George Soros, a billionaire financier and philanthropist who has become a key figure in right-wing conspiracies, has been charged under the presidency of the United States.
Trump made the baseless claim that the president has previously made in a social media post on Tuesday that Soros and his son Alex should be imprisoned for allegedly supporting violent riots in the US.
Trump suggested that they be detained under the federal law known as the “Rico Act,” which is frequently used to combat organized crime.
According to Trump, “George Soros and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because they support violent protests, and many other things, throughout the United States of America,” the post read.
“Our Country has been severely harmed by Soros and his group of psychopaths”! Those West Coast residents who are crazy are also included. We’re watching you, so be careful.
Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, and Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, have supported conspiracy theories that the Soros family had funded riots and politically destabilizing activity in their respective countries.
Trump himself cited that belief as an explanation for the public outcry he faced, including during his first term.
For instance, Trump claimed on social media that Soros was behind the protests against the incoming justice after he nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court in 2018.
Trump wrote at the time, “The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals who only want to make senators look bad.” Also, take a look at all the identical signs that were created by professionals. Soros and others paid for this. These are not “love signs” made in the basement!
As a Jewish Holocaust survivor, Soros has also been prominently featured in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
He is the founder of the Open Society Foundations, a non-profit organization that supports civil society organizations all over the world and promotes criminal justice, education, public health, and democratic governance.
Alex Soros’s elderly father, who is now 95 years old, was in charge of the foundation, according to The Wall Street Journal’s report from June 2023.
A justice department official claimed that three people, including the shooter, were killed and about 20 were hurt in a shooting at a school in Minneapolis.
Authorities in Minneapolis added that the shooter had been “contained” when they responded to a shooting at a Catholic church and school in the city’s south end earlier that day.
Governor Tim Walz wrote on X: “I’ve been briefed on a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School and will continue to provide updates as we get more information.”
If the shooting resulted in any casualties, how many and if so, how many.
Following a string of false reports of active shooters at US college campuses as students take a summer break, the confirmed shooting comes to mind.
Without giving specifics about potential victims, Walz said, “I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was ruined by this horrific act of violence.”
The X shooting was confirmed by the municipal government.
“At this time, there is no real threat to the neighborhood.” The shooter has been put in a cage, according to Minneapolis City.
In a second post on X, the city stated that “the families of the school’s children can travel to the Annunciation School’s reunification zone.”
Hennepin Healthcare, the state’s largest emergency department in Minnesota, stated in a text message that it was actively responding to an emergency without providing any more information. The business stated in a social media post that it was taking care of the shooting victims.
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, described the shooting as a “terrible situation” and claimed he had been informed of it.
Trump stated on his Truth Social network, “I have been fully informed about the tragic shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Julia Sebutinde, the vice president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has been subject to an investigation by the International Commission of Jurists.
The commission, which promotes the rule of law and human rights, claimed Sebutinde’s position on Israel raises questions of judicial integrity. Other critics also exist for Sebutinde, who is one of the 17 judges in the ICJ case involving Israel.
What Sebutinde said, why she received criticism, and more is revealed here:
Julia Sebutinde: Who is she?
Sebutinde is one of the judges hearing the case against Israel in South Africa. In January 2024, the same judges who voted on temporary measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza did the same.
Sebutinde, 71, is a judge from Uganda and has sat in the ICJ since March 2012 for her second term. She joins the ICJ, which is based in The Hague, as the first African woman. In February of this year, she was chosen as the top UN court’s vice president.
During the Ugandan independence movement, Sebutinde was raised by a modest family, according to the Institute for African Women in Law. She attended Gayaza High School, a girls’ boarding school, and Lake Victoria Primary School in Entebbe, Uganda. In 1977, she received her law degree from Makerere University.
Sebutinde received an honorary doctorate in 2009 for her legal accomplishments after receiving a master of law degree with distinction from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1990.
