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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Jojo Uga's 2-yard touchdown run capped a 24-point fourth quarter and Albany beat Hampton 41-34 on Saturday in a season finale. Jack Iuliano recovered a fumble by Malcom May at the Hampton 24, and though it took 10 plays, Uga went in for the touchdown and the game's final lead. Malcolm Mays scored on a 25-yard run for Hampton (5-7, 2-6 Coastal Athletic Association) but the PAT was blocked and Kevon Angry ran it back for Albany (4-8, 2-6), leaving Hampton with a 34-27 lead with 10 minutes remaining. Alex Jreige's 53-yard run then tied the game. Hampton led 28-0 before Van Weber threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Carter Moses with a couple minutes left in the first half. Albany added 10 points in the third quarter, including Jackson Parker's 38-yard touchdown catch. Nick Totten's pick-6 early in the fourth quarter got the Great Danes within 28-25. Weber threw for 184 yards with two scores and an interception. Jreige rushed for 110 yards. Robinson rushed for 80 yards and 21 carries and scored four times for Hampton, all in the first half. AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football . Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://apnews.com/cfbtop25

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NoneEgypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Dr Badr Abdelatty, held separate meetings in Rome on Tuesday, November 26, with his Italian and Congolese counterparts. The meetings took place during a visit to Italy, where Abdelatty attended the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting. During a meeting with Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, Abdelatty highlighted the strong bilateral relationship between Egypt and Italy. According to a statement by Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ambassador Tayem Khalifa, the ministers discussed the close coordination between the leaderships of both countries, specifically noting the excellent relationship between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The ministers reviewed bilateral relations, with Abdelatty emphasizing the importance of increasing trade and revitalising the Egyptian-Italian Business Council to strengthen ties between both governments and the private sectors. He highlighted the positive contribution of Italian companies to the Egyptian market and Egypt’s efforts to attract foreign investment through government reforms designed to create a better investment climate. He expressed hope for increased Italian investment in Egypt. The ministers also discussed coordination on mutual candidacies in international forums and explored areas of cooperation including food security, energy, infrastructure, agriculture, transport, and logistics. They addressed cooperation on migration, with Abdelatty noting excellent bilateral collaboration in this area and the importance of expanding vocational training programs to benefit both Egyptian and Italian markets. The ministers also discussed regional developments in the Middle East. Abdelatty underscored the importance of providing unconditional humanitarian aid to Gaza to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, mentioning Cairo’s upcoming ministerial conference on December 2nd to improve the humanitarian response in Gaza. He also raised concerns about the deteriorating situation in the West Bank due to Israel’s settlement expansion policy. Separately, Abdelatty met with the Congolese Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Claude Gakuzo. Minister Gakuzo conveyed greetings from Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and expressed his country’s desire to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation with Egypt. He stressed the importance of ongoing consultations on African matters. Abdelatty and Gakuzo discussed strengthening bilateral cooperation in agriculture, education, and infrastructure, as well as regional issues, including security and stability in Africa. They explored improving collaboration within regional organizations, notably the African Union, and agreed to support each other’s candidacies in regional and international organizations. Abdelatty thanked Congo for its support of Egypt’s candidate for the UNESCO Director-General position.

