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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

“We are now part of a process at the International Court of Justice initiated by Nicaragua,” Berlin said. “We have decided to focus on this process.”
“To our American friends,” a former European Union commissioner wrote back to the State Department, “censorship isn’t where you think it is.”
“There can be no enrichment inside of Iran,” U.S. diplomat Morgan Ortagus said. “That remains our principle.”
The Trump administration told many career foreign service officers to leave their ambassadorial posts next month, adding to a long list of vacancies in the Middle East.
The U.S. president said that the new “golden fleet” will replace “old and tired and obsolete” vessels.
Shira Gvili told JNS that she is traveling the United States to remind officials that “for Am Yisrael, we need him to come home,” referring to the remains of her brother, Israel Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili.
Trust is lacking from Jerusalem, however, with the Jewish state’s U.N. envoy telling the council that “responsibility rests with the Syrian authorities to stop” terror activity within its borders.
The U.S. “will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” said John Hurley, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.
“That says more about the U.N. than it does about Israel,” the Israeli ambassador to the global body in New York told JNS.