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Ex-FBI boss questioned by Secret Service over seashell post linked to Trump

WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey was interviewed by the U.S. Secret Service on Friday after posting — and then deleting — a photo on Instagram that sparked outrage among Republicans, who interpreted it as a veiled threat against US President Donald Trump.The image, which showed seashells arranged to spell "8647," was shared on Comey’s account with the caption, “Cool shell formation,” before being removed hours later.The number "86" is sometimes used as slang for "eliminate" or "kill," while "47" is a reference to Trump, the 47th president of the United States.Comey voluntarily met with Secret Service agents for roughly an hour at the agency’s Washington headquarters. He was not detained and has not been charged...

May 17, 2025

Ex-FBI boss questioned by Secret Service over seashell post linked to Trump

Israel launches major ground offensive in Gaza

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military has launched a sweeping new offensive in the Gaza Strip, marking a sharp escalation in the ongoing conflict.Dubbed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the campaign seeks to seize and hold strategic territory in the enclave.According to Hamas-run civil defense officials, Israeli airstrikes have killed around 250 people since Thursday.The IDF said it had struck over 150 targets in Gaza within 24 hours and vowed to continue operations “until Hamas is no longer a threat and all our hostages are home.”The operation was announced on the IDF’s Hebrew-language X account but not referenced by name in its English posts.The offensive comes amid mounting international pressure on Israel to restore the ceasefire and ease the...

May 17, 2025

Israel launches major ground offensive in Gaza

Nine killed in Russian drone strike on bus in Ukraine

KYIV — At least nine civilians were killed and seven others injured after a Russian drone strike targeted a minibus in the northeastern Ukrainian town of Bilopillia on Saturday, according to local officials.The attack comes just hours after Russia and Ukraine concluded their first direct peace talks since 2022.Sumy regional military head Oleh Hryhorov said the attack occurred at 6:17 a.m. local time, describing it as “inhumane.”Preliminary reports suggest the vehicle was hit by a Russian Lancet drone while en route to the regional capital.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the strike as “a deliberate killing of civilians,” asserting that Russian forces "could not help but understand what kind of vehicle they were hitting."The Russian government has not...

May 17, 2025

Nine killed in Russian drone strike on bus in Ukraine

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Mexico accuses MrBeast of misusing Mayan pyramid footage for commercial gain

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities have accused YouTube megastar MrBeast of exploiting ancient Mayan archaeological sites for profit in a recent viral video, saying the content violated the terms of a government-issued filming permit.The video, titled “I Explored 2000 Year Old Ancient Temples,” has racked up over 60 million views since its release on May 10.In it, MrBeast — whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson — explores restricted areas of the Calakmul and Chichén Itzá sites and promotes a chocolate product branded as a “Mayan dessert.”Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said while it had granted permission for filming, it did not authorize the footage for commercial advertising.Authorities claim the video includes “false assertions,” such as...

May 17, 2025

Mexico accuses MrBeast of misusing Mayan pyramid footage for commercial gain

A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia

Nearly 100 people killed in Israeli attack on north Gaza

JERUSALEM — Nearly 100 people, including children, have been killed in a large-scale Israeli ground, air and sea attack launched early Friday in north Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defense and residents have said.The civil defense said at least nine homes and tents housing civilians had been bombed overnight and it had received dozens of calls from people trapped.Witnesses also reported smoke bombs, artillery shelling and tanks in Beit Lahia.Israel's military said it was "operating to locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure sites" in north Gaza and had "eliminated several terrorists" over the past day.This marks the largest ground assault on north Gaza since Israel resumed its offensive in March.Basheer al-Ghandour, who fled Beit Lahia for Jabalia after the...

May 16, 2025

Nearly 100 people killed in Israeli attack on north Gaza

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, center, chairs a Turkey Russia Ukraine trilateral meeting at Dolmabahce Presidential Office in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday.

Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul kick off with lowered expectations

ISTANBUL — Ukraine and Russia began their meeting in Istanbul on Friday, the first attempt at a ceasefire negotiation in a format that also includes representatives of the US and Turkey.The head of Ukraine’s delegation Rustem Umerov said the Kyiv team already met with the US Special Representative Keith Kellogg, National Security Advisor to the UK Prime Minister Jonathan Powell, Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to the Federal Chancellor of Germany Günter Sautter and French President Emmanuel Macron's top diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne.Ukraine’s defense minister was accompanied by the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.Umerov said the sides coordinated their positions with their partners, and that "the Ukrainian side...

May 16, 2025

Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul kick off with lowered expectations

An israeli army vehicle is seen near the Israeli-Gaza border, 1 January 2025

Israeli proposal details possible plan to rule Gaza after Hamas

BRUSSELS — The Israeli government has on its table a proposal on creating a new entity from scratch in Gaza after it defeats Hamas, a document seen by Euronews dated December 2023 reveals.The proposal, in the form of a 32-page academic paper titled “Gaza Security and Recovery Program, How Should The Day After Look Like,” was authored by the Israel Defense and Security Forum — a group of over 35,000 Israeli security force reservists — and the well-established think tank Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.The study was presented to the Israeli government at an unknown date between its creation and now, and represents one of the future options currently under consideration by Israel for the Gaza Strip, according to officials who talked to Euronews.The proposal depicts...

May 16, 2025

Israeli proposal details possible plan to rule Gaza after Hamas

Less than half of the country's population are immunised against polio, a highly infectious disease

WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea

GENEVA — The World Health Organization has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign.Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the country's northeast.Less than half of the country's population is immunized against the potentially deadly disease, which is close to being wiped out but has recently resurfaced in some parts of the world."We have to do something about it and we have to do it immediately," said Sevil Huseynova, WHO's representative in Papua New Guinea, warning that the disease could spread beyond the country."We have to make maximum effort to get 100% [vaccination] coverage," Dr Huseynova said at...

May 16, 2025

WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes, in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, May 15, 2025

Israel ramps up strikes in Gaza, killing dozens, as Trump floats ‘freedom zone’

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military intensified operations across Gaza Thursday, killing more than 100 people, and pledged to continue bombings as US President Donald Trump suggested establishing a “freedom zone” in the enclave.Many of the casualties were in Jabalya in northern Gaza and in Khan Younis in the south, according to Gaza Civil Defense.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to eradicate Hamas with a strategy that would see the military hold more territory in Gaza and push the entire civilian population into a smaller area in the south.“There will be no in-and-out,” Netanyahu said earlier this month. “We’ll call up reserves to come, hold territory – we’re not going to enter and then exit the area, only to carry out raids afterward.”The intensified...

May 16, 2025

Israel ramps up strikes in Gaza, killing dozens, as Trump floats ‘freedom zone’

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, center, embarks on a flight at Berlin's Schönefeld Airport on Friday, en route to Tirana for the European Political Community Summit.

German leader threatens Russia with fresh sanctions over no-show at Istanbul talks

BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in the wrong for not attending Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul, and pledged to slap fresh sanctions on Moscow.The talks are beginning on Friday and mark the first time the warring sides have held direct talks at any level since soon after Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Putin snubbed the talks and sent a low-level Russian delegation to attend in his place.The German chancellor has pledged a fresh sanctions package against Moscow over Putin’s no-show. “The fact that President Zelenskyy traveled to Turkey despite this is an enormous gesture. Putin didn’t show up – and that put him in the wrong,” Merz wrote on X.“A new sanctions package is ready. We will adopt it in...

May 16, 2025

German leader threatens Russia with fresh sanctions over no-show at Istanbul talks

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