VIENNA, ANKARA (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has offered a “final text” to reach a consensus in the ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations, an EU official has said. Now the parties to the talks will consider this text, said the official, who asked not to be identified, calling it the best possible effort […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Palestine has urged the international community to provide protection in the wake of recent Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip that left 46 Palestinians dead. The Palestinian envoy to the UN told the UN Security Council that it was an ”unprovoked and unjustified” aggression. ”Its real reaso...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Fuel trucks entered Gaza as an Egypt-brokered truce between Israel and Islamic Jihad militants held Monday, raising hopes that the intense conflict that left dozens of Palestinians dead has ended. An AFP journalist at the goods crossing to southern Gaza saw trucks loaded with fuel enter the enclave, ending...
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Chad’s military government has signed a deal with more than 40 opposition groups to launch national peace talks later this month, although the main rebel outfit refused to take part. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the African Union have urged the junta and opposition to seize the latest opportunity to stabil...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Shell-shocked Gazans sifted through the rubble of three days of deadly fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad fighters as a truce held and life slowly returned to normal. An Egypt-brokered ceasefire reached late Sunday ended the intense fighting that killed 46 people including 16 children and wounde...
The Schumer-Manchin reconciliation bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which is expected to become law after it cleared the Senate on a party-line vote, and key House Democrats have already signaled that they will vote for it when it moves to the lower chamber of Congress, aims to boost the economy and fight […]
The far-right in the United States responded ominously to the FBI’s Monday night search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida mansion, with Republican lawmakers and television personalities baselessly accusing the Biden administration of weaponizing the Justice Department and popular as well as anonymous social media users bea...
Corporate America’s relentless year-long lobbying campaign partially paid off this past weekend when Senate Democrats, under the pressure of two industry-allied lawmakers in their own party and united GOP opposition, approved legislation that stands as a mere shadow of its predecessor, the Build Back Better Act. Big business is particul...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump said in a lengthy statement Monday that Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Florida, was “under siege, raided, and occupied” by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Trump claimed the “unannounced raid” was “prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the justice system, and an attack...
Democracy defenders on Monday welcomed reports that Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, is calling for a special prosecutor to probe allegations of a Republican-led attempt to feloniously break into voting machines after the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The New York Times reports Nessel, a Democrat, is seeking to appoint a spec...
