The discovery of Tsurkov's Israeli citizenship led to her being tortured. For the first four and a half months of captivity, her captors trussed and hung her from the ceiling, and sexually abused her
The organizations warned of what they described as growing efforts from the UN to deny Hamas’s weaponization of sexual violence against the hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, massacre.
Minnesota leaders push back after Trump escalates attacks on the state’s Somali community.
The list of countries targeted includes Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
“There is absolutely no constitutional or legal basis” for Trump to reverse pardons due to the use of an autopen, said Bernadette Meyler, a professor at Stanford Law School.
Several crates containing approximately 10,000 rounds of live pistol ammunition, 9,900 blank rounds of assault rifle ammunition, and an unspecified amount of smoke grenades were stolen.
The Trump administration launched an offensive on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in recent months, killing dozens through targeted missile strikes.
"There is still a lot of work to be done," Russian President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters at a briefing in the Kremlin.
The hunger strike began on November 2 to commemorate the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, with activists Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib refusing food.
The Russian defense ministry has since posted videos of soldiers in the “center” of Pokrovsk raising the Russian tricolor flag.
"The most radical solution is to cut Ukraine off from the sea, then piracy will be impossible in principle," Putin said in televised remarks.
