KARACHI, PAKISTAN – (AA): Heavy rains along with flash floods and windstorms have claimed 298 lives across Pakistan since June 1. Torrential downpours struck almost the entire country, including Pakistan administered (Azad) Kashmir, triggering landslides and flashfloods, and washing away bridges, houses, and animals. Almost 9,000 homes h...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – A Saudi businessman was kidnapped in Baalbek region in eastern Lebanon, local media said on Monday. Unidentified individuals lured Hussein al-Shammari on Sunday to one of the hills of Baalbek for an offer to sell him a land, before they kidnapped him and asked for a ransom, media reports said. The […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra on Monday cited a “positive atmosphere” regarding Syria’s relations with its Arab neighbors. “There is a positive atmosphere regarding Syria’s relationship with its Arab neighborhood,” Lamamra told a press conference in Damascus with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad. “Syria’...
ANKARA (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has warned Ethiopia against unilateral steps regarding a controversial dam project on the Nile River. Speaking at a joint press conference in Cairo with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, al-Sisi said he agreed with his Somali counterpart on the gravity of unilateral steps in the opera...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed last week’s deal to reopen Ukrainian ports for grain exports. The discussion, which took place during a phone call came after Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed a deal on Friday to reopen three Ukrainian ports – Odesa, Chernomorsk, [&hel...
In a statement on Monday marking 13 years since the federal minimum wage was last raised, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman challenged his ultra-millionaire Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz, to live on $7.25 an hour, which is also the hourly pay floor in Pennsylvania. “Another year, still no change to our shitty $7.25 an hour...
U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna on Monday called out the Biden administration for not participating in an upcoming congressional hearing about leaded aviation fuel harming human health and the environment. Khanna (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Environment, plans to hold the hearing on how the fue...
Around half of U.S. seniors living alone can’t afford their basic necessities, statistics published Monday revealed, underscoring calls for legislation to expand Social Security and lower prescription drug prices. Fifty-four percent of older U.S. women who live on their own and 45% of older men in the same situation are either impoverish...
Over the past four months, Big Oil has rushed to raise gasoline prices—sometimes charging far more at the pump than the increased cost of oil would warrant—and dawdled to lower them when crude’s valuation declined, according to a new analysis released Monday by the progressive watchdog group Accountable.US. Accountable.US acknowledges th...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday again took aim at the CHIPS Act, and proposed bipartisan legislation the Vermont independent noted contains tens of billions of dollars in “corporate welfare” for tech giants—taxpayer money he says would be better spent on programs of social uplift. “What the CHIPS bill represents is the que...
