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Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen U.N. employees Sunday, a day after they raided another U.N. facility in the capital Sanaa, a U.N. official said. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the U.N. resident coordinator for Yemen, told The Associated Press that the U.N. staffers were detained inside the facility in Sanaa’s southwestern neighborhood of Hada. He said those detained Sunday include five Yemenis and 15 international staff. He said the rebels released another 11 U.N. staffers after questioning. He said the U.N. was contact with the Houthis and other parties to “to resolve this serious situation as swiftly as possible, end the detention of all personnel, and restore full control over its facilities in Sanaa.” A second U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the raid, said the rebels confiscated all communications equipment from the facility, including phones, servers and computers. The official said the detained employees belong to multiple U.N. agencies including the World Food Program, UNICEF and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The Houthis have launched a long-running crackdown against the U.N. and other international organizations working in rebel-held areas in Yemen including Sanaa, the coastal city of Hodeida and the rebel stronghold in Sadaa province in northern Yemen. Dozens of people, including over 50 U.N. staffers, have been detained so far. A World Food Program worker died in detention earlier this year in Sadaa. The rebels have repeatedly alleged without evidence that the detained U.N. staffers and those working with other international groups and foreign embassies were spies. The U.N. fiercely denied the accusations. The crackdown forced the U.N. to suspend its operations in Saada province in northern Yemen following the detention of eight staffers in January. The U.N. also relocated its top humanitarian coordinator in Yemen from Sanaa to the coastal city of Aden, which serves as seat for the internationally recognized government. (AP)

Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists detained about two dozen U.N. employees in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Sunday, a day after raiding another U.N. facility, according to U.N. officials. The detainees include both Yemeni and international staff from several agencies, including the World Food Program and UNICEF. The Houthis also confiscated phones and computers from the compound.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. will cut all funding to Colombia, accusing President Gustavo Petro of failing to curb drug production and calling him “an illegal drug dealer.” Writing on Truth Social from Mar-a-Lago, Trump said Petro “does nothing to stop” the drug trade and warned that if Colombia doesn’t act, “the United States will close them up for him.”

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, according to the country’s judiciary. The execution took place Saturday in the city of Qom after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence and denied a pardon request. Authorities said the defendant began cooperating with Israeli intelligence in October 2023, providing sensitive information and carrying out missions inside Iran before being arrested in February 2024.

Brutal front page from the NY Post after NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was photographed campaigning with an imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has called for “jihad” in American cities.

In an audacious crime that stunned France, professional burglars carried out a daylight break-in at the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday, making off with irreplaceable jewels once owned by Emperor Napoleon.

According to Le Parisien, the gang used an aerial lift to reach a window of the historic museum and cut their way inside with an angle grinder before escaping with nine valuable pieces.

The Louvre was immediately evacuated, with authorities sealing off the area as heavily armed police swept through the museum, causing confusion and alarm among visitors.

Stolen pieces reportedly included a brooch, a tiara, and a necklace, though officials are still working to determine the full monetary value of the collection.

One of the artifacts—thought to be a crown once worn by Empress Eugénie, Napoleon’s wife—was found outside the museum, damaged during the thieves’ escape, according to Le Parisien.

The Louvre, world-renowned for housing Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, draws millions of visitors every year, with nearly nine million recorded in 2024 alone.

Investigators say three perpetrators were involved, targeting the Apollon Gallery, a room overlooking the River Seine on the museum’s first floor.

Security footage showed the culprits fleeing on two scooters toward the A6 highway, heading southeast out of the city.

Culture Minister Rachida Dati confirmed to reporters that there were no injuries in the heist, though the scale of the theft has shocked the nation.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene as law enforcement rushed into action. “The police were running near the pyramid and trying to enter the Louvre through the side glass doors, but they were locked and impossible to open,” visitor Kacie told Le Parisien.

Experts fear the thieves may attempt to dismantle or melt the jewels, selling the precious materials individually to avoid detection.

“The risk is that some of the diamonds could be sold at retail, which would make reconstituting the jewels very difficult,” a source close to the investigation told Le Parisien.

The Louvre theft follows another high-profile robbery just weeks earlier, when gold nuggets were stolen from the Natural History Museum in Paris.

The latest incident has ignited outrage across France, with critics accusing authorities of failing to protect the nation’s cultural treasures.

