Palestinian leader gives video address after being denied US visa and tells world: ‘Do not allow another Nakba’ Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver a controversial address to the United Nations on Thursday just hours after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said his delegation was “unlawfully” denied visas by the Trump administration to attend the meeting of world leaders. Street protests have already begun in New York City as the Israeli prime minister arrives on a lightning 12-hour visit where he is expected to give a defiant speechin which he will reject criticism over Israel’s war in Gaza and the expansion of settlements in the West Bank. Continue reading...

Protest outside UN headquarters drew hundreds of people as Israeli prime minister prepared to speak As the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , prepared to deliver his speech at the UN headquarters in New York City on Thursday, hundreds of people blocked traffic on the streets outside, with dozens of people arrested as of early afternoon. The protest outside the UN, one of several this week against the embattled Israeli leader, drew hundreds of Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian and Lebanese New Yorkers, among others, as well as several elected officials and candidates in the November election, and a number of celebrities. Continue reading...

The incident is the latest in a series of recent cases involving people entering or departing the US city’s sewer network Three unidentified people were seen emerging from a manhole in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood early Wednesday before fleeing the area, police said, in an incident that comes as many world leaders have gathered in the city for the United Nations general assembly . The incident is the latest in a series of similar cases involving people entering or emerging from New York City’s sewer network in recent months that have gone viral online. Continue reading...