HEBRON, Palestine – Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank city of Hebron to protest high prices. Demonstrators blocked roads with trucks amid chants condemning price hikes. “We call on the Palestinian government to urgently intervene to stop the rising prices and to subsidize basic commodities,” Amjad al-Atrash, an organ...
SFAX CITY, Tunisia – The head of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, has said that the end of the “coup” is imminent. “I salute the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) for refusing to participate in the farce national dialogue,” Ghannouchi told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting in the southeastern city of Sfa...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has warned against Israel’s attempts to encroach on the country’s energy wealth. “The attempts of the Israeli enemy to create a new crisis, by encroaching on Lebanon’s water wealth […] is a matter of extreme seriousness and would trigger tensi...
Kuwait City, Kuwait – (AFP): Anger in the Middle East spread Monday over comments made by an official of India’s ruling party about the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him), with various countries summoning New Delhi’s envoy and a Kuwaiti supermarket removing Indian products. The United Arab Emirates became the latest country...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP): The man charged by President Kais Saied with rewriting Tunisia’s constitution said Monday he would present a draft stripped of any reference to Islam in order to fight Islamist parties. The first article of a constitution adopted three years after the North African country’s 2011 revolution says it is ...
The White House announced Monday executive actions to help “create a bridge” to a “clean energy future” including invoking the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of U.S.-made solar panels. The actions, first reported by Reuters, come as the Build Back Better’s climate provisions remain stalled in the Sen...
While warning that lawmakers’ continued inaction on gun control legislation will have “significant consequences” for democracy in the U.S., Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday also tempered expectations regarding the ongoing bipartisan negotiations that began in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas late last month. The Co...
A survey published Sunday shows that nearly half of Republican voters in the United States believe mass shootings of the kind that took the lives of 19 young children in Uvalde, Texas last month are “unfortunately something we have to accept as part of a free society.” According to the CBS/YouGov poll, 44% of GOP voters and [&helli...
Mexico’s leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Monday that he is skipping the Summit of the Americas, following through on his threat to boycott the upcoming meeting if the White House refused to invite officials from all nations in the Western Hemisphere. The Biden administration’s decision to bar the governments...
Starbucks workers are accusing company management of illegally retaliating against labor organizing by moving to shut down an Ithaca, New York shop that voted to unionize in April. Workers United, an SEIU affiliate representing Starbucks workers, filed a complaint Friday urging the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to pursue a court injunc...
