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The sanctions imposed on the island nation by Washington are incompatible with international human rights law, according to Volker Turk Children in Cuba are dying amid acute shortages of essential medical supplies caused by US-imposed economic sanctions, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said.The island nation has endured daily blackouts and severe fuel deficits in recent months after Venezuela, once Havana’s main oil supplier, stopped crude shipments under pressure from the US in early 2026. This was preceded by the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by American commandos in January.US President Donald Trump has since…

Bedlam broke out in Belfast on Tuesday evening as protests turned violent and rioters set fires to vehicles and homes in the wake of an apparent beheading attempt allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese migrant. Horrific footage of the stabbing attack on Monday evening, in which a man was seen repeatedly stabbing another man’s neck, inflamed tensions in Northern Ireland, which had previously been the site of anti-mass migration. On Tuesday morning, police announced that they had arrested a man in his 30s from Sudan who had been granted leave to remain status by the UK Home Office after being granted in 2023,…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced new U.S. sanctions Monday against more than 100 members of Nicaragua’s communist regime in response to the death of 73-year-old political prisoner Brooklyn Rivera, who died in state custody last week. Rivera died in unclear circumstances nearly three years after being arrested and subjected to conditions of forced disappearance since 2023. He was shown in a dramatically critical health condition by the ruling communists days before his death. In an official statement, Rubio said that the United States will not ignore the Nicaraguan regime’s responsibility for the “horrific death” of Rivera. Rubio accused…

Republicans just solved an immediate crisis with a party-line vote to fund immigration enforcement agencies into 2029. But that hardly improves the chances of avoiding a shutdown for the rest of the government. Lawmakers in both parties say the odds of another federal funding lapse are unimproved, if not heightened, by the GOP’s move to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration and border security efforts for three years through the party-line budget reconciliation process. The Sept. 30 government shutdown deadline, less than four months away, hits just weeks before the November elections that will determine which party controls the House and…

President Donald Trump’s explanation for the latest escalation “doesn’t make sense,” Larry Johnson has told RT The US and Israel carried out their latest strikes on Iran and Lebanon in a deliberate effort to sabotage the ongoing peace talks, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has told RT.On Wednesday local time, the US struck Qeshm Island and targets in southern Iran in response to the crash of a US AH-64 Apache attack helicopter off the coast of Oman – an incident US President Donald Trump blamed on Iran. Tehran, however, has refused to confirm that it was responsible for the crash.…

Apostolic Nuncio Paolo Borgia on Monday visited several villages in southeastern Lebanon whose residents have refused to leave, despite the ongoing battle between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah. Borgia has visited the region several times during the current conflict, which Hezbollah launched by attacking Israel from Lebanese soil in March. The nuncio does not limit his visits to majority-Christian communities. “The war has severe consequences for villages — whether Christian, mixed, or Muslim. Many people have been forced to leave their homes,” the archbishop noted when visiting the conflict zone in March. “There is much suffering in the…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to arrest illegal aliens convicted of armed assault, terroristic threats, theft, and drug crimes. “Yesterday, the brave men and women of ICE were hard at work arresting dangerous criminal illegal aliens, including those convicted for aggravated assault with a weapon, battery, making a terrorist threat, and drug trafficking,” the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Lauren Bis said. She continued: We are fulfilling the President’s mandate from the American people to remove criminals from our country. Despite the threats, doxing, and harassment from anti-ICE rioters and smears from sanctuary politicians, ICE will not slow down…

CENTCOM described the attacks as “a proportional response” to the alleged downing of an AH-64 Apache The US said it has launched strikes in Iran in response to what it described as the downing of an American AH-64 Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said US President Donald Trump had ordered “self-defense strikes… in response to yesterday’s downing of a US Army Apache helicopter.”“The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” CENTCOM said in a statement on X.Iranian broadcaster Press TV reported that several projectiles struck the strategic island of Qeshm near the…

U.S. forces launched strikes against Iranian military targets Tuesday after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for downing a U.S. Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions despite ongoing negotiations aimed at securing a broader agreement between Washington and Tehran. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said its forces began carrying out “self-defense strikes” at President Trump’s direction at approximately 5 p.m. Eastern time in response to Monday’s downing of the helicopter, describing the operation as “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.” U.S. officials said the strikes targeted Iranian radar, air-defense, and command-and-control infrastructure around the Strait of Hormuz…

Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson debuted 50 of 1000 planned tiny homes for homeless residents on Sunday, as the city works to manage its homelessness problem ahead of the World Cup.  Twenty-five more are expected to be completed by the end of the month. Wilson said homeless people will not be required to be sober or undergo addiction or recovery treatment to live there, KOMO reported. “The process of recovery is really complicated and difficult, and so we’re not demanding that people be abstinent when they enter this village,” the 43-year-old mayor said: Wilson admitted that the city had failed…