Category: 4. World

(JTA) — A Michigan man carrying a flare gun, a torch lighter, two bottles of fuel, and a manifesto angry with the government’s response to the Israel-Hamas war was arrested at the United States Capitol Visitor Center on Election Day,… Continue Reading

Both US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have expressed a desire to communicate with each other before the President-elect’s January inauguration.  Trump said he has not spoken with Putin since his election… Continue Reading

The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year. Australia… Continue Reading

A contentious Swiss prohibition on facial coverings in public spaces widely known as the “burqa ban” will take effect on Jan. 1, the government said on Wednesday. Narrowly passed in a 2021 referendum in neutral Switzerland, and condemned by… Continue Reading

At least 73 people have died of mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of al-Hilaliya, besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Doctors Union said late on Wednesday. It is one of dozens of villages that have come under… Continue Reading

A jury convicted on Monday  Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, after he allegedly sought to commit a terror attack inspired by the 2001 September 11 attacks committed by Al-Qaeda, the Justice Department confirmed. He planned the attack on behalf of… Continue Reading

US President Joe Biden is set to address the nation on Thursday after a stinging election defeat for his Democratic Party at the hands of Republican Donald Trump, whose stunning political comeback has reverberated around the world. Biden,… Continue Reading

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu, a powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Thursday that the West should accept that Russia was winning the Ukraine war and negotiate an end to the conflict. The 2-1/2-year-old war… Continue Reading

US elections are an opportunity to review the “wrong approaches” of the American government, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Thursday, according to state media, after Donald Trump won the presidency on… Continue Reading

A US citizen was arrested in Queens, New York for attempting to pass information to ISIS, the US Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Syed Aman, a resident of Nassau County, New York, planned to travel to Syria and join the Islamic… Continue Reading