More than 200 protesters were arrested on Saturday at Northeastern University‚ Arizona State University‚ Indiana University and Washington University in St. Louis‚ according to officials‚ as colleges across the country struggle to quell growing pro-Palestinian demonstrations and encampments on campus. More than 700 protesters have been arrested on U.S. campuses since April 18‚ when Columbia University had the New York Police Department clear a protest encampment there. In...

Iraqi social media star Ghufran Sawadi‚ better known as Umm Fahad‚ was shot dead outside her home in Baghdad‚ the capital of Iraq‚ on Friday night‚ a Baghdad police source told CNN. The attack took place in the Zayouna area east of Baghdad‚ and was captured on video by a surveillance camera and shared on social media. The video shows a gunman riding a motorcycle shooting and killing Sawadi on the spot. A Baghdad police source confirmed the authenticity of the video to CNN. The country’s...

UN investigators examining Israeli accusations against 19 staff from the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA for allegedly taking part in the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel have closed one case due to a lack of evidence from Israel and suspended four more‚ UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday. He said the inquiry by the Office for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) continues into the remaining cases. After an initial 12 cases were raised by the Israeli government in late...

Some senior U.S. officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find &;quot;credible or reliable&;quot; Israel's assurances that it is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law‚ according to an internal State Department memo reviewed by Reuters. Other officials upheld support for Israel's representation. Under a National Security Memorandum (NSM) issued by President Joe Biden in February‚ Blinken must report to Congress by May 8 whether...

Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will testify before Congress about his 2020 decision to make nursing homes and adult care facilities accept patients from hospitals who had tested positive for COVID-19. Cuomo‚ who resigned from office after a sexual harassment scandal in 2021‚ issued an order in March 2020 that prevented nursing homes from rejecting individuals solely because they had been diagnosed with coronavirus. The Daily Caller News Foundation first...

Humanitarian supply ships headed from Turkey to Gaza have been denied the right to sail by an international shipping body. The organization Freedom Flotilla Coalition said in a press statement Saturday afternoon the group organizing for support to Gaza was contacted by the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry for an inspection of their lead ship.  The inspector for GBISR conducted the inspection on Friday‚ and the organization withdrew...

It took Ana Elizabeth Melgar four tries to reach the U.S. border. Each time she made her way north‚ Mexican immigration authorities caught her and bused her south – not to her home country of El Salvador but to a city in southern Mexico. &;quot;If you catch me and I am a migrant‚ send me back to my country‚&;quot; she said‚ while resting in a Catholic shelter in this Mexican border town across from Eagle Pass‚ Texas. &;quot;I get it: I don't belong here. But what is this nonsense that you're...

  Tom Gilbey ran the London Marathon this weekend with two goals in mind: Drink wine‚ and raise funds for charity. Source: London Marathoner drinks 25 glasses of wine throughout 26.2-mile run‚ raising over $22k in donations What an innovative and fun way to raise funds.

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