She served as a judge on the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2007 until she joined the ICJ.
What was Sebutinde’s opposing position on Palestine?
South Africa claimed in a lawsuit filed in December 2023 that Israel was staging a genocide in Gaza as it broke out of the occupation of the country on October 7, 2023. Israel’s actions in Palestine were viewed as genocidal because they intended to “bring about the destruction of a significant portion of the Palestinian national, racial, and ethnic group” according to South Africa.
The ICJ rendered a decision regarding a number of interim measures on January 26, 2024. It issued six interim measures, instructing Israel to:
Take action to stop genocide.
halt genocide in the media
Bringing more aid from the humanitarian world to Gaza
Under the terms of the Genocide Convention, protect and maintain all supporting evidence.
Allow fact-finding expeditions
Describe the actions taken before the court.
All the necessary measures were approved by 15 of the 17 judges who voted in favor of the adoption of the emergency measures. Two of the six measures that were to be implemented received a vote from an Israeli judge. The only judge to reject all the measures was Seputinde.
In her dissented opinion, Sebutinde wrote, “In my respectful dissenting opinion, the conflict between the people of Palestine and the State of Israel has largely historically been political.” A court may not resolve a legal dispute.
She added that South Africa failed to demonstrate that Israel’s alleged actions “weren’t motivated by the necessary genocidal intent” and fall under the purview of the Genocide Convention.
Final judgment will still be awaiting the court. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant were both wanted on arrest last year for war crimes, according to the International Criminal Court.
Israel’s actions in Gaza have been referred to as genocide by a number of human rights organizations. In addition to killing more than 62, 000 Palestinians during the nearly 23-month war, Israel has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.  ,
Who and why has demanded an investigation into Sebutinde?
The International Commission of Jurists, which is made up of 60 judges and attorneys in Geneva, requested the investigation in a letter to ICJ President Yuji Iwasawa on Friday. Sebutinde made the remarks on August 10 at the Watoto Church in Kampala, Uganda, referring to her statement that “The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel.”
According to Principle 2 of the UN’s Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, “the judiciary shall decide matters before them impartially, on the basis of facts and in accordance with the law, without any… improper influences… from any source and for any reason,” the letter continued.
Sebutinde’s statements “inconsistent with these principles,” according to the letter, which was signed by Santiago Canton, the commission’s secretary-general.
Canton urged Iwasawa to launch an investigation into the allegations against Sebutinde and take appropriate legal steps if the allegations were to be confirmed.
Canton requested that Iwasawa forbid Sebutinde from the ICJ case filed by South Africa while an investigation is being conducted.
Uganda’s government took a stand against her dissention.
Adonia Ayebare, Uganda’s ambassador to the UN, wrote on X in January last year that “Justice Sebutinde’s decision at the International Court of Justice does not represent the Government of Uganda’s position on the situation in Palestine.”
Sebutinde might be taken out. How?
According to the ICJ statute, members of the organization can’t be fired unless other members have voted in favor of them no longer meeting the requirements.
The ICJ registrar issues a formal notification to the UN secretary-general, leaving the position vacant.
This has never occurred, according to the ICJ website.
The website establishes criteria for its judges, stating that they must be chosen from among those of high moral character, have the necessary credentials to be appointed to the highest judicial positions, or be jurisconsultants with recognized international legal expertise.
A Member of the Court is neither a delegate to any other State’s government nor to any other nation, according to the article’s further adage.
Members of the ICJ must make a solemn declaration that they will exercise their powers impartially and conscienciously before taking on their duties there, according to the ICJ statute.
Who are the case’s judges?
The UN Security Council and the General Assembly both elect 15 judges for nine-year terms.
An Israeli judge and a judge from South Africa joined the bench in the case against Israel. Senior retired judge Dikgang Moseneke from South Africa joined the case from Israel, while former chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Aharon Barak, a former Israeli Supreme Court official, joined.
