Iran has lifted access restrictions on WhatsApp and Google Play, marking a significant step in easing internet controls. The decision was made during a meeting of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace. It was attended by top officials, Cabinet ministers, and council members, according to state news agency IRNA. The session emphasized t...
Libyan authorities have deported 400 irregular migrants to Niger by land, marking the first such operation in 12 years. The deportation, conducted Wednesday, is part of intensified efforts to curb illegal migration. Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Buredia, deputy head of security at the Anti-Illegal Migration Unit, said the agency has ramped up op...
Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, raising the death toll from an ongoing military operation in the area to eight, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. A ministry statement said seven more people were injured, including two seriously, in the offensive. The Israeli army began a large-scale [&hel...
The Israeli military attacked a group of civilians protesting its occupation in Quneitra province, Syria. Residents of Suwayse, a village in the southwestern province of Quneitra, organized a demonstration against Israel’s territorial occupation. At least three people were reportedly injured in the Israeli army’s attack on demonstr...
Residents of Oregon’s Lincoln County received racist letters urging them to track and report people of color. Titled “The Brown Round-Up Part 1,” the letters falsely claimed a U.S. Department of Homeland Security initiative to create a hotline for this purpose. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office condemned the letters, calli...
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to restore Alaska’s Mount Denali to its former name, Mount McKinley, honouring 19th-century President William McKinley. Addressing a crowd in Phoenix, Trump criticised the 2015 decision by the Obama administration to revert to the mountain’s Indigenous name, Denali. Trump called the renaming unfair to McK...
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed 50 bills into law, addressing a wide array of critical issues. Among the landmark measures is the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, championed by Paris Hilton, establishing a federal oversight group for the safety and care of minors in youth residential programs. A bipartisan ethics reform now prevents co...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Freezing temperatures have killed three Palestinian babies in the Gaza Strip amid an Israeli siege, according to officials and local media. A three-week-old baby girl lost her life in a tent encampment in al-Mawasi in the southern city of Khan Younis on Wednesday, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, the director general of [&...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to reinstate federal executions. He criticized President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of 37 federal inmates. Trump made the pledge on his social media platform, Truth Social, saying he will direct the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty to protect American families a...
Eric Trump, son of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sparked uproar with a social media post showing an altered image of his father seemingly “buying” Canada on Amazon. The image, captioned “We are so back!,” also referenced Greenland and the Panama Canal, echoing Trump’s past remarks about integrating these regions into the U.S. Tensions b...