Day: November 30, 2023

Top Obama aide hits Biden admin’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza as violation of international laws

8:05 pm November 30, 2023

Ben Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, penned a guest essay in the New York Times criticizing the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s right to self-defense against the terrorist group Hamas. In an opinion piece, titled “Henry Kissinger, the Hypocrite,” published after the German-born American diplomat, academic and presidential adviser, […]

Scotland’s Edinburgh Zoo bids giant pandas bittersweet farewell as Chinese exchange agreement expires

7:55 pm November 30, 2023

Visitors to the Edinburgh Zoo had their final chance to see and bid farewell Thursday to a pair of popular giant pandas who are returning home to China after more than a decade in Scotland. Yang Guang and Tian Tian are leaving in early December after a 12-year stay. They have been a popular attraction […]

GOP senator roasts John Kerry for jetting off to another climate conference

7:54 pm November 30, 2023

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is taking aim at Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry for jetting off to lead the U.S. delegation at the annual United Nations conference in Dubai. In a statement to Fox News Digital on Thursday, Ernst accused Kerry and the Biden administration of hypocrisy for flying on airplanes to attend […]

Former British finance minister Alistair Darling dead at 70

7:54 pm November 30, 2023

Former British finance minister Alistair Darling, a central figure in the U.K.’s response to the 2008 financial crisis who later helped organize the campaign against Scottish independence, has died. He was 70. Darling had been treated for cancer and died in a hospital in Edinburgh, his family said in a statement on Thursday. He served […]

‘Z’ author Vassilis Vassilikos dies at 89 in Athens

7:53 pm November 30, 2023

Greek novelist Vassilis Vassilikos, whose political book “Z” inspired the Academy Award-winning film of the same name, died Thursday in Athens at age 89. The best-known among the scores of books he wrote, “Z” was based on the murder of a left-leaning Greek member of Parliament by right-wingers in 1963. Published in 1966, it was […]