WASHINGTON—A U.S. Coast Guard ship fired about 30 warning shots after 13 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came close to it and other American Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Pentagon said on Monday. This is the second time within the last month that U.S. military vessels have had…
US Military Ship Fires 30 Warning Shots After Encounter With Iranian Vessels
WHO Approves Emergency Use Listing for China’s Sinopharm CCP Virus Vaccine
May 7, 2021
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday approved China’s state-owned Sinopharm CCP virus vaccine for emergency use for adults over 18. This comes despite concerns raised by a separate group of WHO experts who said they had “very low confidence” regarding the risk of serious side-effects in some patients. The Sinopharm jab’s inclusion on the…
General Says US May Train Afghan Forces in Other Countries
WASHINGTON—The U.S. military may continue to train Afghan security forces, but do it in other countries after American forces leave Afghanistan, the top U.S. military officer said Thursday, calling it one of several options the Pentagon is considering. Speaking at a Pentagon press conference, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also…
Norway Sentences Woman for Supporting ISIS by Being Homemaker
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—A 30-year-old Norwegian woman who was repatriated by Norway from a refugee camp in Syria because her son was sick was sentenced Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in prison by an Oslo court for participating in the ISIS terrorist group. The case was a first in Norway. Oslo District Court Judge Ingemar Nestor Nilsen…
Netanyahu Fails in Latest Attempt to Form Israeli Government
JERUSALEM—Benjamin Netanyahu’s deadline for forming a new Israeli government expired early on Wednesday, with the country’s longest-serving prime minister having failed to break more than two years of political deadlock. There was also no guarantee that, after the conservative incumbent was unable to assemble a new coalition, parties outside his caretaker government could bridge their…
Senior Swiss Diplomat in Iran Found Dead After Fall From High-Rise
DUBAI—The first secretary at the Swiss embassy in Tehran was found dead on Tuesday after falling from a high-rise building where she lived in the north of the city, a spokesman for emergency services was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies. The Swiss foreign ministry (FDFA) said an employee at its embassy in Iran…
Iran Shouldn’t Use British Nationals as ‘Political Leverage,’ Says UK Minister
The Iranian regime shouldn’t use British dual nationals as “political leverage,” a British minister said on Monday. James Cleverly, Britain’s Foreign Office minister for Middle East and North Africa, said that the incarceration of British-Iranian nationals such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is “completely unacceptable and inappropriate” and should be kept separate from ongoing legal disputes between the two…
Iran Shouldn’t Use British Nationals as ‘Political Leverage,’ UK’s Cleverly Says
The Iranian regime shouldn’t use British dual nationals as “political leverage,” a British minister said on Monday. James Cleverly, Britain’s Foreign Office minister for Middle East and North Africa, said that the incarceration of British-Iranian nationals such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is “completely unacceptable and inappropriate” and should be kept separate from ongoing legal disputes between the two…
State Department Denies Reports of Iran Prisoner Swap For $7 Billion In Unfrozen Funds
The United States and Iran have both denied reports that a prisoner swap deal has reached in exchange for the release of $7 billion frozen Iranian oil funds under U.S. sanctions. A Sunday report by Iranian state television cited anonymous “informed” sources claiming that Tehran would free four Americans accused of spying in exchange for four…
US Citizens Among Dozens Killed in Israeli Stampede
Multiple U.S. citizens were among the dozens killed and injured in a stampede at a religious festival in Israel, the U.S. Embassy said on Saturday. Forty-five people were crushed to death and more than 100 injured at the ultra-Orthodox Jewish festival on the slopes of Israel’s Mount Meron, held overnight between Thursday and Friday. Six…
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