Rocket fired from Gaza hits house in Israel, wounding seven
The attack on Mishmeret comes 10 days after commercial capital of Tel Aviv was targeted
An early morning rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding seven people and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut short a trip to Washington. The developments set the stage for a potential major conflagration, shortly before Israel’s upcoming elections.
The rocket attack destroyed a residential home in the community of Mishmeret, north of the city of Kfar Saba, wounding six members of a family who lived there. The Magen David Adom rescue service said it treated seven people overall, including two women who were moderately wounded. The others, including two children and an infant, had minor wounds.
Russian 'military planes' land in Venezuela
Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela's main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another flight-tracking site showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.
That comes three months after the two nations held military exercises on Venezuelan soil that President Nicolas Maduro called a sign of strengthening relations, but which Washington criticized as Russian encroachment in the region.
Six LGBT moments cut from 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in China
Updated 0447 GMT (1247 HKT) March 25, 2019
More than two minutes of LGBT content have been scrubbed from the biopic of British rock band Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody," for the Chinese audience, including scenes of two men kissing and the word "gay."
The award-winning film, which opened in China on March 22, portrays the life and career of Queen front man Freddie Mercury, an LGBT icon who died of AIDS-related illnesses at the age of 45.
In 2016, Chinese censors banned the portrayal of "abnormal sexual behavior," including gay and lesbian relationships in TV and online shows.
Britain's Roma community fears post-Brexit future
There are 300,000 Roma in Britain, but some members of persecuted minority lack documentation and could lose residency.
by Ruairi Casey
At the Luton Roma Trust, members of the English town's Roma community seek help with doctors' letters, rental agreements and other minor bureaucratic issues.
A small map of the European Union hangs on a wall at the charity's office.
While day-to-day struggles continue to interrupt their lives, Brexit and the new immigration system it ushers in is beginning to cast a larger shadow over Britain's Roma minority.
THE THREAT WITHIN
Who the Justice Department decides to prosecute as a domestic terrorist has little to do with the harm they’ve inflicted or the threat they pose to human life.
ON A NARROW STREET in Charlottesville, Virginia, James Alex Fields Jr. pressed the accelerator of his gray Dodge Challenger. Dozens of people were walking in front of him. They had come to protest Fields and hundreds of other white supremacists who’d descended on this pleasant Southern college town for the “Unite the Right” rally in August 2017.
“Our streets!” the protesters chanted in response to the white supremacists. “Our streets!”
When some protesters realized the gray car wasn’t stopping, they screamed. Then came the scrapes and thuds and finally a crash as Fields barreled into the crowd, sending people into the air and diving for safety, before the Dodge slammed into the back of another car.
Gov't expands landfill work for U.S. base transfer in Okinawa
The Japanese government on Monday expanded offshore landfill work required to build a replacement facility for a U.S. air base in Okinawa Prefecture, despite local opposition.
The work to pour soil and sand in a new 33-hectare section of the Henoko coastal area in the city of Nago began in the afternoon, moving the construction plan into a new stage even though a prefectural referendum last month showed more than 70 percent of residents oppose it.
The new area in which landfill work is being carried out is next to a 6.3-hectare section where land reclamation activities have been under way since last December. The construction is required to carry out a plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from a crowded residential area of Ginowan to Henoko.
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