The Daily Populous

Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East spent the past few months watching Netflix documentaries to brush up on world affairs.

Responding to concerns about his qualifications that have been raised by Democrats, Witkoff said that, like Trump, his skills as a real estate developer translate to his role negotiating global affairs.

Before being picked by Trump as a special Middle East envoy, Witkoff was known as a close friend of the president. »

Three New Zealand MPs who performed a haka in parliament will be temporarily suspended, in what is believed to be the harshest ever penalty issued to parliamentarians.

Haka have been performed in parliament in the past, including by Waititi, but the committee said the manner and timing of this haka, which interrupted other members’ ability to vote on the bill, was “a serious matter”.

The report included statements from the three MPs, who argued the haka was justified. »

New York University is withholding a student’s diploma after he condemned Israel’s deadly war on Gaza during his graduation ceremony speech.

Following Rozos’s speech, NYU released a statement saying that it “strongly denounces the choice by a student at the Gallatin School’s graduation today … to misuse his role as student speaker to express his personal and one-sided political views”.

Last August, NYU updated its student conduct guidelines to include “code words, like ‘Zionist’” as examples of discriminatory speech. »

Much of the case will turn on the extent to which international law places obligations in domestic law.

View image in fullscreen Campaigners outside the high court in London on 13 May challenge UK arms exports to Israel.

But the government’s lawyers argued that UK courts cannot second-guess government decisions in matters of foreign policy. »