Prophecy News Watch - August 1, 2023
Around the World
Saudi Arabia to Host Ukraine Peace Talks (Worthy News Radio)
Kyiv has confirmed that Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit to find a way to end the war with Russia in Ukraine. Officials said the gathering will be in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah early next month.
Ukraine Warns War Coming To Russia
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that war is returning to Russia after a drone attack on Moscow.
Pakistan Bomb Kills Dozens
Officials say a powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in Pakistan’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, killing dozens of people.
Judge Defies China Pressure To Ban Hong Kong Protest Song
Hong Kong’s high court has rejected a mainland China-backed government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong. It became the unofficial anthem after the 2019 pro-democracy protests and ensuing crackdown.
Nine Killed As Blast Rocks Thai Warehouse
Residents in southern Thailand were mourning Sunday after authorities said at least nine people, including three children, were killed in a blast at a market’s illegal fireworks warehouse.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
“Cancerous” Israel must be removed from Middle East, Hezbollah leader says
Doubling down on past virulently anti-semitic statements, the leader of the Lebanese Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization said at the weekend that the Middle East will work tirelessly until the "cancerous gland" that is Israel has been removed from the region, the Jerusalem Post reports.
No ‘right of return’ for Palestinian refugees, Israel UN ambassador says
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations emphasized Thursday that there is no “right of return” to Israel for millions of Palestinian descendants of Arabs who were displaced during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, the Jewish National Syndicate (JNS) reports.
National unity talks between Palestinian Authority and Hamas end inconclusively
Reconciliation talks between the Palestinian Authority which governs the West Bank and the Hamas terror group which rules the Gaza Strip have ended inconclusively after the groups’ respective leaders agreed to meet in Egypt and discuss national unity for the first time in three years, Haaretz reports.
Inside the United States
Biden pushes fight with Supreme Court as he launches student loan forgiveness website
The White House is testing a website for a new student loan payment initiative nearly a month after the Supreme Court quashed President Joe Biden's wide-reaching student loan forgiveness plan.
Devon Archer tells Congress Burisma pressured Hunter Biden to deal with Ukrainian prosecutor
Devon Archer delivered bombshell testimony to Congress on Monday, telling lawmakers that Burisma Holdings pressured Hunter Biden in December 2015 to deal with a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the firm for corruption shortly before the then-vice president took steps to force the prosecutor's firing, according to lawmakers familiar with the transcribed interview.
Fox News Cancels Donations For Satanic Temple After Outcry
Fox News Channel has removed its possibility to donate to The Satanic Temple and other controversial groups after an outcry over these matching gifts by the U.S. conservative broadcaster, Worthy News learned.
Saudi Arabia to Host Ukraine Peace Talks (Worthy News Radio)
Kyiv has confirmed that Saudi Arabia will host a Ukrainian-organized peace summit to find a way to end the war with Russia in Ukraine. Officials said the gathering will be in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah early next month.
Ukraine Warns War Coming To Russia
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that war is returning to Russia after a drone attack on Moscow.
Pakistan Bomb Kills Dozens
Officials say a powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in Pakistan’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, killing dozens of people.
Judge Defies China Pressure To Ban Hong Kong Protest Song
Hong Kong’s high court has rejected a mainland China-backed government attempt to ban a protest song, Glory to Hong Kong. It became the unofficial anthem after the 2019 pro-democracy protests and ensuing crackdown.
Nine Killed As Blast Rocks Thai Warehouse
Residents in southern Thailand were mourning Sunday after authorities said at least nine people, including three children, were killed in a blast at a market’s illegal fireworks warehouse.
Israel-Palestinian Conflict
“Cancerous” Israel must be removed from Middle East, Hezbollah leader says
Doubling down on past virulently anti-semitic statements, the leader of the Lebanese Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization said at the weekend that the Middle East will work tirelessly until the "cancerous gland" that is Israel has been removed from the region, the Jerusalem Post reports.
No ‘right of return’ for Palestinian refugees, Israel UN ambassador says
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations emphasized Thursday that there is no “right of return” to Israel for millions of Palestinian descendants of Arabs who were displaced during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, the Jewish National Syndicate (JNS) reports.
National unity talks between Palestinian Authority and Hamas end inconclusively
Reconciliation talks between the Palestinian Authority which governs the West Bank and the Hamas terror group which rules the Gaza Strip have ended inconclusively after the groups’ respective leaders agreed to meet in Egypt and discuss national unity for the first time in three years, Haaretz reports.
Inside the United States
Biden pushes fight with Supreme Court as he launches student loan forgiveness website
The White House is testing a website for a new student loan payment initiative nearly a month after the Supreme Court quashed President Joe Biden's wide-reaching student loan forgiveness plan.
Devon Archer tells Congress Burisma pressured Hunter Biden to deal with Ukrainian prosecutor
Devon Archer delivered bombshell testimony to Congress on Monday, telling lawmakers that Burisma Holdings pressured Hunter Biden in December 2015 to deal with a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the firm for corruption shortly before the then-vice president took steps to force the prosecutor's firing, according to lawmakers familiar with the transcribed interview.
Fox News Cancels Donations For Satanic Temple After Outcry
Fox News Channel has removed its possibility to donate to The Satanic Temple and other controversial groups after an outcry over these matching gifts by the U.S. conservative broadcaster, Worthy News learned.