Further heart-rending, stomach-churning sexual harassment allegations emerged last week about Chaim Halpern, a Charedi rabbi from Golders Green. On Israeli television, a young woman courageously came forward with an alleged recording of Halpern’s advances and efforts at intimidation. Halpern maintains his innocence and says that the recording is someone impersonating him. It has been nearly…
DetailsShakira is reportedly accusing the Spanish prosecutors who sued her for tax fraud of launching a “smear campaign” against her. The Grammy winner, 45, claimed the authorities “violated her right to privacy” by handling matters so publicly and without the presumption of innocence, according to documents obtained by TMZ on Friday. Shakira’s legal team reportedly…
DetailsWASHINGTON—The U.S. said it would allow Chevron Corp. CVX -0.29%decrease; red down pointing triangle to resume pumping oil from its Venezuelan oil fields after President Nicolás Maduro’s government and an opposition coalition agreed to implement an estimated $3 billion humanitarian relief program and continue dialogue in Mexico City on efforts to hold free and fair…
DetailsPolice and investigators fear organised gangs of fraudsters are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa, exploiting new opportunities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis to make huge sums with little risk of being caught. The growth will have a direct impact on the rest of the world, where many victims of…
DetailsBelarus’s long-standing foreign minister has died suddenly, the state news agency Belta reported on Saturday, just days before he was due in Poland to meet key Western officials. ‘Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has passed away suddenly,’ Belta reported today without giving further detail. Makei, 64, had held his post since 2012 and wasn’t known to…
DetailsThe Biden administration’s Justice Department recently announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the accidental death of an Arab-American journalist in Israel. So why isn’t it investigating this week’s intentional attempted murder of a Jewish American citizen in Israel? Shireen Abu Akleh, a reporter for the Qatari media agency Al Jazeera, was accidentally…
DetailsMore than 100 people have been arrested in the UK’s biggest ever fraud operation, which brought down a website police describe as a “one-stop spoofing shop” used by scammers to steal tens of millions of pounds from Britons via fake bank phone calls. It is estimated that more than 200,000 potential victims were targeted via…
DetailsWomen who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse filed lawsuits against Deutsche Bank AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co on Thursday, alleging the banks financially benefited from the late financier’s alleged sex trafficking operations. The women, who were not identified in the court filings, cite U.S. federal anti-sex trafficking laws and are seeking class…
DetailsIn a heist that would have put Caesar’s sack of Gaul to shame, nearly 500 golden coins produced by an ancient Celtic culture in what is now southern Germany were boosted from the Celtic and Roman Museum in the Bavarian town of Manching, Germany this week. The thieves were in and out in under nine…
DetailsOne of the two US citizens who were injured after a pair of deadly explosions rocked Jerusalem Wednesday has been identified as the teen daughter of a prominent New Jersey rabbi. One of the blasts that police said were carried out by Palestinian militants killed 16-year-old Israeli-Canadian yeshiva student Aryeh Shechopek, who was on his…
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