New wall construction at Texas border kicks off with family of slain Jocelyn Nungaray watchingHeld responsible in part by pundits for President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, immigrants and minorities across the county — and in San Francisco — are now planning for his return to the White House. In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, speculation and analysis about the immigrant and minority votes — particularly in key swing states — ran rampant, with many suggesting they could decide the winner between former president Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Then, overnight, immigrants and their advocates quickly pivoted to control the fallout from Trump’s victory, given that he has pledged to carry out mass deportations and threatened sanctuary cities like San Francisco. There is a spectrum of opinions and outlooks among leaders in The City on how to react, and how afraid to be, after a second Trump election victory. While a playbook of sorts was drafted and put to use during his first administration, there is concern whether San Francisco has the resources at hand to fend off Trump’s plans, which had already escalated in the tail end of President Joe Biden’s administration. Several immigrant defense organizations told the San Francisco Standard this month that they are under-resourced for the task at hand under Trump, who has indicated on social media that he will deploy the U.S. military to help carry out mass deportations. At the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, Mayor London Breed — who leaves office in January — trumpeted her administration’s work to improve resources for immigrants. It has expanded the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs and increased immigrant legal defense funding for programs such as CARECEN SF by 40%, Breed said. The City is also working to prepare for threats under Trump’s administration, she added. “My hope is that so much of this rhetoric and the worst does not come to pass,” Breed said. “But either way, I believe in this city as one that will always stand for immigrants and their families, and not give in to fear.” But even if much of Trump’s plans does not come to pass, some advocates say they’re already struggling. “The truth is, our capacity to do removal defense cases has been very, very limited, and I think if you talk to any provider in SF they would say the same thing,” said Adrian​ Tirtanadi​, executive director of Open Door Legal, a nonprofit that aims to offer universal access to legal assistance to those who need it. Open Door Legal estimates it would need more than an additional $2 million in annual funding just to meet the current demand from people currently under deportation proceedings. In San Francisco Immigration Court, people with representation are more than five times more likely to successfully avoid deportation, Tirtanadi said. “If we just let immigrants enforce their rights under current immigration law, you would dramatically slow the number of people being deported,” Tirtanadi said. Economic calculus will come into play. The City will be pushed to expand funding for immigrant-support programs at the same time it attempts to close a massive budget deficit. But immigrant advocates stress that the risk of doing nothing is great, and that the economic consequences of mass deportations would be severe in a city where about one third of the population is foreign-born. There were about 40,000 undocumented immigrants living in San Francisco as of 2021, according to the California Immigrant Data Portal, a project of the University of Southern California’s Equity Research Institute. But that number only represents a fraction of the people who could be affected by mass deportations and other policies proposed by Trump. An additional 26,000 U.S. citizens in San Francisco were living with a person who is undocumented in San Francisco, according to the same data set. There are political factors for San Francisco leaders to consider, as well, and some might suggest The City proceed with caution. San Francisco — by nature of it being the home to House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and a longtime progressive bastion — already has a target on its back that need not be thrust further into the path of Trump’s agenda. Francisco Ugarte, managing attorney of the Immigration Defense Unit in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, remains optimistic about San Francisco’s ability to resist Trump. “We have been through a similar period in history where there were promises of sweeping human-rights abuses and mass deportation,” Ugarte said. “This is going to be different, clearly, but what we learned is that San Francisco stood up, a lot of these local political disputes kind of sifted away, and we unified as a city around attacks on people who were not born in the United States.” He pointed to the unmet goals of the first Trump administration such as the construction of a massive border wall and end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. “It’s going to be bad, no doubt there's going to be a lot of fear,” Ugarte said. “We don't know what's coming, so it’s hard to prepare — but we will be there.” Under the first Trump administration, San Francisco took quick legal action that successfully blocked Trump from implementing an executive order that would’ve pulled funding from sanctuary cities. Trump has proposed a different path this time, hoping Congress will adopt legislation that would effectively accomplish the same goal as his original executive order. He’s likely to have a more receptive ear to that proposal on Capitol Hill, as Republicans will