Author: Alex Maschino
Every Saturday, sheep owned by Jewish settlers march through the olive groves that Rezeq Abu Naim and his family have tended for generations, crushing tree limbs and damaging roots. The extremist settlers, armed and sometimes masked, lead their herds to drink from the family’s scant water supplies while Mr. Abu Naim watches from the ramshackle tents of Al Mughayir, where he lives above the valley.“I beg you, I beg you. God, just let us be,’” Mr. Abu Naim recalled telling settlers during a recent confrontation. “Just go away. We don’t want any problems.”Vast stretches of his family’s farm and wheat…
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s Round-up is exclusively supported by BMI, a global leader in performing rights management, dedicated to supporting songwriters, composers and publishers and championing the value of music.This week, a new report from economist Will Page revealed that the global value of music copyright reached an all-time high of $47.2 billion in 2024.Meanwhile, YouTube announced it will stop providing data to Billboard‘s US charts after more than a decade, following changes to Billboard’s streaming…
University of Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer’s collegiate career certainly hasn’t been a straight line — filled with scandal, mystery and one big-time transfer along the way. Mateer, 21, helped guide the Sooners to a berth in the College Football Playoff during his first year in Norman, a season which saw Oklahoma finish 10-2 and rally off four straight wins to end their campaign. “This is everything I could ever ask for as a kid, and I told myself that like a year ago,” Mateer told reporters on Monday, December 15, just days ahead of Oklahoma’s showdown against Alabama in the…
Anthony Joshua looks to ‘end the boxing career’ of Jake Paul in Miami, Florida, propped up by an undercard featuring Alycia Baumgardner and UFC royalty.The controversial eight-round main event is professionally sanctioned and a dangerous step up for Paul, who boasts wins over the likes of Anderson Silva and Tyron Woodley — the two former MMA champions who face off earlier on the show — but has always had at least one key advantage in his bouts. That is not to be the case tonight. While ‘AJ’ may be past his highest peak, the two-time unified heavyweight champion remains a…
Now-Again RecordsWITCH was one of Zamrock’s most popular acts in the 1970sArtists and music fans from around the world have been rediscovering the 1970s sound of Zambia known as Zamrock in recent years, and now one of the country’s biggest stars is embracing it, hoping to give it a fresh twist.When devising her third studio album, Sampa the Great looked to the niche, brief musical movement that ignited her birth country more than 50 years ago.”We were looking for a sound and a voice that was so post-colonial. And Zamrock was that sound – that sound of new freedom, that…
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Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz delves into his high-profile romances, history with mental illness and more in the band’s new documentary, Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? The film, which hit HBO Max on Friday, December 19, revisits the band’s journey to stardom in the early ’90s during the making of their first two records — and doesn’t shy away from exploring how Duritz’s leadership affected their overall success, for better or worse. “Over the years, he’s pissed a lot of people off,” bandmate David Bryson told cameras after the documentary delved into Duritz sparring with Saturday Night…
How Does the Quinn Hughes Trade Affect Ramus Andersson? Kent Wilson of the Calgary Sun: Wilson writes now that the smoke has settled on the Quinn Hughes trade from the Vancouver Canucks to the Minnesota Wild, attention is turning to the Calgary Flames and Rasmus Andersson. While Andersson and Hughes are on two different levels, the package for the eldest Hughes brother sets the market for Andersson. NHL Rumors: Are Rasmus Andersson’s Days With the Calgary Flames Numbered? As Wilson noted, Anderson and the Flames will not get a package like the Canucks got, but Calgary can ask for a…
The United States Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will hold talks in Miami, Florida, with senior officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye as efforts continue to advance the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire, even as Israel repeatedly violates the truce on the ground.A White House official told Al Jazeera Arabic on Friday that Witkoff is set to meet representatives from the three countries to discuss the future of the agreement aimed at halting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listAxios separately reported that the meeting, scheduled for later on Friday, will include Qatari Prime…
China’s ByteDance agrees deal to hand control of TikTok US app to new joint venture