Scarlett is reportedly the daughter of Ryan Thomas and Tina O’Brien, but it has been reported that there have been disagreements over how to raise their young actress daughter.
Ryan Thomas and Tina O’Brien were once love’s young dream(Image: Getty Images)
Although their romance was once a romantic dream, the two women’s affairs have since turned violent because their daughter, Scarlett, is said to not be their daughter.
Tensions between the Coronation Street exes have been bubbling for years and their feud came to a boiling point in 2022 when Tina was accused of smashing up Ryan’s car with a baseball bat after a furious row.
Although it hasn’t been fully understood why the heated argument started nearly three years ago, it’s now been suggested that Tina’s anger stemmed from her differences regarding Scarlett’s parenting style.
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Scarlett recently revealed she hadn’t taken her GCSE exams(Image: scarlettjthomas26/tiktok)
Scarlett, age 16, has always enjoyed being in the limelight as a youngster, but when she first landed the Waterloo Road role, she immediately jumped into acting. Since then, she has regularly appeared online, sharing TikTok videos on her own account and appearing on The Thomas Family, a joint family.
Now it has been claimed Ryan, 41, and Tina, 42, have different approaches to raising their daughter with Tina reportedly wanting Scarlett to get a good education while Ryan includes Scarlett in his public persona, and has given her an early taste of the showbiz world.
After her daughter left her £20, 000 per year school in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, around two years ago, according to sources, Tina was “over the moon” when she was allegedly left “under a cloud.” Scarlett recently posted a TikTok video in which she pondered other students getting their GCSE results last week, but it’s not clear how she has continued her education.
Watching everyone get their [sic] GCSE results today, the teen wrote on TikTok last week, “I will forever wonder if I could have had good results.”
Ryan responded to the TikTok by saying, “Is it even anyone’s business or concern, though” in response.
Ryan Thomas is supportive of his daughter’s dreams to pursue a career in the spotlight(Image: WireImage)
According to a source, Tina has been “desperate” to allow Scarlett to experience a “normal upbringing and obtain an education.” She did not want Scarlett to rely on their showbiz connections, they added to the DailyMail, adding: “She is less flashy than Ryan.”
While it’s been added, Ryan reportedly “seems to like his daughter’s life in the limelight” and wants Scarlett to “stay on the straight and narrow” and is the “strict” parent of the two.
Tina was also concerned about Scarlett being called a ” nepo baby “, they continued. She wished for her to discover her own path and receive the knowledge to assist her.
The source added, “But it must be challenging to be exposed by a parent and a teenage girl.” There were some issues that began to really affect Scarlett and Tina as they both started to lose interest in certain behaviors.
Tina is said to be the stricter parent(Image: WireImage)
They continued, “She tried to get Ryan to see it, but he wouldn’t,” adding that.
Ryan and his family have a sizable following on social media and regularly share insights about their lives there. Tina has a relatively quiet presence on the platform, but she occasionally posts photos of her family life.
Scarlett often features on videos with her former Coronation Street star dad as well as her uncles Scott and Adam Thomas, step mum Lucy Mecklenburgh, half-brother Roman, six, half-sister Lilah, three and her cousins and aunts.
One particular video, which was posted on TikTok under the title Who Knows Scarlett Best?, featured Scott, Ryan, and Adam being asked questions about Scarlett, who responded by responding whether or not they were correct. Scarlett asks what her favorite beverage is in the video, where Ryan says “vodka orange” before Adam, Scott, and Scarlett all burst out laughing.
Despite the fact that a source claimed her actress mother wanted her to stay as grounded as possible, Tina reportedly found it difficult to find connections when Scarlett is exposed to all of that.
The pair welcomed Scarlett together in 2008 but split a year later(Image: WireImage)
And a different source claimed that while Tina views acting as a form of art, “her ex Ryan” is more interested in being famous.” Nobody knows how the conflict will end, but Tina simply wants to look after her daughter the best possible way possible rather than putting her out there on social media.
