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☆ Israeli attacks in West Bank killed at least eight people, officials and residents say
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Kareem Khadder | Sana Noor Haq | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A series of Israeli raids and airstrikes in towns and villages in the occupied West Bank that stretched overnight from Monday into late Tuesday have killed at least eight people, according to Palestinian authorities and local residents. Two Palestinians were killed in the town of Tamoun, said the governor of nearby Tubas, Ahmad Assad, alleging that one of the bodies was removed from the scene by the Israeli military with a bulldozer. Two were killed by Israeli gunfire, and two others killed when an Israeli military vehicle rammed a car and opened fire, according to residents and video seen by CNN. Israel has previously described its stepped-up military offensives in the West Bank as targeting militants and “terrorist infrastructure.”The bloodshed comes as violence surges in the West Bank, where the Israeli military has intensified incursions following the Hamas-led October 7 attacks. Since October 7, 2023, Israeli troops and settlers have killed at least 775 Palestinians, including 167 children, in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry reported on Tuesday.

Persons: Ahmad Assad, Araby, Qabatya, Rabe’e Al, Munir, Laila Ghannam, “, ”, Ihab Al, CNN’s Mick Krever Organizations: CNN, West Bank, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Qatari, Israel Defense Forces, West Bank and, The West Bank, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs Locations: Tamoun, Tubas, Al, Jenin, Qabatya, Israeli, Israel, West Bank and Jerusalem, Ramallah, Jordan

☆ West Bank: UNRWA staffer among ten killed during Israel military operation
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Mohammed Tawfeeq | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN - A United Nations staff member was among 10 people killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military and the UN said on Friday. Jawwad – the first UNRWA staffer to be killed in the West Bank in more than 10 years – is survived by his wife and five children, according to UNRWA. The other people killed in the Israeli operation over the past 48 hours were killed in the areas of Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Tubas, according to the IDF. Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, said the five killed in Tubas were members of the Tubas Battalion in the West Bank who were “preparing ambushes and explosive devices against” Israeli forces. Operations in the West BankThe death comes amid increasing Israeli military action in the West Bank.

Persons: Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, “, Jawwad, ” Juliette Touma, Nadav Shoshani, ” Shoshani, –, Philippe Lazzarini, Jawwad’s, Nur Shams, Tubas, Nur, UNWRA, Antony Blinken, Aysenur Ezgi, Eygi, CNN’s Mounira Elsamra Organizations: CNN, United Nations, West Bank, UN, United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, Israel Defense Forces, UNRWA, Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IDF, Quds Brigades, Tubas Battalion, Operations, Palestinian Ministry of Health Locations: El Far’a, Gaza, Israel, Tulkarem, Al, Quds, El, Nur Shams, Jenin, Ramallah

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Regional Mexican music — a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres — has become a global phenomenon, topping music charts and reaching new audiences as it crosses borders. Overall, regional Mexican music grew 60% in the U.S., accounting for a whopping 21.9 billion on-demand audio streams. On Spotify, Mexican music grew 400% worldwide over the last five years, according to Uriel Waizel, lead editor at Spotify Mexico. And I think that is exciting.”Waizel says that while Mexican music is centuries old, “current Mexican music is breaking because it is the music that young people listen to." Actor and singer Lucero, a veteran performer of regional Mexican music, also remembers those days.

Persons: Selena Quintanilla, Eslabon, Pluma’s “ Ella Baila Sola, ”, Eslabon Armado, Junior, Leila Cobo, Billboard’s, Uriel Waizel, Pluma, Taylor Swift, ” Cobo, Waizel, Édgar Barrera, Drake, Barrera, Carín León, Maluma, Don Juan, León, ” Maluma, Pedro Tovar, wasn't, Juan Gabriel, Vicente Fernández's, “, ’ ”, Gabriel Abaroa Jr, Lucero, Becky G, couldn't, it’s, I’m, ” ___ Sherman Organizations: MEXICO CITY, — Regional, Spotify, Grupo Frontera, U.S ., Fuerza Regida, Associated Press, Cobo, Spotify Mexico, YouTube, Fuerza, Premios Juventud, AP, Latin Recording Academy, Mexicans Locations: MEXICO, Mexican, “, U.S, Mexico, Frontera, Puerto Rico, ’, Mexican American, Los Angeles

☆ When Trailers Hit Mute on the Musical
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Despite what its marketing might suggest, “Mean Girls” (in theaters), the latest in a set of pink-accented nesting dolls, is irrefutably a movie musical. Adapted from the 2018 Broadway musical, which was itself based on the 2004 film, which was in turn inspired by the 2002 nonfiction book “Queen Bees and Wannabes,” this new version has singing. It has one delectable moment in which the members of the school marching band raise their saxophones and tubas high. Barring a split-second shot of the band, you wouldn’t know that from the film’s trailers. It was made to look instead like a vaguely edgier remix of the 2004 film.

