NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army killed two Palestinians in northern West Bank on Sunday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. In a statement, the humanitarian organization said “two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army’s bullets during an operation at dawn on Sunday, in the old city of Nablus.” The two mar...
Federal agency staffers and congressional office members have a message for President Joe Biden as his climate agenda languishes in the Senate: Ensure that fossil fuel industry ally Sen. Joe Manchin faces significant consequences for obstructing legislative progress. In a letter first reported by The Lever on Monday, 165 staffers from federal ...
With a victory in Cleveland on Friday, Starbucks workers officially reached 200 union election wins across more than 30 U.S. states, a remarkable achievement in the face of a full-throttle union-busting campaign by the coffee company’s management and its billionaire interim CEO, Howard Schultz. The speed with which Starbucks workers acro...
A Sacramento judge ruled Friday that an initiative to raise California’s minimum wage to $18 an hour by 2025 cannot appear on the state’s ballot this coming November, even though the campaign behind the proposal obtained more than enough signatures. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge James Arguelles’ ruling stems from a d...
TAIZ, YEMEN (AA): A mortar shell fired by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saturday injured 11 children in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen. Taiz Police stated that the Houthis carried out the mortar attack on Taiz’s Zeid al-Mushki District. The statement added that the children, mostly under the age of 10, were seriously and […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The multimillion-dollar khat trade between Somalia and Kenya resumed on Sunday after a break of over two years, a sign of thawing tensions between the East African neighbors. Cargo planes carrying tons of khat (locally known as miraa) landed at the Aden Adde airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The khat […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia has said that it will not engage in any talks until Ukraine’s Western allies stop their interference. There will not be any negotiations unless Ukraine confirms there will be no interference by London, Washington and its other allies, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Cairo as he kicked off his […]...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Guinea-Bissau’s president and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Sunday called on the Burkinabe to support the country’s transition government. Umaro Sissoco Embalo made the call after meeting with Burkina Faso leaders, including transition President Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo...
ANKARA (AA) – Greece has recently been deliberately eroding terms and conditions of the Lausanne Peace Treaty, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan alleged on Sunday. In a video message on the 99th anniversary of the Lausanne Peace Treaty, he said: “The terms and conditions of Lausanne Peace Treaty, particularly the rights of the Turkish m...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip held protest demonstrations on Sunday against the administrative detention policy of Israel. The protest was organized on Sunday by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City. Protest...
