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🔮 Trump casts doubt on Pentagon plan to live stream Fort Hood shooter’s execution
Bipartisan outrage and UN condemnation have followed Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to stream Nidal Hasan’s death sentence
Nidal Hasan’s execution – scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, where he gunned down 13 people in 2009 – is set to be the first by a US military firing squad since 1945.
🔮 New York mayor urges Trump to remove ICE after driver with child in car is shot
Zohran Mamdani speaks out after ICE wound man with a 5-year-old boy in the back seat
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he would ask US President Donald Trump to remove federal immigration agents from the city as tensions flared over the latest shooting involving ICE.
The New York Police Department said a man had been shot around 4pm in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of the Bronx during an altercation with federal agents.
Mamdani and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) later confirmed that the shooting occurred during an operation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for Trump’s immigration crackdown.
🔮 A Mexican judge is expected to hand down his verdict Thursday in the high-profile murder trial of three men accused of killing two Australian surfers and their American friend in 2024.
🔮 Trump and his supporters have fixated on Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, accusing him of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda
US President Donald Trump misnamed Muslim candidate for the US Senate Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday, calling him Mohammed and baselessly accusing him of being a “Terrorist Sympathiser”.
El-Sayed, an Arab American running for a Michigan senate seat that could decide which party wins the US upper chamber in knife-edge midterm polls next month, fired back, saying “he knows my name”.
🔮 Real estate firm Tishman Speyer and other investors will inject US$235 million into refurbishing the ageing art deco landmark
A US real estate firm announced on Wednesday it is buying the Chrysler Building and will undertake a vast makeover of the art deco landmark that dominates New York’s skyline.
🔮 Canada will not allow assisted suicide for those with only mental illness
🔮 Russian barrage hits Kyiv hours after Zelensky warns of impending attack
Two killed in residential neighbourhood fire as air raid alerts wail across capital
A missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv killed two people on Wednesday, the mayor said, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of “massive strikes” heading towards the city.
🔮 Israel marks 3 years since October 7 attack that sparked war in Gaza
Sombre tributes take place as political debate intensifies weeks before Israel’s national vote
Israel marked the third anniversary of Hamas’ October 7 attack on Wednesday with silent tributes, new strikes on Gaza and intense political debate, weeks before elections in which the country’s deadliest day will be front and centre.
🔮 Trump says will speak to Putin on plague, after death of Russian lab tech
Russian authorities denied that they were imposing anti-plague measures and played down reports of the incident in Siberia
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would speak very soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the reported plague death of a laboratory technician, as Washington pressured Moscow for transparency.
🔮 The United States signed a security pact with Denmark and Greenland in late September that will allow Washington to establish two new military bases there, drawing the autonomous Danish territory further into US orbit.
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