CHICAGO (WLS) — Lollapalooza is again!

The four-day music pageant kicked off in Grant Park Thursday.

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Headliners embody SZA, Megan Thee Stallion, Blink 182, and the Killers.

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“In 2022, I began coming right here due to J-hope and TXT, and from there I simply saved coming,” Lollapalooza-goer Nadeja Knox stated. “So I am very excited for this yr to see Stray Children.”

The pageant is predicted to attract greater than an estimated 100,000 followers to Grant Park every day.

Ok-pop artists are among the many greater than 170 different acts booked on the occasion’s eight phases.

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“I really like music,” Lollapalooza fan Max Cantu stated. “Music is my ardour. It is my life, and I am right here to see Chappell Roan. I wish to be right here as she’s blowing up. I wish to be there to say, ‘I used to be there.’ I need the expertise.”

Chappell Roan drew large crowds Thursday night, decked out in a whole lot of pink.

Kesha was additionally on the schedule.

Thursday was Ashton Sullivan’s first time on the music pageant.

“I am excited, but additionally actually nervous. However my principal purpose for coming is for Ok-pop Stray Children; they’re my favourite group,” Sullivan stated.

Excited pageant goers like Leila Shaffey arrived earlier than daybreak to verify she and her pals have been first in line to get a great place in entrance of heart stage.

“Trigger actually for a Ok-pop stand, all people will get right here like one million years early. So, we’re like, we do not know the way it’ll be, however we would as properly get right here early,” Shaffey stated.

The present runs by way of Sunday evening.

For greater than 30 years, Lollapalooza has referred to as Chicago residence.

Since then, the distinctive lakefront music expertise has not solely grow to be the nation’s longest operating music pageant, but additionally considered one of its largest and most iconic.

“I am excited to see what it is all about and what individuals like a lot about it,” Ella Haas stated.

Malcolm Fletcher stated he got here all the best way from Fayetteville, North Carolina, after his sister attended final yr.

“I am right here for all of it: rain, shine, no matter,” he stated.

And, when you’re heading downtown for Lollapalooza, metropolis officers are urging individuals to make use of public transportation.

Metra is including trains to accommodate live performance goers.

The CTA stated prospects can depend on the Pink and Blue Strains. Yellow Line service will even be prolonged till 1 a.m. every evening.

Numerous bus routes will join Metra trains at Union Station and Ogilvie with Grant Park.

Bryony Web page: What’s subsequent for the brand new Olympic champion?

Earlier than the competitors had even begun, Web page admitted she had her eyes on a gold medal, saying “It will be completely unbelievable to finish the set… let’s have a look at what I can do in that second. However I do know that I will be proud of a routine that’s the high finish of what I have been coaching.”

So, Web page will stroll away from Paris having achieved each – a gold medal and a routine she will be able to look again on and be happy with for the remainder of her life.

“My plan is to proceed,” the 33-year-old stated after her victory, admitting that she nonetheless has numerous targets she hopes to attain together with competing in synchronised trampoline on the 2025 World Video games.

“Then after that, possibly Cirque du Soleil in the event that they nonetheless need to have me as an older athlete,” she laughed. “We’ll see. Then I’d attempt to make a comeback for LA [2028].”

Simone Biles has earned her sixth gold medal after successful the ladies’s all-around remaining on the 2024 Paris Olympics on Thursday, August 1.

The win marked her second gold medal of the Video games and ninth medal general. Her teammate, Sunisa Lee, who competed in opposition to her, earned a bronze medal for her efficiency after taking residence the gold throughout the 2020 Tokyo Video games, whereas Rebeca Andrade from Brazil introduced residence the silver medal. Following Biles’ win, she was seen sporting a further accent to the medal ceremony: a necklace with a diamond-covered goat appeal.

Biles has been referred to as a GOAT, an acronym for “nice of all time.” Throughout a press convention following the medal ceremony, she defined precisely the place the necklace got here from and why.

“My GOAT necklace is simply type of an ode as a result of the folks adore it and a few folks hate it,” the Olympian advised reporters. “So, it’s like the perfect of each worlds. I used to be like, ‘Okay, if it goes nicely, we’ll put on the GOAT necklace.’ I do know folks will go loopy over it.”

“However on the finish of the day, it’s loopy that I’m within the dialog of ‘best of all athletes’ as a result of I simply nonetheless assume, ‘I’m Simone Biles from Spring, Texas, that likes to flip,’” she added.

In an Instagram put up from Janet Heller High quality Jewellery, it was revealed that Biles had the necklace commissioned.