control both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Already, San Francisco community-based organizations and its Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA) are preparing by highlighting resources for immigrants and their families, many of which were launched under the first Trump administration. That includes a rapid-response hotline through which someone can report ICE activity in San Francisco. The network of nonprofits that handle the call line work to vet the report, and can offer legal assistance to anyone detained by immigration officials. “We’re sad that this is happening, but we’re not surprised that Trump was elected and I think this time around, from those lessons the systems can easily be lifted [up],” said Jorge Rivas, executive director of OCEIA. The details and potential legal boundaries of Trump’s plans remain to be seen, which to some extent limits The City’s ability to plan for them. Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie hasn’t gotten specific in comments to the press since he won earlier this month, but has promised to defend the immigrant community. “Right now I’m trying to stay focused on our people and not deal with hypotheticals in [Washington] D.C., but I’m committing to people in San Francisco that I will always, always protect our immigrants,” Lurie told KGO-TV this week. Rivas said his office is already collaborating with service providers throughout San Francisco to assess their needs, and is working to update public-facing information. City departments are having internal conversations about the potential consequences of Trump’s actions, he added. In the meantime, Rivas stressed that San Francisco remains a sanctuary city, and people should still feel comfortable accessing city services — including emergency services like the police department — without fear that doing so could jeopardize their livelihoods. Rivas encouraged people to take advantage of existing resources, including the online Immigrant Support Hub and SF Immigrant Forum resource website. At the same time they’re preparing for Trump, immigrant and minority leaders are tasked by pundits, journalists and political analysts with explaining his victory. Hispanics are the second-largest ethnic group in the country, and the population is growing , according to Census data, placing them under pronounced focus. As the number of Latino voters grows, their votes are up for grabs, as research indicates that they are increasingly unlikely to be rigidly tied to a single party. Repeatedly, Latino voters have indicated in surveys that their top priority is that of the broader population — strengthening the economy and combatting inflation. And Latinos have as much a reason as anyone to factor inflation into their political calculus. Latinos and Black people were disproportionately impacted by inflation that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis released in 2022 by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. On Election Day, Latinos supported Harris in smaller percentages than they did President Joseph Biden in 2020, according to multiple estimates. This quickly spurred headlines and analysis about the rightward shift among Latinos, particularly in states like Florida, which Trump won handily. According to nonpartisan organization UnidosUS, which surveyed Latino voters in the weeks leading up to the election, the reported drift rightward among Latinos has been overstated, and is actually on par with that of the rest of the nation. In the end, UnidosUS and its researchers believe that the Latino vote was not a deciding factor in Trump’s win over Harris. Even if not a single Latino voter cast a ballot in the 2024 election, the result likely would’ve been the same, according to Gary Segura, a UCLA political scientist who worked with UnidosUS to survey voters prior to the election. “Could Latinos have prevented former President Trump from winning North Carolina? Yes, if 97% of them had voted Democratic, something that seems unlikely in any circumstance,” Segura told reporters last week during a call to breakdown polling results hosted by UnidosUS. But that hasn’t stopped the speculation. “What we saw immediately after the election was this wave of people just trying to point fingers at how this happened ... it was pretty much, ‘We need to find a culprit,’” Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of Hispanic Federation, told The Examiner. There are a multitude of nuances to the Latino vote, which is far from monolithic. Central American Latinos, for example, supported Harris by a 40-point margin, while 54% of Cubans backed Trump, according to the UnidosUS poll. There were stark differences in how Latino men and women voted, according to the polling data. Women were far more likely to support Harris, though a slim majority of Latino men also backed the vice president. According to an analysis by The San Francisco Chronicle, counties in California with higher percentages of Latinos were more likely to have a larger shift toward Trump in the 2024 election. But German Cash, the California state director for Hispanic Federation, argued that Californians by and large maintained their strong support for Democrats. “There isn’t a resounding rejection of the policies that have made California what it is now,” Cash said. Regardless of the election outcome, leaders like Miranda are looking ahead and gauging how best to navigate a new Trump administration. “We are a little bit trying to just make sense of this new reality, we are in the process of mapping what is going to be the strategy and what are going to be the specific needs of organizations on the ground,” Miranda said.

