RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 131 Palestinians were injured on Friday by the Israeli army in the northern occupied West Bank. Israeli forces fired live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas at Palestinians staging rallies across the West Bank, including in the northern town of Kafr Qaddum, Qalqilya, and the town of Beita, south [...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia will be able to supply 50 million tons of grain to the global market this year, President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking at a meeting of BRICS Plus format, Putin said the deliveries will depend on the situation with insurance of vessels, transporting food, bank payments and other restrictions imposed on […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Friday repatriated a Guantanamo Bay prisoner to Afghanistan after a federal court ruled the US “no longer has a legal basis to detain him.” The Pentagon announced the transfer of Asadullah Haroon al-Afghani from Guantanamo Bay prison after the US District Court of Columbia’s ruling that there was n...
MOSCOW (AA) – Moscow hopes “already damaged” ties between Russia and the European Union will not deteriorate further with EU candidate status granted to Ukraine and Moldova, the Kremlin spokesman has said. “It is important (that these processes) do not lead to further deterioration of our relations with the EU, because it is ...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Five irregular migrants died on Friday in an attempt to storm the iron fence surrounding Melilla, a Spanish-administered city in North Africa. The incident took place “as a result of a stampede of migrants and some of them fell from the top of the fence,” Moroccan authorities of the country’s north...
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had an immediate impact on pregnant people in Republican-controlled states with “trigger bans,” more than 80 elected attorneys from around the country vowed not to prosecute individuals who seek, assist in, or provide abortion care. “Crimi...
With the fate of reproductive rights for tens of millions of Americans now dependent upon federal and state lawmakers in the wake of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, Common Dreams takes a look at how Democratic and Republican candidates in 10 key U.S. Senate races responded to Friday’s ruling. Pennsylvania Democratic Se...
At least eight inmates died this week at a jam-packed prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago, becoming the latest victims of an ongoing crisis that has killed dozens of people this year. Ronald Richemond, the government commissioner of the southwest city of Les Cayes, told The Associated Press on Thursday that hunger and dangerous...
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday that the U.S. Senate must swiftly respond to the right-wing Supreme Court’s “outrageous and reactionary” decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by eliminating the legislative filibuster and codifying abortion rights into federal law. “Six Supreme Court justices, including some who in their nomi...
A House-approved bill to continue funding a free school lunch program for low-income families hit a roadblock Thursday after at least two Senate Republicans moved to thwart the measure. In an overwhelmingly bipartisan 376-42 vote, House lawmakers approved the Keep Kids Fed Act, a bill to extend the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)...
