LEBANON: A high-level Hezbollah source said on Saturday that contact with Hashem Safieddine, widely touted as potentially the group’s next leader, had been lost following Israeli strikes this week. “Contact with Sayyed Safieddine has been lost since the violent strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs” early on Friday, the official told AFP. “We don’t know if … Read more
With many futures bets being placed throughout the offseason, and bets rapidly increasing as we approach a month from the regular season, a very fun bet that usually holds a lot of interest for most football fans and bettors, is the NFL rushing leader. Most people I talk to or who are reading this article … Read more
The United States managed to arrest Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord, but Mexican prosecutors – and the president — now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed him over. It’s part of the long, strange saga of Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, who unexpectedly appeared on a flight that landed … Read more
The leader of a Kenyan starvation sect went on trial on Monday for manslaughter over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in one of the world’s worst cult-related tragedies. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and dozens of other suspects pleaded not guilty in January to multiple counts of manslaughter, one of several … Read more
Sinaloa drug cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada – in a letter written from prison and released by his lawyer – details what he says led to his arrest in the United States. “El Mayo” and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, one of the notorious kingpin El Chapo’s 12 children, were arrested near El Paso, Texas … Read more
The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Tuesday it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza and mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader. The choice of Sinwar, a secretive figure who leads Hamas’ hardliners and is close to Iran, was a defiant step. Sinwar is at the top of … Read more