“The Louvre is a global symbol of our culture. This heist, which allowed thieves to steal the Crown Jewels of France, is an intolerable humiliation for our country. How far will the decay of the state go?” Jordan Bardella of the National Rally Party wrote on X.

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A private defense contractor claims it was behind the wave of “UFO” sightings across New Jersey. The company demonstrated a 20-foot, four-winged manned aircraft with unusual flight movements and later told observers that its test flights over New Jersey in November 2024 sparked the reports of mysterious objects in the sky. The contractor said it was operating under a private government contract and was not required to disclose the tests.

Trump on Hamas: “These are very violent people. This is a very violent part of the world… If we have to, we’ll disarm them… We won’t have boots on the ground — there’s no reason to.”

Q “Is there a timeline to get Hamas to disarm, in your mind?” TRUMP: “Not a hard line, but we’re going to see how it all works out. They’ve lived there for a long time. They’re very violent… it’s a whole new set of people. They get replaced by other people — young people… at a certain point, if they don’t do what they’re supposed to do, then we’ll have to do it for them.”

Today, an Air China flight from Hangzhou to Incheon was forced to make an emergency landing in Shanghai after a lithium battery in a passenger’s overhead bag exploded and caught fire. The fire was quickly extinguished, and the aircraft landed safely with no injuries reported. Flight tracking shows the plane turning around over the East China Sea before returning to Shanghai.

President Trump on the Gaza peace deal: “If we didn’t take out [Iran’s] nuclear, there’s no way that we would’ve been able to do this.”

Hamas says it has located the body of one more hostage, which it said will be returned to Israel today if “conditions on the ground are appropriate”. “We will transfer the body today if the conditions on the ground are suitable,” it says, adding that “any Zionist escalation will complicate the search and digging operations and the recovery of the bodies, which will lead to a delay in the occupation’s receipt of the bodies.”

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in the Bureij camp in central Gaza.

BORO PARK: A fire erupted early this morning at approximately 7:15 a.m. inside an apartment building near 12th Avenue and 54th Street. Residents, including several children, were rescued through the fire escape as the blaze quickly drew a large emergency response. Boro Park and Flatbush Hatzolah, the FDNY, NYPD, and Boro Park Shomrim all responded to the scene. Sources tell YWN that approximately 27 individuals were transported to local hospitals for evaluation due to smoke inhalation. Thankfully, all have since been discharged.

The IDF has issued an urgent warning to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to avoid entering areas under Israeli control and to stay away from Israeli troops. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, stated that “in the wake of repeated violations of the ceasefire and this morning’s attack by Hamas terror elements, the IDF will respond with great force against terror infrastructure and Hamas operatives.” He emphasized that for their safety, residents should remain on the west side of the Yellow Line, attaching a map showing the areas in Gaza currently under IDF control.

Freed hostage David Cunio receives a warm homecoming in Yavne after being discharged from the hospital.

BREAKING: A senior U.S. official has confirmed to Axios that Israel alerted the U.S. ahead of planned Gaza strikes in response to Hamas’s ceasefire violations.

