WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominees to lead the Labor Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trump said Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer is his pick to serve as the next head of the Department of Labor. “Lori’s strong support from both the Business and Labor communities will en...
ISTANBUL (AA) – SpaceX, a US private space company, launched 24 Starlink satellites into orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in southeastern State of Florida, the SpaceX said on X. The space company later confirmed the deployment of the satellites. According to the SpaceX, Star...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Republican lawmakers have denounced the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor pledged a strong response in January. Rep. Mike Waltz, the incoming nation...
ANKARA (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has welcomed the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. In a statement, the OIC describe...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem has urged all member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to enforce arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense chief Yoav Gallant. “Israel’s crimes of starvation, persecution, and intentionally directing an attack against civili...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has announced Pam Bondi, a former attorney general of Florida, as his new pick for attorney general. The announcement came hours after former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was Trump’s first pick, withdrew from consideration for the post. “Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where sh...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Former US Rep. Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general. It came in a shock announcement as a House of Representatives panel weighs the release of a critical report concerning sexual misconduct allegations against Gaetz. Gaetz was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has affirmed its compliance with the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense chief Yoav Gallant. “First of all, as Canada has always said, it’s really important that everyone abide by international law. This is somethi...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 27 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting homes and makeshift shelters for displaced people across the Gaza Strip. A medical source at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza said that eight fatalities and multiple injuries were reported following an Israeli airstrike on a home in [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has welcomed the “long overdue” decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a statement, the Michigan Democrat said the warrant...
