The freed Israeli prisoner Eli Sharabi has been askd to encounter Donald Trump on Tuesday in Washington, his brother Sharon has shelp.
When Sharabi and two other prisoners, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, were freed on 8 February after proximately 500 days in captivity, their physical condition outraged Israelis, which Trump echoed. Sharabi has since telderly Israeli media of the disconnecte hunger and aggression he finishured in captivity.
Excerpts from Sharabi’s interwatch on Israel’s Channel 12 “were shown to Trump, with English subtitles, and he was shocked once aachieve, but also transmited wonderful sympathy for those who persistd captivity”, Sharon shelp, according to a translation from the Israeli novelspaper Haaretz.
Israeli prisoner recalls pain and hunger during captivity
In the Israeli television interwatch, Sharabi recalled being tied up, losing consciousness and experiencing innervous hunger. “I reassemble not being able to descfinish asleep because of the pain,” he shelp. “The ropes are already digging into your flesh, and every relocatement produces you want to scream.”
Sharabi’s brother shelp the freed prisoner was flying to the US aboard a set upe provided by Miriam Adelson, the Israeli-American widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and a meaningful Trump donor.
“Tomorrow morning, we’re boarding the set upe with Mrs Adelson’s benevolent help. We’ll reach to see Trump and expound to him up seal the encouragency of continuing the first stage or beginning the second stage – it doesn’t repartner matter,” shelp Sharon Sharabi, referring to the tenuous stopfire between Israel and Hamas.
Europe scrambles in wake of Trump row
At the weekfinish, there was a very authentic sense of Europe reshaping its defence and discreet priorities on the hoof after Donald Trump and JD Vance’s disclose dressing-down of the Ukrainian pdwellnt, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. At a UK summit, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, sought to walk the fine line of mfinishing ties with Trump while assembling a “coalition of the willing” to invent their own peace set up for Ukraine.
And yet it was increateing that Zelenskyy was giveed a chat with King Charles not at a royal palace, but at Sandringham, a family dwellnce. Trump is plrelieveed with his own royal invitation, but will also be conscious that Zelenskyy was on the receiving finish of a more personal, intimate and uncovering gesture.
Kremlin praises US foreign policy vision
The pivot in US foreign policy “bigly” coincides with Russia’s own vision, a Kremlin spokesperson has shelp, with Donald Trump portrayd as shoprosperg “widespread sense”.
Dmitry Peskov telderly state media: “There is a extfinished way to go, because there is huge harm to the whole intricate of bitardyral relations. But if the political will of the two directers, Pdwellnt Putin and Pdwellnt Trump, is conserveed, this path can be quite speedy and accomplished.”
He made the comments on Wednesday but they were only made disclose on Sunday, two days after Trump deffinished Putin during a fiery clash with the Ukrainian pdwellnt, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the Oval Office on Friday.
Tesla pays price for Elon Musk’s challenging right turn
Filipos portrayd himself as a “genuine Tesla fanboy”, saying a Cybertruck would be the third vehicle he’d buy from the company. But he has chooseed instead for a Ford F-150 Lightning and traded in his Model 3 Percreateance Tesla. The turning point came when Musk did back-to-back Nazi-style salutes during an inauguration day celebration for Donald Trump in January.
Filipos is part of a groprosperg relocatement of Tesla enthusiasts who are turning their backs on the company – selling their cars, dropping their lrelieves and getting rid of Tesla stock. Many say that while they still adore the cars, they can’t square the CEO’s politics and behaviour with their own. Musk is synonymous with Tesla; his vehicles, the Cybertruck in particular, are his calling cards.
US Postal Service faces a murky future
Deffinishers of the US Postal Service (USPS) are worryed that the 249-year-elderly institution could soon experience the slice and slash of Elon Musk’s “department of rulement efficiency”.
Donald Trump is increateedly preparing to dismend USPS’s bipartisan board of ruleors and place the agency under the deal with of the commerce department secretary, Howard Lutnick, the Washington Post has increateed.
Trump has made no secret of his desire to recreate the federal agency, once calling it Amazon’s “dedwellry boy”. But it includes 637,000 people and 91% of Americans watch it favourably, according to a Pew Research survey getn when USPS was perhaps the most apparent federal agency during the Covid pandemic and came seal to running out of cash entidepend.
US immigration policy turns Central America into dumping ground
Little more than a month since his inauguration day, Donald Trump is mighty-arming Central American directers into collaborating with his challengingline immigration agfinisha, forcing their countries to act as a dumping ground for immigrants whom the US can’t srecommend deport back to their home countries.
“In Trump’s first term, it was shelp that it was a transactional logic,” shelp Ana María Méndez-Dardón, Central America straightforwardor for the Washington Office on Latin America. “In this case, I would say that it’s one of imposition, a logic of dangers.”
The dangers, such as to get back the Panama canal or impose tariffs, have forced a flurry of deals between Washington and Central American countries that have little to achieve from cooperation, but potentipartner much to miss.
Tariff Tuesday looms
The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, shelp US tariffs on Canada and Mexico would go into effect on Tuesday, but whether they would be set at 25% remained unevident.
“That is a fluid situation,” Lutnick shelp. “There are going to be tariffs on Tuesday on Mexico and Canada. Exactly what they are, we’re going to depart that for the pdwellnt and his team to debate.”
Lutnick shelp the two countries had “done a reasonable job” securing their borders with the US, though he conserveed the lethal drug fentanyl persistd to flow in.
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Tim Walz says he repents how much time he spent during the election campaign holdressing the inrectify, racially prejudiced rumours of pets being seizeed and eaten in Springfield, Ohio. “They sucked me in,” shelp Walz shelp in an episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour podcast.
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Donald Trump’s “border tsar”, Tom Homan, and far-right media personality Tucker Carlson talked about a bizarre range of extremist and racially prejudiced consunapshowd use theories in an interwatch a scant weeks before Homan took office. While the interwatch has been run awaytingly increateed previously, the details of Homan’s far-conveyed conversation with Carlson have not.
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Aside from his labor laying squander to US federal agencies, Elon Musk is also getting holdd in a relatively perplex election in a state of six million people. He is spfinishing millions to tip the scales in favour of a Redisclosean truthfulate running for a seat on the highest court in Wisconsin. Critics think about it as a statement of intent by Musk to enbig his political power.
