to find an interim chancellor who would be accepted by all parties and was holding talks with all involved. Finance Minister Hartwig Loeger will take over the duties of chancellor in the meantime, he said.
In parliament, Kurz suggested he had no choice but to end his partnership with the Freedom Party after the video emerged of Heinz-Christian Strache, who has since resigned as party leader.
“It was clear for me that it meant the end of the coalition,” Kurz said.
Herbert Kickl, a top Freedom Party lawmaker, accused Kurz of using the Strache video as a chance to consolidate his power.
“He made the entire Freedom Party responsible for the wrong actions of two people,” Kickl told parliament.
Social Democrat leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner issued the same charge.
“This is a shameless, unrestrained and irresponsible power grab,” she said.
Smart, charismatic and articulate, Kurz caught the eye of People’s Party leaders about a decade ago when he was elected the chairman of his party’s youth branch while in law school. In Austria’s previous government, Kurz became foreign minister and helped reinvent his party’s image.
With the upcoming fall election, his opponents face an uphill battle.
In the European election on Sunday, the Social Democrats won 23.6% and the Freedom Party took 17.2%, a sharp drop from the Freedom Party’s previous results in Austria’s 2017 national election, according to provisional results.
(BRUSSELS) — A day after the European Parliament elections, Pope Francis issued his annual message on migrants and said the attitude that they are the source of all of society’s ills “is an alarm bell warning of the moral decline” the world faces.
Francis said the presence of migrants in wealthy countries is instead an invitation “to recover some of those essential dimensions of our Christian existence and our humanity.”
Officials stressed that Francis’ message was not political but pastoral and the Vatican did not comment on the European Parliament vote. But some church leaders weighed in.
At a press conference launching the migrant message Monday, the head of the European conference of Catholic bishops, Luxembourg Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich, said the results of the European Parliament vote “would have been worse” if Francis and the Catholic Church hadn’t consistently stood up for migrants.
The leader of Italy’s right-wing populist League party, Matteo Salvini, is firmly anti-migrant and his party came in first in Italy’s EU vote.
(PARIS) — French police have arrested two suspects following a blast in the city of Lyon that wounded 13 people last week, French authorities said on Monday.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced the first arrest on Twitter, a development later confirmed by Paris prosecutors, who handle all terrorism-related cases.
The prosecutors’ office later said a second suspect was arrested and detained.
Lyon mayor Gerard Collomb, a former interior minister, said one of the suspects is an IT student who was arrested as he stepped out of a bus.
“It’s a relief for all Lyon inhabitants. I believe the case has been resolved,” Collomb told BFM TV. “If there was a network, it has been identified and will certainly be dismantled.”
Police had launched a large manhunt after a device exploded Friday on a busy pedestrian street in the central city. Regional authorities said the 13 wounded suffered mostly minor injuries.
President Emmanuel Macron called the explosion an “attack” but no group has claimed responsibility for the explosion yet.
An investigation has been opened for “attempted murder in relation with a terrorist undertaking” and “criminal terrorist association.”
Last week, France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor, Remy Heitz, described video surveillance that showed a suspect heading toward the center of Lyon on a bike Friday afternoon. The man was seen arriving on foot, pushing his bike along a pedestrian-only street, then leaving a paper bag on a concrete block in the middle of the street near a bakery.
The suspect immediately returned to his bike and left by the same path. One minute later, the explosion shattered the glass of a refrigerator in the bakery, Heitz said.
It was unclear whether the suspect arrested Monday was the same person, although Collomb said the detained student was identified thanks to video surveillance.
Investigators at the scene have found screws, ball bearings, batteries, a triggering device that can be used remotely and plastic pieces that may come from the explosive device.
France has been hit by a spate of attacks in recent years, some of them deadly, carried out by people ranging from extremist attackers to mentally unstable individuals.
(LONDON) — Veteran politician Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party scored big gains in European elections, with his party and several anti-Brexit parties dooming the governing Conservative Party and opposition Labour to humiliating defeats.
With results announced early Monday for all of England and Wales, the Brexit Party had won 28 of the 73 British EU seats up for grabs and almost a third of the votes. The Liberal Democrats took about 20% of the vote and 15 seats — up from only one at the last EU election in 2014.
Labour came third with 10 seats, followed by the Greens with seven. The ruling Conservatives — apparently blamed by voters for failing to deliver Brexit in March as planned — were in fifth place with just three EU seats and under 10% of the vote.
The vote was more or less split between Farage’s pro-Brexit forces and the pro-EU Liberal Democrats and Greens — at the expense of the more established parties.
Scotland and Northern Ireland are due to announce their results later.
Farage’s Brexit Party was one of several nationalist and populist parties making gains across the continent in an election that saw erosion of support for the traditionally dominant political parties.
A triumphant Farage said his party will “stun everbody” in the next British general election if the country still hasn’t left the European Union.
“We’re not just here to leave the European Union but to try and fundamentally change the shape of British politics, bring it into the 21st century and get a Parliament that better reflects the country,” he said.
Farage’s gains helped consign the Conservative Party to a dismal showing. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is contending to become party leader and prime minister, said it was a “painful result” and warned there was an “existential risk to our party unless we now come together and get Brexit done.”
The results reflect an electorate deeply divided over Britain’s 2016 decision to leave the EU, but united in anger at the two long-dominant parties, the Conservatives and Labour, who have brought the Brexit process to deadlock.
Some senior Labour figures said after the party’s weak performance that it must now take a strong stance in favor of a second referendum on Brexit, but party leader Jeremy Corbyn declined to make his positon clear. He still says the country needs either a general election or a referendum on Brexit.
“With the Conservatives disintegrating and unable to govern, and parliament deadlocked, this issue will have to go back to the people, whether through a general election or a public vote,” he said, promising more “conversations” in the coming days.
Britain is participating in the EU election because it is still a member of the bloc, but the lawmakers it elects will only sit in the European Parliament until the country leaves the EU, which is currently scheduled for Oct. 31.
Farage’s Brexit Party was officially launched in April and has only one policy: for Britain to leave the EU as soon as possible, even without a divorce agreement in place.
But the election leaves Britain’s EU exit ever more uncertain, with both Brexiteers and pro-EU “remainers” able to claim strong support. Labour and the Conservatives, who in different ways each sought a compromise Brexit, were hammered.
The result raises the likelihood of a chaotic “no deal” exit from the EU — but also of a new referendum that could reverse the decision to leave.
The favorites, including ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, have vowed to leave the EU on Oct. 31 even if there is no deal in place.
Most businesses and economists think that would cause economic turmoil and plunge Britain into recession. But many Conservatives think embracing a no-deal Brexit may be the only way to win back voters from Farage’s party.
Labour paid for a fence-sitting Brexit policy that saw the party dither over whether to support a new referendum that could halt Brexit. Labour foreign affairs spokeswoman Emily Thornberry said the party needed to adopt a clearer pro-EU stance.
“There should be a (new Brexit) referendum and we should campaign to remain,” she said.
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