Guest Column | World hopes Trump will end wars; but Trump is not a magician

Oscars 2025: The five leading best picture contenders and how they might winIsraeli drone strikes hit Kamal Adwan Hospital on Tuesday, wounding three medical staff at one of the few hospitals still partially operating in the northernmost part of Gaza , the facility’s director said. Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya said the drones were dropping bombs, spraying shrapnel at the hospital. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. In Lebanon, a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has held despite Israeli forces carrying out several new drone and artillery strikes on Tuesday, killing a shepherd in the country's south. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed keep striking “with an iron fist” against perceived Hezbollah violations of the ceasefire. Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and missiles into Israel last year in solidarity with Hamas militants who are fighting in the Gaza Strip. The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage . Israel’s blistering retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,500 Palestinians , more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants. Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. The war in Gaza has destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave and displaced 90% of the population of 2.3 million, often multiple times . Here's the Latest: WASHINGTON — U.S. forces conducted a self-defense strike Tuesday in the vicinity of Mission Support Site Euphrates, a U.S. base in eastern Syria, against three truck-mounted multiple rocket launchers, a T-64 tank and mortars that Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said presented “a clear and imminent threat” to U.S. troops. The self-defense strike occurred after rockets and mortars were fired that landed in the vicinity of the base, Ryder said. The Pentagon is still assessing who was responsible for the attacks — that there are both Iranian-backed militias and Syrian military forces that operate in the area. Ryder said the attack was not connected to the offensive that is ongoing in Aleppo, where Syrian jihadi-led rebels taken over the country’s largest city. The U.S. has about 900 troops in Syria to conduct missions to counter the Islamic Stage group. CAIRO — Israeli drone strikes hit the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on Tuesday, wounding three medical personnel, the facility’s director said. Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya said the drones were dropping bombs, spraying shrapnel at the hospital, located in the town of Beit Lahiya. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. In comments released by Gaza’s Health Ministry, Abu Safiya said one of the injured was in critical condition and was undergoing a complex surgery. “The situation has become extremely dangerous,” he said. “We are exhausted by the ongoing violence and atrocities.” Kamal Adwan Hospital has been struck multiple times over the past two months as Israeli forces have waged a fierce offensive in the area, saying they are rooting out Hamas militants who regrouped there. In October, Israeli forces raided the hospital, saying that militants were sheltering inside and arrested a number of people, including some staff. Hospital officials denied the claim. Abu Safiya was wounded in his thigh and back by an Israeli drone strike on the hospital last month. TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli court has ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take the stand next week in his long-running corruption trial, ending a long series of delays. Netanyahu’s lawyers had filed multiple requests to put off the testimony, arguing first that the war in Gaza prevented him from properly preparing for his testimony, and later that his security could not be guaranteed in the court chamber. In Tuesday’s decision, judges in the Jerusalem district court said that following a security assessment, his testimony will be moved to the Tel Aviv district court. Israeli media said the session would take place in an underground chamber. His testimony in the trial, which began in 2020, is expected to begin on Dec. 10 and to last at least several weeks. Netanyahu is charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate scandals involving powerful media moguls and wealthy associates. He denies wrongdoing. NABATIYEH, Lebanon — In destroyed areas of southern Lebanon, residents clearing away rubble on Tuesday said they didn’t trust Israel to abide by the week-old ceasefire with Hezbollah. “The Israelis are breaching the ceasefire whenever they can because they are not committed,” said Hussein Badreddin, a vegetable seller in the southern city of Nabatiyeh, which was pummeled by Israeli airstrikes over several weeks. “This means that they (can) breach any resolution at any time.” Since it began last Wednesday, the U.S.- and French-brokered 60-day ceasefire has been rattled by near daily Israeli strikes, although Israel has been vague about the purported Hezbollah violations that prompted them. Imad Yassin, a trader who owns a clothing shop in Nabatiyeh, said Israel was constantly breaching the ceasefire because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to continue the displacement of residents of southern Lebanon. “The Israeli enemy was defeated and the truth is that he is trying to get revenge. Netanyahu is trying to displace us as citizens of southern Lebanon,” Yassin said. They spoke as bulldozers cleared streets strewn with rubble and debris from destroyed buildings. Electricians worked to fix power lines in an effort to restore electricity to the city. Both men were displaced by the war and returned to Nabatiyeh on Wednesday, the day the ceasefire went into effect. Yassin found his clothing shop had been destroyed. He said he would wait to see if the state will dispense compensation funds so that he can repair and reopen his business. