Vice President JD Vance, special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump‘s son-in-law, will be traveling to Islamabad for talks with Iran, sources familiar told CBS News.
The trio are expected to arrive Monday evening for talks on Tuesday. The two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States is set to expire Tuesday.
âThe Department of Justice is openly defying the law by refusing to release the full Epstein files. Millions of files are being kept from the public,â Khanna said in a statement last week. âThe DOJ has failed to make the necessary redactions to protect survivors while removing records after publication without any explanation.â
Massie accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of âegregiously violating the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act,â the law passed by Congress late last year to facilitate the release of the materials.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer â the Barack Obama appointee in charge of Maxwellâs case â gave the Justice Department until Friday to respond to the lawmakersâ claims.
The ruling from Judge Paul Engelmayer opens the door for the department to publicly release evidence it had gathered against Maxwell, an associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The trove of documents, which will be redacted to protect victimsâ identities and other identifiable information, includes grand jury transcripts, financial records, travel documents, and notes from victim interviews obtained during the investigations.
It is not yet clear when the department plans to make the documents public or how much of the material will be new.
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials related to the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, who is currently in prison after being convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking a minor and other counts.
Judge Paul Engelmayer made the order in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan at the request of the Department of Justice, citing the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Congress passed almost unanimously last month, per CNBC.
As the clock ticks toward the congressionally mandated deadline of 19 December by which Donald Trumpâs justice department must release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein, there is intense speculation about the contents of these documents â but also questions as to what happens when they are released.
Under the measure, the Justice Department has 30 days to release the materials once the president signs it. If Trump signed the bill Wednesday, the deadline for release would be Dec. 19.
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For any materials it chooses to withhold or redact, the DOJ is required to outline their justifications for doing so within 15 days of their public release.
âAn Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time,â he went on. âEvery Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.â
Trump said he was asking âall innocent Palestiniansâ to leave areas of Gaza that are under siege by Israel âfor safer parts of Gaza.â
A high-level international conference co-hosted by Saudi Arabia and France concluded in New York with the adoption of a detailed, time-bound roadmap to establish a sovereign Palestinian state within 15 months, reviving global momentum for the two-state solution.
Before the expiration of the 60-day deadline for Israel‘s withdrawal from southern Lebanese border villages, the Israeli military continues its operations under the pretext of self-defense, as outlined in Clause 4 of the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has given his general until early February to eject the Ukrainians from western Russia. But the real deadline, it seems, is the Jan. 20 inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to end Russiaâs wider war on Ukraine but whose offhand proposals hinge on an unenforceable ceasefire that would freeze the front line in place.
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„The end of the US-led coalition mission is a necessity for the security and stability of Iraq. It is also a necessity for preserving constructive bilateral relations between Iraq and the coalition countries,“ Sudani stated during a televised event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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„There is a need to reorganise this relationship so that it is not a target or justification for any party, internal or foreign, to tamper with stability in Iraq and the region,“ Sudani told Reuters in an interview in Baghdad on Tuesday.
Giving the first details of his thinking about the future of the coalition since his Jan. 5 announcement that Iraq would begin the process of closing it down, Sudani said the exit should be negotiated under „a process of understanding and dialogue“.
Q And you said that you still â a few days ago, you said you squarely stand by your decision to pull out.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I do. Because look at it this way, folks â and Iâm going to â I have another meeting, for real. But imagine where weâd be if I had indicated, on May the 1st, I was not going to renegotiate an evacuation date; we were going to stay there.
Iâd have only one alternative: Pour thousands of more troops back into Afghanistan to fight a war that we had already won, relative â is why the reason we went in the first place.
I have never been of the view that we should be sacrificing American lives to try to establish a democratic government in Afghanistan â a country that has never once in its entire history been a united country, and is made up â and I donât mean this in a derogatory â made up of different tribes who have never, ever, ever gotten along with one another.
And so, as I said before â and this is the last comment Iâll make, but weâll have more chance to talk about this, unfortunately, beyond, because weâre not out yet â if Osama bin Laden, as well as al Qaeda, had chosen to launch an attack â when they left Saudi Arabia â out of Yemen, would we have ever gone to Afghanistan? Even though the Taliban completely controlled Afghanistan at the time, would we have ever gone?
I know itâs not fair to ask you questions. Itâs rhetorical. But raise your hand if you think we should have gone and given up thousands of lives and tens of thousands of wounded.
Our interest in going was to prevent al Qaeda from reemerging â first to get bin Laden, wipe out al Qaeda in Afghanistan, and prevent that from happening again.
As Iâve said 100 times: Terrorism has metastasized around the world; we have greater threats coming out of other countries a heck of a lot closer to the United States.
We donât have military encampments there; we donât keep people there. We have over-the-horizon capability to keep them from going after us.
Ladies and gentlemen, it was time to end a 20-year war.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pressuring Biden not to withdraw until evacuations were complete
Nach Informationen der ARD-Korrespondentin Isabel Schayani sollen die EvakuierungsflĂŒge der Bundeswehr auf der Strecke Taschkent-Kabul-Taschkent wohl noch frĂŒher als gedacht beendet werden – nĂ€mlich möglicherweise schon heute. Zuvor hatte die ARD Informationen erhalten, dass die Mission am Freitag oder Samstag beendet werden sollte.
„Es sind heute keine neuen Daten ĂŒber das bekannte Datum des 31.8. genannt worden vom PrĂ€sidenten der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika“, sagte Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel nach einem virtuellen G7-Gipfel zu Afghanistan. Sie betonte, dass auch Deutschland die Evakuierungen ohne die USA nicht fortsetzen könne.
President Joe Biden has decided, in consultation with his national security team, to stick with the August 31 deadline for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, according to a senior administration official.
Military advisers have told the White House that the decision must be made by Tuesday in order to have enough time to withdraw the 5,800 troops currently on the ground, as well as their equipment and weapons. If the President agrees, the military anticipates „a few more days“ of trying to evacuate as many people as possible before the drawdown of US forces begins, possibly at the end of this week.
The Telegraph understands that unless Mr Biden relents, UK troops are due to start to withdraw from Kabul airport towards the end of the week as they are expected to step up efforts to evacuate as many as 6,000 people.
Das britische Parlament hat das Ratifizierungsgesetz fĂŒr das Brexit-Abkommen verabschiedet. Nach dem Unterhaus passierte der Gesetzesentwurf nun auch das Oberhaus, das House of Lords.
Boris Johnson‘s Brexit Bill is set to become law on Thursday after clearing its finally parliamentary hurdle.
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Nun wird das Gesetz noch in den AusschĂŒssen beraten. DafĂŒr sind nach den Weihnachtsferien Anfang Januar drei weitere Debattentage vorgesehen, am 7., 8. und 9. Januar. Danach muss auch das Oberhaus noch zustimmen, damit GroĂbritannien die EU zum 31. Januar tatsĂ€chlich geregelt verlassen kann.