A year after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack, Israel is taking the fight to its enemies across the Middle East with a multipronged military campaign unlike anything seen in decades.
… The Ukrainian military said it struck a key oil terminal Monday on the south coast of the Russia-occupied Crimea Peninsula, while Russian authorities sentenced 72-year-old American Stephen Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.
…. Two Americans, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery of microRNA.
… There’s a new twist in the ongoing feud between Elon Musk’s X and the government of Brazil: The social media giant reportedly paid $5 million in fines to the wrong bank in its effort to satisfy government fines related to alleged violations of hate speech laws.
… Iranian Gen. Esmail Qaani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, has reportedly gone missing since Israeli airstrikes in Beirut last week. The report suggests he also may have been killed by those Israeli attacks targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
… And Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico vowed over the weekend that as long as he is in office, Ukraine will never join NATO, underscoring the deep divisions that still exist within the bloc over Kyiv’s prospective membership.