“The number of migrants that come across on foot has ramped up substantially in just the last few weeks,” Chris Riggs, the mayor of Gila Bend, an Arizona border town of 2,000, told RT. Mayor Riggs said he began worrying after the town was notified that border control officials will …
Read More »GOP NY Rep. calls on ‘criminal sexual predator’ Cuomo to resign after 2nd former staffer alleges sexual harassment
“Governor Cuomo is a criminal sexual predator and he must immediately resign,” Stefanik said in a statement issued shortly after the New York Times published a detailed account of Cuomo’s former aide Charlotte Bennett, accusing the governor of unwanted sexual advances, on Saturday. Stefanik noted that she “was one of …
Read More »Israeli PM urges Biden to keep Trump’s sanctions on International Criminal Court to stave off war crimes investigation – media
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu personally called up Biden last week to request he keep the Trump administration’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in place, lest the court launch its long-threatened war crimes investigation into Tel Aviv’s atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, Axios reported on Wednesday. A …
Read More »Criminal probe into ‘attempts to influence’ 2020 US election in Georgia targets Trump, media claims
Fulton County DA Fani Willis confirmed the existence of the investigation on Wednesday and said she had sent letters to Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the lieutenant governor, and the attorney general, asking that all records related to the administration of the election should be preserved. “This …
Read More »‘Ignoring real war crimes’: Netanyahu blasts International Criminal Court for claiming jurisdiction over Palestinian territories
“Today, the International Criminal Court has proven once more that it is a political body and not a judicial institution,” Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said after Friday’s ruling. Netanyahu accused the court of “ignoring the real war crimes and instead is pursuing Israel, a country with a strong democratic regime, …
Read More »Criminal gangs selling fake negative Covid-19 tests needed by most air travelers, Europol warns
Europol said on Monday that several suspects were recently arrested selling the fraudulent papers at airports in France and the UK. The gangs had been peddling the fake negative tests online and via messaging chats in Spain and the Netherlands, it said. As part of ongoing pandemic-related restrictions internationally, a …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Navalny to face new criminal case over alleged use of ‘anti-corruption’ donations ‘for personal gain’
According to prosecutors, Navalny spent around 356 million rubles ($4.8 million) of money raised for political and journalistic activities for “personal purposes” including “an acquisition of personal property, material assets and payment of expenses, including on trips abroad.” It alleges the funds came out of more than 588 million rubles …
Read More »Ex-CIA head Brennan wrong to call Iranian scientist killing ‘criminal,’ US also carried out such actions, ex-Mossad chief tells RT
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was gunned down last week in what many, including top Iranian officials, believe to be a clandestine Israeli operation. RT’s Going Underground spoke to Efraim Halevy, the former head of Israeli secret service Mossad, to discuss the high-profile assassination, criticism of the move coming from some senior intelligence …
Read More »Criminal cases against Sputnik journalists in Latvia are affront to ‘foundations of democratic society’ – Russian Foreign Ministry
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s media department blasted the actions against the Sputnik staff and other Russian-speaking journalists, in the Baltic country, as “an outrageous example of the violation of the core of foundations of a democratic society: the freedom of the media and the freedom of expression.” The ministry’s statement …
Read More »‘Criminal act’: Ex-CIA chief urges Iran to wait on ‘return of responsible US leaders’ before reacting to nuclear scientist killing
Amid speculation about the involvement of both Israel and the US in the alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Brennan dubbed the death “a criminal act [and] highly reckless.” “It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict,” he said of the Friday attack, which reportedly …
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