US and Iran pause strikes for third night to make space for talks, US ambassador says

 President Donald Trump has paused attacks on Iran for the third night in a row to give diplomacy more time, the US ambassador to the UN said.

Speaking to Fox News on Sunday, ambassador Mike Waltz said the president was "giving talks some space, he's giving it a little bit of room".

An Iranian army spokesperson said on Sunday that Tehran had halted "retaliatory" attacks in the region in response. The pause follows nearly two weeks of daily US strikes and tit-for-tat attacks, effectively unravelling the ceasefire struck in June.

Oil prices have dropped sharply in the wake of the pause, falling below $90 per barrel on Monday morning after hitting $100 for the first time since May last week.

Asked whether Trump had decided against escalation for now, Waltz told NBC: "I wouldn't go that far at all. The president is keeping all options on the table."

Waltz also rejected reports in the New York Times, external that administration officials had warned expanding hostilities could dangerously drain a diminished stockpile of air defence munitions.

"The US military... has everything that it needs to conduct this campaign as effectively as it needs to be," he said.

Speaking to CBS, he added: "We'll see over the next coming days. But make no mistake, additional military assets are moving into the region."

"The regime should believe the president when he says they're locked and loaded, and where all options are on the table."

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y45kdkynpo

When Churches Become Mosques: Islam's Rise In A Retreating Christian America

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Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of 'fomenting hate' after arrest threat

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he planned to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City this autumn, despite the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, making threats to arrest him.

Mamdani walked back that threat last week, acknowledging he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, the world's top war-crimes court.

The Israeli leader told Fox News on Sunday that he was "not concerned" about Mamdani's previous pledge and accused the mayor of "fomenting hate".

"He's supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers, Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone, but he's trying to turn one group against the other," Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu referenced a pair of stabbings in New York on Thursday, in which a suspect stabbed a Jewish man and an Asian man just blocks apart.

The suspect allegedly shouted the phrase "Allahu akbar" while committing the stabbings, according to police. He has been charged with hate crimes relating to each victim.

Both men survived the attacks, which drew condemnations from the city's Jewish and Asian American leaders.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yegvd9ddeo

Netanyahu Explains the Endgame for the Iran War

 

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Israeli settlers set fire to mosques, cars and farm land in West Bank, Palestinians say

 Israeli settlers have set fire to two mosques, as well as cars and agricultural land in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say, as tensions in the territory continue to flare.

The latest attacks come two days after a clash between settlers and Palestinians near the village of Tal, which left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead.

Both sides accused the other of provoking the violence.

The confrontation has further inflamed the situation in the West Bank, which has seen ever growing violence by extremist settlers against Palestinians, encouraged by far-right elements in the current Israeli government.

Palestinian reports say that two villages in the occupied West Bank came under attack from settlers overnight, with cars vandalised, property stolen and hate graffiti spray painted on walls.

The mayor of Qusra said that settlers set fire to a mosque that was under construction.

Abdul Azim Wadi said that settlers spray painted graffiti that included the word "revenge" on the walls of the mosque.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrv77gl4deo

Russia is Helping Iran Hit US Bases, Says Zelensky

 

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Islamic bookshops selling antisemitic texts allowed to issue 'skilled worker' visas for migrants to come to Britain

 Several Islamic bookshops whose catalogues include antisemitic literature have been granted Home Office authority to sponsor skilled worker visas, a new investigation has revealed.

The shops in question stock titles that describe Jewish people as possessing a "wicked nature," while certain other texts available on their shelves have been identified as radicalisation risks within British prisons.

None of the publications sold by these businesses are illegal under UK law, and some are available through mainstream retail platforms. There is no suggestion that the organisations involved in the Telegraph investigation have engaged in any wrongdoing.

Among the titles on offer is Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, an influential former Muslim Brotherhood figure who was executed by the Egyptian government in 1966. The book advocates the toppling of all secular governments through "physical power and jihad" and their replacement with sharia-based Islamic regimes.

Qutb's multi-volume In the Shade of the Qur'an, which contends that Jewish people "try to destroy all values and all that is sacred to mankind," is also stocked by several of the shops.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-islamic-bookshops-antisemitic-skilled-worker-visas 

One dead, 16 injured at Berlin Pride event, police say, after vehicle driven into crowd

 One person is dead and 16 others are injured after a car was driven into a crowd at a Berlin Pride event, police say.An intensive manhunt is under way in the German capital, officers say

• The incident happened at the Tiergarten park, near the iconic Brandenburg Gate, shortly before 22:00 local time

  

• A spokesperson for the police told reporters at the scene they have identified a suspect but that no arrests have been made

• "The driver of a white vehicle is said to have struck several people... there are numerous injured, including several with life-threatening injuries," police said on social media

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called the incident a "horrific act" and promised to fully investigate

• The mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, has called the incident "an attack on our free and open-minded society"

• FULL STORY AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3r2nz9ed3lt