Moscow – The bills are due for millions of barrels of contaminated Russian oil that have been stuck for weeks in pipelines from Belarus to Germany – but no one wants to pay. Western oil companies and European refiners that bought the oil a month ago, before discovering it was unusable, have so far refrained [...]

Danish police have arrested a man believed to have been involved in the Tuesday stabbing of Jewish woman in her 60s in the city of Helsingborg in southern Sweden, according to Swedish media reports.
The suspect was arrested after crossing the border into Denmark. His identity has yet to be made public by police.
The victim, who is in serious condition, is believed to be the wife of a senior member of the local Jewish community.
According to local reports, the attacker stabbed her nine times while she was on her way to work on Tuesday. The woman reportedly collapsed and cried for help, and was taken to a nearby hospital by first responders.
A manhunt was launched after the attacker fled the scene.

 16-Year-Old Arrested For Punching Hasidic Man In HeadThe NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force arrested the suspect wanted in Williamsburg for punching a Hasidic man in the face.
The suspect is 16 years old and is being processed by the NYPD 90 Precinct.
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Tennessee – An 11-year-old Tennessee girl who told her classmates to stop making the Nazi salute was sent to the principal’s office, her father said in a tweet in which he asked the public to send her messages of support. Keith Jacks Gamble, chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at Middle Tennessee State [...]

Short video clips produced by Kan broadcaster have participants dance at iconic locations around the host country

MAZEL TOV! Triplets Born To The Ginzberg Family Of Betar Illit That Lost Two Children In FireTwo children of the Ginzberg family of Betar Illit R”L perished in a fire in the family apartment in October 2018. The fire that broke out resulted in the deaths of siblings Tzvi (2) and his sister Efrat (4) Ginzberg.

A Greek billionaire and heir to the Coca-Cola fortune was arrested on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts after a search of his private jet uncovered more than $1.3 million worth of cannabis on board, according to multiple reports.
Alkiviades “Alki” David, 50, was arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Unit at the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport after customs officials found approximately 5,000 cannabis plants in addition to seeds and a variety of other cannabis products, according to the Vancouver Sun.

Cultural organization believes Aras Amiri, who was arrested while visiting family in 2018, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for spying

Washington – An attempt by presidential senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner to win support for a White House immigration plan produced uncertain results Tuesday as Republican senators raised questions. After Kushner and others described the proposal at a Capitol Hill lunch with GOP lawmakers, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters that White House officials [...]

Editor of Arab News tells Palestinians 'nothing to be gained from a refusal to come to the negotiating table'

Berlin says 'no concrete threat' against its forces in the region, but decision comes after State Department orders non-emergency US embassy staff to leave Baghdad and Erbil

Speakers suggest outbreak of measles in community is due to deliberate targeting by authorities; Rockland County executive denounces 'misinformation' as public safety threat

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner struggled to answer questions about his plan to overhaul the immigration system in a closed-door meeting with Republican senators Tuesday, according to GOP officials, winning little support for the proposal.
Publicly, senators emerged from their weekly Capitol Hill luncheon, applauding the White House senior adviser’s pitch to move U.S. immigration toward a merit-based system that prioritizes highly skilled workers, a task he undertook at Trump’s behest.

Oklahoma City – Two people, believed to be window washers, have been rescued from a scaffold near the top of an approximately 850-foot (259 meters) skyscraper in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma City Fire Department says on Twitter that the two were stranded shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday outside the 50-floor Devon Tower. Firefighters managed to [...]

Riyadh – The editor-in-chief of a Saudi newspaper is urging Palestinians to keep an open mind toward a Mideast plan being devised by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner. Faisal Abbas wrote in the Arab News on Wednesday that while the cards have been stacked against the Palestinians, Kushner’s plan just may [...]

Former Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday over his threat to to travel to Ukraine in order to pressure authorities in that country to investigate he and his son, Hunter Biden.
Giuliani said he planned to travel to Ukraine to ask officials to investigate whether Joe Biden had once pressured the government there to dismiss a top prosecutor who was investigating a gas company at a time when Hunter Biden sat on the company’s board of directors.

Washington – The Trump administration plans to redirect Transportation Security Administration staff to the U.S. southern border to assist with immigration duties and migrant flows, the TSA said on Wednesday. A TSA spokesman said in a statement the bureau was looking for volunteers to support efforts at the U.S. border with Mexico, where the government [...]

Ira Zlotowitz, Eastern Union Founder, Launches Firm; The Ira Group; to Educate Public on the ‘Power of Lending’
HOWELL, NJ  – May 15, 2019:  The founder of one of America’s largest commercial real estate financing firms has launched a new, separate company that educates the public about the power of lending as a pathway for commercial real estate investment – and then helps individuals become actual lenders.

At least 60 said wounded as 10,000 march on Strip's border, with rioting and attacks on Israeli soldiers reported

Amid rising tensions, Amir Hatami tells Iranian military intelligence officials the country is at highest level of war preparedness, despite sanctions

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