The Times of Israel releases live Wednesday.
Arson devices with balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip now have 28 chimneys in southern Israel, according to the chimney and rescue service.
Prime Minister Netanyahu must appoint a former high-ranking police officer who has represented the prime minister’s family circle as the next police commissioner, Channel 12 reports.
The network says Netanyahu’s Likud has introduced Yaakov Borovsky’s call in talks with the Kakhol Lavan party and has called for the dismantling of a commission that will have to approve the appointment of senior officials.
Netanyahu denies the data and says the prime minister, who faces criminal fees in a series of corruption investigations, is not worried about opting for a new police chief.
Borovsky himself was investigated in 2004 on suspicion that he had presented a favourable remedy to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a corruption investigation if he was appointed police commissioner. In 2015, he represented Netanyahu’s circle of relatives after a state comptroller reported allegations of monetary irregularities in the prime minister’s apartment and his personal home in Caesarea.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promises that the Trump administration will continue in Iraq as it faces the risk posed by the jihadist organization Islamic State, but it also calls on the Baghdad government to re-fold its efforts to rein in pro-Iranian militias.
Pompeo says the U.S. is committed to helping Iraq regain security, despite the preference, often declared by US President Donald Trump, to diminish and then eliminate the presence of U.S. troops there. Pompeo speaks after conversing with senior Iraqi officials and a day before an assembly at the White House between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi,
“There are still paintings to be done,” Pompeo told reporters at a State Department press convention with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein. “Armed teams not under the Prime Minister’s full control have hampered our progress. These teams deserve to be replaced by local police as soon as possible. I trust Dr. Fuad that we can only help and that we would help him.”
Pompeo refuses to talk about imaginable long-term withdrawals of U.S. troops. But he says the U.S. will continue to help Iraqi security forces in its attempt to defeat the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, and “stop the strength of militias that have long terrorized other Iraqi people and undermine the Iraqi national.” sovereignty.”
The chancellor called the negotiations “good and important” and said the Iraqi believed in the importance of his partnership with the United States.
“Or we’re in the same trench fighting in opposition to Daesh and we’re still in the same trench and we’ll paint in combination to defeat the terrorist elements,” he said. “We see that the United States of America is a strong best friend and a tough best friend of Iraq and we will continue that alliance.”
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Florida appeals court says police violated the rights of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and others when they secretly filmed them paying for sex in a massage parlor, banning the use of tapes during the trial and causing a potentially fatal blow. in his lawsuit.
The State’s 4th District Court of Appeals says Kraft’s rights were violated by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects against unreasonable records and seizures.
“The type of police surveillance used in such cases is extreme. While there are conditions that would possibly justify the use of the techniques in question, the strict Fourth Amendment safeguards developed in recent decades will need to be respected,” the judges said.
“Allowing in a different way would give law enforcement officials and the government unbridled discretion, the antithesis of Americans’ constitutional freedom to be protected from unreasonable records and seizures,” the court added.
Prosecutors will most likely appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court, but if confirmed, misdemeanor fees against Kraft and other clients will be eliminated for lack of evidence.
Serious crime fees that oppose the owners and workers of the Orchids of Asia spa can be prosecuted, as there is other evidence besides the tapes that oppose them.
Kraft, 79, and others were indicted in February 2019 as part of a multi-county investigation into massage parlors that included the secret installation of video cameras in hallways and spa rooms. Police say the recordings show Kraft and other men engaging in sexual acts with them and paying for them.
Police say kraft, a widower, was twice recorded, paying for sex at Orchids of Asia Massage Parlor. Kraft has pleaded guilty, but has issued a public apology.
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UNITED NATIONS – After a resounding defeat on the UN Security Council, the United States is about to call on the United Nations to reprint sanctions opposing Iran into a rarely used diplomatic maneuver, a measure that is likely to be to further isolate the Trump administration and may simply be a crisis of credibility for the United Nations.
Sanctions eased as part of the 2015 nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew two years ago. But last week, the United States lost its long track record to enlarge a foreign arms embargo opposed to Iran indefinitely and has now moved to a new line of diplomatic attack.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the resolution would come “soon,” but he won’t talk about the moment. He is expected to travel to New York to tell the President of the Security Council that the United States is inviting the “recovery” mechanism in the Council solution that approved the nuclear deal.
“I don’t have any announcements about the timing of what we’re going to do, yet the president has made it clear that we’ll do it soon and we will,” Pompeo told reporters, ignoring considerations that other countries don’t recognize. The American movement.
