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Israelis wave national flags during a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, in Jerusalem’s Old City.
December 9, 2025

Peter Espeut | Christian fundamentalism and Zionism

The area called Canaan is an ancient territory encompassing all of today’s Palestine and Syria west of the Jordan River. Because of its strategic location between Europe, Asia, and Africa, over…
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courthouse, in Paris, France, Thursday, September 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
December 9, 2025

Paris court sentences Nicolas Sarkozy to 5 years in prison for criminal conspiracy

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his…
Enio Kaso, head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency Licensing, shows the AI ‘minister’ Diella, whose name means ‘sun’ in Albanian, during a conference call in Tirana.
December 9, 2025

Kristen Gyles | AI makes it as a minister

A few days ago, the world reached a historic milestone – its first-ever AI cabinet minister. The Prime Minister of Albania introduced to the Albanian parliament, a female avatar dressed in traditional…
Jamaica's Oblique Seville (left) and Kishane Thompson celebrate their one-two finish in the men's 100 metres final at the World Athletics Championships at Japan National Stadium in Tokyo.
December 9, 2025

Editorial | PSOJ’s sports policy

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s (PSOJ) proposal for public-private partnerships for building new facilities to help advance the island’s prowess in global athletics deserves full and…
Letters
December 9, 2025

Earth is not ending soon, despite doomsday predictions

THE EDITOR, Madam: While never casting aspersions on any religion, must say that the latest doomsday prediction being proved inaccurate once again makes me wonder why these end-time predictors are…
December 9, 2025

Sinister buffoonery dressed up as ‘standards’

THE EDITOR, Madam: It is a disgrace that 30 – some say over 60 – Jamaica-born doctors and dentists, after six gruelling years of medical training in China, are now stranded in bureaucratic purgatory…
This satellite image provided by NOAA taken Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at 4:10 p.m. EDT, shows Humberto in the Atlantic Ocean, off the southeast coast of the United States. (NOAA via AP)
December 9, 2025

Tropical Storm Humberto forms in Atlantic as Hurricane Gabrielle takes aim at the Azores

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Humberto formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday at the same time Hurricane Gabrielle was racing across the ocean toward the Azores islands, forecasters said. A…
The 20-foot boat on which the latest batch of Haitians arrived in Portland.
December 9, 2025

Haitians who landed in Portland sent home, search continues for those in hiding

Thirty Haitians who were among a group that landed on a beach in Kensington in Portland on Sunday have been sent home. They were repatriated today. The group, which comprised children, was…