“Within the realm of gymnastics, few names resonate as profoundly as Simone Biles. As she graces the Paris 2024 Olympics, her journey isn’t just one in every of medals and information, however of breaking limitations and redefining the game,” the jewellery firm wrote within the caption of their put up displaying off the necklace.

“The GOAT necklace, a three-dimensional masterpiece adorned with 546 diamonds, embodies her unparalleled standing in gymnastics. Crafted with meticulous precision, this piece displays her dedication, perseverance, and the spirit that has impressed generations.”

Crew USA posted a clip from the press convention the place many individuals turned to the feedback part, explaining how a lot Biles deserved to indicate off her accomplishments and that she ought to put on the necklace with pleasure.

“The most effective factor: she’s simply Simone biles that also LOVES to flip!! Love this for her!! Huge congrats,” one commenter wrote.

One other commenter agreed, writing, “Really humble – I’ve been so invested in your story @simonebiles I want you much more success within the finals to come back. You deserve the whole lot you may have labored so exhausting for.”

“It’s not loopy, Simone… you might be so deserving of the whole lot you’ve labored so exhausting for! You make us so proud!” a 3rd commenter identified.

Earlier than successful her particular person gold medal, Biles and Crew USA introduced residence one other gold medal throughout the ladies’s gymnastics remaining. She is the fourth American girl to compete in a 3rd Olympic video games and, on the age of 27, she is the oldest American gymnast to compete on the Olympics in 72 years.

After the workforce win, Biles broke the document for essentially the most Olympic medals earned by a US gymnast.

The Olympian will compete once more on Saturday, August 3, within the vault occasion along with the stability beam finals and flooring train finals on Monday, August 5.

It was virtually begin time, and onstage within the sweltering warmth of Grant Park, 52 musicians tuned their devices and warmed up earlier than the visitor of honor arrived. For the Chicago Philharmonic, this rehearsal needed to go on and not using a hitch.

Musicians within the Philharmonic acquired their sheet music two weeks prior, however Wednesday’s rehearsal was the one time they’d apply with their visitor star — Icelandic-Chinese language pop artist Laufey — earlier than showing alongside her Friday at Lollapalooza. It’s believed to be the primary time a complete orchestra has performed the competition.

The Philharmonic has performed with widespread artists earlier than — over the previous months they’ve accompanied the Violent Femmes and Tank and the Bangas. However throughout a delegated break in a lounge space behind the Bud Mild stage, violinist Eleanor Bartsch stated, “Lollapalooza is form of one other animal.”

Laufey has made it a mission to carry jazz and classical music again to the minds of music lovers. Her heat, commanding voice seems like she may simply make a canopy of “Mr. Sandman” sound like the unique; if born in a special period, she maybe could be contemporaries with Ella Fitzgerald or Peggy Lee. She’s additionally extremely versatile, enjoying piano, guitar and cello.

On the high of the rehearsal, with temps nearing 90 levels, government director Terell Johnson emphasised performer well-being. Laufey then took the stage to gentle, candy applause. It was go time.

Pop artists performing alongside orchestras isn’t precisely a brand new phenomenon; take Dying Cab for Cutie’s 2012 tour with Magik*Magik Orchestra or Sufjan Stevens’s The BQE the place he organized a symphony a couple of despised expressway. The duo of Woman Gaga and Tony Bennett is the textbook instance of pop assembly jazz (the Chicago Philharmonic even carried out with them as soon as at Ravinia, Johnson stated). However Laufey provides one thing undeniably particular, stated Bartsch, who teaches violin at Elmhurst College and first discovered about Laufey from her college students.

“I actually felt just like the orchestra has a respect for her as a musician and of her entire imaginative and prescient for the present, stated Bartsch, who appreciates the musician’s penchant for “style crossings.” “For my college students to see somebody like that, at that stage, they not solely aspire to that nevertheless it helps them to really feel impressed as nicely.”

This can doubtless be the most important viewers that most of the members of the Philharmonic have encountered. “It’s an enormous crowd and plenty of younger individuals and other people from far and wide,” Bartsch stated. “So I believe this can carry simply such a tremendous power to the stage. It’s an attention-grabbing juxtaposition as a result of the music is fairly reserved.”

Because the rehearsal happened, so did arrange for the competition. A music supervisor adopted together with the sheet music on an iPad, whereas simply ft from the stage, individuals in shiny yellow-and-orange vests used a round noticed for building. Avenue noise and sirens blared from close by streets. All the weather created a kind of lovely cacophony that the performers appeared to embrace.

