It remains unclear why Epstein was taken off suicide watch, as he apparently tried to take his own life last month. FBI investigating. Arrested on July 6, Epstein pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls. His trial was set for next year. Apparent suicide launched new conspiracy theories online, as hashtag #EpsteinMurder trends worldwide on Twitter.
Following the attack at the Chez Jo Goldenberg deli in Paris, which killed six people and wounded 22, the former head of French domestic intelligence, Yves Bonnet, made a secret pact with the Abu Nidal faction of Fatah to allow its operatives free movement within France in exchange for a promise of no further attacks on French soil, French newspaper Le Parisien reports.
In message to pilgrims performing annual hajj in Saudi Arabia, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls on Muslims to take an "active part in defeating this deceit by the enemy."
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami tells Gulf defense officials that the "military coalition that America is seeking to form with the excuse of securing maritime transport will only increase insecurity in the region."
Blast, which went off shortly after the Taliban and the US announced progress on negotiations to end the Afghanistan war, killed mostly women and children. Eight more wounded in bombing in Herat in western Afghanistan.
“Although surveillance video has given us a promising start, it will be the public’s eyes that help us bring justice home to them,” said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, special agent in charge of the FBI Boston Division.
In a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Iran’s UN Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi accuses the United States of a “brazen violation of the fundamental principles of international law” and urges the international community to condemn the US behavior.
The congresswoman argues that Palestinians are not responsible for terrorism, and calls Israel a "white-supremacist nation."
Dimitri Verhulst wrote in the daily De Morgen that "Being Jewish is not a religion, no God would give creatures such an ugly nose." Chief rabbi of the Netherlands decries "pure anti-Semitism;" umbrella Jewish organization of the Flemish region of Belgium files a police complaint against Verhulst.
UK government report finds a number of Labour members have become "obsessed" with Israel since Jeremy Corbyn’s election as party leader in 2015, and that "hard-core anti-Semites" specifically joined the party because of him.