Persons: Regina George, —, Olivia Rodrigo’s “ Organizations: Bees

☆ Palestinians clash with Abbas' West Bank forces after Gaza hospital strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Palestinians take part in a protest after an Israeli air strike hit Al-Ahli Hospital, according to Gaza Health Ministry, in Tubas, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank October 17, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta Acquire Licensing RightsRAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Palestinian security forces in Ramallah fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters throwing rocks and chanting against President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, as popular anger boiled over after a deadly Gaza hospital attack that Palestinians blamed on Israel. In the West Bank, where Abbas was returning on Tuesday after canceling a planned meeting in Jordan with U.S. President Joe Biden, hundreds of demonstrators marched in Ramallah's central Manara Square, with some chanting in support of Hamas militant leaders. Clashes with Palestinian security forces also broke in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Tubas and Jenin, a northern city that was the focus of major Israeli military operations earlier this year, according to witnesses. The outbreak of West Bank protests highlights long-simmering Palestinian anger against Abbas, whose forces have long faced criticism for coordinating with Israel on security in the territory.

Persons: Raneen, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza's, Abbas, Joe Biden, Ali Sawafta, Rami Ayyub, Sandra Maler Organizations: Gaza Health Ministry, West Bank, REUTERS, U.S, Israel, Thomson Locations: Ahli, Gaza, Tubas, RAMALLAH, West, Ramallah, Israel, Palestinian, Turkey, Jordan, U.S, Lebanon, Ramallah's, Manara, Nablus, Jenin

☆ Palestinians Clash With Abbas' West Bank Forces After Gaza Hospital Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian security forces in Ramallah fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters throwing rocks and chanting against President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, as popular anger boiled over after a deadly Gaza hospital attack that Palestinians blamed on Israel. Israel's military denied responsibility for the strike, blaming it on a failed Palestinian militant rocket launch. In the West Bank, where Abbas was returning on Tuesday after canceling a planned meeting in Jordan with U.S. President Joe Biden, hundreds of demonstrators marched in Ramallah's central Manara Square, with some chanting in support of Hamas militant leaders. Clashes with Palestinian security forces also broke in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Tubas and Jenin, a northern city that was the focus of major Israeli military operations earlier this year, according to witnesses. The outbreak of West Bank protests highlights long-simmering Palestinian anger against Abbas, whose forces have long faced criticism for coordinating with Israel on security in the territory.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza's, Abbas, Joe Biden, Ali Sawafta, Rami Ayyub, Sandra Maler Organizations: West Bank, Reuters, U.S, Israel Locations: RAMALLAH, West, Ramallah, Gaza, Israel, Ahli, Palestinian, Turkey, Jordan, U.S, Lebanon, Ramallah's, Manara, Nablus, Tubas, Jenin

☆ Did Gérard Grisey’s Music Predict His Own Death?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jeffrey Arlo Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And in the final two movements, the singer, inhabiting the character of Gilgamesh, describes the myth’s apocalyptic flood and its aftermath. In the fifth and final piece, not a complete song but a short “Lullaby,” a crystalline, pulsing texture is there one second and gone the next. On the early morning of Nov. 10, 1998, Grisey returned from Milan to the Paris apartment he shared with his partner, the mezzo-soprano Mireille Deguy. Deguy returned to their apartment in the evening. Deguy remembers that Grisey removed his watch and asked her to do the same before he collapsed from a brain aneurysm.

Persons: Erinna, Gilgamesh, Grisey, Mireille Deguy, ”, “ You’ll, Deguy Organizations: Paris Conservatory Locations: Milan, Paris

☆ On the Front Line of a War Over Bullfighting Traditions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Jason Horowitz | More About Jason Horowitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Let’s go, little ones,” barked Juan Ajenjo — Popeye, who does not have achondroplasia — using the term the performers also used to describe one another. In the business for 42 years, he had seen the number of shows crater in the last 15. “The politicians don’t want the little ones to work.”But work they did. Unlike their gigs as waiters or as entertainment in discos, this was a performance they took pride in, several of them said. “We’re not OK with the bullfighting,” said Mariano Mateo, 66, a retired psychology professor, who got a flier.

Persons: “ Let’s, ”, Juan Ajenjo —, “ It’s, “, don’t, —, Muñoz, tubas, Mariano Mateo Organizations: Diario, Teruel Locations: Spain, Ecuador, ”

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