“One of many issues I’ve been so impressed with with our musicians is their unbelievable capability to simply roll with it, no matter we do,” stated Scott Speck, the Philharmonic’s creative director.

That features viewers interplay. Not like Ravinia or Millennium Park, Lollapalooza crowds might scream, shout and sing alongside. “I believe it’s the response of the viewers that it’s a must to put together for,” Johnson stated. “It’s very reciprocal in a standard setting the place the viewers is there and so they’re experiencing it alongside you, however I believe at festivals like this, they are going to be taking part with you.”

An hour into the rehearsal, Laufey and the Philharmonic rehearsed “Bored,” a bonus monitor on the singer’s sophomore album Bewitched in regards to the ennui of getting an uninteresting companion.

The unique recording options layered vocals, reside instrumentation and lyrics that replicate these of a contemporary pop track: “And possibly you’re simply approach too useless to be attention-grabbing / Child, hold talkin’ however no person’s listening / Don’t imply to stroll out the door / However, child, I’m bored.” However on Wednesday, Laufey’s grand voice, with the backing of 50-some devices, made the phrases an assertion relatively than a perspective. Reside, it sounded each fragile and robust.

Violinist Lori Ashikawa sees a chance to courtroom new generations of viewers on this weekend’s efficiency. “In a approach, as classical musicians, we’re educated to kind of be in a bubble after we’re on stage,” Ashikawa stated. “And I believe that’s a form of outdated mind-set of your self as a performer. Currently, I’ve seen once I look into the viewers and see what sorts of issues they’re projecting again, that that helps me relate to them.”

For Johnson, talking a number of days earlier than rehearsal in a Zoom name, the pendulum could also be swinging again to orchestra ensembles, even in pop. “A monitor recording is fairly fastened, it’s very predictable. However within the second, there’s going to be these nuances that occur. Like if there was a run or one thing, and [Laufey] feels that she would possibly wait a second, earlier than going to the subsequent phrase, all these unpredictable issues simply make a really natural, nice expertise.”

In the direction of the top of the rehearsal, the solar was blaring down on the fringe of the stage, proper the place Laufey and her guitar, piano and cello stood. Stagehands put a collapsible tent to shade her from the tough gentle. However throughout that final track of rehearsal, Laufey left the shadowy confines, singing and taking over the stage as if there have been a crowd of 1000’s and never an empty discipline.

When you go: Laufey and the Chicago Philharmonic will carry out collectively at Lollapalooza on Aug. 2 at 6:45 PM. Single-day passes begin at $155.

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Sofie Hernandez-Simeonidis is a digital producer on WBEZ’s Arts & Tradition desk.

Low winds trigger delay

There was frustration yesterday as the lads’s skiff race did not be accomplished on account of inhospitable circumstances, a minimum of for Olympic crusing.

The sailors took off throughout the beginning line twice, however the race was deserted on each events because the wind dissipated mid-race and circumstances have been deemed too gentle to proceed.

Even after transferring practically two miles offshore, with hopes from the race committee that the wind would decide up sufficient for a good race, lots of the boats stopped practically lifeless of their tracks whereas their sails started to waft.

It was a blessing in disguise for the People, who have been off to a sluggish begin within the first race try and had lots of floor to make as much as land themselves again in medal competition.

The Spanish held a persistently robust place by way of all three races, and so it continued within the delayed medal race on Friday (2 August).

Spain dominate males’s skiff medal race to take Olympic gold

Botin and Trittel did not win any of the 12 fleet races previous to the medal-race finale, however claimed Olympic gold in fashion crossing the end line first to safe Spain’s first medal within the males’s skiff occasion.

“It couldn’t go any higher,” mentioned Botin, who had come fourth in Tokyo. “We had a terrific plan, we caught to it and it labored. It doesn’t at all times occur however it did this time. Wonderful, wonderful feeling.

“We had a really low second the final time, ending fourth. Expertise is every little thing. Tokyo was a tough second however it gave lots of power and drive to progress with this one, and it’s come out nicely. Don’t remorse something.”

New Zealand, so robust on this class, claimed one other medal after standing on the rostrum each time the occasion has been on the Olympic programme, with gold for the nation at Rio 2016 and two silvers since London 2012 within the males’s version.

“It feels wonderful,” mentioned silver-medallist McKenzie. “It is one thing we at all times knew we might obtain however there are such a lot of good groups on the market. To win a medal for New Zealand is a dream come true. We’re nonetheless attempting to course of it however we’re simply so stoked.”

