LONDON (AP) - A London man who talked about forming "a death squad sent by Allah" has gone on trial for allegedly plotting a series of attacks in the British capital. Prosecutor Mark Heywood told a jury at London's Central Criminal Court on Tuesday that 25-year-old Umar Haque "was fascinated by the warped and extreme ideology of Islamic State." Heywood said Haque identified multiple targets, including Big Ben, Heathrow Airport, banks, shopping centers and embassies. He was arrested in May. Authorities recorded a conversation in which they allege Haque said, "We are a death squad sent by Allah and his messengers to avenge my Arab brothers' blood." Haque has denied preparing acts of terrorism. Three men he met through a London mosque and who are accused of helping him also deny...
A Cypriot company says its new sub-sea internet cable that will connect Israel with Spain will be powerful enough to handle up to 60 percent of the world's internet traffic at peak time. Quantum Cable Chairman Nasos Ktorides said after signing on Tuesday an agreement to lay the cable that the $200 million project is expected to come online in 2020. Ktorides said the cable will have 40 times more capacity than existing internet cables on the Mediterranean seabed. He said that's enough capacity to handle as many as 80 million high-definition video calls between Asia and Europe simultaneously. The 4785-mile (7,700 km) cable will reach Bilbao, Spain, where an equally powerful internet cable now connects Spain with the U.S. state of Virginia.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump denied on Wednesday that the planned relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the controversial move to happen by then.shington, U.S., January 17, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Reversing decades of U.S. policy, Trump in early December recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and set in motion the process of moving the embassy from Tel Aviv, imperiling Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month the embassy move was “probably no earlier than three years out, and that’s pretty ambitious,” a timeframe that administration officials ...
Charges could be filed in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, even though the gunman responsible for killing 58 people is dead, a lawyer for Las Vegas police told a judge Tuesday. Attorney Nicholas Crosby did not identify new evidence or suspects but said charges might be possible depending on the results of an ongoing investigation. Sheriff Joe Lombardo and the FBI have said they believe Stephen Paddock acted alone to carry out the Oct. 1 shooting that also injured hundreds before killing himself. "Without naming names, there are potential charges against others as a result of the ongoing investigation?" Clark County District Court Judge Elissa Cadish asked Crosby as he argued to keep police search-warrant records sealed. "Yes," said Crosby, who represe...
The Latest on the faulty missile warning alert sent over the weekend by Hawaii's emergency management agency (all times local): ——— 1:30 p.m. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the state of Hawaii didn't need federal approval to retract a cellphone alert mistakenly sent over the weekend warning of a ballistic missile attack. FEMA said in a statement Monday that Hawaii has had the authority to cancel or retract warnings since 2012, when it applied for access to the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System. Hawaii Emergency Management Agency spokesman Richard Rapoza says his agency asked FEMA for clarification on Saturday whether rescinding an alert was an appropriate use of the warning system. Hawaii officials have said this process wa...
Democrat Phil Murphy was sworn in as NJ's next governor, succeeding Gov. Chris Christie. He blasted President Trump's "assault" on NJ. Philip D. Murphy was inaugurated as New Jersey's 56th Governor Tuesday. Calling for a new era of optimism and hope, he said state lawmakers will work together toward "writing a new chapter in our history." Murphy used the speech as an opportunity to slam President Donald Trump's "dark" vision of America and its impact on New Jersey. Murphy, a Democrat, said Trump and Republican Congress have taken steps that have hurt New Jersey, noting the recent decision to begin oil drilling off the Jersey Shore, "gut" healthcare that has address the opioid crisis and curb immigration. "We must immediately resist Washington's all-out assault o...
Security forces catch terrorist hiding cell phones in the soles of his flip-flops as he is checked into detention center. Security forces at the Kishon Detention Center north of Haifa caught this morning, Wednesday, a Hamas terrorist trying to smuggle two cell phones into the center - one in each of the soles of his flip-flops, 0404 reported. The phones, which were disguised in black wrapping, were found as the terrorist was being checked into the detention center. The incident was transferred to Israel Police for further treatment. In November, Israel Prison Service officers foiled an attempt to smuggle SIM cards and cellular phones to a terrorist held in the K'tziot Prison in the Negev, after they caught the terrorist’s 5-year-old son hiding the items in h...
