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Trump gushes over Karoline Leavitt: ‘It's that face, it's that brain, it's those lips, the way they move!'
Donald Trump offered high, if not slightly uncomfortable, praise for his White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, gushing over 'that face' and 'those lips.' The president gave the unorthodox compliments during a Friday interview with Newsmax in response to Leavitt's claim that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his alleged success since returning to office. 'She's become a star. It's that face. It's that brain. It's those lips, the way they move. They move like she's a machine gun,' Trump said. 'She's a great person, actually. But she's – I don't think anybody has ever had a better press secretary than Karoline. She's been amazing.' The 27-year-old is Trump's fifth press secretary overall, though remains the only one from his second term so far. At a White House Press briefing Thursday, Leavitt praised Trump in a similarly effusive fashion. 'President Trump has brokered, on average, about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office,' she claimed. 'It's well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.' Social media was quick to react to the president's comments during his Newsmax sit-down, with some accusing him of being 'creepy.' 'This definitely sounds like something Jeffrey Epstein's best friend would say,' one user wrote, referring to the ongoing furor surrounding the president and his connection to the deceased pedophile financier. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and said that he and Epstein had cut ties many years before allegations of sex-trafficking were made against the financier. 'Will ANYONE in the MSM ask him or the White House about this incredibly bizarre, creepy, cringey comment? Of course not,' wrote one user. 'It's amazing how his 'super Christian-y' base just love that he's such a creepy old pervert,' added another. A third wrote: 'If any man said this on the job about a fellow employee, they'd be fired instantly, and the company sued.'
Yahoo
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Israeli human rights groups accuse Netanyahu's gov't of Gaza genocide in new report
The report outlines what the organization calls a deliberate state-led effort to dismantle Palestinian civil infrastructure and social cohesion in Gaza. Israeli left-wing human rights organization B'Tselem accused the Israeli government of executing a "coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip," characterizing it as a developing "genocidal regime," in a new report on Monday. The report, which included testimonies, statistical data, and documentation, outlined what the organization calls a deliberate state-led effort to dismantle Palestinian civil infrastructure and social cohesion in Gaza. 'An examination of Israel's policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads us to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,' the report states. Alongside this publication, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) issued a legal-medical analysis that concluded Israel's ongoing military campaign meets the criteria for genocide as defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to which Israel is a signatory. The PHRI report cited direct attacks on hospitals, restrictions on medical aid and evacuations, and the targeting of medical personnel as evidence of 'a deliberate policy aimed at harming the Palestinian population as a group.' B'Tselem warns destructive model currently unfolding in Gaza may extend to West Bank B'Tselem said that the destructive model currently unfolding in Gaza may soon extend into the West Bank, where it said similar patterns are already emerging on a smaller scale. 'There is a real risk the genocide will spread beyond the Gaza Strip,' the organization cautioned. Yuli Novak, Executive Director of B'Tselem, described the findings as a moral crisis for Israeli society: 'Nothing prepares you for the realization that you are part of a society committing genocide. This is a deeply painful moment for us.' She added, 'After decades of separation, and of dehumanization of Palestinians, the horrors of the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, created deep existential fear among Israelis. The extremist, far-right messianic government is using that fear to promote an agenda of destruction and expulsion.' Physicians for Human Rights-Israel emphasized the specific targeting of Gaza's health infrastructure. 'This is not incidental damage from war – it is a deliberate policy,' the organization's report claims. PHRI Executive Director Dr. Guy Shalev stated, 'Israel is knowingly destroying Gaza's health system. As people who believe in the sanctity of life, we are obligated to speak the truth: this is genocide, and we must fight it.' Shalev cited over 22 months of attacks on hospitals, denial of life-saving treatment, and blocked humanitarian aid as evidence of a sustained strategy of destruction. 'It is our duty as medical professionals, and to our colleagues in Gaza who are risking their lives to save others under impossible conditions, to face the truth and do everything we can to protect them,' he said. Both B'Tselem and PHRI issued an urgent call to the international community, asserting that global actors, through action or silence, are complicit in Israel's actions. They urged world leaders to intervene using all available legal mechanisms under international law to halt what they described as an ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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2 hours ago
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Myanmar military courts sentence 12 to life for human trafficking, including Chinese nationals
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar military courts have sentenced a dozen individuals — including five Chinese nationals — to life imprisonment for their involvement in multiple human trafficking cases, state-run media reported Saturday. According to the Myanma Alinn newspaper, the convictions stem from a range of offenses including the online distribution of sex videos and the trafficking of Myanmar women into forced marriages in China. In one case, five people — including two Chinese nationals identified as Lin Te and Wang Xiaofeng — were sentenced to life imprisonment by a military court in Yangon, the country's largest city, on July 29. They were found guilty under Myanmar's Anti-Trafficking in Persons law for producing sex videos involving three Myanmar couples and distributing the footage online for profit. In a separate case, the same court sentenced a woman and three Chinese nationals — Yibo, Cao Qiu Quan and Chen Huan. The group was convicted of planning to transport two Myanmar women, recently married to two of the convicted Chinese men, into China, the report said. Additionally, three other people received life sentences from a separate military court for selling a woman as a bride to China, and for attempting to do the same with another woman. In another case, a woman from Myanmar's central Magway region was given a 10-year sentence on July 30 for planning to transport two Myanmar women to be sold as brides to Chinese men, the report said. Human trafficking, particularly of women and girls lured or forced into marriages in China, remains a widespread problem in Myanmar, a country still reeling from civil war after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. The persisting conflict in most areas of Myanmar has left millions of women and children vulnerable to exploitation. A 2018 report by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Kachin Women's Association Thailand (KWAT) — which works to prevent and respond to trafficking in northern Kachin and Shan states bordering China — estimated that about 21,000 women and girls from northern Myanmar were forced into marriage in China between 2013 and 2017. In its latest report published in December, KWAT noted a sharp decline in the number of trafficking survivors accessing its services from 2020 to 2023. It attributed the decline to the COVID-19 pandemic and border closures caused by ongoing conflict following the army takeover. However, it reported a resurgence in 2024 as people from across Myanmar began migrating to China in search of work. Maj-Gen Aung Kyaw Kyaw, a deputy minister for Home Affairs, said during a June meeting that the authorities had handled 53 cases of human trafficking, forced marriage and prostitution in 2024, 34 of which involved China, according to a report published by Myanmar's Information Ministry. The report also said that a total of 80 human trafficking cases, including 14 involving marriage deception by foreign nationals, were recorded between January and June this year.
