Author: News Desk

Several of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, including Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin, faced bomb threats and “swatting” this week, the transition team said Wednesday. Threats occurred Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Law enforcement ensured safety swiftly, according to spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. Both Stefanik and Zeldin confirmed being targeted.

The US has imposed sanctions on 21 Venezuelan officials for their role in suppressing protests after a presidential election in July, a senior Washington official said on Wednesday. Among those targeted by the sanctions are members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s Cabinet, including Planning Minister Ricardo Jose Menedez and Communications Minister Freddy Alfred Nazaret, as well as top intelligence officials Alexis Jose Rodriguez and Javier Jose Marcano. Washington says Maduro falsely claimed victory in the vote and that opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez is the president-elect. “Maduro and his representatives’ repressive actions in the wake of the Venezuelan presidential election are a…

Singer Paloma Faith said the public’s donations for her charity clothes sale for Gaza and Lebanon “gives me hope that good people do exist”. The Only Love Can Hurt Like This star sold her clothes, bags and accessories, including a Halloween outfit she shared with Alan Carr, a Dolce and Gabbana denim jacket donated by rapper Eve, and silky pyjamas to raise money for Oxfam’s Gaza-Lebanon appeal. Paloma Faith sells her clothes to raise money for Gaza The 43-year-old offered fans the chance to purchase her stage and screen looks at a pop-up shop at The Gipsy Queen in Kentish…

President-elect Donald Trump said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop migration through Mexico”. In a post on his Truth Social account on Wednesday evening, Mr Trump said this was “effectively closing our Southern Border.” He called it a “very productive conversation!”. Trump says Mexican president has ‘agreed to stop migration’ The Mexican president confirmed that she spoke with Trump, calling it an “excellent conversation”. I told him the caravans are not reaching the northern (US) border, because Mexico is taking care of them. The announcement comes two days after Mr Trump threatened to impose sweeping new tariffs on…

The Palestinian cause lost one of its most active defenders before international judicial bodies. Gilles Devers, a lawyer from Lyon who helped bring this issue before the International Criminal Court (ICC), died on November 26 at the age of 68, after a long battle with illness. His death came five days after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since 2009, Devers had filed dozens of reports with the Court’s prosecutor’s office on behalf of Palestinian victims. His son, Manuel Devers, made…

The first time The World met him, he was wearing a Roman collar and a small silver cross pinned to his jacket pocket, and went by the name “Father Matthieu.” A year later, he was dressed in a hoodie, gray jeans and sneakers, his hair lightly tousled with gel and sporting stubble. At 39, he reclaimed his birth name, Matthieu Jasseron, after leaving the priesthood last summer. Just before our mid-November meeting at a Parisian café, he lit up a cigarette on the sidewalk, a little nervously. France’s best-known priest, with a million and a half followers on various social…

David Sánchez in Badajoz on November 5.José Luis Real. (EFE)The defense of David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government investigated for alleged irregularities in his hiring by the Badajoz Provincial Council, interprets the recent UCO report on the case as an opportunity to settle it. Emilio Cortés pointed out tonight in Hour 25 from the SER that the investigation by the Civil Guard, on which the judge has relied to charge Sánchez, clears up some of the accusations directed at his client, such as that he had enriched himself and owned 1.4 million shares of BBVA. “Confusing nothing…

The Ethics and Guarantees Commission took just 24 hours to suspend the primaries in Castilla y León Read A PSOE activist denounces that he has been waiting for 17 months for a response from Ferraz to a complaint about the "insults" from a fellow member of the ranks: "It is unworthy"

BVB hadn’t won away from home for more than two months until the Champions League game in Zagreb. The Croatians are making it easy for Dortmund to break this series. After the confident victory, the focus is on the top game in the Bundesliga on Saturday.Borussia Dortmund can still win away from home. BVB wins comfortably 3-0 at Dinamo Zagreb and has the best chance of qualifying directly for the round of 16 of the Champions League. Jamie Gittens, Ramy Bensebaini and Serhou Guirassy score an easy victory in Croatia. It is the first away win in more than two…

Russia is sending more and more troops to the front, Ukraine is lacking soldiers. US government advice: Kyiv should lower recruitment age. And also send 18 year olds to war. Ukraine War: US government advises Ukraine to recruit 18-year-olds