Conversely, Workforce USA gained their first medal in males’s skiff crusing, making the most of a mistake by the Irish crew who have been in a medal place after a robust efficiency earlier than the medal race, however having jumped the beginning, they needed to re-start and could not fairly catch up after that.

Barrows summed up the sensation for the US crew: “It went tremendous nicely for us. A pair (of) issues went our manner, fortunately, as a result of this fleet’s so good. We positively want issues to go our manner, and we really feel very honoured and grateful to get a medal.”

Friday change into a maxi medal day for the crusing after the abandonement of the 49er and 49erFX Medal races on Thursday.

Their medal racing will probably be rerun along with the Medal Sequence for the women and men’s iQFOil windsurfers.

If profitable this may end result within the first crusing medals of the Paris Video games.

The combined 470 dinghy may even began their racing Friday, becoming a member of the ILCA 6 and seven single hander dinghies who managed their first racing Thursday.

The windsurfer Medal Sequence was finally postponed to Saturday

Spain take the 49er Gold . . . Diego Botin and Florian Trittel

Silver for Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie

Bronze for Ian Barrows and Hans Henken 

49erFX Gold NED

After the Dutch took fallacious 49erFX end line, Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz corrected to win the primary crusing Gold of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Silver for Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler of Sweden

Bronze for Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon of France

Total 49er Males – Remaining Leaders after Medal Race (provisional)

GOLD ESP Diego Botin and Florian Trittel Paul – – 2 – – 70 pts
SILVER NZL Isaac McHardie and William McKenzie – – 6 – – 82 pts
BRONZE USA Ian Barrows and Hans Henken – – 8 – – 88 pts
4th IRL Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove – – 18 – – 91 pts
fifth POL Dominik Buksak and Szymon Wierzbicki – – 10 – – 93 pts
sixth NED Bart Lambriex and Floris van de Werken – – 4 – – 99 pts
seventh GBR James Peters and Fynn Sterritt – – 14 – – 99 pts
eighth SUI Sebastien and Schneiter Arno de Planta – – 12 – – 104 pts
ninth CRO Sime Fantela and Mihovil Fantela – – 22 OCS – – 107 pts
tenth URU Hernan Umpierre and Fernando Diz – – 16 – – 110 pts

Total 49erFX Girls – Remaining Leaders after Medal Race (provisional)

GOLD NED Odile van Aanholt and Annette Duetz – – 6 – – 74 pts
SILVER SWE Vilma Bobeck and Rebecca Netzler – – 2 – – 76 pts
BRONZE FRA Sarah Steyaert and Charline Picon – – 12 – – 79 pts
4th NOR Helene Naess and Marie Roenningen – – 16 – – 92 pts
fifth ITA Jana Germani and Giorgia Bertuzzi – – 4 – – 95 pts
sixth GER Marla Bergmann and Hanna Wille – – 14 – – 98 pts
seventh NZL Jo Aleh and Molly Meech – – 8 – – 109 pts
eighth BRA Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze – – 10 – – 112 pts
ninth AUS Olivia Value and Evie Haseldine – – 18 – – 120 pts
tenth USA Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea – – 20 – – 125 pts

Total iQFOil Girls – Leaders after 14 races, 2 discard (provisional)

1st GBR Emma Wilson – – 18 pts
2nd ISR Sharon Kantor – – 49 pts
third ITA Marta Maggetti – – 70 pts
4th FRA Helene Noesmoen – – 98 pts
fifth PER Maria Belen Bazo German – – 98 pts
sixth CZE Katerina Svikova – – 101 pts
seventh POL Maja Dziarnowska – – 102 pts
eighth GER Theresa Marie Steinlein – – 108 pts
ninth NZL Veerle Ten Have – – 109 pts
tenth CHN Zheng Yan – – 110 pts

Total iQFOil Males – Leaders after 13 races, 2 discard (provisional)

1st AUS Grae Morris – – 60 pts
2nd ISR Tom Reuveny – – 63 pts
third NZL Josh Armit – – 66 pts
4th POL Pawel Tarnowski – – 66 pts
fifth NED Luuc van Opzeeland – – 70 pts
sixth ITA Nicolo Renna – – 73 pts
seventh USA Noah Lyons – – 88 pts
eighth GBR Sam Sills – – 88 pts
ninth ARU Ethan Westera – – 90 pts
tenth ESP Nacho Baltasar Summers – – 98 pts

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Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of the exiled wing of Hamas and its chief negotiator on problems with struggle and peace, was assassinated on July 31 throughout a go to to Tehran for the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian. He had additionally met simply hours earlier with Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an indication of Haniyeh’s standing with Iran. The beautiful assault, broadly assumed to be by Israel, evoked rage in Iran and from its community within the so-called Axis of Resistance. In a press release, the armed wing of Hamas stated the assassination would “take the battle to new dimensions and have main repercussions.” Khamenei stated Iran had an obligation to avenge Haniyeh’s dying and warned Israel of “harsh punishment.”

