ISTANBUL (AA) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared an AI-generated video depicting his vision for the future of the Gaza Strip. The 33-second video, which Trump shared on his social media platform Truth Social, opens with a scene of Gaza in ruins, displaying the inscription “Gaza 2025” in green, followed by “Wha...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A member of the US Congress from Donald Trump’s party is proposing a $250 bill featuring a picture of the president. “Grateful to announce that I am drafting legislation to direct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring Donald J. Trump,” Joe Wilson, a South Carolina lawmaker, said [&hell...
Sen. Bernie Sanders has filed four resolutions to stop an $8.56 billion arms sale to Israel. He accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of waging an “all-out war” against Palestinians, using U.S. bombs to destroy nearly 70% of Gaza’s structures. Sanders said supplying more weapons would be “unconscionab...
A federal judge has denied the Associated Press or AP an emergency order to regain access to presidential events. The White House banned the United States’ oldest news agency after it refused to use “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” in its reports. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to rename the […]
A jury has been selected for the trial of a man accused of murdering a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy outside Chicago in October 2023. Seventy-three-year-old Joseph Czuba is charged with fatally stabbing Wadee Alfayoumi 26 times in Plainfield, Illinois. He also is accused of attempting to kill Wadee’s mother, Hanan Shaheen. According to ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration said that it will work to free two British nationals arrested in the country “as soon as possible”, BBC reported on Monday. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained on Feb. 1 while they were heading to their home in Bamiyan province in central Afghanista...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Five newborn babies froze to death in the Gaza Strip amid cold weather in the war-torn enclave, a Palestinian doctor said on Tuesday. “Nine infants were hospitalized in the past two weeks due to health complications caused by severe cold,” Saeed Salah, Director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital [&...
Palestinian game developer Rasheed Abueideh is bringing the story of the Nakba to life through his new game, Dreams on a Pillow. The Nakba refers to Zionists’ ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for their establishment of Israel in 1948. Israelis killed and displaced Palestinians, taking their property and belongings while suppressin...
Israel’s army has released footage of the airstrike in Beirut that killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. State news agency NNA said the mass funeral for Nasrallah and senior Hezbollah member Hashem Safieddine started at the Camille Chamoun Sports City amid tight security. Nasrallah was assassinated by Israel on Sept. 27. ...
U.N. Special Envoy on Myanmar Julie Bishop has called for a swift political settlement to allow the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to return home. Bishop made the appeal in a meeting with Bangladesh’s interim government adviser, Touhid Hossain, in the country’s capital Dhaka. More than 1.2 million Rohingya have been living in the Bangla...