LONDON – It is “entirely legitimate” for Ukraine to hit military targets within Russia using Western-supplied weapons, a top British defense official has said. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey has said Ukrainian forces have every right to go after Russian supply lines and destroy them to hinder Moscow’s war effort and add more pressur...
GENEVA – The UN refugee agency has projected that the number of people fleeing the war in Ukraine will soar to 8.3 million by the end of this year. “The rapidity with which people are fleeing, we have not seen in recent times,” UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo said. Mantoo said the number of internally displaced […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian rights groups have condemned an Israeli court decision rejecting a request to reinvestigate the killing of four children by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2014. The four boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing on a beach in the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014. On Sunday April […]
TUNIS, Tunisia – A Tunisian politician has called for a rescue plan to help pull the country out of its current political and economic crises. “There must be reforms in order to save Tunisia through a rescue plan to cruise the country out of the political, economic and social crises,” Ahmed Najib Chebbi, a leader […]
WASHINGTON – The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution requiring permanent members of the Security Council to come before the assembly to provide an explanation should they exercise their veto powers. The resolution was adopted by consensus, meaning individual member states did not have to cast votes. The veto power of the five pe...
DOHA, Qatar – Qatar has called for providing protection to the Palestinian people and their holy sites amid Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem. Qatar “calls on the international community, especially the Security Council, to assume its responsibilities to protect the Palestinian people and their religious sanctities and to sto...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Mali’s public prosecutor has announced the launch of an investigation into a mass grave discovered near the camp formerly occupied by French forces in Gossi, north of Mali. On Wednesday April 27, the Malian army claimed to have discovered a mass grave near a military base left by the French army in […]
JERICHO, PALESTINE (AA) – A young Palestinian man succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday after he was shot by Israeli forces in the eastern occupied West Bank district of Jericho. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Ahmad Ibrahim Oueidat, 20, was shot with a live bullet in the head during an Israeli military raid into […]
Advocates and Democrats who support sweeping student debt cancellation welcomed reporting Tuesday that President Joe Biden is exploring options for loan forgiveness after extending a pandemic-related pause on payments earlier this month. Multiple outlets, including CBS News and The Washington Post, reported that during a Monday meeting with me...
Hundreds of faith-based and civil rights groups and leaders across the United States on Tuesday called on members of Congress to “fiercely reject” a “dangerous” bill that would codify a rule used to deport more than 1.7 million asylum-seekers under the pretext of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a letter to congressional lawma...
