“Lebanese citizens should know that Hezbollah is their problem, not Israel, because if Hezbollah acts against the State of Israel, Lebanon will pay the price. I hope it will not happen, and we’re here to be prepared for a moment I hope will not come,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Tuesday as he visited a military exercise in the north of the country.
Poland’s prime minister has condemned “pro-choice” protestors who disrupt church services and block roads to express anger over a court ruling that severely restricts abortions.
French President Emmanuel Macron has recalled France’s ambassador to Turkey in response to public statements by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday that Mr. Macron needs treatment for a mental health problem, Fox News reported Monday.
The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil sector Monday, also making it more difficult for a subsequent administration to reverse the measures, the Times of Israel reports. Affecting the National Iranian Oil Company, Iran’s oil ministry, and the National Iranian Tanker Company, the new measures were taken under counterterrorism authority, such that a new administration would have to take legal action to change course.
A bipartisan bill to be presented in Congress this week requires the US Defense Department to consider selling bunker-buster bombs to Israel, the Times of Israel (ToI) reported Tuesday. The bill would be part of an effort to bolster Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge in the Middle East, a policy which the US is legally bound to maintain.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has joined other populist leaders in Eastern Europe and the Balkans in endorsing the re-election of U.S. President Donald J. Trump.
The U.S. Senate has launched an investigation into censorship by tech giants Twitter, Facebook, and Google amid presidential election campaigns.
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that North Carolina can receive and count ballots that officials receive up to nine days after Election Day.
Violent protests took place in Philadelphia Monday night, following the fatal police shooting of a black man who was reportedly mentally ill and armed with a knife, Fox News reports. At least 30 police officers are understood to have been injured in clashes with demonstrators. Around 35 people, including five juveniles, were arrested.
The Pentagon announced Monday that the US State Department has approved a further potential sale of 100 Boeing-made Harpoon Coastal Defense Systems to Taiwan in an arms deal which could be worth up to $2.37 billion, Reuters reports.
A top regional court in Pakistan has given custody of a 13-year-old Christian girl to her Muslim abductor, sources involved in the case told Worthy News late Tuesday.
“The Fake News Media is riding COVID, COVID, COVID, all the way to the Election. Losers!” President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday.
The reelection of U.S. President Donald Trump on November 3 could trigger Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah to launch an attack on Israel, says former Israeli ambassador to the United States.
The United States Supreme Court is not going to change how absentee ballots are counted in Wisconsin.
American airstrikes have killed a dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban members in Syria and Afghanistan since Thursday.
Of the roughly 32 lawsuits that have been filed since March against California Gov. Gavin Newsom, many allege his executive orders violate the religious liberty clauses of the California Constitution.
President Trump’s campaign website was “defaced” Tuesday night by hackers, according to the campaign.
In a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night, former Biden family business associate Tony Bobulinski accused Joe Biden of a “blatant lie” in denying any familiarity with his son Hunter’s business undertakings, claiming he himself met with Biden on two separate occasions to discuss prospective ventures into Chinese markets.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other Democratic “Squad” lawmakers called for an expansion of the Supreme Court Monday, immediately after conservative Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as the newest SCOTUS Justice, the Hill reports. The Republican move to swiftly confirm Barrett following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month has caused outrage among Democrats, who claim the Republican Party has applied double standards to the confirmation process.
Amy Coney Barrett pledged Monday to carry out her duties as a Supreme Court justice “without any fear or favor” toward the other branches of government or her own beliefs.