Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Philippines mulls pullout of Syria peacekeepers The Philippine foreign secretary says he is recommending to President Benigno Aquino III to pull out all Filipino U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights following the abduction of four by Syrian rebels. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
N.Korea threatens retaliation if U.S. tightens sanctions monitoring U.S. officials have recently expressed concern about growing military ties between North Korea and Iran, which also supports the Russian invasion. On Wednesday, KCNA reported that a delegation led by ... 04/25/2024 - 12:39 am | View Link
U.S Threatens Pakistan Of ‘Sanctions’, Advises Sharif Govt To Avoid Business Deals With Iran The United States issued a stern warning to Islamabad after Pakistan and Iran signed eight MOUs and also agreed to push bilateral trade to $10 billion. Warning came after a Pakistani Government ... 04/23/2024 - 10:24 pm | View Link
Iran Threatens to Annihilate Israel Should It Launch a Major Attack DUBAI (Reuters) - An Israeli attack on Iranian territory could radically change dynamics and result in there being nothing left of the "Zionist regime", Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was quoted as ... 04/23/2024 - 3:19 am | View Link
Iran Proxy Kataib Hezbollah Fires Rockets At U.S Military Base In Syria, Threatens ‘More To Come’ Day after Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani returns from Washington after meeting President Joe Biden at the White House, a U.S military base in northern Syria was targeted by Iran proxy ... 04/21/2024 - 6:48 pm | View Link
Police cordon off Iran consulate in Paris after reports man threatens to blow himself up PARIS (Reuters) -French police cordoned off the Iranian consulate in Paris on Friday following reports that a man was threatening to blow himself up there. 04/19/2024 - 1:13 am | View Link
“Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote,” Bloomberg reports.
“Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main opposition candidate Akiko Kamei defeat the Liberal Democratic Party’s Norimasa Nishikori by about 83,000 votes to 58,000 in what had been a party stronghold in Shimane prefecture.”
“Rishi Sunak has spent 18 months as prime minister fending off internal Conservative Party criticism and rumors of plots to oust him. So far it’s come to nothing — though his team is taking nothing for granted this week,” Bloomberg reports.
“His critics on the Tory right have spent months gearing up for Thursday’s local and mayoral elections across England as their final chance to oust Sunak.
This is wild stuff.
Thank you, Larry Smoot.
Holotile is being developed by Lanny Smoot, the Disney Research Fellow, and Imagineer behind special effects used in the Haunted Mansion and Star Wars lightsabers. Disney announced Smoot is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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TEL AVIV, Israel — The White House on Sunday said U. S. President Joe Biden had again spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pressure builds on Israel and Hamas to reach a deal that would free some Israeli hostages and bring a cease-fire in the nearly seven-month-long war in Gaza.
The White House said that Biden reiterated his “clear position” as Israel plans to invade Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah despite global concern for more than 1 million Palestinians sheltering there.