Moscow – the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation approved for the second reading amendments to the law on the forced expulsion of migrants from Russia. According to the amendments, the expulsion of foreigners will be replaced by fines, Interfax writes.
Israel is proposing writing off a significant chunk of Egypt’s international debts through the World Bank to entice the cash-strapped Abdel Fattah el-Sisi government to open its doors for displaced Palestinians, according to the Israeli Ynet website.
A new U.K. intelligence report points to a years-long “campaign of malicious cyber activity” against politicians, civil servants and journalists by Russian spies.
Right-wing Polish MP Grzegorz Braun will reportedly lose half of his parliamentary salary for three months as punishment for putting out a Hanukkah menorah in the Sejm with a fire extinguisher.
Israeli journalist Yinon Magal, “proudly” shared video of Israeli soldiers singing about wiping out the “seed of Amalek” in Gaza where there are no “uninvolved civilians.”
Speaking at the cultural forum in St. Petersburg, Putin said it’s required to show the life of the LGBTQ community when competing at cultural contests in Western countries, but added that they have the right to do so.
A sniper from the Security Service of Ukraine has set a world record for an effective shot which targeted and killed a Russian soldier almost four kilometers away. “The Security Service of Ukraine sniper accomplished an incredible shot at a distance of 3,800 meters, surpassing the previous record of 3,540 meters,” reported the state news outlet Ukrinform, citing sources within the Security Service of Ukraine.
We were all told last month by mainstream media that any notion Israel had prior knowledge of the attack was an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory”, but now Jewish media like The New York Times, is outright admitting it.