: Thursday, May 20, 2021, 10:03 PM IST
Toolkit issue: After lodging FIR, Congress now asks Twitter to suspend handles of JP Nadda, Sambit Patra and other BJP leaders
Toolkit issue: After lodging FIR, Congress now asks Twitter to suspend handles of JP Nadda, Sambit Patra and other BJP leaders
The Congress party on Thursday sought suspension of Twitter handles of BJP president JP Nadda, Union minister Smriti Irani, and BJP leaders Sambit Patra and BL Santosh over the toolkit issue. All India Congress Committee (AICC) Research Department Chairman Rajeev Gowda and Congress Social Media Department Chairman Rohan Gupta has written a letter to Twitter.
Ethiopia has blocked telephone and internet access in Tigray while restricting journalists from entering and has also blocked the UN from providing humanitarian aid.
The Tigray Centre for Information and Communication is also lobbying the White House to levy the sanctions and is asking the House of Representatives to pass a similar resolution.
The centre has hired Karl Von Batten, head of the consulting firm Von Batten-Montague-York, to make its case to the administration of President Joe Biden and to Congress.
“We can’t stand by and watch innocent civilians raped, shot and massacred and killed,” Mr Von Batten told
Republicans Ralph Norman and Thomas Massie also got fined, while Democrat Marcy Kaptur, who voted against lifting the rule, got a first offense warning.
Sanders introduces legislation to block a $735 million arms sale package to Israel.
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution on Thursday aimed at halting the sale of precision-guided weapons to Israel. Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
May 20, 2021, 2:23 p.m. ET
Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, introduced a resolution on Thursday to block the sale of a $735 million package of precision-guided weapons to Israel, ratcheting up growing pressure on President Biden from his party’s left flank.
Mr. Sanders and other progressive lawmakers in Congress have argued that the United States could not morally send American-made weapons to Israel at a time when it has carried out airstrikes that have killed civilians.