Defying fatwa, Iraqis flock to COVID cemetery to exhume dead, re-bury elsewhere

It took Abu Haider and his relatives several hours to dig up his nephew's grave and exhume the body at a cemetery in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf built especially for COVID-19 victims.
KLTV

Mineola man accused of forcing victim to dig grave at gunpoint after hitting dog in road

A fraternal organization that's helped countless charitable efforts in East Texas over the decades is still trying to help, but under challenging circumstances. East Texas first responders say it can ...
Construction Equipment

Can You Use an "Excavator Loader" with a MEWP?

Imagine the versatility of being able to use a MEWP and dig and load, all with the same machine. There are also many attachments available, such as snow blowers and cable plows. It looks like an ...
MIT Technology Review

Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use

Some individual queries use a small amount of electricity, but AI’s energy demand is still a big deal. Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app uses about 0.24 watt-hours of ...
GameSpot

How To Get The Prospecting Fire Opal

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. With any crafting game, there’s always going to be that one mineable gem that’s worth an absolute fortune. In Prospecting, one of the most desired is ...
WBAY

Officials use ‘8-11 Day’ as a reminder to call 811 before digging

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Ahead of 811 Day, on August 11th, Green Bay officials use the date as a reminder to the public to call 8-1-1 at least three days prior to any digging projects to have ...
The Forward

In that horrific video of a man digging his own grave, Israelis are seeing something that Americans aren’t

Just before heading to synagogue on Tisha B’Av this past Saturday night to hear Eicha, or the Book of Lamentations, I opened an email from a friend in Tel Aviv. It was titled: “Have you seen this? I ...
PBS

Israeli hostage shown in Hamas video is starved, tortured and ‘a broken man,’ cousin says

This weekend, Hamas released a haunting video of 24-year-old Evyatar David, an Israeli hostage abducted from the Nova Music Festival during the Oct. 7 attacks. In the video, David appears so emaciated ...
New York Post

Former NYT staffer blasts Gray Lady for ‘twisting’ facts about Israeli hostage digging own grave

A former New York Times staffer on Monday slammed the Gray Lady for “twisting” the facts about how it framed a story about an emaciated Israeli hostage being forced to dig his own grave. The liberal ...
radaronline

Horrifying Video Shows 'Living Skeleton' Hamas Hostage, 24, Being Forced to Dig His Own Grave in Chilling Propaganda Release

In a chilling new propaganda video that has sent shockwaves across the globe, Hamas has released footage of emaciated Israeli hostage Evyatar David, who is seen forced to dig his own grave in a dimly ...
Wall Street Journal

Hamas Releases Video of Hostage Digging His Own Grave in a Tunnel

TEL AVIV—Emaciated and pale, Evyatar David, a 24-year-old Israeli hostage, was filmed by his Hamas captors digging his own grave in a cramped underground tunnel, one of a series of videos that ...