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A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t be extradited to the United States on espionage charges unless U.S. authorities guarantee he won’t get the death penalty, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site’s publication of classified American documents.
The Biden administration is adamant that no U.S. personnel will set foot in Gaza when it starts delivering humanitarian aid from a floating dock, but a proposal for workers from other nations to deliver the aid carries security risks, say one former and two current administration officials. The concerns are the latest wrinkle in the White House push to get aid to the enclave’s hungry population via a floating dock. U.S. military officials have told NBC News that the first time they heard that...
U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022. That’s a 4% increase from the year before. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the data Friday but has not released marriage data for last year. In 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were 1.7 million U.S. weddings — the lowest number recorded since 1963. The pandemic threw many marriage plans into disarray, with communities ordering people to stay at home and banning large...
On Wednesday, the United States and Great Britian announced that they are sanctioning two individuals for using an online news provider to raise money for the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations. The two governments allege that Mustafa Ayash, who founded the popular Arabic media site Gaza Now, began his illicit fundraising activities shortly
He spent seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy and five years in prison, both in London. U.S. prosecutors want his next move to be to the U.S. But the High Court has delayed that.
57% of Americans express some sympathy with both Israelis and Palestinians, including 26% who say their sympathies lie equally with both groups.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange can continue his fight against extradition to the United States after the High Court in London ruled on Tuesday he should be allowed to appeal against it.
China disputed the claims as “disinformation” and ”groundless accusations.”
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) This is a succinct factual summary of the situation, as-of 21 March 2024: https://theduran.com/nord-stream-investigation-sabotaged-dmitry-polyanskiy (without ads) https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/XwxLdwo75hY (without ads) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwxLdwo75hY (with ads) [I have cleaned up the auto-generated transcript because of its many successively repeated phrases and its many fillers such as “uh”, which hindered...
On Monday, diplomatic relations between the United States and Israel became further strained after the U.S. allowed a United Nations Security Council resolution to pass. The U.S. abstained from voting on a resolution that demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Hackers linked to the Chinese government launched a sweeping, state-backed operation that targeted U.S. officials, journalists, corporations, pro-democracy activists and the U.K.’s election watchdog, American and British authorities said Monday in announcing a set of criminal charges and sanctions.