President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to restore Alaska’s Mount Denali to its former name, Mount McKinley, honouring 19th-century President William McKinley. Addressing a crowd in Phoenix, Trump criticised the 2015 decision by the Obama administration to revert to the mountain’s Indigenous name, Denali. Trump called the renaming unfair to McK...
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed 50 bills into law, addressing a wide array of critical issues. Among the landmark measures is the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, championed by Paris Hilton, establishing a federal oversight group for the safety and care of minors in youth residential programs. A bipartisan ethics reform now prevents co...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Freezing temperatures have killed three Palestinian babies in the Gaza Strip amid an Israeli siege, according to officials and local media. A three-week-old baby girl lost her life in a tent encampment in al-Mawasi in the southern city of Khan Younis on Wednesday, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, the director general of [&...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to reinstate federal executions. He criticized President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates. Trump made the pledge on his social media platform, Truth Social, saying he will direct the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty to protect American families a...
Eric Trump, son of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sparked uproar with a social media post showing an altered image of his father seemingly “buying” Canada on Amazon. The image, captioned “We are so back!,” also referenced Greenland and the Panama Canal, echoing Trump’s past remarks about integrating these regions into the U.S. Tensions b...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 38 more Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, pushing up the death toll since October last year to 45,399, the Health Ministry in the enclave said. A ministry statement added that some 107,940 others have been injured. “Israeli forces killed 38 people and injured 137 others in […]
LATAKIA, Syria (AA) – At least 14 people have been killed and 10 injured in an ambush by remnants of Syria’s ousted Bashar Assad regime. Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel Rahman told state news agency SANA that forces aligned with the former Assad regime attacked security personnel in rural areas of Tartus province. He said “14 [&he...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Many civilians are feared dead and several others have been injured after Nigerian Air Force fighter jets bombed two communities during an operation targeting militants. The airstrikes affected residents of Gidan Sama and Rumtuwa communities in the Silame local government area of the northwestern Sokoto State. Local...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Five journalists from the Al-Quds Today channel were killed early Thursday when an Israeli airstrike struck their broadcasting van near al-Awda Hospital in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Palestinian officials and media reports. The journalists were covering events at the hospital when the vehicle, marked with ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump nominated Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera as ambassador to Panama. “I am pleased to announce that Kevin Marino Cabrera will serve as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, a Country that is ripping us off on the Panama Canal, far beyond their wildes...