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Russia’s company on Svalbard, Trust Arktikugol, has recently entered into a strategic partnership with a university in Arkhangelsk. The company will actively develop a research station together with the BRICS states and needs support in this work, says the director

Astonishingly (although unsurprisingly), the NYT somehow managed to find the “evil hand of Putin” behind all this with claims that “in the short term, that threatens to reinforce Putin’s propaganda and giving fuel to his false claims that Ukraine must be ‘de-Nazified’ — a position that ignores the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish”.

Non-oil trade between Iran and several BRICS nations has increased last year

Contradicting the latest narrative, Kiev’s officials have previously revealed their intention to destroy the dam.

The specter of anti-Russian nationalism haunts Europe: Russophobic discourse and the rewriting of history is used today both in Ukraine and Poland as a pretext to persecute and even outlaw dissent.

On Tuesday, tragedy struck Richmond, Virginia at the Huguenot High School graduation ceremony when two people were killed and five were injured in a shooting. At around 5:15 p.m. outside of the Altria Theater, where the ceremony was being held, shots rang out, sending the graduates and families into a frenzy. Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards announced that a 19-year-old has been apprehended and will be charged with second-degree murder.

The deceased were an 18-year-old graduate and a 36-year-old attendee of the ceremony. The other victims included a 14-year-old boy and four men aged 31, 32, 55, and 58. The 31-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries and the other four were reported to be in stable condition. In addition, more than a dozen people were hurt or treated for panic attacks due to the chaos. Witnesses said they heard around 30 shots and four firearms were recovered at the scene.

John Willard, a neighbor from the 18th floor of a nearby apartment, remembered seeing people running and parents embracing their children tightly. Mayor Levar Stoney promised the police would do all within their power to bring those responsible to justice.

In response, the Richmond school district cancelled all high school graduations for the week and shut all schools on Wednesday. School board member Jonathan Roung described the scene as a “stampede” of people returning to the building. Superintendent Jason Kamras expressed his distress at seeing “our kids get shot” and begged for the community to end the violence.

“I can tell you that if you ask Harris what she’s actually opposed to in the reform, she won’t be able to answer,” said Foreign Minister Eli Cohen.

By World Israel News Staff

During an event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, Vice President Kamala Harris made a dig at potential reforms to Israel’s judicial system and insinuated that Israel’s court should remain in its current form.

“Under President Joe Biden and our administration, America will continue to stand for the values that have been the bedrock of the U.S.-Israel relationship, which include continuing to strengthen our democracies, which… are both built on strong institutions, checks and balances — and I’ll add an independent judiciary,” Harris said to a crowd of thousands in Washington, D.C. on Monday evening.

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman, a prominent legal scholar who drafted much of the framework for the reforms, was seated in the audience when Harris made the remarks. He did not applaud after the statement referring to the independent judiciary.

In an interview with radio station Kan Reshet Bet on Wednesday morning, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen responded to Harris’ comments. “I can tell you that if you ask her what she’s actually opposed to in the reform, she won’t be able to answer,” he said.

Cohen said during a recent trip to Washington, “I heard comments from [Biden administration] officials [against the reform.] I asked them, ‘What exactly bothers you [about the legislation]?’ And no one knew what to tell me.

“I don’t know if [Harris] actually read the laws. My assessment is that she did not.”

The Biden administration has repeatedly expressed its disapproval of the floated changes to Israel’s legal system, much to the chagrin of some American lawmakers and Israeli politicians.

Biden told media that he was “very concerned” about the reforms and insinuated that he was refusing to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House due to the ongoing legislation.

The U.S. government has also reportedly funded numerous protest groups involved in organizing the ongoing demonstrations aimed at stopping the reforms and bringing down the current ruling coalition.

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Why Do We Elect Politicians and Governments that Wage War on Sovereign States?

By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, June 06, 2023

The people and their citizens are deprived of the management of their own affairs, the determination of their own …

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The statement from the U.S. did not mention the circumstances in which Tamimi had been shot, nor did it acknowledge that the firefight was initiated by terrorists.

By World Israel News Staff

The Biden administration issued a statement placing the onus of responsibility for the shooting death of a Palestinian toddler during a firefight between terrorists and IDF troops onto Israel in a statement calling for Jerusalem to reevaluate its use-of-force policies.

