Month: January 2020

At whiplash speed, the State Department is walking back an order barring American diplomats from meeting with controversial Iranian dissident groups—including one close with Trump World allies and previously designated as a terror group, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). The initial memo, greenlit by a career State Department employee, angered Congressional Iran hawks. And the Department’s move…

(Reuters) – The two people who carried out a fatal gun rampage at a kosher grocery store in northern New Jersey last month were planning another attack and may have targeted Jewish people, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said on Monday. David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, fatally shot a police officer…

The couple responsible for what authorities have called a deadly anti-Semitic attack at a kosher market in Jersey City last month planned “greater acts of mayhem” on Jewish people and law enforcement, authorities said Monday. The shooters searched Google for information on a Jewish community center in Bayonne, New Jersey, and left behind a note referring…

In the wake of the recent anti-Semitic shooting in Jersey City, N.J. and the machete attack at the home of a rabbi in Monsey, N.Y., news of anti-Semitism in the tri-state area has begun to pierce the mainstream-media bubble. But tensions have existed for decades in the Jewish enclaves that surround New York City. Grafton…

From Cosmopolitan The royal family rumour mill is well and truly in overdrive right now, following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s announcement that the couple want to “step back” from their roles as “senior members” of the royal family. But, says one royal expert, were the signs that the couple wanted out there all along?…

A newly emerged video appears to show the moment Prince Harry pitched Meghan Markle’s ability to do voice-overs to Disney’s CEO — a job the Duchess of Sussex has reportedly accepted. Over the weekend, The Times reported Meghan has signed a deal with Disney to do a voice-over in return for a donation to Elephants…

The United States Senate is preparing to receive impeachment articles from the House and there are reverberations around the Capitol about what this “clearly” means to each party. Handing over the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate has been argued as a “coup” for Republicans and a failure for Democrats. Speaker Pelosi could not refrain…

The director of Human Rights Watch was barred from entering Hong Kong to present a key report, because of what China called his organisation’s role in supporting the months-long protests in the city. Kenneth Roth posted a video on Twitter from Hong Kong’s international airport late on Sunday, saying he was being put back on…

(Bloomberg) — The executive director of campaign group Human Rights Watch said Sunday that he was prevented from entering Hong Kong, where he intended to release a report critical of the Chinese government. Kenneth Roth said in a video posted on Twitter that he had planned to hold a news conference Wednesday to release the…

China’s island outposts in the China Seas could prove to be difficult targets during wartime. American military planners shouldn’t assume otherwise, warned Gregory Poling, a fellow with the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. “Couldn’t the United States easily neutralize these remote outposts in a conflict, negating…