Several Northwestern University buildings were vandalized with violent anti-Israel slogans on Monday morning, Northwestern president Michael Schill said in a statement. The defacement occurred as the federal government has sought to push…
Category: 4. World
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Eyeing an escape route in the Trump era, these American Jews are moving to Canada
A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose…
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Jury opens Harvey Weinstein new sex crimes trial in New York
Jury selection began on Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s new trial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan, a year after a state appeals court overturned the former movie mogul’s 2020 conviction.
Weinstein, 73, faces one rape count and…
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French prisons targeted in violent attacks amid cocaine trafficing
Multiple French prisons have been attacked in recent nights, including with automatic weapons, in what the justice minister said on Tuesday was a response to a government clamp-down on a drug trade turbocharged by a surge in cocaine…
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Columbia rejects US government control amid reports of federal oversight
Columbia University rejects any agreement with the US federal government that would surrender control of the academic institution, acting president Claire Shipman said in a Monday statement, which came following reports that President…
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Accused necrophiliac alleged to have raped dead man on NYC subway
The New York Police Department is searching for a man accused of performing sexual acts on a corpse while traveling on the Manhattan subway last week.
The man reportedly performed the acts on a man who passed away while riding the R train,…
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Italian defense minister calls for accountability over Gaza strikes
Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto voiced anger over Israeli strikes on Gaza in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday.
Italy, like the United States, has firmly supported Israel during its invasion of Gaza following the October 7, 2023…
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Emmanuel Macron speak about Palestinian statehood
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his strong opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state to French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, following Macron’s expression of support for the solution on X/Twitter on…
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Sergei Lavrov: US-Russia peace deal talks struggle
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it was not easy to agree with the United States on the key parts of a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and that Russia would never again allow itself to depend economically on…
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State Department says Trump admin. can’t deport Tufts student
After being arrested by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, the State Department ruled that the Trump administration had no grounds to deport Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk, the Washington Post reported on…
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