• Yahoo Sports

    Zion Williamson and the Pelicans are finally having fun: 'We play for each other'

    After the team embarrassed itself earlier in the season, the Pelicans have found an identity and worked their way into the championship conversation.

  • Reuters

    Netanyahu asks Israeli court to defer deadline on conscription controversy

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Israel's top court on Thursday to defer a deadline for the government to come up with a new military conscription plan that would address mainstream anger at the exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jews. The draft issue is especially sensitive as Israel's armed forces, made up mostly of teenaged conscripts and civilians mobilised for reserve duty, wage a nearly six-month-old war in Gaza to try to eliminate the Islamist group Hamas that rules the Palestinian enclave.

  • The Canadian Press

    UN top court orders Israel to open more land crossings for aid into Gaza

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The top United Nations court on Thursday ordered Israel to take measures including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza to tackle crippling shortages in the war-ravaged enclave. The International Court of Justice issued two new so-called provisional measures in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of acts of genocide in its military campaign launched after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. Israel stringently denies