Trump Blasts 'Fake' Reports Of Iran Talks Freeze As Rubio Insists To Congress Tehran Ready To Negotiate Nuclear Curbs

UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador's Links To Sex Traffickers: Report Via The Cradle The UAE paid New York-based reputation management firm Terakeet more than $6 million to bury a 2017 report revealing that the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had ties to sex workers and traffickers, according to a New York Times (NYT) report published on Sunday. The campaign was designed to push the Intercept report out of public sight on Google search results. According to Foreign Agents Registration Act records cited by the paper, Terakeet's work for the UAE began in...

Lebanon Hosts The World's Highest Concentration Of Refugees, US Ranks 82nd The countries carrying the world’s largest refugee burden are often not the ones most people expect. Using data from the UNHCR via Our World in Data, this graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, ranks countries by the number of refugees hosted per 1,000 residents in 2024. The results reveal how proximity to conflict frequently matters more than economic size. Many of the countries at the top of the ranking border active war zones and have absorbed large refugee populations relative to their...

Five Americans suffered minor injuries due to a May 28 Iranian missile attack on an airbase in Kuwait that was launched in response to US airstrikes targeting southern Iran, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report said that the injured included US contractors and military personnel, and that one US MQ-9 Reaper drone was […]