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According to a Cyprus News Agency report issued late Monday that cited a criminal court announcement, the court found during closed-doors proceedings that most of the contradictions in the woman’s testimony concerned the identification of the perpetrators.

The woman told police that one of the five men had forcibly taken her to his room after grabbing her hand while she was partying with friends around the pool.

She said the man tried to remove her bathing suit while she pleaded with him to let her leave. The other suspects then entered the room and one had intercourse with her against her will and another forced her to perform oral sex, while two others held her down on the bed, she said.

The ruling came after the European Court of Human Rights ruled last month that Cyprus’ law enforcement authorities failed to live up to their obligation to thoroughly and effectively investigate a British teenager’s claims that she had been gang-raped by a group of Israelis while on a 2019 vacation in Ayia Napa.

Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza has reportedly left 322 children dead and 609 injured in the region in the past 10 days, as confirmed by the United Nations Children’s Fund on Monday.

Most of these children were displaced, sheltering in makeshift tents or damaged homes. These figures include children who were reportedly killed or injured when the surgical department of Al Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza, was struck during an attack on March 23.

Gaza’s bakeries will run out of flour for bread within a week, the U.N. says. Agencies have cut food distributions to families in half. Markets are empty of most vegetables. Many aid workers cannot move around because of Israeli bombardment.

“We depend entirely on this aid box,” said Shorouq Shamlakh, a mother of three collecting her family’s monthly box of food from a U.N. distribution center in Jabaliya in northern Gaza. She and her children reduce their meals to make it last a month, she said. “If this closes, who else will provide us with food?”

The World Food Program said Thursday that its flour for bakeries is only enough to keep producing bread for 800,000 people a day until Tuesday and that its overall food supplies will last a maximum of two weeks. As a “last resort” once all other food is exhausted, it has emergency stocks of fortified nutritional biscuits for 415,000 people.

Fuel and medicine will last weeks longer before hitting zero. Hospitals are rationing antibiotics and painkillers. Aid groups are shifting limited fuel supplies between multiple needs, all indispensable — trucks to move aid, bakeries to make bread, wells and desalination plants to produce water, hospitals to keep machines running.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has previously expressed opposition to women serving in combat, has ordered the military to develop gender-neutral physical fitness standards for frontline troops, a memo released Monday said.

The Tlaib amendments to the DETERRENT Act would have required universities to disclose investments in countries defending war crimes or genocide cases at the International Court of Justice or countries whose leaders are facing active arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court, among other criteria, and to disclose donations from countries facing similar conditions.

The House voted down the amendment on investments by a 410-3 vote, with only Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) siding with Tlaib. It voted down the other amendment on donations by a 404-4-1 vote, with Omar, Pressley and Rep. Al Green (D-TX) voting with Tlaib and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) voting present.

I just played a round of Golf with Alexander Stubb, President of Finland. He is a very good player, and we won the Men’s Member-Guest Golf Tournament at Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach County, with the Legendary Gary Player, Senator Lindsey Graham, and former Congressman and highly successful Television Host, Trey Gowdy.

“President Stubb and I look forward to strengthening the partnership between the United States and Finland, and that includes the purchase and development of a large number of badly needed Icebreakers for the U.S., delivering Peace and International Security for our Countries, and the World.

“President Stubb told me, in the most powerful of words, that the United States is STRONG, and BACK, AGAIN. I AGREE!” Trump wrote.

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Innocent Palestinians are regularly forced by soldiers to enter houses in Gaza to make sure there are no terrorists or explosives. So why is the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opening only six investigations into the use of human shields?

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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he will not enforce the arrest warrant, issued for war crimes in Gaza.

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The road will link northern and southern West Bank villages, diverting Palestinian traffic. Israel has refrained from building in the E1 area due to sharp international criticism, as it would create a separation between the two parts of the West Bank

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Defense Minister israel katz appointed Col. (res) yaakov blitstein, currently Defense Ministry deputy director-general, as the head of the Directorate for the Voluntary Emigration of Gaza Residents, the ministry announced on Sunday.

The directorate's task is to prepare for, and facilitate the safe and supervised "voluntary emigration of Gaza residents to third countries.

Defense Minister israel katz stated, "We are determined to realize the vision of US President donald trump to enable the voluntary emigration of Gaza residents who wish to relocate to various parts of the world."