Iran stated Washington shared duty for Haniyeh’s killing due to its navy assist for Israel earlier than and throughout the Gaza Warfare. From Singapore, Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied that america had been both forewarned or concerned within the assault.

The assassination mirrored escalating tensions throughout the Center East. Only a day earlier, on July 30, an Israeli airstrike on southern Beirut killed Fuad Sukr, a senior Hezbollah commander linked by Israel to the assault on the Druze village of Majdal Shams within the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which had killed 12 kids or youngsters on July 27. The escalation between Israel and Iran’s community of allies coincided with a US airstrike on an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq on July 30—the primary since February. The Pentagon claimed that fighters within the Standard Mobilization forces had been making ready strikes in opposition to US forces primarily based in Iraq and neighboring Syria to stop ISIS from retaking territory—an operation unrelated to the Arab-Israel battle.

Haniyeh had survived an assassination try in 2003 when he was a outstanding aide to Sheikh Yassin, the founding father of Hamas, in Gaza. In April 2024, three of his sons — Hazem, Amir and Mohammad — had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza. Haniyeh’s deputy Saleh al Arouri was killed in January by Israel. His sister and her household had been killed in an airstrike in June.

In January 2020, Haniyeh delivered a eulogy on the funeral of Common Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the exterior operations arms of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Soleimani, killed in a US airstrike in Baghdad, performed a key position in constructing the navy capabilities of Iranian allies and proxies throughout the Center East. What Soleimani “offered to Palestine and the resistance has introduced them to the place they’re in right now by way of energy and steadfastness,” Haniyeh stated in Tehran. Through the go to, Haniyeh additionally met with Soleimani’s successor, Brigadier Common Esmail Ghaani, the brand new head of the Qods Power.

The Haniyeh assassination interrupted months of negotiations involving Israel, america, Egypt and Qatar over phrases to finish the Gaza struggle and free dozens of Israeli hostages held for the reason that Hamas invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani, a serious participant within the negotiations and an interlocutor with Hamas, warned Israel that “political assassinations and continued concentrating on of civilians in Gaza whereas talks proceed leads us to ask, how can mediation succeed when one get together assassinates the negotiator on different facet?” The next sections cowl response to the assassination, biographic materials on Haniyeh, and background on Hamas ideology.

Response by Iran and its Allies

Hamas

Sami Abu Zuhri on July 31, 2024: “This assassination by the Israeli occupation of Brother Haniyeh is a grave escalation that goals to interrupt the need of Hamas and the need of our individuals and obtain pretend targets. We affirm that this escalation will fail to attain its goals.”

“Hamas is an idea and an establishment and never individuals. Hamas will proceed on this path whatever the sacrifices and we’re assured of victory.”

Hamas Spokesperson Khalil al Hayya on July 31, 2024: Israel will “pay the value for a heinous crime.” 

Qassam Brigades on July 31, 2024: Haniyeh’s killing “will take the battle to new dimensions and have main repercussions.”

Iran

Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on July 31, 2024: “The courageous chief and outstanding Palestinian mujahid, Mr. Ismail Haniyeh, joined his Creator within the early hours at daybreak, and the nice Resistance Entrance is mourning his loss. The legal, terrorist Zionist regime martyred our pricey visitor in our territory and has induced our grief, but it surely has additionally ready the bottom for a extreme punishment.

“Martyr Haniyeh was keen to sacrifice his honorable life on this dignified battle for a few years. He was ready for martyrdom and had sacrificed his kids and family members on this path. He was not afraid of being martyred on the trail of God and with a purpose to save the lives of God’s servants. Nonetheless, following this bitter, tragic occasion which has taken place throughout the borders of the Islamic Republic, we imagine it’s our obligation to take revenge.

“I supply my condolences to the Islamic Ummah, the Resistance Entrance, the brave, proud individuals of Palestine, and specifically to the household and family members of Martyr Haniyeh and of one in every of his companions who was martyred beside him. Might Almighty God elevate their ranks.”

President Masoud Pezeshkian on July 31, 2024: “The bond between the 2 proud nations of Iran and Palestine will likely be stronger than earlier than, and the trail of resistance and protection of the oppressed will likely be adopted stronger than ever. The Islamic Republic of Iran will defend its territorial integrity, honor, delight and dignity, and make the terrorist invaders remorse their cowardly motion.”

