Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday about trade issues and Iran. “The call went very well—We are on the same side of every issue,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
Harvard University sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday in an effort to halt the government’s pause of more than $2 billion in funding for the U.S. educational institution. “Over the course of the past week, the federal government has taken several actions following Harvard’s refusal to comply with its illegal demands,” Harvard President Alan Garber said in a statement. “Moments ago, we filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government’s authority,” Garber said. Among the U.S. government agencies mentioned in Harvard’s lawsuit were the Education Department, the Health Department, the Justice…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly-sensitive security details. Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials. The…
The Palestinian Red Crescent called on Monday for a “serious investigation” into the killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza last month, a day after the Israeli military admitted “professional failures” and disciplined two officers over the incident. Younish Al-Khatib, chairman of the Palestinian Red Crescent, said he did not consider the measures taken by the Israeli military, which reprimanded one officer and dismissed another from his position, as sufficient. “This looks like the management of a company taking administrative measures against its employees who made some kind of a mistake,” he told Reuters. “When you kill 15 medical staff…
Members of the 1.4 billion-member global Catholic community expressed grief on Monday at the death of Pope Francis, many praising him as a humble man who stood up for the marginalised. At the Vatican, tourists and pilgrims there for Holy Week were dazed at the pontiff’s demise the morning after he had driven in his open-topped pope mobile through crowds cheering “Viva il Papa!” on Christianity’s holiest day. “He appeared in public yesterday, looked healthy. I was so shocked, and sad of course,” said Father Bachai, a retired priest from the United States. “May he rest in peace. He has…
Asian crime syndicates behind the multibillion-dollar cyberscam industry are expanding globally, including to South America and Africa, as raids in Southeast Asia fail to contain their activities, the United Nations said in a report on Monday. Criminal networks that emerged in Southeast Asia in recent years, opening sprawling compounds housing tens of thousands of workers, many trafficked and forced to scam victims around the world, have evolved into a sophisticated global industry, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said. Even as Southeast Asian governments have intensified a crackdown, syndicates have moved within and beyond the region, the…
Burnley beat Sheffield United 2-1 to seal automatic promotion to the Premier League on Saturday with the result also sending Championship leaders Leeds United up alongside them. Leeds had earlier thrashed Stoke City 6-0 to go top of the Championship on 94 points with two matches remaining and needed Burnley to then not lose to third-placed Sheffield United to make sure they would finish in the top two. Burnley duly obliged with Josh Brownhill scoring twice at Turf Moor either side of Tom Cannon’s equaliser. Scott Parker’s side, who were relegated last season, joined Leeds on 94 points to leave…
Nadine Menendez, the wife of former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, was convicted on Monday of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bribes in exchange for her husband doing favors for Egypt and New Jersey businessmen. Nadine Menendez, 58, was found guilty on all 15 counts she faced, including bribery, honest services wire fraud, and conspiracy for a public official to act as a foreign agent. She had pleaded not guilty. Menendez will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan on June 12. Bob Menendez, a Democrat who represented New Jersey for 18-1/2 years, was sentenced…
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber Technologies, accusing it of signing up some Uber One subscribers without their knowledge and making deceptive claims about the service. The service costs $9.99 a month and offers discounts on fees associated with Uber’s ride hailing and food delivery apps. Uber falsely claimed that users would save about $25 a month through the service and deceived users about how easy it was to cancel, the FTC said in the lawsuit filed in San Francisco. “Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel,” FTC Chairman…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome. “Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome,” Trump said on Truth Social.