BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Former US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to host a controversial Saudi Arabia-funded golfing event. He made the remarks at a pro-am game held on the eve of the third LIV Golf tournament, which will take place between July 29-31 at the Trump National Golf Bedminster course in New […]
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has not said yet whether she will support the Inflation Reduction Act, the $739 billion package hammered out by Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and announced last Thursday. As she reviewed the 725-page bill over the weekend, reports suggested she is likely to object to a $14 billion provision takin...
ANKARA (AA) – A senior French officer warned Australia that owning nuclear-powered subs bought from the US and UK will be “much more difficult” than the plan it scrapped to build a new fleet of conventionally powered boats, local media said on Friday. French Vice Adm. Nicolas Vaujour, chief of operations of the joint staff [&hellip...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria has resumed commercial operations with Spain after Algerian Banks Association announced the suspension of a decision that had frozen trade exchanges with Spain. Banking institutions operating in Algeria received a new directive earlier on July 28 stating that the decision to “stop any commercial operations...
BEIRUT (AA) – A Syrian ship carrying stolen grain from Ukraine anchored in Lebanon’s Tripoli Port, a Lebanese minister has said. “The Ministry of Agriculture and the General Customs Office are following the developments regarding the Syrian ship, which carried stolen flour and barley of Ukraine and anchored in Tripoli Port,” Lebanese Tra...
BEIRUT (AA) – Grain silos at Beirut’s blast-hit port partially collapsed on Sunday, four days before the second anniversary of the massive 2020 explosion in the Lebanese capital. The northern part of the silos collapsed as a result of a weeks-long fire which has blown massive clouds of smoke across the port. After the collapse, [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that one of its members guarding an Israeli captive was killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip last year. Abu Ubaidah, a spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said in a brief statement that three other guards were injured in […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Fierce clashes erupted on Sunday between Iranian border guards and Taliban forces in the border region of Hirmand in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province. Afghan media citing Taliban authorities said at least one Taliban soldier was killed and another wounded in the violence. While the Taliban authorities h...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabab publicly executed seven people, including a soldier, for alleged spying in southwestern Somalia, according to local media. The seven men were executed by firing squad in Buula Fulay in the Bay region, as witnessed by many bystanders, according to the terror group’s propaganda ...
With little hope that the evenly divided U.S. Senate will approve the historic, long-awaited assault weapons ban that passed in the House Friday, gun control advocates called on Democratic leaders to hold a vote on the legislation and on filibuster reform, a move one campaigner said would force opponents to go on the record as being […]...