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on July 31, 2024: “The heinous crime dedicated by the Zionist regime in killing Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’s political bureau, will undoubtedly be met with a harsh and painful response from the highly effective Resistance Entrance.”

Overseas Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani on July 31, 2024: “Undoubtedly, the pure blood of this famous mujahid who honorably campaigned in opposition to the usurper Zionist regime in liberating the holy Quds and releasing the oppressed Palestinian nation from the clutches of Zionist occupiers won’t ever go in useless.” 

“As a supporter and confederate of the Zionist regime within the continuation of the occupation and genocide of Palestinians, the US authorities is accountable in committing this heinous act of terrorism.”

Hezbollah

Hezbollah assertion on Telegram on July 31, 2024: “We in Hezbollah share with our pricey brothers within the Hamas motion all the emotions of ache over the lack of this nice chief, the emotions of anger on the enemy’s crimes, the emotions of delight that the leaders in our actions are main their individuals and their mujahideen to martyrdom.”

Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Deputy Secretary Common Muhammad al Hindi on July 31, 2024: “This assassination isn’t solely directed on the Palestinian resistance and Hamas, specifically, however it is usually directed at Iran.”

“Israel is on the snapping point, and its reactions mirror confusion and lack of ability to attain any of its targets. Israel is going through such resistance for the primary time in its historical past.”

Houthis

Supreme Revolutionary Committee head Mohammed Ali al Houthi on July 31, 2024: “Focusing on Ismail Haniyeh is a heinous terrorist crime and a flagrant violation of legal guidelines and splendid values.”

Biography of Haniyeh

Haniyeh’s household fled from al Majdal Asqalan, in what’s now Ashkelon in southern Israel, throughout the 1948 Arab-Israeli Warfare. Born in 1962 within the Shati refugee camp in Gaza, he joined the Islamic Scholar Bloc whereas a pupil in 1984. He graduated with a level in Arabic literature from the Islamic College in Gaza in 1987. When the First Intifada broke out, he participated in anti-Israel protests and was a founding member of Hamas. He spent six months in an Israeli jail in 1988 and one other three years starting in 1989. In 1992, Israel deported him and lots of of different Palestinian militants to Lebanon.

After the PLO signed the Oslo Accord with Israel in 1993, Haniyeh returned to Gaza to move the Islamic College. He shortly climbed the ranks inside Hamas. In 2001, he grew to become the third-highest rating official. In 2006, he headed the Hamas record in its first run for parliament. After Hamas upset the secular Fatah Celebration, Haniyeh was appointed prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas compelled Fatah—its political officers and safety forces — out of Gaza in 2007. Palestinian President Abbas dismissed him, however Haniyeh remained the de facto chief of Gaza till Hamas leaders elected him to move the 15-person Politburo in 2017, when he moved to Qatar. America labeled him a “Specifically Designated International Terrorist” in 2018. He left Gaza in 2019 and arrange an workplace in Qatar. Haniyeh was reelected head of the Hamas Politburo in 2021.

Hamas Ideology

Hamas—the Islamic Resistance Motion or Harakat al Muqawama al Islamiyah—is each an Islamist get together and a militia primarily based in Gaza. It was based in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a well-liked cleric, because the Palestinian department of the Muslim Brotherhood. It emerged throughout the first intifada rebellion in opposition to the Israeli occupation. Its unique constitution advocated destroying Israel and establishing an impartial Islamic state in historic Palestine. A revised constitution, launched in Might 2017, provisionally accepted a Palestinian state primarily based on the 1967 borders.

Hamas has two major divisions. The political wing governs Gaza and supplies social companies. The navy wing—the Izz ad-Din al Qassam Brigades, named after a Muslim preacher in British-occupied Palestine within the Thirties—targets Israel with rockets, suicide bomb assaults, and cross-border raids. In October 1997, america designated Hamas as a Overseas Terrorist Group.

Relationship with Iran

Iran supplies Hamas with monetary help, weapons and coaching. Their relations converged after the 1990 Gulf Warfare and the US-orchestrated Madrid Peace Convention, which was organized to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace course of. In 1992, at a convention in Tehran, Iran reportedly vowed to offer Hamas $30 million yearly and supply navy coaching. Hamas later opened an workplace in Tehran. Ties deepened in 1992 after Israel deported lots of of Palestinians, together with Hamas leaders, to Lebanon. Whereas in Lebanon, Hamas acquired navy coaching from Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Between 1990 and 2000, Iranian monetary assist to Hamas reportedly ranged from $20 million to $50 million yearly, even because it maintained ties with Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Group and the Fatah Celebration—political rivals to Hamas.