“This will be a fully enforceable Security Council solution and each and every one of us hopes it will be implemented like all other Security Council solutions,” he said. “We will fully comply with this and hope that each and every country in the world will fulfill their obligations.”
Snapback allows participants to call for the reinstatement of all UN sanctions as part of a confusing procedure that will be blocked by a veto.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury Department is putting two corporations in the United Arab Emirates on its sanctions blacklist for supporting Iran-sanctioned Mahan Air.
Parthia Cargo and Delta Parts Supply FZC, founded in the United Arab Emirates, “provided essential portions and logistics to Mahan Air,” the Treasury said.
Mahan, one of Iran’s leading carriers, has been blacklisted under U.S. counterterrorism regulations due to its close relationship with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, which Washington says is wearing down terrorist activities in the Middle East.
Mahan Air has been used through revolutionary guards for the regimes of Syrian leader Bashar Assad and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to the Treasury.
“The Iranian regime is Mahan Air as a tool to spread its destabilization program around the world, contributing to corrupt regimes in Syria and Venezuela, as well as terrorist teams throughout the Middle East,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.
“The United States will continue to take measures contrary to which this airline.”
In the same action, the Treasury also imposes sanctions on the Iranian citizen in the United Arab Emirates, Amin Mahdavi, who, according to the Treasury, owns or controls Parthia Cargo.
– AFP
Israeli security and intelligence officials recently contacted their U.S. counterparts to explain their considerations about Saudi Arabia’s nuclear program, Walla reports.
The report, which cites an unidentified Israeli official, says the prime minister is treating the factor with wonderful sensitivity because of fears of damaging Israel’s unofficial relations with Saudi Arabia.
“There are signs of concern, but we still don’t know exactly what’s going on at this facility,” an Israeli official told the news site, referring to recent reports that Saudi Arabia is building a nuclear facility with China’s help.
The official added: “The Americans and the International Atomic Energy Agency also don’t know what’s going on there, and IAEA officials intend to find out with the Saudis.”
Defense Minister Benny Gantz addresses southern Israel’s leaders amid arson chimneys and Rockets in the Hamas-led Gaza Strip.
According to a member of his office, Gantz says we have “replaced the equation” in Gaza since taking over as head of defense.
“There is no security breach that does not get [an answer]. We know not only how to hit buildings and targets, but also those that work there,” he warns.
“The State of Israel has no interest in the Gaza Strip other than the return of the boys and all the calm,” he adds, referring to the two Israeli citizens and the remains of two IDF infantrymen held in the gang.
Gantz says if they are met, “we can expand Gaza.”
His comments come when news from Ynet says there have so far been 14 fires in the south of the country, caused by devices with incendiary balloons introduced from Gaza.
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promises not to give in to the “pirates” and continue by power in the disputed waters of the eastern Mediterranean despite EU pressure to slow down.
Long-standing tensions in the region erupted when Turkey last week sent a warship ship off the Greek island of Kastellorizo.
The European Union suggested that Turkey prevent it “immediately” on Sunday, but Erdogan was not discouraged.
“Surely we are right about this problem. If we give in to pirates, we won’t be able to look at generations in the long run,” he said on a scale at a new solar panel production plant in Ankara.
“We leave our young people a country unable to protect their own rights, without self-confidence,” Erdogan says.
“The struggle in the eastern Mediterranean is not just about rights, but about the future … Turkey is determined to claim its rights to the end,” she says, regardless of “colonialist” powers and threats.
Erdogan’s newest appears to be aimed at France, NATO’s best friend, who has continually rebuked Turkey and sent reinforcements to the eastern Mediterranean to help Greece.
Despite his provocative comments, Erdogan once emphasized the importance of ongoing dialogue.
“We are waiting for the steps of our partners that will pave the way for dialogue,” he says.
Turkey agreed, at the insistence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to give negotiations with Greece a chance to the dispute last month, and suspended its resolution to explore the waters near Kastellorizo.
But Greece then signed an agreement with Egypt to create an exclusive economic zone that outraged Turkey, which has the agreement “null and void.”
Turkey then sent the seismic research vessel Oruc Reis on 10 August to carry out activities outside the island until 23 August.
Turkey is remote on the issue, as other countries in the region have forged alliances, adding Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
– AFP
A guy from the suburbs of New York threatened to shoot at an Orthodox Jewish day camp for alleged violations of coronavirus restrictions.
