MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday a three-day cease-fire for evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Mariupol. In a statement, the ministry said an evacuation corridor will be opened in the Azovstal area, in accordance with a decision taken by ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Russia’s foreign minister Wednesday to apologize for his “anti-Semitic lies” following the latter’s claim that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood.” “The truth is I read them several times,” Herzog told Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, referring to Sergey Lavrov’s remarks. “At first, ...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked were heckled Wednesday at separate Memorial Day events marking the remembrance of fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terrorism, local media reported Wednesday. At a memorial service at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery, some families among the aud...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US is “now preparing equally for” scenarios in which the 2015 nuclear deal world powers struck with Iran is revived, as well as its possible dissolution, the State Department has announced. The comments come as indirect bilateral talks with Iran to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) remain m...
PARIS (AA) – France’s General Inspectorate for the National Police in the public prosecutor’s office in Nanterre on Wednesday opened an investigation into the beating of two women wearing headscarves by three officers in the town of Asnieres on April 14, according to French news outlet Le Figaro. An initial complaint was filed by the [&h...
J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist who garnered national acclaim with his book Hillbilly Elegy, won the Republican U.S. Senate primary in Ohio on Tuesday, riding an endorsement from former President Donald Trump and a large infusion of campaign cash from billionaire Peter Thiel. Having beaten Republican rival Josh Mandel, Vance will face off aga...
Rep. Shontel Brown, an establishment incumbent whose campaign was boosted by torrents of super PAC spending, handily defeated progressive champion Nina Turner on Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District. Outside organizations spent heavily on Brown’s behalf in the U.S. House race, a rematch of a heat...
Global health justice advocates on Tuesday rejected the World Trade Organization’s corporate-friendly alternative to India and South Africa’s widely supported motion to waive the intellectual property monopolies that are undermining the ramped up production of lifesaving Covid-19 vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics by generic m...
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Monday that the Senate Budget Committee is planning to hold a hearing later this week to discuss ending federal contracts to corporations engaged in illegal anti-union practices. The hearing—titled “Should Taxpayer Dollars Go to Companies that Violate Labor Laws?”—is scheduled for Thursday, May 5. Sand...
Amazon’s union-busting tactics appeared successful on Monday after a tally by the National Labor Relations Board revealed workers failed to unionize a second Amazon warehouse in New York City on Staten Island. The final tally of workers at the LDJ5 warehouse was 380 in favor of the union to 618 against out of 1,633 eligible voters. The l...
