Egypt unveils $53B Gaza rebuilding plan
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia on Monday called on international donors to help Somali people affected by the deadly drought as the funding gap widens. Somalia’s presidential envoy to drought response, Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame, made the call on Monday afternoon after paying a visit to the drought-stricken town of Bardhere i...
Panicked children and adults ran for their lives Monday as at least six people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a mass shooting that took place during a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Veteran Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet—who described the scene of the shooting as a “bloodbath”—said...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was unanimously elected Sunday as the new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He was elected at the 61st ECOWAS summit in Ghana’s capital Accra to succeed Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, who served two terms. “Happy t...
Human rights advocates on Monday derided the Biden administration’s assertion that Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was “likely”—but unintentionally—killed by an Israeli soldier, with one group accusing the U.S. State Department of complicity in a “whitewash” of the reporter’s death. In a st...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s top diplomat said Sunday that he expects his country and Israel to reach a sea demarcation agreement in September. Speaking to the LBCI television channel, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib commented on the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel which resumed through US mediation efforts in June following a one...
KIGALI, Rwanda/ACCRA, Ghana (AA) – Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali with immediate effect. ECOWAS imposed the sanctions on Mali in January for delaying to restore democratic rule. Meeting at an ordinary summit of heads of state and governmen...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Sunday vowed to abide by the recent agreement with Türkiye, including pledges on extradition of terrorists. Speaking at the annual political festival Almedalen Week in Gotland, Andersson said she could not share specific details of the memorandum signed with Türkiye and Finla...
TASHKENT (AA) – Uzbekistan has announced a month-long state of emergency in the protest-hit autonomous region of Karakalpakstan. The decree was signed by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev after demonstrations concerning the government’s proposed constitutional amendments over the region’s autonomous status. According to the official ord...
Progressives ripped billionaire Jeff Bezos for his latest defense of corporate profiteering over the weekend in which the Amazon founder and the world’s second-richest person criticized a call by President Joe Biden for oil companies to lower the price of gasoline. On Saturday, Bezos accused President Joe Biden of “misdirectionR...
Hundreds of people in Akron, Ohio gathered outside the police department’s headquarters and marched through the city late Sunday, demanding justice for Jayland Walker after police footage was released showing that the 25-year-old Black man had been fatally shot from behind at least 60 times by officers as he tried to flee from a traffic ...