Within the 2006 legislative elections, Hamas received a majority—76 of the 132 seats, in comparison with Fatah’s 43 seats. It briefly led the Palestinian Authority in each the West Financial institution and Gaza. Within the 12 months after the elections, nonetheless, tensions grew between the 2 largest Palestinian events. In mid-2007, President Mahmoud Abbas (of Fatah) fired Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh (of Hamas); Hamas additionally forcibly assumed management of safety within the Gaza strip. These actions resulted within the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority’s unity authorities and the de facto division of the Palestinian territories into two entities, with Gaza ruled by Hamas and the West Financial institution ruled by Fatah. 

Throughout this turbulent interval, Hamas ties to Iran deepened. In December 2006, Prime Minister Haniyeh visited Tehran, the place he met with Supreme Chief Ayatollah Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran reportedly gave Hamas $250 million. Through the 2008 Gaza Warfare—dubbed “Operation Solid Lead” by the Israelis and the “Battle of al Furqan” by Hamas—Iran elevated help, together with extra superior rockets, to Hamas. “The victory of the individuals of Gaza was a miracle of God, and the Islamic Republic positively has a share on this victory,” stated Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas political chief in exile.

The outbreak of the Syrian civil struggle in 2011 triggered a break up between Tehran and Hamas, which backed opposing events. Iran offered troops and strategic navy help to prop up President Bashar al Assad, a member of the Alawite minority. Hamas pledged assist for the predominantly Sunni opposition. In return, Iran minimize off funding to Hamas—reportedly $23 million month-to-month—in 2012. Hamas was additionally squeezed in 2013 when the Egyptian navy ousted the primary Muslim Brotherhood-led authorities in Cairo and closed tunnels between Gaza and Egypt that Hamas had relied on to smuggle provides, arms and other people. The closures had a sweeping affect on income sources for the Hamas authorities, reportedly decreasing its finances by as much as 75 p.c.

After the break up with Syria, Meshaal and different senior Hamas members had been compelled to depart their long-time base in Damascus. Hamas turned to Qatar for funding and instead headquarters. The partnership with Doha helped to ease a few of motion’s monetary troubles.

In 2015, tensions between Hamas and Iran additionally developed when Hamas expressed tacit assist for the Saudi-led offensive in opposition to the Houthis, a militant insurgent group backed by Iran in Yemen.

In August 2017, Iran once more started funding Hamas after Saleh al Arouri, the Hamas second-in-command, met with senior Iranian officers. “Relations with Iran are wonderful and Iran is the most important supporter of the Izz ad-Din al Qassam Brigades with cash and arms,” stated Yahya Sinwar, a senior Hamas navy chief. “The connection right now is creating and returning to what it was within the outdated days … This will likely be mirrored within the resistance [against Israel] and within the [Hamas] agenda to attain liberation.” Within the spring of 2018, Hamas officers stated relations with Iran had been nearer than at any time for the reason that Syrian civil struggle erupted in 2011. In August 2018, Israeli media reported that Iran was transferring some $70 million a 12 months, or $5.83 million a month, to Hamas.

In July 2019, 9 Hamas officers, together with Arouri, met with Supreme Chief Khamenei in Tehran. Iran reportedly supplied to extend month-to-month transfers to Hamas to $30 million in alternate for data on the situation of Israel’s missile stockpiles.

Iranian Brigadier Common Amir Ali Hajizadeh boasted that Tehran had offered weapons and know-how to Palestinian militant teams, notably rockets. “In Palestine, they’re now utilizing rockets as an alternative of stones,” the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Power and Missile Unit stated in January 2021. Hajizadeh claimed that Iran had additionally taught Palestinian militants manufacture their very own weaponry. Hamas political leaders acknowledged receiving assist from Iran. “I give due to those that offered funds and weaponry to the brave resistance, the Islamic Republic of Iran, [which] has not skimped in extending funds, weaponry, and know-how to the resistance,” Haniyeh said on a Hamas Telegram channel in Might 2021.

Iranian leaders lauded Hamas for its multi-pronged assault on Israel that killed greater than 1,000 individuals in October 2023. Supreme Chief Khamenei known as the unprecedented operation “a devastating earthquake” and a “nice calamity” for Israel, regardless that the Palestinian group dedicated murderous atrocities and hostage seizures of Israeli civilians from houses, streets and even a music competition in central and southern Israel. In a phone name with Haniyeh, the Hamas political bureau chief, President Ebrahim Raisi known as the assault “the success of the 70-year-old expectation of the Palestinian nation and the Islamic Ummah (nation).” 

