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WASHINGTON — North Korea claimed Tuesday its recently launched reconnaissance satellite had snapped photos of the White House, Pentagon, and key US military installations across the world — though questions remain about the technology’s capabilities. Dictator Kim Jong Un has personally reviewed the images, which were captured late Monday, Pyongyang’s Korea Central News Agency propaganda service claimed. “[Kim] also received in detail satellite photos of the Norfolk Naval Station, the Newport News Dockyard, and an airfield of Virginia,” KCNA reported.

Cuba's Communist ruler President Miguel Diaz-Canel leading tens of thousands in a Pro-Palestinian march past the US Embassy in Havana... There were demonstrations in Dutch cities tonight in response to the victory of Geert Wilders... Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk will visit Israel next week... In Ecuador today President Daniel Noboa of the "Right" taking office... Attacks On US Bases In Iraq And Syria... New revised UK immigration stats showing a big spike in net migration... Disturbances Following Stabbing Attack In Dublin That Wounded Five, Three Of Them Children Police Arrest Protesters Allege They Were Attempting "To Sow Division"... In New...

The Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against private lawsuits seeking to redraw federal and state legislative districts more favorable to Democrats... A group affiliated with Iran claiming responsibility for the latest drone strike on the US Ain-al-Asad air base in Iraq... We're learning more tonight about Ray Epps and the activities of two undercover Washington DC police officers on January 6th... The latest opinion poll in the Netherlands ahead of Wednesday's election with rising support for Geert Wilders Party of Freedom (PVV)... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received warnings about Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas taking action against Israel......

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talking to Centrist Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz demanding action against Jews... Meanwhile another member of the war cabinet Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has ordered detention without trial for a second Jewish man... Israeli politics the war shaking up public opinion... In Louisville a mistrial declared at the civil rights trial of ex Louisville police officer Brett Hankison... In the Central American nation of Guatemala the Public Prosecutor's Office seeking to prosecute Leftist President-Elect... Israel attacking the Syrian capital Damascus early Friday morning... In France Senator Joel Guerriau arrested accused of drugging a...

EILAT, ISRAEL — In a moment I’ll give you a preview of my interview with Israeli Minister Gideon Sa’ar, a member of Israel's security cabinet and the highest-ranking Israeli official I’ve interviewed since the war with Hamas began. But first let me just take a moment to share with you what my wife, Lynn, and I saw last night while we were driving south from Jerusalem to Israel’s southernmost city. Located right on the gorgeous, glistening Red Sea, Eilat is an ancient city even mentioned in the Bible. Today, Eilat is a resort community where typically hundreds of thousands of...

In March, Senator Rand Paul blocked an attempt to ban TikTok from being used in the United States. This week, he did it again. Ten months ago it was Republican Senator Josh Hawley who wanted a ban. On Wednesday, it was Hawley again. Hawley requested unanimous consent to pass his bill that would basically prevent TikTok from being used in the United States by imposing sanctions on TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance Limited, citing alleged privacy violations he believes constitute a national security threat. Paul objected, thinking the ban was a stupid idea. He pointed out that banning the app, which...

Last March, a Palestinian delegation arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian officials. The delegation was from Hamas, the militant Palestinian group that's been labeled a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union. The meeting, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, touched on Russia's "unchanged position in support of a just solution to the Palestinian problem.""When considering the issue of restoring Palestinian national unity, the Russian side expressed its readiness to continue to assist in overcoming differences and bringing together the positions of leading Palestinian political forces and movements on the platform of the Palestine Liberation Organization,"...

Turkey's president appears to have threatened to intervene in Gaza in an impassioned speech at a pro-Palestine rally this evening. Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a speech to a rally this afternoon in which he told attendees Israel was responsible for war crimes, and framed Hamas as "freedom fighters". In comments that have prompted Israeli outcry, and led the country to withdraw its diplomatic presence, president Erdogan suggested assaults on Gaza constituted a "massacre". In the same speech, he reportedly said that Turkey can "come at any night unexpectedly” to ecstatic reception from hundreds of thousands of attendees. The footage, which...

