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Israel has delayed the implementation of strict rules limiting the ability of foreigners to enter and stay in the occupied West Bank, in what is believed to be a gesture to Joe Biden before the US president's visit to the Middle East next month.A statement from the high court on Wednesday said the new rules would be shelved until early September, as a decision had not yet been made regarding objections to the proposed policy.An injunction alleging discriminatory and restrictive criteria was filed by HaMoked, an Israeli non-profit organization focusing on Palestinian legal rights, last week. The rules were due to come into effect on 5 July.Palestinian academics, business leaders and rights groups expressed outrage over the policy when it was first outlined in February. Israeli media re...

WASHINGTON – Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack Jan. 6, 2021, are calling for more Trump administration witnesses to testify, to build on evidence and testimony already collectedincluding bombshell revelations tuesday from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.The latest on the Jan. 6 investigation: Cheney again calls on Cipollone to talk: The Jan. 6 committee's vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., called at the end of the last two hearings for former White House counsel Pat Cipollone to testify because he was in a key position to know how former President Donald Trump prepared for Jan. 6 and how he reacted to the attack.Committee chair made plea to potential witnesses: In a closing statement, committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told potential ...

Liberty Media's John MaloneMichael Kovac | Getty ImagesWritten in the Starz?Lionsgate is planning a Starz spinoff, home to "Outlander" and "Power," by early next year. Vivendi's Canal Plus and private equity firm Apollo Global, in tandem with streaming distributor Roku, have both made preliminary bids for a 20% stake, sources say.A deal could be announced as soon as August.A publicly traded Starz may look to increase in size by targeting other subscale media and entertainment companies.By "free radicals," Malone was referring to affordable media companies, such as AMC Networks, which is controlled by the Dolan family, or A&E Networks, co-owned by Hearst and Disney, which lacked the global scale to compete with Disney and Comcast's NBCUniversal for original programming and A-list talent...

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, has vowed to escalate his controversial “war on gangs” after three police officers were killed in what appeared to be the first major reaction to a security crackdown that critics have called one of the most dramatic in recent Latin American history.Bukele's government claims more than 43,000 Salvadorians have been thrown in jail since it imposed a “state of exception” in late March – leaving almost 2% of the country's entire adult population behind bars.On Tuesday, the millennial populist announced he would intensify the clampdown after the trio of officers were killed during a shootout in Santa Ana, a city 42 miles north-west of the capital, San Salvador.“If they think this will make us step back from the war on gangs, they're mistaken… it will b...

WASHINGTON – Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack Jan. 6, 2021, are calling for more Trump administration witnesses to testify, to build on evidence and testimony already collectedincluding bombshell revelations tuesday from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.The latest on the Jan. 6 investigation: Cheney again calls on Cipollone to talk: The Jan. 6 committee's vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., called at the end of the last two hearings for former White House counsel Pat Cipollone to testify because he was in a key position to know how former President Donald Trump prepared for Jan. 6 and how he reacted to the attack.Committee chair made plea to potential witnesses: In a closing statement, committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told potential ...

The tale of how gray wolves became the family dog ​​of today has received a new twist, with research suggesting our furry companions arose not just from one population of wild ancestors, but two.Dogs were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, an event thought to have happened somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago when humans were living as hunter gatherers. “Most other animals underwent domestication after the advent of agriculture,” said Dr Anders Bergström, first author of the research at the Francis Crick Institute. “I think it is a very fascinating thing that humans back in the ice age would have gone out and formed this relationship with this fierce predator.”But how the process occurred remains unclear.“We don't know where it happened, what was the human group ...

The Prince of Wales will no longer accept large cash donations for his charities, a senior royal source has said, after Charles faced criticism over claims he received €3m from a billionaire Qatari sheikh reportedly stuffed in a small suitcase and Fortnum & Mason carrier bag.The Sunday Times reported that Charles personally accepted the donations which were passed to the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund (PWCF) from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, who was the prime minister of Qatar between 2007 and 2013.The three donations were said to have been made between 2011 and 2015. Clarence House has said all correct processes were followed.A royal source said that the heir to the throne “operates on advice”. Situations, contexts change over the years. I can say with certainty for...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan holds a news conference during the NATO summit at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2021.YvesHerman | ReutersNATO officials on Tuesday celebrated Turkey's lifting of its veto against Sweden and Finland joining the transatlantic alliance, a move that brought the Nordic states one step closer to full NATO membership four months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.Turkey's initial opposition came as a major stumbling block and a surprise to many, amid growing urgency among Western nations to push back against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Finland and Sweden took a historic decision to end their nonaligned positions and join the alliance in the face of Russia's aggression, but new countries joining NATO requires unani...

EITHERn Tuesday, the House select committee delivered a two-hour master class on the threats posed by Donald Trump to our republic and democracy. Cassidy Hutchinson, a deputy to Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, may have placed Trump's name on a federal indictment for seditious conspiracy. The Capitol had been defaced for the “sake of a lie”, Cassidy declared.Hutchinson testified that Trump attempted to strangle his secret service agent and lunged for the steering wheel when he was told that he would not be driven to the Capitol to join the rioters. Hutchinson also testified that Trump said that Mike Pence “deserved” to be hung for his refusal to overturn the election. On Tuesday night, NBC's Washington correspondent Peter Alexander reported that both the lead agent and the pres...

YE Updated:06/29/2022 16:22h Save Related news Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a self-exiled Russian oligarch and prominent critic of the Kremlin, said in an interview last Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will extend the war on NATO territory if the coalition does not help Ukraine to win in the current conflict.Khodorkovsky made the warning during an interview with ' euronews', a television network based in France. The businessman called on NATO to continue providing Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky with weapons and supplies to fight the Russian army.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has condemned Putin for his attack on Ukraine and has reiterated his suppo...