“We express our condolences to the family of Mohammed Tamimi. We urge Israel to evaluate all use of deadly force that involves civilian casualties and we call on Israeli and Palestinian leadership to take responsible actions to end the conflict,” the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs said in a statement.

Notably, the statement from the U.S. did not mention the circumstances in which Tamimi had been shot, nor did it acknowledge that the firefight was initiated by terrorists.

Last week, two-year-old Mohammed Tamimi and his father, Haitham, were accidentally shot by Israeli soldiers after terrorists fired on a checkpoint near the Jewish community of Neve Tzuf in Samaria.

Initial reports suggested that the pair were shot by terrorists, but the IDF has since acknowledged responsibility for the shooting. The father and son were sitting in a car close to where the terrorists had begun shooting at troops and were struck by errant shots from the IDF as they returned fire.

Haitham Tammimi was rushed to a local hospital near Ramallah, and Mohammed was airlifted to Sheba Hospital in Ramat Gan. After several days in intensive care, the toddler died on Monday.

State Department Spokesman Vedant Patel did not mention that the shooting occurred during a firefight with terrorists, who chose to shoot at troops while they were surrounded by civilians.

“It’s our understanding that the IDF is investigating the incident, and broadly speaking, we urge investigations into any operations that result in civilian casualties,” Patel said on Tuesday at a press briefing.

The Israeli military told the Times of Israel that it was launching a thorough review of troops’ actions and the circumstances surrounding Tamimi’s death.

“The incident is being investigated in depth,” the IDF said. “At the end of the inquiry and taking into account its findings, a decision will be made regarding the opening of a probe.”

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There have been 91 deaths in the Arab community so far this year, as opposed to 106 for all of 2022.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

The police officer in charge of Arab sector crime tendered his resignation Tuesday as an upsurge in Arab-on-Arab violence has swept the country.

Superintendent Natan Bozna, 60, requested to retire, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai accepted his request, with a police statement saying he would finish his duties “in the coming months.”

The request comes a day after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir decided, in a meeting with the senior police echelon, to appoint a special project manager within the next two weeks to deal with serious crime and murder cases in the Arab community. The person chosen would be directly answerable to Bozna and the police commissioner.

“I intend to put the fight against crime and the murders in Arab society at the top of the priorities of the ministry of national security,” Ben-Gvir said. “I also intend to allocate enormous resources for this purpose by putting police officers in the field, raising police salaries and establishing the National Guard.”

Ben-Gvir had come into office vowing to eradicate lawlessness all over the country. It is unclear as yet what will happen with the current division Bozna was heading, with the ministry saying it will remain in place and several media reports saying it will be closed down.

“Unfortunately, the resigning deputy commissioner did not succeed in his mission – long before I took office – and even wanted to be promoted, when professional recommendations, especially considering the current situation, did not warrant such a move.”

The 40-year veteran of the force had taken on his post last year. The assessment is that being informed of his non-promotion in the next round of senior police appointments was the trigger for his decision.

There have been 91 deaths in the Arab community so far this year, in comparison with 106 for all of 2022 – which was considered very high at the time. Much of the deadly violence, the vast majority by gunfire, has been blamed on organized crime. Only in nine cases did the police manage to gather enough evidence to indict someone for the murders.

While acknowledging the seriousness of the situation, a senior police official told Ynet that the police have also managed to prevent 29 murders “that were a minute away from being committed, with the bullet already in the chamber on its way to the liquidation.”

According to a Channel 13 report, Bozna had complained to colleagues that his department, launched in early 2021 with great fanfare by then-Justice Minister Amir Ohana (Likud), “had been established without teeth.” He also slammed Ben-Gvir for “not visiting it even once.”

Ohana had said that the new department would recruit more Muslim police officers, build more police stations in the Arab sector, and have a “conflict desk” that would map out points of conflict and be proactive about “putting out fires before they start.” He also envisioned “a board of local leaders, of religious people, of leaders of public opinion, which will work together with the police to prevent these conflicts.”

The soaring murder rate even led Opposition Arab MKs to agree to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, bearing a long list of demands as to how to combat the phenomenon. Netanyahu announced afterwards that a special ministerial committee would be formed under his personal aegis to fight the rising crime in their sector.

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