Finland’s Border Guard released footage of officers boarding the cargo ship Fitburg off southern Finland as part of an investigation into suspected damage to an undersea telecom cable. The vessel, seized on New Year’s Eve while sailing from Russia to Israel, now has three of its 14 crew members under travel restrictions as Finnish police […]
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: President Trump sets the terms. And ultimately, he’ll decide what the iterations are of that. But it means the drugs stop flowing. It means the oil that was taken from us is returned, ultimately, and that criminals are not sent to the United States.
National security advisers from Europe and other allies visited Kyiv on Saturday to discuss security guarantees and economic support as a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war in Ukraine intensifies. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, preparing to travel to Paris for a meeting with partners, said work on the peace proposals could now accelerate […]
Baruch Dayan Emes: Rav Moshe Lieber Zt”l. The levaya is over, the shiva has passed, but sadly a tremendous financial burden looms large over Rav Moshe’s rebbetzin. Between the kvura, children’s chasunas, and medical expenses, coupled with the lack of life insurance – we are trying to raise $100,000, to alleviate this pressure and allow […]
Airlines cancel hundreds of Caribbean flights after U.S. attacks on Venezuela * U.S. airlines canceled hundreds of Caribbean flights, including travel to Puerto Rico, after a large-scale attack on Venezuela. * The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited airlines from flying in parts of the Caribbean after the strikes. * U.S. air carriers haven’t served Venezuela directly […]
Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants on their way to Europe capsized off the coast of Gambia, the West African nation’s leader said late Friday, setting off a frantic search and rescue operation. At least 102 survivors have been rescued and seven bodies recovered from the boat that capsized on […]
A few Venezuelans went out to the largely empty streets of Caracas, hours after the US bombed the country and captured President Nicolas Maduro. Some of them expressed concern there may be more violence, while many living abroad celebrated
Independent journalist Nick Shirley says he has been hit with a wave of death threats and harassment — including phone calls to members of his family — after releasing a viral video exposing large-scale fraud at publicly funded daycare centers in Minnesota. Shirley described the threats during a Dec. 31 appearance on the PBD Podcast, […]
Trump’s removal of Maduro prompts questions from Congress * Congressional Democrats are questioning the legality of President Donald Trump’s removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. * Republicans cheered Trump’s military action in Venezuela, though congressional lawmakers said they were not briefed before the land attack. * “Congress will leak, and we don’t want leakers,” Trump […]
Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations. The dramatic action capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign […]
The Jewish community in Switzerland reported that three women are still missing in the aftermath of the deadly fire that broke out in the country. At this stage, no official information has been released regarding the whereabouts of the missing women, and it remains unclear whether they were at the site of the fire when […]
After months of growing military pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump ordered an operation into the South American country to capture its leader and whisk him to the United States where his administration planned to put him on trial. In a Saturday morning interview on “Fox and Friends Weekend,” Trump laid out […]
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who has ruled the country since 2013, was captured following a large-scale US strike on Caracas. Elite US forces stormed Maduro’s residence during the operation, dragging him and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their bedroom before flying them out of the country. Maduro […]
Venezuela is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States to combat drug trafficking, the South American country’s President Nicolás Maduro said in a pretaped interview aired Thursday on state television, but he declined to comment on a CIA-led strike last week at a Venezuelan docking area that the Trump administration believed was used […]
