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Russia has begun using North Korean troops in “significant numbers” to attack Ukrainian forces in Kursk region, president Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“Today, we already have preliminary data that the Russians have begun to use North Korean soldiers in their assaults” he said. “We have information suggesting their use could extend to other parts of the frontline.”

This comes as Russia’s air defence systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russian defence ministry said today.

Thirteen of the drones were downed over the Black Sea and one each over the Russian border regions of Kursk and Belgorod, the defence ministry said in a post on its Telegram messaging channel.

A bird strike involving an American Airlines jetliner disabled one of the plane’s two engines shortly after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia airport, forcing the flight to turn around and land at John F Kennedy international airport, authorities said on Friday.

No one was injured in the incident on Thursday involving flight 1722, which took off from LaGuardia at 7.43pm with a destination of Charlotte, North Carolina, airline officials said.

The Federal Aviation Administration says bird strikes are increasing, with 19,400 strikes at 713 airports across the US last year alone. Rarely do they cause so much damage that commercial jetliners are forced to make emergency landings.

The pilot of the Airbus A321 declared an emergency at 7.52pm and diverted to JFK airport, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the New York area’s major airports, said in a statement.

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In a brief order, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the charity’s appeal that the denial violates the First Amendment’s religious protections.

“Put another way, it doesn’t matter if Catholic Charities gives a cup of water in Jesus’ name, because non-religious charities offer cups of water too,” the group wrote in its petition. “That absurd result deepens a split between state courts that require religious entities to conform to stereotypes to qualify for the ‘religious purposes’ exemption and those that do not.”

It has been more than a year of the ongoing onslaught in Gaza, where experts and common people across the world recognize that a genocide is taking place. We have seen the decimation of Gaza’s hospitals, the use of starvation and disease as weapons of war, attacks on aid workers and the prevention of humanitarian aid, the invasion of Lebanon, Syria and West Bank cities, the arbitrary detention of 9,000 Palestinians, the use of white phosphorus, and the series of countless bombs, bombs and more bombs – all individually war crimes, and collectively, affronts to the very idea of international law and jurisprudence.

Like millions around the world, I watched Sha’ban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old student, burn alive as he slept in a tent outside the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ hospital in central Gaza. I’ve seen my people unable to do anything as flames swallowed yet another martyr, another hospital, another set of refugees in tents. I’ve watched Israeli occupation forces in north Gaza prepare what appeared to be a mass grave, outside Indonesian hospital, lining up Palestinian men and boys with their hands tied and eyes blindfolded.

A massacre is being carried out in the shadows of media silence. As a Palestinian, the horror of watching the extermination of people crystallizes into a deep feeling of grief, shame and rage at the loss of humanity. And as a law student, I question the very profession I hope to join.

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The New York city mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Tuesday that an additional 25 shelters used to house asylum seekers will be closing in the coming two months.

The move comes amid a rightward tack by Adams, especially on the issue of immigration, which has seen him hew close to the incoming Donald Trump administration, which has plans for a mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.

The number of asylum seekers in city shelters is now at its lowest point in 17 months after decreasing for 22 straight weeks.

Among the closing shelters are the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at Floyd Bennett Field, which houses about 2,000 people, with housing costs paid by New York state. The state will continue to reimburse New York City for the costs for equivalent care incurred at other migrant housing sites across the city.

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Each year on December 7, Pearl Harbor Survivors, veterans, and visitors from all over the world come together to honor and remember the 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. A further 1,178 people were injured in the attack, which permanently sank two U.S. Navy battleships (the USS Arizona and the USS Utah) and destroyed 188 aircraft.

On August 23, 1994, the United States Congress designated December 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Every year, remembrance events are held at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, culminating in a commemoration ceremony on December 7. To see videos of these events, please see the links below.

TVNL Comment:  As a child in school on Dec. 7th commemorations during the war years, I still recall the song we sang :

 

A US federal judge on Thursday rejected plane giant Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty to fraud after two fatal crashes of its 737 Max passenger jets, faulting a diversity and inclusion provision in the deal regarding the selection of an independent monitor to audit the company’s compliance practices.

Boeing and the US justice department now have 30 days to update the court on how they plan to proceed in the case, Judge Reed C O’Connor of the northern district of Texas ordered.

Spokespeople for Boeing and the DoJ did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

Relatives of the victims of the two 737 Max crashes, which occurred in 2018 and 2019 and killed 346 people, have called the agreement a “sweetheart” deal that failed to adequately hold Boeing accountable for the deaths of their loved ones.

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