Israel’s government banned a controversial United Nations official Monday after she made statements the Jewish state decried as anti-Semitic. The Israeli foreign and interior ministries prohibited U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese from entering the country after she said that victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks were killed “in response to
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign joined TikTok on Sunday, a platform Biden banned on all federal government-owned devices due to national security concerns. Biden’s team launched its first video, captioned “lol hey guys,” on the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The video, which has garnered more than five million views as
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday freed two hostages from the hands of Hamas terrorists in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. Fernando Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, embraced family members at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center as the two reunited with their loved ones, video from the IDF showed. The IDF rescued the two
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was admitted to a critical care unit in Washington on Sunday for treatment of “symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue,” officials of Walter Reed Military Medical Center said. Austin, 70, later transferred the duties of his office to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, Pentagon press pecretary Major General Pat Ryder said
UN Global Compact calls on members to ‘make sure’ they are ‘not complicit in human rights abuses’ The Chinese flag flies behind a surveillance camera (Reuters) A Chinese state-owned surveillance giant that provides equipment used in the communist nation’s mass surveillance and detainment of Uyghur Muslims is joining a United Nations “sustainability initiative” aimed at
Samantha Power would not meet with ambassador until ceasefire reached Samantha Power (Alex Wong/Getty Images) A senior Biden administration official refused to meet with Israel’s ambassador in 2021, during the last conflict with Hamas, until the Jewish state reached a ceasefire with the Iran-backed terror group, according to internal government emails reviewed by the Washington
A young woman I know broke it off with a young man after three dates but declared that it was a pretty successful relationship anyway. “He showed me a couple of great Amazon Prime series,” she told me. “And he turned me on to Derry Girls.” Derry Girls, for the record, is a British comedy