The man, known as Nicola Pelle, 58, of Long Island, called police to report rape at the Yeshiva Ketana camp on Long Island, saying about 500 campers were dressed in masks. He called back when the police came to the scene and said, according to local reports, “If I have to go through with a firearm and shoot all those people, I will.”
Pelle, who runs a gardening company, lives on the doorstep of the ieshivá in the Inwood neighborhood.
Officers who arrived at the camp discovered 30 young people and their parents, WABC-TV reports.
It was learned that Pelle had 14 pistols in his home, adding pistols, rifles and shotguns, as well as two attack guns. All of them were legally owned with the exception of a rifle. It also has a valid firearms license, News12 Long Island reports.
He is charged with a terrorist threat, 4 counts of unlawful possession of a weapon and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. He posted bail, according to the report.
“While law enforcement is still looking to find out why, this disturbing incident shows how threats of violence opposed to the Jewish network continue to emerge and justify our maximum vigilance,” said Evan Bernstein, CEO of Community Security Service, a New York-based company. Organization. who trains volunteers for their own synagogues.
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BRUSSELS – The EU rejects the outcome of the controversial elections in Belarus, saying that President Alexander Lukashenko’s victory is neither loose nor fair, and warns that new sanctions against his government are imminent.
After an emergency video summit, EU Council President Charles Michel told the other Belarusians that the bloc was “by his side” as unprecedented protests against Strongman Lukashenko entered the eleventh day.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a national debate in Belarus, adding Lukashenko, who has led for 26 years, a non-violent solution to the crisis.
The EU has been executing a new sanctions circular against Belarus, targeting those affected by the alleged resolution of the 9th of August vote and the bloody repressure of the protests, which have shaken Lukashenko’s control of the former Soviet republic like never before.
Michel says this would lead “soon” to “a really large number of Americans guilty of violence, repression and voter fraud” with bans and asset freezes in the EU.
“These elections were neither lax nor fair and met foreign standards. We recognize the effects presented through the Belarusian authorities,” Michel told reporters.
“The people of Belarus deserve better. They deserve the democratic right to their leaders and shape the future.”
– AFP
An anonymous official in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud is quoted through the Hebrew media attacking Kakhol lavan for the existing coalition crisis and suggesting that no agreement on the state budget will be reached until 25 August, leading to new elections.
“This business is not working. From the beginning, I didn’t have high expectations, however, I didn’t think it would be like this. It’s working,” the official said, according to the Ynet news website. “Are we going to The Election on Monday? It will be terrible, but to stay on the current stage is even more terrible to me.”
Comments come shortly after Netanyahu made rapid prevention in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, a popular place for the Crusades, in some other sign that new elections are being developed.
– יובל שגב | Yuval Segev (@Segev_Yuval) August 19, 2020
BERLIN – Saudi Arabia says it will not stick to the United Arab Emirates in building diplomatic relations with Israel until the Jewish state shows a world-wide identified peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan told reporters on a scale in Berlin that “peace will have to be achieved with the Palestinians” on the basis of foreign agreements as a condition for any normalization of relations with Israel.
“Once this is done, it’s possible,” he says.
He also said that the agreement, which also ended Israel’s unilateral annexation of The West Bank’s territory sought through the Palestinians, “could be positive.”
– Agencies
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan issued the kingdom’s first official comment on last week’s announcement that Israel and the United Arab Emirates would normalize diplomatic relations.
A tweet from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicates that Bin Farhan told his German counterpart Heiko Maas at an assembly in Berlin that “Saudi Arabia affirms its commitment to peace as a strategic option in Arab peace initiatives.”
The Saudi-backed initiative, proposed in 2002, conditioned Israel’s popularity of creating a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem. It also calls for a complete Israeli withdrawal of the spaces captured in the 1967 Six-Day War and a “just solution” for Palestinian refugees.
Hours after the week of the US-negotiated agreement, an Emirati spokeswoman told the Times of Israel that the United Arab Emirates remained committed to the Arab Peace Initiative.
As a component of the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to abandon plans to annex parts of the West Bank designated for Israel as a component of the Trump administration’s peace plan.
“Saudi Arabia sees Israel’s unilateral policy of annexation and structure of agreements as an illegitimate and negative [way forward] for the two-state solution,” Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said, mentioning Bin Farhan.
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BEIRUT – A Lebanese lawyer filed a complaint against the country’s president and minister for allegedly failing to take steps to remove harmful fabrics that had been stored in the port of Beirut.
The 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in fertilizers and explosives, caught fire and exploded before this month, killing dozens of people and injuring thousands.
