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Haaretz.com 

Facing a looming war with Hezbollah, Israel has six tough options

Israel is navigating an unprecedented situation of ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza and an emboldened Iran while deciding how to react to escalating cross-border fighting with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Its next move must be done in the most calculated and calibrated of ways – there's no room for error

Haaretz.com 

Small in Japan: Why Israel decided to lower its profile at Expo 2025

Instead of a luxurious pavilion in a prominent spot at the world fair, a much smaller alternative was chosen on the margins. 'In my opinion, it would have been preferable not to participate,' says architect David Knafo, who submitted one of the original proposals

Crooks and Liars  

Trump REALLY Doesn't Want To Stay In Milwaukee During RNC

On Tuesday, Felon Trump landed in that "horrible" city of Milwaukee on his way to Racine, Wisconsin, to hold a rally. The rally was held right next to Lake Michigan and just a hop and skip from the sprawling eighth wonder of the world, The Felon Trump Successful Foxconn Campus for Widget Making. Oops, my bad. I meant to say the growing Microsoft data center that President Joe Biden helped bring to where Trump had failed in bringing Foxconn.

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The Moderate Voice 

The Gaza ‘Trident Pier’: A Nobel Project Plagued by Setbacks

The project, known as JLOTS, or “Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore” capability, would consist of a floating dock about three miles off the Gaza shore, a floating pier attached to an approximately 1,800-foot-long modular causeway anchored to the shore and, finally, a group of logistic support vessels (LSVs) to transport the aid from the dock to the pier/causeway.

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BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

Ashleigh Barty to play Wimbledon invitation doubles

(Photo credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports) Former World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty will participate in an exhibition doubles event at Wimbledon, tournament officials announced. Barty, who announced her retirement in March 2022 -- two months after she won the Australian Open, will join fellow Australian Casey Dellacqua in competing in invitation doubles. "I can announce the band's back together, ABCD," Dellacqua told The

BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence signs $275M contract

(Photo credit: Garry Smits/The Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK) Trevor Lawrence signed a five-year contract extension on Thursday to make official his deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars worth a reported $275 million with $200 million guaranteed. "We signed our name on the thing -- so it's official," Lawrence said after putting pen to paper on his contract along with his wife, Marissa. "Believe it or not, it's a lot of pa

CBSNews.com 

MLB to honor Willie Mays, Negro Leagues in special game at Alabama's Rickwood Field

Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants will pay homage to Willie Mays and baseball's Negro Leagues Thursday night with a game at Alabama's Rickwood Field, the oldest ballpark in America still in use and the former home of the Negro League Birmingham Black Barons. Mays, an Alabama native, played for the Black Barons in 1948. CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett has more on the significance of the game, coincidentally being played just a few days after Mays' death.

«MercoPress» (en) 

Falklands: Consultation to begin on Sea Lion offshore oil development, north of the Islands

Following an extraordinary sitting of Executive Council on Monday 17 June, the Falkland Islands Government has agreed that there will be a public consultation from Monday 24 June to Monday 5 August 2024, on the Environmental Impact Statement for the Sea Lion Field Northern Development Area, Phase 1 and 2, which has been submitted by Navitas Petroleum Development and Production Limited.