The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has advised students and families against applying to 14 universities labeled as “institutions of particular concern”. The advocacy group listed these institutions for allegedly mistreating those opposing genocide in Palestine. The advisory follows CAIR’s UnHostile Campus Campaign, ...
A new poll reveals two-thirds of Americans are limiting political news consumption due to overload. The trend is particularly notable among Democrats, with seven in 10 stepping back, compared to six in 10 Republicans and independents. The poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research said the television networ...
ANKARA (AA) — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled facts about the early universe, offering groundbreaking insights into the cosmos. JWST’s findings over the past three years span studies on the Solar System, the Milky Way, the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big Bang, exoplanets, and potential signs of life. Positio...
LONDON (AA) – Palestine supporters staged a rally in central London on Thursday against Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip, calling for an immediate cease-fire and an end to arms shipments to Israel. Carrying Palestinian flags, a group of people held a march toward Piccadilly Circus against Israeli attacks on Gaza that have killed...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump’s top border adviser said Thursday that the new administration will reintroduce family detention for migrants with children. “You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,” Tom Homan told The Washington Post. ...
ALEPPO/DAMASCUS, Syria (AA) — Protests in Syria, triggered by claims of damage to a religious shrine, were the result of provocations by elements of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime, the country’s interim government said. Protests erupted in several areas, including Hama, Homs, Latakia, Tartus, and the towns of Jableh and Banyas, after video...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has announced the arrest of several spies in Yemen who were allegedly working for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “Security agencies have, in recent days, arrested an (unspecified) number of spies recruited by the wanted (man) Hamid Hussein F...
MOSCOW (AA) – A survivor of Wednesday’s Azerbaijan Airlines crash claims that the plane’s pilots tried to land in Grozny, Chechnya, three times, followed by an explosion outside the plane, according to an audio recording shared by Russian TV channel RT. Subkhankul Rahimov said that something exploded on the third landing attempt and that...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir once again forced his way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Ben-Gvir entered the site under heavy police protection and toured the mosque’s courtyard, said an official with the Jordan-run Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem. This was his fifth...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Israeli army forces staged an incursion into a strategic area in southern Lebanon, in the latest violation of a cease-fire agreement, Lebanese media said. Israeli forces moved into the Wadi al-Hujeir area, firing heavy-caliber machine guns during their advance in the region, the state news agency NNA reported. The Lebanese army...