Lawyer Majd Harb’s resolution is largely symbolic, founded by the fact that President Michel Aoun and outgoing Prime Minister Hassan Diab won a security report two weeks before the August 4 explosion, warning of the risks of storing the chemical.
After the explosion, Aoun stated that once he won the report, he asked his military adviser to act without delay and do what was necessary. However, it is not transparent why the curtains are not removed. There is no comment from Diab, who resigned under pressure a few days after the explosion.
“They took no action to prevent him from the explosion,” Harb says. It is published through the National Public Press Agency.
Documents that emerged after the explosion showed that many customs, ports, intelligence, army and judicial officials, as well as political leaders, were aware of the stocks of ammonium nitrate at Warehouse 12 at the port of Beirut and that nothing had been done.
The explosion, which killed 180 others, injured some 6,000 and left some 300,000 homeless, the most destructive incident in Lebanon’s history, and caused asset losses worth between $10 billion and $15 billion. Another 30 people are still missing after the explosion.
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Several statues were stolen from a museum of archaeology and art at the HaZore’a kibbutz in northern Israel.
Thieves sabotaged security cameras at the Wilfrid Israel Museum, according to the Ynet news website. Photos from the scene show a series of statues broken on the ground.
The police have opened an investigation.
– Eli Levi (10elilevi) 19 August 2020
Likud and Kakhol lavan are shooting at others amid an ongoing coalition crisis that could overthrow the government if a new budget is not followed until August 25.
“Kakhol Lavan is back fighting the government, while Prime Minister Netanyahu is fighting the coronavirus,” Likud said in a statement. “Kakhol Lavan will have to stop the prime minister from approving a budget and opening the school year on time.”
In retaliation, Kakhol Lavan accused Likud of maneuvering for new elections.
“The Likud is breaking its promise of unity and stability, and every day is a new excuse for elections,” Kakhol Lavan wrote on his Twitter account.
The coalition’s infighting focuses on adopting the state budget. Kakhol Lavan says the budget will have to be implemented until 2021, as the parties agreed in their coalition agreement, while Netanyahu calls for cover only the rest of 2020, raising the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reports, however, said Netanyahu asked Kakhol Lavan to settle for various adjustments to the coalition agreement on non-budgetary issues as a condition of keeping the government intact.
LONDON – The brother of a suicide bomber who killed 22 others at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017 refuses to attend his murder conviction hearing.
A jury digs up Hashem Abedi, now 23, guilty of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause explosions at the concert in northwest England after a trial that ended in March.
The attack, led by Salman Abedi, 22, encouraged through the jihadist organization Islamic State, is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks ever carried out in Britain and left more than 200 people injured.
The defendant had ignored his legal team and refused to leave to attend the trial at the Central Criminal Court in London.
Judge Jeremy Baker said he was brought to court as required for the two-day sentencing hearing, had refused to appear in the courtroom and had not yet legal representation.
“He had each and every opportunity and was encouraged to be repeated through a lawyer. But he’s made it transparent and I’m convinced he doesn’t want to be provided at this hearing,” he said.
The relatives of some of those who suffered and survivors are in court for the conviction, which will determine how much time Manchester-born Abedi spends in prison.
Others adhere to the video convention for discussions in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Baker J.A. he says he cannot be sentenced to life in prison, making sure he was never released, because he was under 21 at the time of the crimes.
Hashem Abedi in Libya when the attack took place at the Manchester Arena on the night of 22 May 2017, however, his trial showed that he had helped his brother plan for several months.
He received chemicals for the homemade pump, discovered a layer to manufacture and buy it, and bought a car to ship the materials.
The detectives who investigated the explosion said the two brothers were too and called them “true jihadists.”
– AFP
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are speaking out against the agreement negotiated by the United States to normalize between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Protesters burn Israeli and American flags, trample on posters by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, and shout “normalization is a betrayal of Jerusalem and Palestine.”
Unlike Palestinian protesters last Friday near the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem’s Old City, which also burned posters of the Crown Prince of the Emirates, Gaza protesters stopped before burning the symbols of the United Arab Emirates, so as not to disappoint the Arab Gulf country, where tens of thousands of Palestinians paint and live.
Protesters in Gaza City also expressed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s rejection of Trump’s Middle East plan, which Palestinians say unfairly favors Israel.
The demonstration organized through the terrorist organization Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, and other factions.
Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, denounces the Israeli-Emirati agreement.
“Normalization with the profession hurts us and does not serve us,” he says. “Instead, it serves and promotes the profession in its projects that target Palestine and the region.”
– Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also threatening Palestinian terrorist teams in the Gaza Strip amid incendiary chimneys and rockets from the coastal enclave.
“We’ve been beating Hamas every single day for 11 consecutive nights. If we want it, we’ll do a lot more. They want to perceive that what happened to them last time will happen to them in multiples, [Hamas] and Islamic Jihad,” he said in the Knesset lobby for the Negev, according to a member of his office.
It also suggests that Israel may be limited to targeted killings of senior officials in Hamas and Islamic Jihad if violence escalates.
“They saw that we were in a position to use all the tools, and they added [selective killings], if things change,” he said, referring to the November Israeli attack that killed the high commander of Islamic Jihad Baha Abu Al-Ata.
Tehran, Iran – Iran has surpassed 20,000 deaths shown by coronavirus.
Today’s announcement comes as Iran is facing the largest epidemic in the Middle East with 350,200 cases shown. But despite the discouraging statistics, the Islamic Republic is still conducting university exams for more than a million academics and is preparing for mass Shia commemorations by the end of the month.
Earlier this year, Iran suffered the first primary epidemic in the Middle East, with high-ranking politicians, fitness officials, and its Shia theocracy leaders affected by the virus.
Since then he has struggled to involve its spread in the country of 80 million people, first pushing it back to see it climb again, starting in June.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – An oil-rich nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates has been connected to the country’s electricity grid, the government announced today.
The Barakah nuclear power plant in the excessive western desert of the United Arab Emirates, near the border with Saudi Arabia, has begun sending electricity, according to official news agency WAM.
WAM publishes a photograph of workers running inside the factory room.
The government did not allow journalists access to the factory for years despite repeated requests. Officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency saw the site.
On July 31, the plant’s first reactor reached what scientists called its “first criticism.” This is when the reactor’s nuclear chain reaction is self-sufficient.
Plans require 4 reactors to operate in Barakah, which the government says will supply about 25% of OPEC members’ energy needs.
The $20 billion Barakah nuclear power plant built through the UAE with the help of South Korea is the first nuclear power plant in the Arabian Peninsula.
The United States praised the UAE’s nuclear program for never agreeing to obtain enrichment or reprocessing capabilities, preventing it from generating military-grade uranium. The United States says it is a style agreement for other countries’ nuclear energy, while encouraging the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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The Ministry of Health reported that 53 coronavirus deaths at nursing homes in July and August were included in its official COVID-19 death count.
“Health Minister Yuli Edelstein sees this factor very seriously. The minister ordered a thorough review and recommendations within a week, adding non-public recommendations if necessary,” a ministry said.
He said Chezy Levy, director general of the department, also ordered that all deaths from the coronavirus virus be reported to a single source representing all medical facilities, adding geriatric centers, which in the past had not reported deaths to the ministry’s “computerized system”.
“Similarly, the ministry is checking to see if there have been more instances that have not been added,” he added.
According to Ministry of Health figures published this morning, there have been 719 coronavirus deaths in Israel since the onset of the pandemic.
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promises not to give in to the “pirates” and continue by power in the disputed waters of the eastern Mediterranean despite EU pressure to slow down.
Long-standing tensions in the region erupted when Turkey last week sent a warship ship off the Greek island of Kastellorizo.
The European Union suggested that Turkey prevent it “immediately” on Sunday, but Erdogan was not discouraged.
“Surely we are right about this problem. If we give in to pirates, we won’t be able to look at generations in the long run,” he said on a scale at a new solar panel production plant in Ankara.
“We leave our young people a country unable to protect their own rights, without self-confidence,” Erdogan says.
“The struggle in the eastern Mediterranean is not just about rights, but about the future … Turkey is determined to claim its rights to the end,” she says, regardless of “colonialist” powers and threats.
Erdogan’s newest appears to be aimed at France, NATO’s best friend, who has continually rebuked Turkey and sent reinforcements to the eastern Mediterranean to help Greece.
Despite his provocative comments, Erdogan once emphasized the importance of ongoing dialogue.
“We are waiting for the steps of our partners to pave the way for dialogue,” he says.
Turkey agreed, at the insistence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to give negotiations with Greece a chance to the dispute last month, and suspended its resolution to explore the waters near Kastellorizo.
But Greece then signed an agreement with Egypt to create an exclusive economic zone that outraged Turkey, which has the agreement “null and void.”
Turkey then sent the seismic research vessel Oruc Reis on 10 August to carry out activities outside the island until 23 August.
Turkey is remote on the issue, as other countries in the region have forged alliances, adding Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
– AFP