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LONG BEACH, Calif. - A woman is dead and several others injured after a driver allegedly intentionally drove his vehicle into pedestrians in a Long Beach crosswalk Saturday night. It happened around 6:34 p.m. in the intersection of Shoreline Drive and Aquarium Way. According to authorities, 46-year-old Khalid Yagobbi has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of 60-year-old Romelia Cuarenta Aguilar, who died at the scene. Police say Yagobbi was speeding eastbound in a white Chevrolet Bolt, in the westbound lanes of Shoreline Drive, when he drove through a red light and struck the pedestrians and multiple,...

Anti-Israel protests have been held in a 'day of jihad' across the world today after former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal demanded thousands of Muslims take to the streets to demonstrate amid the ongoing conflict. The demonstrations were staged after Friday prayers in Muslim communities around the world - including in Iraq, Japan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - condemning Israel's attacks on Gaza and showing support for Palestinians in the wake of the deadly surprise attack launched by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel. Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Friday in Tahrir Square in the centre of Baghdad, and similar protests...

Frenzied knife attacks were reported in China and France on Friday after Hamas called for the 13th to be a global “day of rage” in response to the group’s ongoing war with Israel. The disturbing acts of violence cannot be immediately linked to the war but the first victim was an employee of the Israeli embassy. The second attack, which killed at least one man, came in France where the local media reports that the assailant—who was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical—shouted “Allahu Akbar” during an attack on multiple people at a school. A terrorism investigation has...

Americans are "armed" and will not be intimidated, commenters including Rep. Matt Gaetz have said, after a former Hamas chief called for a "Day of Jihad" by Muslim communities around the world on Friday, October 13. Khaled Mashal, who now heads the militant group's diaspora office in Qatar, told Reuters on Wednesday that Muslims should "head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday" and hold mass protests in support of Palestinians as the conflict with Israel intensifies. In a video posted on YouTube, but since removed, he also called for Muslims "to show anger"...

Las Vegas has a great slogan: “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” Israel could have an opposite variation on this slogan: “What happens in Israel doesn’t stay in Israel.” After all, Israel is just the canary in the coal mine. It’s the Islamists’ first target, but it’s not their only target or even their primary target. It’s simply on the front lines and a useful way to determine whether the rest of the world has the spine to face the Islamic challenge.Today’s “Evidence A” for this truism is the call from Hamas for Friday the 13th to be a...