At Tel Aviv event, president thanks EU envoy for 'tremendous' efforts to improve ties, which have been rocky over past few years over settlements, Iran nuclear deal

Attorney General William Barr joked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi about Democrats’ calls for his arrest, asking the California Democrat whether she brought handcuffs to an event on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning, one week after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Barr in contempt over subpoenas related to the Mueller report.
“As those seated on the platform waited for the president’s arrival in an adjacent tent,” an onlooker described, “Attorney General Barr approached Speaker Pelosi, shook her hand and said loudly, ‘Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?'”

Washington – Attorney General William Barr tried out a little contempt humor on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with interesting results. The setting was the National Peace Officers Memorial Day service Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol. Barr and Pelosi were in the crowd waiting for President Donald Trump to arrive. Barr approached Pelosi, shook her hand [...]

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that 10,000 Palestinians were demonstrating along the Gaza border for “Nakba day” (Arabic for “catastrophe”), commemorating the 700,000 Palestinians who were dispossessed from their homes after fleeing or being expelled during the war surrounding Israel’s establishment in 1948.
According to the IDF, several attempts were made to breach the border fence, while some demonstrators threw explosive devices at the fence.
Gaza’s health ministry said 60 Palestinians were injured in clashes with IDF.
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Some 10,000 Palestinians demonstrated along security fence but the IDF, with a stricter open-fire policy, and Hamas, which patrolled the border, largely kept the peace

Tehran, Iran – The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday: “We are on the cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy,” the Fars news agency reported. Major General Hossein Salami, named head of the force last month, added: “This moment in history, because the enemy has stepped into the field of [...]

Amid simmering tensions in Gulf, Hossein Salami says 'this moment in history is the most decisive moment of the Islamic revolution'; Rouhani: US engaged in 'crime against humanity'

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Warsaw – Poland’s religious and political leaders should unequivocally condemn antisemitic behavior following a number of troubling events in the country, the head of the World Jewish Congress wrote on Wednesday. Ronald S. Lauder criticized “the sight of protesters on the streets of Warsaw chanting anti-Jewish and anti-American slogans”, and the burning of an effigy [...]