JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army is building infrastructure, expanding roads and establishing large facilities in Gaza, in a move that shows it is planning to remain in the enclave until at least the end of 2025, an Israeli newspaper has reported. “The work is progressing at full speed. What was a dirt embankment with […]
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the parliament that Israel is not committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. During the Prime Minister’s Questions at the House of Commons, Independent lawmaker Ayoub Khan raised comments from Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who recently claimed that the term genoci...
ANKARA (AA) – France has condemned Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to annex the occupied West Bank. “France condemns the recent remarks of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in favor of the annexation of the West Bank by Israel,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It recalled that those re...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella has responded sharply to Elon Musk’s controversial comments on Italian judges. Musk, set to play a major role in the new US administration led by Donald Trump, harshly criticized a Rome court for having blocked the detention of a second batch of migrants in an Albanian detention center. [&h...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged the developed countries to fulfill their financial commitments made during the COP27 and COP 28. Addressing the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, Sharif said that financial support should be grant based for developing countries. “I str...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have joined a wave of condemnations of a call by Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to annex the occupied West Bank. In a statement, the Saud Foreign Ministry warned that Smotrich’s call “undermines peace efforts, including the two-state solution, encourages war, fuel extremism and threat...
Arab and Islamic leaders have called for suspending Israel’s U.N. membership in response to its war and aggression in Gaza and Lebanon. During a summit in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit emphasized the urgency of the proposal. He described it as a vital step toward addressing long-standing grievan...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared plans to annex the occupied West Bank by 2025, urging officials to prepare for the move. Speaking to his Religious Zionist Party, Smotrich emphasized that applying Israeli sovereignty to the region, referred to as Judea and Samaria, would end the Palestinian statehood agenda. Smotrich expe...
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ attempt to transfer his Georgia election interference case to federal court. Meadows was indicted for his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. He has argued that the case should be heard federally due to his position […]
A federal judge has blocked a Louisiana law mandating the display of the Protestant 10 Commandments in all public school classrooms. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles ruled that the requirement is “unconstitutional on its face,” noting that it would violate the separation of church and state. The ruling responds to a lawsuit fil...
