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A new report released by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has reignited international debate over the conduct of Israel's military campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. INR Report · Presented during a press conference in Geneva, the Commission's latest 100-page report contains some of the strongest allegations yet made by a UN investigative body concerning the treatment of…

More than 700 rabbis are demanding an apology from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he called the American Israel Public Affairs Committee “monsters” during a campaign rally. The rabbis warned that Mamdani’s remarks demonized pro-Israel civic participation and placed Jewish Americans and their allies at greater risk during a time of rising anti-Semitism. By David Lindfield · Mamdani made the comments during a June 18 rally ahead of New…

By Frank Bergman · Authorities in Western Australia have launched an official investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein victim and ex-Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre. · The probe will review police interactions with Giuffre before her death. · The investigation follows calls from her family and domestic violence experts for closer scrutiny of whether officials failed to protect her. · Giuffre, 41, died by suicide in 2025 at…

Susan Kokinda argues that new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's inaugural press conference signaled a break with the Phillips Curve "cruel choice" doctrine, insisting strong growth, low prices, and high employment are compatible through productivity-led expansion. By Susan Kokinda · Published: June 24, 2026 Reading Time: 10 min · She highlights Warsh's rejection of forward guidance and his call for markets to focus on incoming data from…

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to one count in a federal classified documents case, admitting to unlawfully retaining national defense information after prosecutors accused him of keeping highly sensitive material at his Maryland home. Bolton entered the plea in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, before U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang. The guilty plea covered count 12 of an 18-count indictment,…

The US has conducted airstrikes in Iran for the first time since a preliminary peace agreement was signed on June 17. US Central Command (CENTCOM) said American aircraft struck missile sites, drone storage facilities and radar installations on Friday in response to a drone attack on the Singaporean-flagged commercial vessel M/V Ever Lovely in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier. · “The unwarranted aggression against commercial shipping by…

The West is scrambling to shore up Kiev with fresh funding and political backing as EU leaders gather in Poland for the Ukraine Recovery Conference, billed as a key forum for rebuilding the country amid the conflict with Russia. · But instead of reconstruction, the summit has been dominated by rows over Nazi collaborators and corruption. · As the conference got underway on Wednesday, RT looked at the controversies that are eroding support for…

Russia gains control of another village in a key border region, with its forces also hitting multiple military targets across Ukraine with group strikes over the course of the past week. · The death toll in Venezuela climbs to almost 600 people - with thousands more injured - in the deadliest earthquakes the country has seen in a century. People continue to desperately search for loved ones buried under masses of rubble. · A rally marking the…

As Keir Starmer prepares to leave the UK’s highest office after less than two years, the media has lined up to explain why he failed to deliver on the enormous hype he received as opposition leader and during his initial months in office. A repeated trope has been that Starmer was a “decent man,” but simply not cut out for mainstream politics. However, his record of concealing the UK establishment’s repulsive crimes – be that serial child sex…

Back-to-back earthquakes rock Venezuela, and bring buildings crashing to the ground nationwide. More than 160 people are dead and almost 1,000 injured. Kiev targets yet more civilians in Russia, but the attacks come in the face of continued Russian advances along the front lines. · Shortly we'll be joined by the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva, to discuss the developments. As the US and Japan combine military forces…