The shooting death of a 19-year-old unarmed black male by a white Wisconsin police officer prompted protests Saturday chanting “Black Lives Matter.”
Saudi Arabia has passed India to become the world’s biggest arms importer last year as concerns about Iran’s ambitions increase tensions in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Israel has dropped to the seventh slot among the top 10 arms exporters in the world, down from the sixth slot in 2014.
Posts on social media indicate that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has died, Breitbart News reports Sunday, although no official announcement has yet been made.
Berlin – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that the U.S. should take a stronger stance against Iran — or risk appeasing what he called an “insane” regime.
Moscow – Russia said Saturday it had arrested two men suspected of killing opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down near the Kremlin in a brazen assassination that shocked the country.
Last month’s hidden camera expose by Israeli journalist Tzvika Klein revealed the shocking levels of anti-Semitism blighting the streets of Paris. Donning a kippa and tzitzit (fringes), Klein filmed himself walking through the French capital for 10 hours, and was subjected to anti-Semitic abuse and threats as he walked through several, mainly Muslim neighborhoods.
The body of a Jewish soldier who was killed about five weeks ago in the ongoing fighting against the Russian army in the eastern Ukraine was removed from the battlefield under fire nearly a month later by volunteers of the ZAKA emergency organization.
The Justice Department will charge Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey with corruption, CNN reports.
KIEV, Ukraine — Authorities in Ukraine say the sole witness in the killing in Moscow of prominent Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov has received death threats since returning to her family home in Ukraine.