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least nine people in Gaza City on Tuesday, Palestinian medical authorities said. Six people, including two children, who were killed when an Israeli strike hit a school sheltering displaced people Tuesday afternoon in the Zaytoun neighborhood, according to the Health Ministry’s emergency services. A second strike hit a residential building in the Sabra neighborhood, killing at least three people, the services said. Israeli forces have almost completely isolated northernmost Gaza since early October, saying they’re fighting regrouped Hamas militants there. That has pushed some families south to Gaza City, while hundreds of thousands more live in the territory's center and south in squalid tent camps, where they rely on international aid. JERUSALEM — Israel's military confirmed it killed a senior member of Hezbollah responsible for coordinating with Syria's army on rearming and resupplying the Lebanese militant group. Syrian state media said a drone strike on Tuesday hit a car in a suburb of the capital Damascus, killing one person, without saying who was killed. Israel's military said he was Salman Nemer Jomaa, describing him as “Hezbollah’s representative to the Syrian military,” and that killing him “degrades both Hezbollah’s presence in Syria and Hezbollah’s ongoing force-building efforts.” Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years. Israel rarely acknowledges its actions in Syria, but it has said that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups. Iran supports both Hezbollah and the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad, which is currently fighting to push back jihadi-led insurgents who seized the country’s largest city of Aleppo . TUBAS, West Bank — Israeli soldiers opened fire inside a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday during a raid to seize the bodies of alleged militants targeted in earlier airstrikes, a Palestinian doctor working at the hospital told The Associated Press. Soldiers entered the Turkish Hospital complex in Tubas after the bodies of two Palestinians killed and one wounded in airstrikes in the northern West Bank on Tuesday were brought there, said Dr. Mahmoud Ghanam, who works in the hospital’s emergency department. The troops briefly handcuffed and arrested Ghanam and another doctor. “The army entered in a brutal way, and they were shooting inside the emergency department,” said Ghanam. “They handcuffed us and took me and my colleague.” The military confirmed that its troops were operating around the hospital searching for those targeted in the airstrikes, which they said had hit a militant cell near the Palestinian town of Al-Aqaba in the Jordan Valley. It denied that troops had entered the hospital building or fired gunshots inside. The soldiers left after learning that the wounded man had been transferred to another hospital, Ghanam said. The soldiers wanted to take the bodies of the two men killed in the strike, but the hospital’s manager refused to hand over the bodies, Ghanam said. Israeli raids on hospitals in the West Bank are rare but have grown more common since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. In Gaza, Israeli troops have systematically besieged, raided and damaged many hospitals. About 800 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. Israel has carried out near-daily military raids in the West Bank that it says are aimed at preventing attacks on Israelis — attacks which have also been on the rise. Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek all three territories for an independent state. CAIRO — Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip after the war . It would effectively end Hamas’ rule and could help advance ceasefire talks with Israel. The rival factions have made several failed attempts to reconcile since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007. Israel has meanwhile ruled out any postwar role in Gaza for either Hamas or Fatah, which dominates the Western-backed Palestinian Authority . A Palestinian Authority official on Tuesday confirmed that a preliminary agreement had been reached following weeks of negotiations in Cairo. The official said the committee would have 12-15 members, most of them from Gaza. It would report to the Palestinian Authority, which is headquartered in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and work with local and international parties to facilitate humanitarian assistance and reconstruction. A Hamas official said that Hamas and Fatah had agreed on the general terms but were still negotiating over some details and the individuals who would serve on the committee. The official said an agreement would be announced after a meeting of all Palestinian factions in Cairo, without providing a timeline. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media on the talks. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the war until Hamas is dismantled and scores of hostages are returned. He says Israel will maintain open-ended security control over Gaza , with civilian affairs administered by local Palestinians unaffiliated with the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. No Palestinians have publicly volunteered for such a role, and Hamas has threatened anyone who cooperates with the Israeli military. The United States has called for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern both the West Bank and Gaza ahead of eventual statehood. The Israeli government is opposed to Palestinian statehood. Associated Press writers Samy Magdy in Cairo and Josef Federman in Jerusalem contributed. NUSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip — Palestinians lined up for bags of flour distributed by the U.N. in central Gaza on Tuesday morning, some of them for the first time in months amid a drop in food aid entering the territory. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, gave out one 25-kilogram flour bag (55 pounds) to each family of 10 at a warehouse in the Nuseirat refugee camp, as well as further south in the city of Khan Younis. Jalal al-Shaer, among the dozens receiving flour at the Nuseirat warehouse, said the bag would last his family of 12 for only two or three days. “The situation for us is very difficult,” said another man in line, Hammad Moawad. “There is no flour, there is no food, prices are high ... We eat bread crumbs.” He said his family hadn’t received a flour allotment in five or six months. COGAT, the Israeli army body in charge of humanitarian affairs, said it facilitated entry of a shipment of 600 tons of flour on Sunday for the World Food Program. Still, the amount of aid Israel has allowed into Gaza since the beginning of October has been at nearly the lowest levels of the 15-month-old war. UNRWA’s senior emergency officer Louise Wateridge told The Associated Press that the flour bags being distributed Tuesday were not enough. “People are getting one bag of flour between an entire family and there is no certainty when they’ll receive the next food,” she said. Wateridge added that UNRWA has been struggling like other humanitarian agencies to provide much needed supplies across the Gaza Strip. The agency this week announced it was stopping delivering aid entering through the main crossing from Israel, Kerem Shalom, because its convoys were being robbed by gangs. UNRWA has blamed Israel in large part for the spread of lawlessness in Gaza. The International Criminal Court is seeking to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over accusations of using “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid into Gaza. Israel rejects the allegations and says it has been working hard to improve entry of aid. JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war isn't over against Hezbollah and vowed to use "an iron fist" against the Lebanese militant group for any perceived violations of a week-old ceasefire. “At the moment we are in a ceasefire, I note — a ceasefire, not the end of the war," Netanyahu said at the start of the government meeting Tuesday. He said the military would retaliate for “any violation — minor or major.” Netanyahu also thanked U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for his recent demands for Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. Trump posted on social media Monday that if the hostages are not freed before he takes office in January there would be “HELL TO PAY.” Netanyahu convened Tuesday's meeting in northern Israel, where around 45,000 Israelis had been displaced by the war as of last week, according to the prime minister’s office. Netanyahu said the government was focused on getting them back in their homes and rehabilitating the area. BERLIN — German authorities have arrested a Lebanese man accused of being a member of Hezbollah and working for groups controlled by the militant organization in Germany. Federal prosecutors said the suspect, identified only as Fadel R. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in the Hannover region on Tuesday. The man is suspected of membership in a foreign terrorist organization and is not accused of direct involvement in any violence. Prosecutors said he joined Hezbollah in the summer of 2008 or earlier and took part in leadership training courses in Lebanon. From 2009, he allegedly had leadership duties in two groups controlled by Hezbollah in the Hannover area, organizing appearances by preachers close to the militants. According to prosecutors, he was briefly a correspondent for a Hezbollah media outlet in 2017 and was tasked with coordinating building work at a mosque. Germany is a staunch ally of Israel. It is also home to a Lebanese immigrant community of more than 100,000. BEIRUT — The Lebanese army is looking for more recruits as it beefs up its presence in southern Lebanon after the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. Lebanon’s army is a respected national institution that kept to the sidelines during the nearly 14-month conflict. During an initial 60-day truce, thousands of Lebanese troops are supposed to deploy in southern Lebanon, where U.N. peacekeepers also have a presence. Hezbollah militants are to pull back from areas near the border as Israel withdraws its ground forces. The army said those interested in joining up have a one-month period to apply, starting Tuesday. The Lebanese army has about 80,000 troops, with around 5,000 of them deployed in the south. DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s state news agency says a drone strike hit a car in a suburb of the capital, Damascus, killing one person. The agency did not give further details or say who was killed. It said the attack occurred Tuesday on the road leading to the Damascus International Airport south of the city. The area is known to be home to members of Iran-backed militant groups. Israel is believed to have carried out a number of strikes in the area in recent months as it has battled Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. Israeli officials rarely acknowledge such strikes. JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister warned that if the shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah collapses, Israel will widen its strikes and target the Lebanese state itself. He spoke the day after Israel carried out a wave of airstrikes that killed nearly a dozen people. Those strikes came after the Lebanese militant group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were previous Israeli violations. Speaking to troops on the northern border Tuesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said any violations of the agreement would be met with “a maximum response and zero tolerance.” He said if the war resumes, Israel will widen its strikes beyond the areas where Hezbollah’s activities are concentrated, and “there will no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon.” During the 14-month conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which came to an end last week with a ceasefire brokered by the United States and France, Israel largely refrained from striking critical infrastructure or the Lebanese armed forces, who kept to the sidelines . When Israeli strikes killed or wounded Lebanese soldiers, the Israeli military said it was accidental . The ceasefire agreement that took effect last week gives 60 days for Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and for Hezbollah militants to relocate north of the Litani River. The buffer zone is to be patrolled by Lebanese armed forces and U.N. peacekeepers. Israel has carried out multiple strikes in recent days in response to what it says are violations by Hezbollah. Lebanon’s parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, accused Israel of violating the truce more than 50 times in recent days by launching airstrikes, demolishing homes near the border and violating Lebanon’s airspace. Berri, a Hezbollah ally, had helped mediate the ceasefire. JERUSALEM — Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank has killed two Palestinians. Israel’s military said it struck a militant cell near the town of Al-Aqaba, in the Jordan Valley. It did not immediately give more details. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the two deaths and said a third person was moderately wounded. About 800 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. Israel has carried out near-daily military raids in the West Bank that it says are aimed at preventing attacks on Israelis, which have also been on the rise. Israel captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories for an independent state. BEIRUT — Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon made his first public appearance in Beirut since he was wounded in an attack involving exploding pagers in mid-September. Mojtaba Amani, who returned to Lebanon over the weekend after undergoing treatment in Iran, visited on Tuesday the scene south of Beirut where Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sept. 27. Speaking about the airstrike that destroyed six buildings and killed Nasrallah and others, Amani said Israel should get for its act “the highest medal for sabotage, terrorism, blood and killing civilians.” Amani suffered serious injuries in his face and hands when a pager he was holding exploded in mid-September. The device was one of about 3,000 pagers that exploded simultaneously, killing and wounding many Hezbollah members. A day after the pager attack, a similar attack struck walkie-talkies. In total, the explosions killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 3,000, many of them civilians. Last month, a spokesperson for the office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the pager attack was approved by Netanyahu.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is set to celebrate his 40th birthday on Dec. 30. However, he has not shown signs of slowing down despite being on the older side of the NBA. The fact that James has remained a top basketball player has left his current head coach, JJ Redick, in awe. James has tied basketball legend Vince Carter for playing 22 seasons in the league. However, unlike Carter, the 6-foot-9 forward is still putting up All-Star numbers, setting him apart from other aging stars in the league. One person who has witnessed James’ longevity from the start is Redick. When the former Duke star entered the league, the Lakers star was already an established star, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers . The head coach still can’t believe how the four-time champion has continued to dominate and stay at an elite level. “I played against LeBron in high school so I knew that he was gonna be great in the NBA,” Redick said. “I don’t think you could ever predict, no matter how much the prognosticators label people that 16, 17, 18 years old whether or not they’re gonna be all-time greats, which he turned out to be. And to be clear, it hasn’t gone quickly for me the last 21 years.” “It’s kind of mind-boggling just to be in this position coaching him, playing against him for 15 years, taking three years of calling his games and then he’s still playing at this level. Feels like he’s just been doing this forever and not a small stretch in human history, but forever. And that just speaks to his competitive stamina and love for the game.” JJ Redick called it 'mind-boggling' that LeBron James is still this good as he gets set to celebrate his 40th birthday. https://t.co/bydJaXWJe0 — Lakers Nation (@LakersNation) December 30, 2024 For the 2024-25 NBA season, James is averaging 23.5 points, 7.9 rebounds and 9.0 assists. The numbers he’s putting up this season aren’t usually what 40-year-old players have. However, the star continues to perform like a star and has gone above and above. Anthony Davis reveals what gift he’ll give his Los Angeles Lakers teammate While the NBA world is waiting for the Los Angeles Lakers star to turn 40, his teammate must not have the date circled on his calendar. Following the Lakers’ 132-122 win over the Sacramento Kings , Anthony Davis was asked about his plans for what to give to James as a gift. “He is turning 40, huh?” reflected Davis, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin . “It is a big milestone. I’ll probably get him a bottle of vino or something... thank you for reminding me. I’m a bad friend.” One does one NBA star get for another as a 40th birthday present? Can never have too much wine. pic.twitter.com/V2GZg3PXRB — Dave McMenamin (@mcten) December 29, 2024 With the star’s birthday a day away, Davis can prepare something special to give to the player who helped him win his first championship. This article first appeared on Hardwood Heroics and was syndicated with permission.After a rocky 2-8 start to the season, the Milwaukee Bucks have begun to find their footing, winning six of their past seven games and climbing back into the No. 6 spot in the Eastern Conference. With the season still young, their recent surge is a welcome sign that they might not be as far off as their early struggles suggested. Giannis Antetokounmpo has been nothing short of spectacular during this stretch. Averaging a career-high 32.4 points per game while shooting a blistering 61% from the field, he’s playing like an MVP candidate once again. His ability to dominate in the paint and his improved shot-making have been crucial for the Bucks as they start to get back on track . But it’s not just Giannis carrying the load — Milwaukee’s defense has also stepped up. Since the start of November, they rank in the top 10 in defensive efficiency, a major improvement after a rocky defensive start to the season. Still, context is important. The Bucks’ win streak has come during a relatively soft stretch of their schedule, with some weaker opponents giving them a chance to build momentum. Now, the real test begins. The true measure of whether this team is truly back to form will come in the coming weeks, as they face tougher competition. Can they maintain their defensive intensity and continue to get the most out of Giannis? If they can, then the Bucks may very well be back on the path to playoff contention, and potentially even deeper aspirations. For now, Milwaukee is cautiously optimistic, but the road ahead will reveal if they’re truly out of the woods. More Bucks | All coverage from Hoops Wire This article first appeared on Hoops Wire and was syndicated with permission.

