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When a white van drew up next to the office of the Palestine Customs Police in Tubas, a town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abdel Nasser Sarhan had no reason to be suspicious. According to Abdel Nasser’s colleagues, the van’s driver got out and greeted him in Arabic. It was early in the morning. The 24-year-old uniformed policeman had just come on shift. CCTV pictures show him strolling out past a guard post, his rifle slung casually at his side. Seconds later, a man in jeans and a dark T-shirt emerges from the direction of the white van, uniformed Israeli…

A man who vowed never to get back in an aircraft after an engine caught fire on his return from holiday overcame his fear by learning to fly – and then built himself a flight simulator. Tim Procter, 58, from Somersham in Cambridgeshire, said the Boeing 737’s engine exploded over Italy in 1988. Before the days of mobile phones, people were writing their goodbye notes, he said, but thankfully the plane managed to land safely. Years later he tried a flying lesson, became “hooked”, and now has his own 737 flight simulator business. “Before this experience [in 1988], I used…

When the referee raised Lin Yu-ting’s hand at the Paris 2024’s women’s 57kg final, history was made. She had won Taiwan its first ever Olympic gold medal in boxing. Calling Lin a “daughter of Taiwan,” Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te was among millions of people celebrating her victory, saying she had made Taiwan proud. “With admirable focus and discipline, she has overcome misinformation and cyberbullying, turning adversity into victory,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Until several weeks ago, the 28-year-old’s name had been little known to people outside of Taiwan – but the Games have thrust Lin into the spotlight, after…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The smell of hairspray clouds Alexa Flores López as she gets the finishing touches of an intricate updo on her thick black hair. When Alexa found out she was going to have a quinceañera — the traditional celebration for a 15th birthday in Mexico — she could barely contain herself. “She got super excited, like her heart would come out!” said her mother, Carmen López Díaz. “She was just counting down the days.” At the Federico Gomez Children’s Hospital in Mexico City, volunteers clad in white and blue nurse uniforms scurry to attend to birthday girls…

The greatest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway, and people are unprepared, according to Michael Pelzar, head of investments at Bank of America Private Bank. “Nearly half of wealthy families don’t have the most basic elements of estate planning in place,” Pelzar said. “What that means is that families are woefully underprepared for that wealth transfer that’ll be taking place.” Baby boomers alone are projected to pass down over $68 trillion over the coming years. However, Pelzar explained that nearly half of wealthy families do not have the necessary preparations in place, such as a will, power of attorney, or healthcare…

A decade ago, the 44-year-old Bay Area product executive saw the brand as a signifier that a driver wanted to fight climate change, electrify transportation or back CEO Elon Musk’s vision for a sustainable future. “You could make a statement while having a great car,” said Chhabra, who has owned three different Tesla vehicles and for a time held stock in the company. But Chhabra is now shopping for a new vehicle – and looking elsewhere. Tesla’s brand “comes with a lot of baggage,” he said, and he no longer wants to be associated with Musk. Chhabra is part of…

McDonald’s France had a not-so-thinly veiled response to the men’s basketball final at the Paris Olympics. After Steph Curry drained eight 3-pointers Saturday to help lead the United States to gold in a 98-87 win over France, the Instagram account for McDonald’s France posted a message Sunday directed at the Golden State Warriors sharpshooter’s heroics. “For obvious reasons, we are considering removing this sauce,” McDonald’s France’s posting translates from French to English, and included a picture of the chain’s Classic Curry dipping sauce. The Instagram posting had nearly 15,000 likes over seven hours. “This is a joke in reference to yesterday’s basketball game and…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed Kyiv’s troops are fighting inside Russia, days into the surprise Ukrainian cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region that has become a major embarrassment for the Kremlin. “Ukraine is proving that it really knows how to restore justice and guarantees exactly the kind of pressure that is needed – pressure on the aggressor,” Zelensky said in his nightly address to the nation on Saturday, thanking “every unit” of Ukraine’s armed forces for making it possible “to push the war out into the aggressor’s territory.” The statement marked the first time Zelensky officially acknowledged the incursion, which took by surprise both Russia…

Donald Trump’s campaign, which has whiffed in its early attacks on Kamala Harris’ new presidential campaign, will grapple this week for a more effective foothold after the vice president transformed an election of stunning surprises. The ex-president has deployed some of his most trusted political tools — targeting racial identify, creating alternative realities, flinging insults and gaslighting. On Sunday, for instance, he spread a new false conspiracy theory over the size of Harris’ rally crowd in Michigan last week. But his efforts to bring down his new adversary and her policy of ignoring his provocations have so far more highlighted his own liabilities than…

The Paris Olympics opened with rain on its parade, then blistering heat and, finally, a week of pleasant sunshine. As it comes to a close on Sunday, temperatures are expected to again soar up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, or 35 degrees Celsius. The only certainty about Summer Olympics weather is that there’s really no certainty at all. Extreme heat is a growing threat for elite athletes, with cases of heat exhaustion and heatstroke becoming more common as fossil fuel pollution pushes temperatures and humidity levels up. Spectators, especially those those who fly in from cooler climates, are vulnerable to extreme heat,…