Hamas representatives are in Moscow, according to Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “I can also say and confirm that representatives of the relevant Palestinian movement are on a visit to Moscow,” she says in a briefing, reported by the Russian RIA Novosti outlet. The outlet had earlier reported that Hamas politburo member Moussa Abu Marzuk was leading the delegation. Zakharova says that Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani is in Moscow as well.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk warned of the possibility of World War III, saying a third global war could spark from either the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip or Russia's continuing assault on Ukraine. "We need to figure out peace in Ukraine, and I think we need to restore normal relations with Russia," Musk said Monday during a talk on his social media platform X. "World War III is a civilizational risk that we may not recover from," he said, "so we need to prioritize avoiding World War III; that's what actually matters. And not what happened...

Hamas’s unprecedented invasion of Israel would in “no way” have transpired under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to world-renowned military historian and professor Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, who also argued that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine and China would not have sent spy balloons over the U.S., as he urged America to take back its international standing. Speaking on former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson’s “Conversations” podcast Wednesday, Dr. Hanson suggested that “to his credit,” former President Donald Trump demonstrated American deterrence and determination through his assassination of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani and destruction of...

Su Lin, a prominent Chinese social media personality, went one step further, describing Hamas as "too soft" and equating Israel with the Nazis. And while Lin isn't a government official, her hateful commentary managed to pass the online censorship in China, indicating official approval from Beijing and a deliberate strategy by the CCP... What is this strategy? During his recent visit to Russia, Xi Jinping shared his vision for a "great transformation of the century" with Putin, seeking to replace the current U.S.-backed liberal world order with a multipolar international system, dethroning America from its position of global leadership. To...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher urged students not to go to elite colleges because doing so “just makes you stupid” and that these elite schools are “a North Korean re-education camp” that are racist towards Asian applicants that don’t teach history and “if ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market.”

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Palestinian protestors in the West Bank waved Russian and Hamas flags and carried portraits of Russia's President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to express their fury about Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and U.S. support for Israel. Putin cropped up as Russia told Israel it was negotiating with Hamas for the return of some hostages. Protesters took to the streets of Hebron to show solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. After the rally, some protesters threw stones at Israeli forces and set tire fires. On Thursday, Russia's foreign minister proposed regular security talks...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program, FBI and Department of Justice officials said. The Justice Department said Wednesday that IT workers dispatched and contracted by North Korea to work remotely with companies in St. Louis and elsewhere in the U.S. have been using false identities to get the jobs. The money they earned was funneled to the North Korean weapons program, FBI leaders said at a news conference in St. Louis. Court...

When they’ve been asked in the past, spokesmen for North Korea’s hermit government have insisted that they don’t sell military equipment to terrorist groups. (Perish the thought.) But the evidence is building that Hamas was using some Nork gear when it launched its attack on Israel. Video released by Israeli intelligence, along with discarded hardware collected at the scene of at least one of the attacks shows that the Hamas terrorists were using the F-7 shoulder-fired, rocket-propelled grenade launcher, manufactured by North Korea. The RPG-7 (as it’s also called) is generally used as an anti-tank weapon, and while it is...

Two Russian SU-27 fighters intercepted a British spy plane and two British fighters over the Black Sea... Moody's ratings service putting Israel's A1 credit rating on review for a possible downgrade... Tonight, a speech from Joe Biden that links the War In Israel to the Ukraine War... Tonight, word that the US military base at the Al Omar oil field... In Syria the Russian military destroying underground storage facilities of the jihadist forces... The European Union wants social media companies Meta and TikTok to tell them what actions are being taken to combat "disinformation"... Lawyer Sidney Powell pleading guilty... Tonight,...

Hamas terrorists used rocket-propelled grenades supplied by North Korea in their murderous assault on Israel, it has emerged. The Gaza-based terrorists carried shoulder-held F-7 launchers, which are designed to take out armored vehicles, as they roamed civilian areas in Israel murdering hundreds of men, women and children. Weapons used by Hamas and captured by Israel on the battlefield were from Pyongyang, South Korean officials and specialists in North Korean arms told the Associated Press.

Evidence suggests some of the weapons used by Hamas in a bloody attack on southern Israel earlier this month likely came from North Korea. While Pyongyang has repeatedly denied supplying the terrorist group with weapons, expert analysis along with a trove of evidence that includes video as well as munitions seized by Israel, suggests otherwise. At the heart of the controversy is the F-7 rocket-propelled grenade, a shoulder-fired weapon fighters typically use against armored vehicles. An image published by Hamas after the Oct. 7 attack features members of the terrorist organization wielding a rocket-propelled grenade with a distinctive red stripe...