The Palestinian president on Wednesday again blasted Donald Trump in a fiery and emotional speech, saying the U.S. leader's decision to recognize contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital was "sinful" and "ill-fated." Mahmoud Abbas, who has openly cursed Trump over his policies, told a conference in Egypt that the United States has disqualified itself from continuing as a broker in the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a role America has had for decades. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was certain the U.S. Embassy in Israel would be moved to Jerusalem sometime this year, much sooner than Trump administration officials have estimated. Netanyahu told Israeli reporters traveling with him in India that his "sol...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon’s attorney relayed questions, in real time, to the White House during a House Intelligence Committee interview of the former Trump chief strategist, people familiar with the closed-door session told The Associated Press. As lawmakers probed Bannon’s time working for President Donald Trump, Bannon’s attorney Bill Burck was asking the White House counsel’s office by phone during the Tuesday session whether his client could answer the questions. He was told by that office not to discuss his work on the transition or in the White House. It’s unclear who Burck was communicating with in the White House. He is also representing top White House lawyer Don McGahn in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into contact...
Berlin - German authorities have rejected a former Auschwitz death camp guard's bid for clemency, removing the final barrier to him serving his sentence for accessory to murder. Lueneburg prosecutors' spokeswoman Wiebke Bethke said Wednesday her office had rejected former SS sergeant Oskar Groening's clemency request filed earlier this week. She said regulations prevented her from releasing any further details. The 96-year-old was convicted in Lueneburg in 2015 as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews and sentenced to four years in prison. He hasn't yet spent any time behind bars because of the appeals process. Germany's highest court rejected his last legal appeal in December. Hannover prosecutors, who have been handling his case, are expected to soon s...
DACA has protected about 800,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families who overstayed visas The Trump administration on Tuesday appealed a judge's ruling temporarily blocking its decision to end protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and announced plans to seek a U.S. Supreme Court review even before an appeals court issues a decision. Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing that they were appealing the Jan. 9 ruling by a federal judge preventing President Donald Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The appeal was filed with the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a separate news release, the agency said it planned to file documents seekin...
WASHINGTON –  The Department of Homeland Security will be working with states to ensure they follow proper protocols when issuing safety alerts and can quickly retract incorrect alerts, like Hawaii's warning of a ballistic missile over the weekend, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday. Sen Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said it's clear that human error initiated the false alert. But she worries that system failures allowed it to go uncorrected for too long, nearly 40 minutes. "That seems to point to some communication and other types of failures we ought to be addressing," Hirono said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining DHS. Hawaii residents received cellphone alerts Saturday warning of an incoming ballistic missile strike. State officials later said s...
More than 40 Jews, including several rabbis, were detained at the Temple Mount Wednesday and were later expelled during a tour of the compound. The incident apparently followed a provocation by Arab visitors on the Mount which was directed at the group. A confrontation ensued, prompting police to intervene and remove the Jews from the holy site. Attorney Nati Rom of the Honenu legal aid organization said "there are over 40 detainees at the police station in Beit Eliyahu in the Old City. The group was attacked by Arabs and Waqf members who began verbally attacking the group, as well as shouting 'Allahu Akbar' and more. "Some of the members of the group called back Shema Yisrael, and the police began to use violence against the group. There are rabbis, public...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday during his state visit to India that the Spike missiles deal is back on the table, after it was announced a few weeks ago that the deal, worth half a billion dollars, was canceled. “They are reauthorizing the Spike deal. We are going in a very positive direction," Netanyahu said during a press conference in India. "There is a process ahead. Before we came the deal was taken off the table and during this current visit we have returned it to the table.” PM Netanyah with his wife Sara and PM Modi in Ahmedabad, Gujarat(Photo: Reuters)   The lucrative deal was also regarded as further evidence of tightening Israeli ties with India and was supposed to be signed following a negotiation in 2016. As part of the deal, t...