Former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has likened himself to a “retired General” called back to action to help rescue the country from its current challenges. In a social media post, Mahama explained that while he took a step back after his presidency, the time has come for him to return and lead Ghana through its difficulties. “If we go to war, and we encounter difficulties, we go back to call the retired General to come back and lead us,” Mahama said. He emphasized the gravity of the situation facing the nation, adding, “I went to rest, but it is time to come back because we are in a difficult period as a country.” Mahama pledged to address the economic challenges Ghana faces, promising to reset the damaged economy and implement a 24-hour economy to create jobs. He also vowed to work alongside Ghanaians to build a prosperous future for the country.Central Valley Democratic challenger Adam Gray takes lead in House race

OTTAWA - Canada's financial intelligence agency says it is modernizing with the aim of providing valuable information to police and security officials in real time — or as close to that goal as it can get. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * OTTAWA - Canada's financial intelligence agency says it is modernizing with the aim of providing valuable information to police and security officials in real time — or as close to that goal as it can get. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? OTTAWA – Canada’s financial intelligence agency says it is modernizing with the aim of providing valuable information to police and security officials in real time — or as close to that goal as it can get. In its newly released annual report, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada says it is working with businesses and federal partners to move more quickly in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. The agency, known as Fintrac, identifies money linked to illicit activities by electronically sifting millions of pieces of information each year from banks, insurance companies, money services businesses, real-estate brokers, casinos and others. In turn, it discloses intelligence to police and security agencies about the suspected cases. In 2023-24, Fintrac produced more than 4,600 financial intelligence disclosure packages for recipients including the RCMP, municipal and provincial police, the Canada Border Services Agency and the Canada Revenue Agency. In a message in the report, Fintrac director Sarah Paquet says the agency aims to harness modern skills, tools and technologies to analyze data and produce intelligence in real time. Paquet said such swiftness could be a game-changer, for example, in the agency’s efforts to track financial transactions related to human trafficking for sexual exploitation. “It will allow us to proactively identify and assist law enforcement in disrupting networks much quicker,” she said. “This will mean rescuing victims sooner, saving them from prolonged abuse. It will mean supporting survivors sooner, getting them the assistance they need in a more timely fashion. And it will help law enforcement target, arrest and charge the traffickers sooner, preventing the abuse of new victims.” Fintrac’s digital strategy includes advancing automation, analytics and the use of artificial intelligence, Paquet said. In a bid to “stay ahead of the bad actors,” Fintrac has created a digital acceleration and modernization team “to experiment with, and exploit, the latest technologies.” Transnational organized crime groups and professional money launderers are the most prominent threats to Canada when it comes to illicit cash transactions, the report said. “At the same time, while the threat of terrorist financing is not as pronounced in Canada as it is in other regions of the world, there are networks operating in our country that are suspected of raising, collecting and transmitting funds abroad to various terrorist groups.” This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 26, 2024. AdvertisementAP Trending SummaryBrief at 6:06 p.m. EST