“We must not be dragged into provocations and inflicting harm on people or property,” Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said in a statement on Wednesday. “The Torah of Israel grants no license for taking the law into one’s hands and acting violently.” Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians came to a …
Read More »UN chief urges WHO to approve Sputnik V, calls Russian Covid jab ‘one of key elements’ in solving global vaccination problem
The UN believes that “Sputnik V is one the key elements that will allow us to solve the vaccination problem,” Guterres said following talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday. Guterres also said that he’s aware that WHO’s process to approve the vaccine is “ongoing”. The …
Read More »Detroit police chief James Craig to retire, may take on Republican target Gretchen Whitmer in run for Michigan governor
Craig, 64, made his retirement official at a press conference on Monday in Detroit, saying he will step down on June 1. He stopped short of confirming his 2022 candidacy for governor, but he has reportedly met in recent days with Michigan’s GOP leaders to gauge support. “Michiganders from across …
Read More »‘Hopefully it won’t hit anybody’: Pentagon chief says ‘no plan to shoot down’ unguided Chinese rocket as it falls from orbit
Asked on Thursday about the unguided Long March 5B rocket parts careening toward the planet at some 15,000 miles per hour, the defense secretary said the latest estimates suggest it will crash-land sometime on Friday or Saturday, but noted there would be no attempt to blast it out of the …
Read More »RT editor-in-chief says she will seek Facebook ban if RT’s Redfish page, removed after anti-fascist post, is not restored
Redfish Media’s account was suspended on Friday, after its recent post marking the death of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini got flagged for allegedly violating Facebook’s community standards. The US social media giant previously flagged historic images of Holocaust survivors posted by Redfish as breaching standards on “nudity and sexual …
Read More »Detroit police chief calls George Floyd Justice Act a ‘veiled attempt at dismantling policing’
Craig, who has clashed with lawmakers critical of police like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan), told Newsmax in a Wednesday interview that the proposed legislation is destructive because it removes qualified immunity for law enforcement officers. “We know how important it is that police officers who engage in criminal misconduct should …
Read More »‘Tired of being political pawns’: Police union chief tells RT after Albuquerque, New Mexico cops leave riot team in droves
Fed up with being second-guessed and used as political pawns, over a dozen officers from the Albuquerque, New Mexico PD have resigned from the riot control squad this month, head of the police union told RT in an interview. “What is going on is all about trust. The Albuquerque police …
Read More »‘We don’t know who did it, but Israel will be taught a lesson,’ Iranian army chief warns after oil tanker attack
A fire erupted aboard an Iranian oil tanker off the Syrian coast on Saturday, after what the Syrian Arab news agency described as a suspected “attack by a drone from the direction of Lebanese waters.” Some reports said three people were killed, but others insisted there were no fatalities and …
Read More »‘I’d love to see her resign’: Detroit police chief blasts Rashida Tlaib’s ‘anti-police rhetoric’
“She’s reckless,” Craig told Fox 2 Detroit about Tlaib. “I’d love to see her resign. I’d throw her a goodbye party.” In the wake of the death of Daunte Wright after a traffic stop in Minnesota, Tlaib, a member of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Squad,’ called for an end to “policing, incarceration, …
Read More »As Cuban chief Raul Castro leaves office, declassified CIA files expose how Washington planned to assassinate him
On April 16, Cuban leader Raul Castro announced his intention to resign and pass leadership to a younger generation “full of passion and anti-imperialist spirit.” Having taken over power from his brother Fidel in 2008, his departure marks the seeming end of a dynasty that has ruled Cuba since 1961. …
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