Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): Somalia has appointed the former deputy leader and spokesman for the Al-Shabaab group as religion minister, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Tuesday. The announcement marks a sharp reversal of fortune for Muktar Robow, who has spent the last four years under house arrest after a falling-out with ex-president Moham...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israel’s army closed areas near the Gaza border to civilians Tuesday, citing a risk of reprisals, following the overnight arrest of two senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad members, the military and Palestinian sources said. A Palestinian security source, who requested anonymity, told AFP that one of tho...
Peace campaigners on Tuesday decried the Biden administration’s approval of more than $5 billion in missile sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a move that came weeks after U.S. President Joe Biden visited the leaders of both countries despite pleas from human rights defenders. The U.S. Department of Defense said the U.S....
Anti-war campaigners on Tuesday applauded news that the United Nations-brokered truce in Yemen had been extended for another two months and called on U.S. lawmakers to help ensure more permanent peace by passing the Yemen War Powers Resolution. Both the Saudi-led military coalition, which receives backing from the U.S. government, and the Hout...
A coalition of watchdog organizations on Tuesday urged Democratic congressional leaders to “expeditiously” bring a ban on lawmaker stock trading up for a vote, warning that a proposal with broad support from the U.S. public is at growing risk of dying as the Senate prepares for August recess and the midterms loom. “We fear th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The interim Taliban administration on Tuesday condemned the drone attack carried out by the US in Afghanistan on Sunday. “It is a clear violation of international principles and the Doha agreement,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the interim government, in a statement. The US drone strike killed al-Qaeda leader...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces detained a leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in a raid in the occupied West Bank. Bassam al-Saadi was arrested after Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp late Monday. His brother-in-law was detained in the raid during which Israeli forces engaged in a firefight with Palestinian gunmen. The...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a law that allows all of the state’s registered voters to submit their ballots by mail, rebuffing an effort by Republican lawmakers to overturn a statute they supported years earlier. In its ruling, the court’s majority declared that “we find no restriction in our constitution ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and several more wounded in a roadside explosion in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The blast in the Tarabunka area of Mogadishu’s Hodan district targeted a security convoy, according to a police official requesting anonymity. He confirmed that the two people killed are civilians, while so...
As fires and floods wreak havoc across the United States—from California to Kentucky—activists armed with a 16-foot inflatable globe and nearly half a million petition signatures gathered outside the White House on Tuesday to yet again demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency. Greenpeace USA explained that “the action,...
