Netanyahu hails Jerusalem's participation as 'another expression of Israel's rising status in the world and the region'

Baltimore, MD – Federal agents executed search warrants Thursday morning at two homes belonging to Baltimore’s embattled mayor and at City Hall. Dave Fitz, an FBI spokesman out of the agency’s Baltimore office, says agents with the FBI and the IRS criminal division in Washington were “executing court-authorized search warrants” at “both residences and City [...]

An 18-year-old Breslov Yeshiva Bochur R”L drowned in the Kinneret, on the last day of Chol Hamoed (Thursday).
Ariel Dovid Koslovsky Z”L, a resident of Mintz Street in Jerusalem, reportedly went swimming with two other boys in an unsupervised area of the Shikmim Beach.

FBI and IRS agents raided the homes and offices of Baltimore’s embattled mayor on Thursday amid widening probes to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks.
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Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed during their first summit Thursday he is willing to give up his nuclear weapons — but only if he gets an ironclad guarantee of security beforehand. The Russian president stressed that Moscow and Washington both want North Korea to abandon its [...]

U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) will apparently not be meeting directly with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu during his trip to the Jewish state this week, reported The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
Netanyahu will also not meet with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is traveling with Romney, according to TOI.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met today in Vladivostok, Russia, for the very first summit between the two leaders, The Guardian reports.
Kim reportedly praised Putin when his train first rolled into Khasan, saying, “I have heard a lot of good things about your country and wanted to visit it for a long time… Seven years have passed since I took charge of the country, but I did not have a chance to visit Russia until now.” The North Korean leader also told Russia’s state-owned Rossiya-24 that he’d like to reach a “settlement of the situation in the Korean Peninsula” and hoped the visit would be “successful and useful.”

United nations – U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon have confirmed the existence of a third cross-border tunnel, out of six the Israeli military said it discovered in the area last year. The force known as UNIFIL says the tunnels violate a cease-fire resolution that ended a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. It said [...]