During the Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday night Amsterdam authorities banned a planned pro-palestinian demonstration near the stadium, and video showed a large crowd of israeli fans chanting anti-arab slogans en route to the game. Afterwards, youths on scooters crisscrossed the city in search of Israeli fans, punching and kicking them and then fleeing quickly to evade police, Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema said.
Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina. The primates escaped from the alpha genesis facility Wednesday when a new employee didn’t fully shut an enclosure. The company usually handles escapes on site, but the monkeys got outside the compound about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from downtown Yemassee. Police chief Gregory Alexander said that the primates are harmless and should not be cause for concern.
A Minnesota man was convicted Thursday in the killing of his girlfriend, whose 2023 disappearance garnered national attention and prompted thousands of people to join search efforts before her body was found hidden in a rural area of the state. Less than a day after deliberations began, the jury found Adam Fravel, 30, guilty of first-degree murder. he was arrested in June 2023, days after deputies found the body of Madeline Kingsbury in a wooded area a few miles away from a property owned by Fravel’s parents.
Giovanni Mariani can be reached at mari6061@stthomas.edu.