Chantal Da Silva

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva

The Israeli military has walked back its account of its killing of 15 paramedics and emergency workers in southern Gaza last month after video emerged that called into question its version of events. The reversal came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on the invitation of President Donald Trump. The Palestinian paramedics and emergency responders were killed March 23.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Henry Austin |Chantal Da Silva |Jean-Nicholas Fievet

LONDON — British comedian and actor Russell Brand has been charged with rape and sexual assault, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Friday. The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star was charged with two counts of rape, indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, Jaswant Narwal, Chief Crown Prosecutor for London North said on Friday. “These relate to reported non-recent offences between 1999 and 2005, involving four women,” she added.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Henry Austin |Chantal Da Silva

1 hour agoRussell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault between 1999 and 2005. The charges relate to four separate women. The comedian and actor has been interviewed multiple times by police since an investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4's Dispatches in …

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva |Yarden Segev

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could visit the United States as early as next week, President Donald Trump said Thursday as dozens of people were killed in a strike on school in Gaza, according to Palestinian health officials. “We’ll speak about Israel, and we’ll speak about what’s going on,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “That’s another thing we’d like to get solved,” he said, although he did not provide further details about the Israeli leader's trip.

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Chantal Da Silva

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in Hungary overnight, stepping out for the first time into a country that recognizes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court which issued a warrant for his arrest last year. The possibility of his arrest seemed distant however, after Hungary's right-wing Prime minister Viktor Orbán, a well known supporter of Israel, vowed to defy the court's directive shortly after it was issued in November.