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WASHINGTON (AA) – Well over half of all Americans want the Supreme Court to support federal abortion rights protections, according to a poll released on Wednesday. The Morning Consult and Politico survey found 57% of Americans hope the top court supports abortion rights, compared to 28% who hope the court opposes them. Just 15% said [&he...
GENEVA (AA) – COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline worldwide, but South African scientists that identified the omicron strain have reported two more sub-variants, the World Health Organization chief said Wednesday. Tedros Ghebreyesus said at a press webinar that COVID-19 infections and fatalities are continuing to decline global...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Commission has proposed sanctions against the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, over his support for Russia’s war on Ukraine, according to media reports. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented a draft of the sixth round of sanctions against Russia to European Union lawma...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers raised the national flag atop the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of Israel’s “Independence Day”, local media reported Wednesday. Nedal al-Jaabari, the head of Hebron’s Waqf, or Islamic endowment, which is in charge of administering the mosque, condemned the act “as ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the State Department announced in the latest episode of a senior Biden administration official contracting the coronavirus. Blinken, who “is fully vaccinated and boosted against the virus,” is experiencing “mild symptoms,&#...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday a three-day cease-fire for evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Mariupol. In a statement, the ministry said an evacuation corridor will be opened in the Azovstal area, in accordance with a decision taken by ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Russia’s foreign minister Wednesday to apologize for his “anti-Semitic lies” following the latter’s claim that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood.” “The truth is I read them several times,” Herzog told Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, referring to Sergey Lavrov’s remarks. “At first, ...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked were heckled Wednesday at separate Memorial Day events marking the remembrance of fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terrorism, local media reported Wednesday. At a memorial service at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery, some families among the aud...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US is “now preparing equally for” scenarios in which the 2015 nuclear deal world powers struck with Iran is revived, as well as its possible dissolution, the State Department has announced. The comments come as indirect bilateral talks with Iran to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) remain m...
PARIS (AA) – France’s General Inspectorate for the National Police in the public prosecutor’s office in Nanterre on Wednesday opened an investigation into the beating of two women wearing headscarves by three officers in the town of Asnieres on April 14, according to French news outlet Le Figaro. An initial complaint was filed by the [&h...