The pair soon became the recognizable soap couple of their day when they first met on Coronation Street, where Tina and Ryan played Sarah Platt and Ryan played Jason Grimshaw. Scarlett was born in 2008, but Ryan and Tina broke up after a year of dating.
Ryan is now engaged to former The Only Way Is Essex star Lucy Mecklenburgh and the pair share two children together; Roman and Lilah. While Tina is currently dating Adam Fadlé. Last year, she split from her husband of seven years Adam Crofts.
President Emmanuel Macron criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for blatantly fueling anti-Semitism, calling the remarks “an offence to France as a whole.”
In a letter released on Tuesday in several newspapers, the French leader responded to Netanyahu’s criticism of his country’s recent accusations against him as “unacceptable” and warned that the fight against anti-Semitism “must not be weaponized.”
Macron wrote in the letter that inaction in the face of a scourge that “we are fighting with everything in our power” is unacceptable and offences France as a whole.
“Antisemitism must not be a weaponized, and it must not lead to any hostility between France and Israel,” he said.
The French leader pleaded with Netanyahu to end the “murderous and illegal permanent war” in Gaza, saying it was “causing injustice to your country and impoverishing your people.”
Since last week, Netanyahu accused Macron of stoking “the anti-Semitic fire” in France by proposing to grant Palestinian statehood, which has since become a diplomatic tussle.
A letter that claimed anti-Semitism had increased in France since Macron’s recent announcement to recognize Palestine as a state at a UN General Assembly meeting the following month contained the accusation.
The French president’s office responded by labeling the statement as “inaccurate” and “erroneous.”
The French presidency stated last week that “this is a time for seriousness and responsibility, not for conflation and manipulation,” adding that it was unacceptable to use violence against the Jewish population and that France “protects and will always protect its Jewish citizens.”
After Charles Kushner, the ambassador to France, published an open letter to Macron in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, echoing the claim that France was failing to take sufficient action against anti-Semitism, the row has grown even more enticing.
According to medical sources, a military raid by Israel on the Palestinian city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank has left dozens of people injured.
According to medical sources, at least 80 people were hurt in the raid, including several who were hit with live ammunition, on Wednesday morning.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reported to Al Jazeera that 36 people received treatment from its teams, some of whom had been inhaled with tear gas.
According to residents, the raid started at 3 a.m. (00:00 GMT), with soldiers storming several neighborhoods in Nablus’ Old City, which has a population of 30 000.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israel’s military deployed snipers and military vehicles.
Other videos of young people throwing stones at military vehicles and soldiers during chase-and-run operations, including the arrest of a child, included footage from the town that Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad verified.
According to Ghassan Hamdan, the head of the Palestinian Medical Relief organization in Nablus, “some houses have been turned into military posts,” soldiers were “storming and searching houses and shops inside the Old City.”
Hunderte of soldiers were involved in the raid, according to Al Jazeera’s Willem Marx, who was a reporter from Doha, Qatar.
Ghassan Dhaglas, the governor of Nablus, claimed that he believes that up to 2, 000 Israeli soldiers were involved in this operation. He referred to it as a “show of force” without justification.
He claimed that there have been “some arrests.”
“The Israeli military is not giving the operation any details,” the statement read. They say details will be made public once it is finished, he continued.
Since Israel’s occupation of Gaza in October 2023, there has been more Israeli military and settler violence in the West Bank, and thousands of Palestinians have been forced to leave their homes.
According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 982 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers throughout the territory since October 2023, including hundreds of children.
Numerous significant Israeli raids have targeted the Old City of Nablus. At least two Palestinians were killed in a June-earlier Israeli army operation there.
At least 58 Palestinians were hurt, including at least one child, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, which reported the Israeli army conducting a protracted raid on Ramallah and el-Bireh, both of which were in the West Bank on Tuesday.
