French President Emmanuel Macron has reacted with outrage to an Israeli airstrike near Rafah in the Gaza Strip that left at least 35 people dead. “These operations must stop,” Macron wrote on the social media platform X on Monday. “There are no safe zones for Palestinian civilians in Rafah.” He was outraged, Macron wrote, and […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s foreign minister condemned as “scandalous and execrable” a video posted by his Israeli counterpart suggesting Hamas would be grateful to Spain, in a growing spat between the two countries over the Gaza war. Spain last week announced it would recognise Palestine as a state and in recent days two Spanish government […]
The European Council President Chares Michel has condemned Russia’s “attrocious” airstrike on a DIY store in Kharkiv, Ukraine. “The Russian strike on a Kharkiv supermarket is atrocious,” Michel said on X. While Michel mentions a supermarket, the site has been described as the “Epicentr hypermarket” in reporting, possibly leading to confusion. “Russia’s efforts to terrorize […]
The House passed a resolution on Friday condemning calls to defund the police. 61 House Democrats voted against it. The resolution also blamed progressive policies for an uptick in violence against cops. The House of Representatives easily passed a resolution by a 337-61 margin on Friday that condemned calls to defund the police and blamed progressive […]
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili has said that a “foreign influence” Bill passed by parliament that critics have called a threat to free speech is “unacceptable”. In an interview with the Associated Press, Ms Zourabichvili criticised the ruling Georgian Dream party for pushing the Bill, which is widely seen as a threat to Georgia’s aspirations to […]
The German government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, has condemned the protests against Israel’s participation in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend. “It is a common anti-Semitic trait to hold Israelis collectively liable for the actions of their government or their army, which they themselves often condemn,” he told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper. […]
President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. “We’re at risk of […]
Egypt has condemned the Israeli military operations in the Palestinian city of Rafah and its control over the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing, a foreign ministry statement released on Tuesday said. It considered the move “a dangerous escalation threatening the lives of more than 1 million Palestinians who depend mainly on this crossing […]
President Joe Biden on Thursday urged that “order must prevail” as pro-Palestinian protests rock college campuses across the country, emphasizing that violent protest is not protected under the law. Breaking days of silence on the issue since the arrests of students and other protesters at Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, […]
Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amirabdollahian has condemned planned sanctions against his country over the major drone and missile attack on Israel earlier this month as “unlawful” and “regrettable.” Iran had exercised its right to self-defence with the attack, Amirabdollahian wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. He called for sanctions to be imposed against Israel. […]
Apr. 20—LEWISTON — The city’s code enforcement department condemned the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center at 490 Pleasant St., according to officials. Jon Connor, Lewiston’s new director of planning and code enforcement, said the building was condemned due to several violations that were brought to the business owner’s attention earlier this month and have since […]
The European Union condemned Iran’s direct aerial attack on Israel in the “strongest terms” on Sunday. “This is an unprecedented escalation and a threat to regional security,” the bloc’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said on behalf of the EU on Sunday. “We call on all parties to exercise utmost restraint.” In this highly tense regional […]