The attempted coup, which targeted the residence of Congolese politician Vital Kamerhe and the country’s presidential palace, was led by opposition leader Christian Malanga, who was killed in a gun battle between the armed putschists and the presidential guards, according to army spokesman General Sylvain Ekenge. Ekenge also claimed Malanga was a US citizen, though the State Department said later it had no records of him. ...
Khan said the ICC’s prosecution team is also seeking warrants for Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as two other top Hamas leaders — Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri, the leader of the Al Qassem Brigades who is better known as Mohammed Deif, and Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ political leader. The warrants against the Israeli politicians mark the first time the ICC has ...
People with small fat cells are more likely to gain weight when they’re older, according to scientists in Stockholm. Although you might not be able to tell from looking at them, some people have smaller fat cells than others, which shrink and grow as their weight fluctuates. To test how these different-sized cells impact weight over time, doctors at the ...
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Over the seven months since Hamas’s terrorist attack in Israel and Israel’s military response in Gaza, American opinions of the parties to the conflict and the U.S. government’s response have evolved in often subtle ways. New polling from YouGov, conducted for Yahoo News, offers a good example: Americans are now about equally likely to say that President Biden’s response to ...
Nearly 50 House Democrats called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases Tuesday, questioning whether the jurist could be impartial after an upside-down flag flew at his home in the weeks after the U.S. Capitol attack in 2021. Rep. Hank Johnson (Ga.), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, and 44 ...
PHOENIX — One by one, 11 Republicans who allegedly tried to deliver Arizona’s presidential electoral votes to Donald Trump after his 2020 defeat appeared in a downtown courthouse Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the same nine criminal counts, which include conspiracy, fraud and forgery. The day kicked off with Kelli Ward, the former state party chairwoman, and ended with ...
A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday unsealed two motions that were filed months ago by Donald Trump in his classified documents case and that she has not yet ruled on — part of a backlog that could delay the case beyond November’s presidential election. The long-shot motions claim the indictment should be dismissed because the government relied on improper ...
The Pentagon’s highly anticipated plan to deliver aid to suffering Palestinians via a floating pier off the Gaza Strip has encountered almost immediate logistical and security setbacks, officials said Tuesday, marking an inauspicious start to the mission intended to ease a severe humanitarian crisis there. After desperate people seized food destined for a United Nations warehouse over the weekend, U.S., ...
Donald Trump on Tuesday falsely claimed in a campaign fundraising email that President Biden was “locked & loaded ready to take me out” during a 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents, an extraordinary distortion of a standard FBI policy on the use of deadly force during such operations. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...