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Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has said he is “shaken and angered” while describing his experience in Israel after Hamas, a Palestinian extremist group, launched a deadly attack near the Gaza border over the weekend.

NDTV brings this exclusive ground report from Israel which is fighting an all-out war against Hamas and other Palestinian groups. A rocket exploded near a hotel in Israel's Ashkelon, barely a few kilometres from the Gaza strip, this morning as NDTV journalists were about to check in. Air raid sirens blared and the crew ran for the basement shelter leaving their luggage behind, showed visuals underlining the horror that Israelis are facing.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and his family were forced to shelter in a hotel in Israel over the weekend while visiting family amid a barrage of rocket attacks launched by Hamas. Goldman along with his wife and three kids were in Israel for a family Bar Mitzvah when Hamas launched an unexpected barrage of attacks from land, sea and air, Goldman’s spokesperson said in a statement Sunday.

The Police have observed a resurgence of a hotel-related phishing scams where victims had made reservations for rooms via Booking.com. Scammers would pose as representatives from the hotels and contact the victims to obtain their personal and banking details. Since September 2023, at least 30 victims fell prey with losses amounting to at least $41,000.

The Gautam Budh Nagar police arrested five suspects on Saturday in connection with an incident in which a hotel owner and three of his employees were allegedly attacked and injured by a group of eight men wielding rods and sticks in Greater Noida West.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has struck an unsympathetic tone as his state dips into the bank accounts of hotel quarantine visitors to square bills totalling nearly $40 million. About one in 15 of those who quarantined in NSW hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to pay up, causing the state to resort to garnishee orders to recoup the funds. Single travellers were charged $1500 per week, with each additional adult costing another $500 and children over three years $250 per week.

IT was the jewel of the Isle of Wight where white-gloved concierges welcomed notables like Charles Darwin and Jimi Hendrix to its posh resorts.

Los Angeles City firefighters quickly knocked the flames at the landmark hotel.

An employee at the Sandals Resort construction site, who is not the holder of a driver’s permit, was fined after he took a truck from the Buccament Bay compound and drove it recklessly on the public road, while on his way to “find something to eat.” Nicolas Paris, 51 of Buccament appeared at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate John Ballah yesterday, where he pleaded guilty to all three of his charges.

Roger Kenis had post-traumatic stress disorder before Oct. 1, 2017, the night Stephen Paddock opened a hailstorm of automatic gunfire on Route 91 concert goers from his Mandalay Bay suite across the street, killing 60 in the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday raised concerns about lawsuits targeting hotels and other places of lodging for omitting details in their reservation systems about accessibility features for people with disabilities, but indicated they might opt not to decide the case. The justices heard arguments in an appeal by Acheson Hotels of a lower court's ruling that let a Florida woman pursue a lawsuit against the company in Maine even though she had no plans to stay at a hotel the company owned there.

The robbery happened at a hotel off the Beltway at Westheimer on Sunday.

The tragic death of Jacky Oh! following complications from cosmetic surgery have left many people questioning the responsibility of the doctor who performed the procedure. However, according to TMZ, the Miami Police Department has revealed that the medical examiner ruled Jacky’s death as accidental, and as a result, homicide detectives will not be launching a criminal investigation.

People who work in the service industry tend to be more able than most to put themselves in the shoes of others in the same work – but not always. OP works at a hotel chain and came in one day to find his manager trying to comfort two young front-desk girls who were clearly upset. He learned that they had a difficult guest in residence who was making everyone’s lives totally miserable.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBMA) — Authorities responded to a barricaded suspect incident in Tuscaloosa Thursday morning. The Tuscaloosa Police Department said its Special Response Team was assisting the US Marshals with an arrest of a "high-risk" suspect at the Ramada Inn on Skyland Boulevard around 9:30 a.m.

Firefighters extinguished a blaze inside The Newbury Boston hotel in the city's Back Bay neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. Boston fire said they were called to the hotel at 15 Arlington St., the former Taj Boston location, around 1:45 p.m. Smoke was reportedly coming from the roof when they arrived.

SINGAPORE - Thirty people came down with food poisoning after consuming food at a wedding banquet at The St Regis Singapore hotel. Responding to queries from The Straits Times, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said none of those affected after attending the banquet, which took place on Sept 3, was hospitalised. The Straits Times understands that the bride was among those affected. SFA said that it is investigating the incident with the Ministry of Health.

The probe concerns a convoluted financial transaction around properties in the French luxury ski resort Courchevel. France's richest man, Bernard Arnault, the owner of the LVMH luxury goods conglomerate and the founder of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, is reportedly under investigation in France on suspicion of money laundering. The investigation, first reported by Le Monde, is a “preliminary one”, according to the Paris prosecutor's office, meaning that Arnault has not been accused of money laundering.

A group of alleged drug dealers were arrested by Cancun police after being watched on city cameras harassing pedestrians. The arrests of Julio “N”, Erick “N”, Vicente “N” and Yair “N” took place in the Cancun Hotel zone after authorities witnessed them “verbally attacking” people to buy drugs outside Playa Tortugas. In a Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana (SSC) statement, all four were arrested for drug dealing. “With intelligence work of the C5 Security Complex, police elements were alerted that at Playa Tortugas, a group of men were physically and verbally attacking passers-by to get them to buy narcotics,” they reported.

The family of a Chicago teen found dead in a Rosemont hotel freezer in 2017 has settled a lawsuit against the hotel, its security company and a restaurant. But attorneys are trying to keep the dollar amount confidential, citing the family's safety and privacy amid a highly publicized case.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A man was charged with several felony offenses after causing over $19,000 in damages throwing furniture off of the 14th floor of a Salt Lake City hotel. Charging documents stated that officers with the Salt Lake City Police Department were dispatched to the Little America Hotel located at 500 South Main Street on June 16, 2023, on reports that an individual was throwing furniture from the 14th floor balcony into the pool.

A grand jury decided not to indict anyone on criminal charges related to the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel construction collapse in 2019 that left three people dead and 30 others injured, prosecutors said Thursday.

Law360, London (October 4, 2023, 3:57 PM BST) -- A businessman has escaped an order to pay £160 million ($198 million) for assisting in the dishonest sale of three London hotels after an appeals court ruled Wednesday that he was not liable to compensate the properties' previous owner. The Court of Appeal ruled that Anthony Stevens does not owe compensation to Hotel Portfolio II for helping former company director Andrew Ruhan make massive profits by selling the hotels to a business that he controlled.

Shooting guard Kevin Porter Jr. has been kicked off the Houston Rockets basketball team, following an arrest last month on allegations he left his girlfriend with a fractured neck vertebra and a deep cut above her right eye after attacking her in a New York City hotel room, multiple outlets reported Monday.