Denmark – Police in Denmark arrested a man suspected of stabbing a Jewish communal leader in Sweden. The arrest Wednesday followed the issuing of a warrant for the suspect’s arrest for attempted murder on Tuesday in Helsingborg in southern Sweden, the Helsinborgs Dagblad reported. The victim, a woman in her 60s, sustained critical injuries and [...]

Baghdad – Washington ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq on Wednesday, after repeated U.S. expressions of concern about threats from Iranian-backed forces. The U.S. State Department has ordered the pullout of the employees from both the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil, the embassy said in a statement. “Normal [...]

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday sent a letter to leaders of Yahadut HaTorah following their request to prevent chillul Shabbos during the Eurovision Song Contest this coming weekend to reassure them that the contest is not government run and the government does not sanction chillul Shabbos.
“I would like to make it clear that the Eurovision Song Contest is a singular international event set in advance by international standards that are not under government control and are managed exclusively by the public broadcasting corporation and not by the government,” Netanyahu wrote.

International worries that the Trump administration is sliding toward war with Iran flared into the open amid skepticism about its claims that the Islamic Republic poses a growing threat to the U.S.

Money laundering suspect Tal Prihar sold khat and cannabis to Israelis; bank fraud suspect Ravid Yosef gave dating advice to Angelenos

The House Intelligence Committee has called four lawyers linked to President Donald Trump and his family for interviews as part of an investigation into whether they tried to obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference.
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San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in the U.S. to ban the use of facial-recognition software by city agencies and the police, dealing a swift symbolic blow to a key technology rapidly being deployed by law enforcement nationwide.
The 8-to-1 vote by the city’s Board of Supervisors will forbid public agencies from using the artificial-intelligence software to find the identity of someone based on a video clip or photograph. Privacy and civil-rights advocates have worried that the capability could be misused for mass surveillance and possibly lead to more false arrests.

Boaz Harpaz gets 220 community service hours; prosecutors note his lost job prospects and nine years of legal proceedings in justifying leniency

Four police officers traveling in President Trump’s motorcade were involved in a crash on Tuesday in Louisiana.
Three of the four cops on motorcycles involved in the crash were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries, the US Secret Service said.
The injured officers were from the Westlake Police Department, Sulfur Police Department, and the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office, according to the Secret Service.
It’s unclear what caused the crash.
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