Category: World News
Hong Kong sentences 45 pro-democracy leaders to prison terms of up to 10 years
Washington Post The activists were arrested over a single day in 2021 and charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” for taking part in an unofficial primary election. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/hong-kong-democracy-activists-sentenced/
Read MoreFoul play ruled out month after body of Walmart employee found inside walk-in oven at Canada store
Fox News A month after the body of a Walmart employee was found inside a walk-in oven of a store in eastern Canada, police have determined that her death was not suspicious. The Halifax Police Department released a statement to announce that an investigation into the death of the 19-year-old woman, who was found inside…
Read MoreCruz says UN draft resolution against Israel is aimed at undermining incoming Trump admin, GOP Congress
Fox News JERUSALEM— Just hours before the United Nations Security Council is slated to vote on an alleged anti-Israel resolution pushed by Algeria to impose an end on the Jewish state’s war of self-defense against Hamas, the Biden administration has gone silent about how it will vote. The irony of the notoriously anti-Israel Algeria devising…
Read MoreGangs looting Gaza aid operate in areas under Israeli control, aid groups say
Washington Post A U.N. memo obtained by The Post concluded that gangs “may be benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” or “protection” from Israel’s military. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting-aid-convoys-israel-famine/
Read MorePolice investigate security breach after thefts from Windsor Castle estate
Washington Post Two suspects broke into a farm on the Windsor Castle estate, home to Prince William, Catherine, Princes of Wales and their family, last month. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/windsor-castle-robbery-william-kate-royal/
Read MoreNetanyahu confirms Israel strike against Iran hit nuke program during October retaliatory strikes
Fox News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the retaliatory attack Jerusalem launched on Iran in late October degraded part of Tehran’s nuclear program. “It’s not a secret,” Netanyahu said in a Knesset speech reported by the Times of Israel. “There is a specific component in their nuclear program that was hit in this attack.”…
Read MoreACLU files lawsuit seeking details on Trump’s plan for mass deportation
Washington Post The lawsuit alleges that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to respond to requests for basic information about matters including flights. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/11/18/trump-mass-deportation-aclu-lawsuit/
Read MoreLive briefing: Netanyahu says Israel damaged ‘component’ of Iran’s nuclear program in Oct. strikes
Washington Post Netanyahu said Monday that a “specific component” of Iran’s nuclear program had been damaged in last month’s Israeli attack on Iranian military facilities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/israel-war-news-lebanon-iran-hamas-gaza-palestine/
Read More4 typhoons have hit the Philippines in just 11 days
Washington Post It’s the most active November on record after a slow start to the 2024 Pacific typhoon season that’s now in hyperdrive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/11/18/philippines-typhoons-pacific-storm-season/
Read MoreThune threatens International Criminal Court with sanctions if it doesn’t drop Netanyahu warrant for arrest
Fox News South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune on Sunday threatened to slap the International Criminal Court (ICC) with sanctions if it did not drop its application for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Thune – who was selected Wednesday to be the next Senate Majority Leader once the GOP takes the…
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