New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up at the 25th anniversary 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero on Friday despite a petition signed by more than 110,000 people, and the families who lost loved ones in the Twin Towers were not shy about telling him he was unwelcome. Mourners at the memorial in Lower Manhattan […] The post Mamdani defies 9/11 families, attends Ground Zero ceremony over mourners' objections appeared first on American Almanac .
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up at the 25th anniversary 9/11 remembrance at Ground Zero on Friday despite a petition signed by more than 110,000 people, and the families who lost loved ones in the Twin Towers were not shy about telling him he was unwelcome. Mourners at the memorial in Lower Manhattan told Fox News Digital they found the mayor's presence disrespectful and offensive, citing his association with streamer Hasan Piker, who once said America "deserved 9/11", and his appointment of Ramzi Kassem, an attorney who previously represented a Guantánamo detainee linked to an al Qaeda terrorist plot, as his administration's chief counsel. Walter Matuza, a Staten Island resident whose father was killed on September 11,…Open
Christian communities in Nigeria are increasingly accusing members of the government and security services of negligence or even complicity in the escalating violence against Christians. Photos by Nigerian journalist Paul. Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews [...]
A new report alleges that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed direct warnings from leaders in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about an imminent Hamas attack just days before the October 7 massacre.
A new report alleges that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed direct warnings from leaders in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) about an imminent Hamas attack just days before the October 7 massacre. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly dismissed explicit warnings from United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel about a major Hamas operation just days before the October 7, 2023, terror raids. The warnings, conveyed in late September and early October, allegedly highlighted plans by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar for a significant attack, referred to as a “terrifying operation.” DETAIL: According to a report…Open
The government insisted the funeral was a private affair, even as government ministers attended and state-controlled news media lavished praise on the convicted war criminal.
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian-Serb general who orchestrated the Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo during the Balkan wars, has died aged 84. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
Ratko Mladic, infamous for his role in the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, has died at 83.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Ratko Mladic, the former Yugoslav army and Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” has died in a United Nations (UN) prison hospital in The Hague at the age of 83. He was serving a life sentence, principally for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War, in which up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. The son of a communist partisan fighter and a career member of the League of Communists, Mladic previously denied being a Serbian nationalist, despite leading Serb forces against Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Croat forces during the war, stating in 1991, “I serve the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia with my brother officers, in order to…Open
A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II.
The incident took place Sunday in the peaceful commune Kenscoff, located near the nation's capital. The massacre included the execution of 22 people who were found in a church compound.
