BY DANIEL STEENKAMER Managing Sports Editor Early in the second quarter Saturday night at windy and damp Delaware Stadium, the Delaware football team’s prospects appeared as bleak as Newark’s ominous weather forecast. The University of New Hampshire had controlled the Coastal Athletic Association game in all facets, racing to an 18-0 lead. When UNH quarterback … [Read more…]
BY DANIEL STEENKAMER Managing Sports Editor As nonconference games go, this one had the edge of a storied rivalry. The chippy play would have been befitting for some decades-long series, not one confined to matchups one can count on one hand. Saint Francis and Delaware, in just their third meeting all-time, pushed and shoved to … [Read more…]
BY DANIEL STEENKAMER Managing Sports Editor The 2023 Delaware football team arrived at Beaver Stadium on Saturday morning relishing an opportunity no prior Blue Hens squad had encountered, as over 100,000 would be on hand to see the Hens try to hang with top-10-ranked Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) blueblood Penn State (PSU). By the afternoon’s … [Read more…]
Currently, there are over 8000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, 3,000 of them have been detained since October 7. Ever since the outbreak, six Palestinian prisoners died in prison. According to testimonies of released detainees and information provided by Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and the Commission of Detainees, the prisoners have been exposed to violations, torture, … [Read more…]
A humanitarian pause may be in the works as just yesterday, Israel, the United States and Hamas made a tentative agreement to free several women and children who are held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting. The outline of a deal was set up among Israel, the … [Read more…]
A resolution was moved in the United Nations on November 11 against Israeli occupation in Palestine and Syria has been favored by 145 countries among them Colombia, France, India, and Japan. 18 countries abstained, and only 7 countries voted against it, among them are Israel, the United States, and Canada The resolution was accepted two days … [Read more…]
The Egyptian Parliament approved amends to the crimes of sexual harassment blackmailing, and bullying to have stricter penalties, which were drafted by the National Council for Women All kinds of verbal, physical, online, or visual harassment are penalized with a 200, 000 Egyptian pound fine and up to four years in prison. The punishment increases … [Read more…]
About a hundred USAID employees signed a five-page memo, organized by a junior diplomat which was transmitted to the State Department policy office on November 3rd. The memo opens by acknowledging the recent Hamas attack on Israelis on October 7 but proceeds to draw a line between this attack and the Israeli response that killed … [Read more…]
In one of her theatre scenes, Inas Al Saqa screamed “My children oh world, my children are under the rubble.” Then on October 31, Israeli bombardments killed the leading Palestinian writer and theatrical actress Inas and three of her children Lina, Sarah, and Ibrahim. The other two Rita, and Farah remain severely injured. الممثلة الجميلة، … [Read more…]
22-year-old Palestinian resistance icon Ahed Al Tamimi was detained today by Israeli forces in the West Bank-occupied territory. The Israeli police had raided her house before arresting her upon charges of ‘inciting terrorism’. Following her arrest, the spokesperson of the Israeli Military wrote on his X, formerly Twitter account after Tamimi’s detention celebrating IDF efforts, … [Read more…]