Cardi B introduced she is pregnant along with her third baby on Thursday, sharing photographs of herself in a flowing pink robe that exposes her child bump on social media. The 31-year-old shared the information simply hours after she had filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Migos’ rapper Offset. 

A consultant for Cardi B confirmed to the Related Press she filed for divorce writing, “This isn’t based mostly on anyone explicit incident, it has been a very long time coming and is amicable.” She filed the divorce on Wednesday, Leisure Tonight reported.

In her put up, Cardi B, whose actual title is Belcalis Marlenis Cephus, thanks her rising child for serving to her by a troublesome time, saying: “It is a lot simpler taking life’s twists, turns and check laying down, however you, your brother and your sister have proven me why it is price it to push by!”

“With each ending comes a brand new starting! I’m so grateful to have shared this season with you, you’ve introduced me extra love, extra life and most of all renewed my energy,” she wrote within the caption.

The hip-hop energy couple married in 2017 and share two youngsters. Offset, whose actual title is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, additionally has three youngsters from earlier relationships, in line with Leisure Tonight. 

Throughout an Instagram dwell in December, Cardi B revealed she was single and had been “for a minute now.” She and Offset have had a number of ups and downs of their relationship, with Cardi B submitting for divorce twice beforehand.

Followers started speculating their relationship was on the rocks late final 12 months when every rapper unfollowed the opposite on Instagram, ET reported.

Caitlin O’Kane

Caitlin O’Kane is a New York Metropolis journalist who works on the CBS Information social media staff as a senior supervisor of content material and manufacturing. She writes about a wide range of subjects and produces “The Uplift,” CBS Information’ streaming present that focuses on excellent news.

The acquainted tune of ‘La Marseillaise’ rung round Paris La Défense Area as Léon Marchand raised his arm to offer a large fist pump.

‘Marchons, marchons…’, 1 / 4 of an hour earlier, it was ‘Marchand, Marchand’.

The 22-year-old has now definitively established himself because the face of Paris 2024 by reaching one of the crucial exceptional performances in swimming historical past.

Over the course of two hours he made historical past by changing into the primary particular person ever to win two particular person swimming titles in a single session.

Not even the legendary Michael Phelps, who was coached by Bob Bowman, the person now overseeing the Frenchman had finished what Marchand managed.

And what’s extra, he did it up in opposition to essentially the most intense competitors.

His first race was the 200m butterfly, with Hungary’s Kristof Milak, the world file holder and the Olympic champion standing in his manner.

For 150 metres, it appeared as if order could be restored. Milak’s private finest was a second sooner than anybody in historical past and two higher than Marchand.

However simply because the problem seemed to be too nice, Marchand began his assault. It’s underwater the place he’s in a special league to anybody else, and as he managed almost 15 metres after the ultimate flip, lactic acid little question burning his arms, Marchand minimize a physique size deficit in half.

All of the sudden it was on, and like each good predator, Marchand was relentless. Milak has utterly dominated this occasion, however he had no reply to the Frenchman. The group noise was electrical. When not used for the Olympics, this enviornment hosts rugby and rock concert events. It might by no means have skilled a crescendo like this although.

He touched house in a time of 1:51.21, breaking Milak’s Olympic file and overtaking Phelps because the second quickest man ever within the occasion.

Having finished the unthinkable, Marchand then needed to relaxation and get well. Two hours in swimming is nothing, and even much less so when you’ve gotten a victory ceremony and a primary Marseillaise to sing.

With that behind him, he returned for his second problem of the night time – 200m breaststroke.

This time, it was Olympic champion and former world file holder Zac Stubblety-Prepare dinner who was his major rival.

The Australian is famend for his ending velocity, typically making up big deficits to triumph. When Marchand went out beneath world file tempo, the concern was that the fatigue would meet up with him.

As he drained, certainly then Stubblety-Prepare dinner might strike.

However Marchand isn’t any mere human. Even on a stroke the place his underwater benefit is lowered dramatically, he’s nonetheless the very best round.

He didn’t fairly break Qin Haiyang’s world file, however his time of two:05.85 was nonetheless an Olympic finest.

Marchand might be again on Thursday to begin his pursuit of a fourth particular person title. It’s a feat solely Phelps, Mark Spitz and Kristin Otto have ever managed.

After reaching the unattainable, Marchand can do something.