Iran executed a person convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in the city of Qom, the official judiciary news agency reported Sunday. The sentence was carried out early Saturday after the Supreme Court upheld the ruling and a request for a pardon was denied, the Mizan news agency said. The report didn’t identify the person, but said that the individual was accused of “intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime” and found guilty of “corruption on Earth” and “enmity against God” — crimes punishable by death under Iran’s Islamic penal code. Mizan said that the person began contacts and cooperation with Israeli intelligence services in October 2023 and was arrested four months later, in February 2024. The defendant had allegedly provided sensitive information to Mossad and carried out missions inside Iran on behalf of Israeli intelligence, according to the report. No further details about the nature of the alleged espionage or the date of the person’s arrest were made public. Iran’s judiciary has repeatedly described such executions as necessary to safeguard national security, particularly amid what Tehran calls Israel’s “infiltration and sabotage operations.” The execution in Qom, home to a sacred Shiite shrine about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of the capital Tehran, follows a recent series of similar cases involving alleged cooperation with Israel. On Oct. 4, Iran executed six people accused of conducting bombings and armed attacks in Khuzestan Province while allegedly working with Mossad. Authorities said that the group had “operated in direct connection with the Zionist regime’s intelligence apparatus.” Days earlier, on Sept. 29, Iran hanged another defendant, identified as Bahman Choobiasl, who was convicted of spying for Israel. Choobiasl was executed in Arak Prison, after being found guilty of collecting sensitive information and providing it to Israeli handlers. Since the “12-day war” earlier this year and a series of Israeli strikes targeting Iranian military sites, Iran is known to have executed at least nine people accused of espionage. The conflict — marked by Israeli airstrikes that killed about 1,100 people, including senior Iranian military commanders — triggered Iranian missile barrages targeting Israeli territory in retaliation. The exchange left both sides on high alert and further inflamed tensions across the region. Human rights organizations and Western governments have condemned Iran’s increasing use of capital punishment, particularly for political and espionage-related offenses. Activists argue that many of the convictions rely on coerced confessions, and that trials often take place behind closed doors, without access to independent legal representation. Tehran, however, maintains that those executed were “agents of hostile intelligence services” involved in acts of terrorism or sabotage. Iranian officials have accused Israel of orchestrating a campaign of covert attacks inside Iran, including assassinations of nuclear scientists and cybersabotage of strategic facilities. (AP)

A devastating accident early Sunday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike claimed the lives of four yeshiva bochurim after a suspected drunk driver slammed into their vehicle near Carneys Point Township.

Authorities said the collision occurred at approximately 1 a.m. on the southbound side of the Turnpike, just past Exit 1 near the Delaware Memorial Bridge. According to New Jersey State Police, two vehicles were involved in the fatal crash.

The victims, four bochurim from the tri-state area who were traveling together on a bein hazemanim trip, were all killed in the impact. Three of the bochurim were from Lakewood,  NJ and one was from South Fallsburg, NY.

Emergency responders, including New Jersey State Police, fire, and EMS crews, worked through the night at the crash site. The highway was closed for several hours as authorities conducted their investigation and cleared the wreckage.

Misaskim and local askanim arrived at the scene and are coordinating closely with law enforcement to ensure kavod hameis and assist with all necessary arrangements.

The names of the victims have not yet been released pending notification of family members.

Umacha Hashem dimah me’al kol ponim.

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President Trump unleashed a new level of mockery toward his critics by posting a wild AI-created video depicting himself as a crowned fighter pilot dumping waste on his opponents.

In the 19-second clip, set to the high-octane “Top Gun” anthem Danger Zone, Trump’s jet soars over what looks like New York City, releasing torrents of sludge onto crowds of “No Kings” demonstrators.

Among those shown being splattered is left-wing influencer Harry Sisson, whose likeness was pulled from real footage at a recent rally. The video shows the jet emblazoned with the title “King Trump” as it speeds across Times Square.

“That plane wouldn’t have made it off the ground with your fat— in the pilot’s seat,” Sisson, 23, shot back on X. “Can a reporter please ask Trump why he posted an AI video of himself dropping poop on me from a fighter jet? That would be great thanks.”

Trump uploaded the bizarre video to Truth Social just hours after thousands of “No Kings” rallies were held nationwide on Shabbos. Roughly 2,600 protests against his administration took place across the U.S., continuing the movement’s demonstrations that began in June during the Army’s 250th anniversary parade — an event that coincided with Trump’s birthday.

Vice President JD Vance joined in on the satire, sharing an AI-generated clip on the BlueSky platform showing Trump donning a royal crown, then a regal robe, and drawing a sword as Democratic leaders like Nancy Pelosi appear to kneel before him. The video incorporated authentic 2020 footage of Pelosi and other lawmakers kneeling in kente cloths during a “moment of silence” for police reform.

The White House’s official BlueSky debut also leaned into the trolling theme, posting a compilation of Trump’s most viral provocations — including his infamous AI video that portrayed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero after a meeting with the president. Jeffries denounced that portrayal as racist.

Trump has repeatedly dabbled in AI-powered parody videos on Truth Social. Earlier this year, he shared a digitally crafted promo for an extravagant “Trump Gaza” resort built in the middle of the war-torn territory.

Just weeks ago, he circulated another AI clip featuring Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought wielding a Grim Reaper’s scythe to taunt Democrats over their decision to block a Republican-backed plan aimed at preventing a partial government shutdown.

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