President Donald Trump ordered a CNN correspondent out of a meeting at the Oval Office Tuesday, after the reporter asked whether the president believes immigration should be based on race. The incident took place during a press briefing in the Oval Office, as President Trump met with Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev. During the press briefing, CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta peppered President Trump with a series of racially-charged questions relating to allegations by Democratic Senator Dick Durbin that the president had lamented that a disproportionate number of immigrants to the US came from “sh**hole countries”. President Trump and others present during the meeting later denied the claim that the preside...
As parents, there are times where we can feel like we are drowning. For some, it’s having a handful of kids under the age of six. For some, it is trying to figure out how to pay next month’s grocery bill, the babysitter, and the frozen pipe that suddenly burst. And for some, it is navigating the murky waters of the medical world. For me, it began with a phone call from the pediatrician, “Go immediately to the emergency room. Do not stop to pack a bag. I do not even understand how your baby is alive. Leave right now!!” Thus began the scariest and most overwhelming journey of my life. Sitting in the hospital room, feeling so unsure of what was happening, watching my poor sickly baby struggle against wires and machines, and be constantly pricked with needles was soul...
Military Court rules Ahed Tamimi will be detained until end of trial. 'Seriousness of allegations leave us no choice.' The Ofer Military Court of northwest Jerusalem ordered today that Palestinian Arab teenager Ahed Tamimi, who attacked soldiers in the PA village of Nabi Salih about a month ago, remain in custody through her trial. The court also ruled that her mother would likewise be detained until the end of legal proceedings against her. On December 15, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, her 21-year-old cousin Nour Tamimi and Ahed’s mother Nariman Tamimi confronted 2 IDF soldiers stationed in the town of Nabi Salih following the outbreak of riots in the area. In footage of the incident that went viral, the Tamimis can be seen pushing, kicking, slapping, and shouting at the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has proven himself an unconventional leader time and time again in his first year in office. Here are some of the more memorable moments from the AP reporters tasked with covering this whirlwind presidency: CAN I SHOW YOU MY BUTTON? Midway through my April 23, 2017, interview with President Donald Trump, he reached over and pressed a red button on his desk in the Oval Office. It didn't trigger a nuclear launch or send advisers scurrying into the room. Instead, a White House butler walked in with a single glass of Diet Coke on a silver tray for the commander in chief. Trump was still relatively new in office and seemed to relish the trappings of his new digs. Moments before pressing the button, in the middle of an answer about his de...
BJL Weather Information Notification System Community Schedule Changes for Schools, Organizations & Businesses Jan 17, 2018 / 1 Shevat, 5778     @8:27 AM BAIS YAAKOV ELEMENTARY PARK HEIGHTS CAMPUS Open 10:30 AM [Grades 4&5 Daven At Home - Grades 1-3 Daven In School. Hallel For Entire Upper Elementary At 11 @8:08 AM BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Open 2 Hours Late @8:08 AM BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Closed @7:34 AM BNOS YISROEL Drop Off Begins 9 AM - Classes @ 10 AM - Daven In School -Staff Report 9:45 AM @7:35 AM TORAH INSTITUTE Open 10 AM - Grades 3-5 Daven At Home, Hallel/Musaf In School 6-8 Breakfast In Cheder
The following announcement was sent by Bais Yaakov of Baltimore to its parent body: Baltimore, MD - Jan. 18, 2018 - Bais Yaakov is very pleased to announce that Rabbi Shaul Engelsberg, Head of School at Derech Emunah Girls High School in Seattle, Washington, will iy"H join Bais Yaakov for the September, 2018 school year. Rabbi Engelsberg will be an important part of the expanded Middle School's educational administration as co-Principal alongside our esteemed Principal, Rabbi Naftoli Hexter. Rabbi Engelsberg is no stranger to Baltimore as he is a Musmach of Ner Yisroel.  He holds a certificate from Torah Umesorah for The Principals Fellowship, and has a Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University. He spent over 20 years in chinuch in Detroit and Seattle and is well know...
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