A government watchdog revealed Thursday that Medicare Advantage plans—which are offered by private companies but required to follow rules set by the government healthcare program—deny medically necessary care to tens of thousands of enrollees each year. The revelation came in a report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service...
Peace advocates reacted to Thursday’s request by U.S. President Joe Biden for $33 billion in additional aid to Ukraine by warning against what they called a dangerous escalation and by accusing the administration of misplaced priorities. Biden is asking Congress for additional funding for war-ravaged Ukraine, including more than $20 bill...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye and Saudi Arabia are striving to increase all kinds of political, military and economic relations to start a new era, the Turkish president said early Friday. “We paid a visit to Saudi Arabia upon the invitation of Khadimu’l Haremeyn (the Servant of Mecca and Medina)”, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, referring to [...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia on Thursday urged Israel to cease its strikes on Syria, saying the attacks are “categorically unacceptable and inadmissible.” Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova strongly condemned the Israeli actions, stressing that they violate international law. “We dema...
LONDON (AA) – The Guardian published an investigative report on Thursday with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria’s capital Damascus, in April 2013. The piece was called “Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal,” and written by Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov. Tadamon is a sub...
As congressional Democrats held a press conference Thursday to discuss legislative proposals to reduce gasoline prices and crack down on fossil fuel corporations that are raking in record amounts of money amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, a progressive group redoubled its call for a windfall profits tax on Big Oil—calling it the “right...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – The Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council on Thursday urged the government to probe attacks against Muslims in the northern city of Gondar. The call for an immediate investigation into the deadly attacks came at a news conference by Hajji Mufti Omer Idriss, president of the Ethiopian Islamic body, amid uproar [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called on the country’s political parties for a comprehensive dialogue, the first since he took power in 2014. An Egyptian political affairs expert told Anadolu Agency that the dialogue will include the Salafist Islamist groups and supporters of the regime, but excludes an...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish armed forces killed a dozen PKK fighters in northern Syria as they were preparing to attack areas cleared by Turkiye’s military operations, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday. “Our heroic Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) continue to destroy terror nests in northern Syria,” the ministry said in a statement, [&...
MOSCOW – Russia has sanctioned 287 members of the UK House of Commons in response to sanctions imposed on its lawmakers over the Ukraine war. The Russian Foreign Ministry published the complete list of sanctioned UK parliamentarians on its website. “In response to the decision taken by the British government on March 11 this year [&helli...
