Author: Press Room
Hamas officials confirmed Wednesday that the new military leader of the terrorist organization, Mohammed Odeh, was eliminated by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Tuesday. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz was the first to announce Odeh’s death on Tuesday. Katz said Israel remains determined to prevent Hamas from controlling Gaza, “either civilly or militarily.” A joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence agency, said that “several buildings in the heart of Gaza City that served as a hideout for [Odeh] were attacked, after months of intelligence surveillance in order to track his movements…
Former British Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair has accused his own Labour Party of being out of touch with reality and failing to understand the political realities facing the UK, such as the need to abandon the net-zero green agenda and to improve relations with U.S. President Donald Trump. Agreeing many of the core critiques of the left-wing Labour Party government of Sir Keir Starmer made by those on the populist right, Sir Tony urged his party to grapple the hard truth that their “Quixotic” fantasist policies have failed and that what is needed more than a leadership change is…
Washington seeks to create military blocs similar to NATO in the Asia-Pacific region, Sergey Shoigu has warned Australia could host American nuclear weapons at some point, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has warned. Washington is also eyeing Japan and South Korea as deployment options, he told a Russia-ASEAN meeting on Wednesday.The US military could deploy Typhon missile systems in southwestern Japan for the Valiant Shield and Orient Shield joint exercises as early as next month. The systems are specifically designed to fire nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles. The Japanese embassy in Moscow has stated that the Typhon system would be “stored”…
Canada and the Bahamas announced on Tuesday temporary travel bans on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda, and South Sudan due to the ongoing Ebola outbreak. On the same day, Thailand announced a mandatory 21-day quarantine period for travelers from the DRC and Uganda. Canada banned entry by residents of all three countries for the next 90 days, while the Bahamas imposed travel restrictions for 30 days. Canadian officials said that even travelers whose documents were previously approved will not be permitted to enter Canada until the 90-day period has elapsed, and no new immigration applications from the…
A criminal investigation has been launched by the Department of Justice (DOJ) into E. Jean Carroll, the sometime magazine columnist who accused U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s, a report Wednesday set out citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter. The probe is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury in testimony tied to two civil lawsuits she triumphed in against Trump – one linked to her allegations he sexually abused her in a New York department store and another over defamation in 2019, said the source as first reported by CNN. Trump has denied all wrongdoing…
A UK school curriculum is pushing critical race theory in an initiative likely to incite more hatred than it resolves Students are being taught that black people cannot be racist towards white people as part of an educational initiative aimed at, yes, countering racism.According to teaching materials adopted by a group of Sheffield schools and introduced by Notre Dame High School, teenagers are explicitly taught: “Black people can be racially prejudiced towards a white person which is wrong and totally unacceptable. However, this is not racism. Racism is racial prejudice plus power. In the UK, white people hold the cultural…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently arrested Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, daughter of General Ulises Rosales del Toro, a longtime key figure of the communist Castro regime. ICE sources confirmed to Martí Noticias on Tuesday that Rosales Aguirreurreta, who is a doctor according to past statements from her family, was arrested in Florida. Her 84-year-old father, General Rosales del Toro, is widely described as part of the Cuban regime’s “old guard.” While keeping a relatively low profile from the public, the Cuban general has reportedly exerted significant political and military power in Cuba throughout the years thanks to his deep ties with both late…
U.S. courts sentenced 40 year-old Canadian national Ramanan Pathmanathan to 33 years in federal prison for his role in a harrowing, years-long sexual extortion scheme that targeted more than 100 children in the United States, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced on Wednesday. Between 2014 and up until his arrest on March 10, 2021, Pathmanathan, a resident of Toronto, used multiple social media accounts to prey on at least 145 minor girls and boys — some as early as six years old — in what Pirro described in an official statement as a “prolific sextortion scheme”…
Israeli forces on Wednesday confirmed the killing of Hamas military chief Mohammed Odeh — the former head of the terror group’s intelligence apparatus and one of the architects behind the October 7 massacre — just 11 days after Israel eliminated his predecessor, as Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that every participant in the attack is now “marked for death.” Katz confirmed Odeh’s elimination Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the previous night that the Jewish state had targeted the Hamas commander in a strike carried out by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet following months of…
Pyongyang is seeking to update its “war deterrence” with new high-tech munitions adapted to “modern warfare” North Korea has tested newly-developed missile launch and tactical cruise missile systems equipped with precision AI guidance, KCNA state news agency reported on Wednesday.The drills, carried out on Tuesday, assessed the power of a tactical ballistic missile’s specialized warhead and the reliability of an AI-guided 240mm artillery rocket, as well as the accuracy of a new AI-guided tactical cruise missile, the agency said.The new North Korean cruise missile’s “tactical cruising shell” has a combination of autonomous navigation and TERCOM (terrain contour matching) navigation systems,…