Islim Cheshma, Turkmenistan – AFP Afghanistan said Wednesday work would begin on a $10 billion gas pipeline traversing South Asia as officials joined dignitaries in neighbouring Turkmenistan to celebrate its completion on that side of the border. Progress on the TAPI pipeline — running through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan an...
Lagos, Nigeria — AFP Weeks of fuel scarcities in Nigeria are compounding a cost-of-living crisis, with the state-run oil company acknowledging “financial strain” was hampering supplies. Olufemi Soneye, a spokesman for government-controlled Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), blamed the lingering scarcity on f...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pledged Monday to support union workers. “Kamala believes as I do that unions are the spine of this economy. She will be a historic, pro-union president,” Biden said at his first joint campaign event with Harris in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He said when...
Millions of Americans face renewed uncertainty after the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority halted President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan. The court’s decision supports a lower court’s suspension of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program. That had cut monthly payments for borrowers based on income. This move fol...
A Texas federal court has invalidated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new ban on non-compete clauses. Judge Ada Brown ruled that the FTC overstepped its authority and found the ban to be “arbitrary and capricious.” Scheduled to take effect on Sept. 4, the rule aimed to prevent employers from restricting workers’ future j...
ANKARA (AA) – Afghanistan and Uzbekistan on Saturday inked a string of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth $2.5 billion, state media reported. Some 35 agreements in energy, agriculture, and manufacturing sectors were signed by Uzbekistan’s Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economi...
Hundreds of legal experts have called on President Joe Biden to end American economic sanctions on Cuba on the 75th anniversary of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In their letter, the experts say these sanctions amount to collective punishment, which is a violation of international law. Highlighting the severe impact on Cuban civilians — ranging...
Bayt Dajan, Palestinian Territories — AFP Hussein Jamil held a permit to work in Israel for 22 years until the war on Gaza began. Now, after setting up a greenhouse in a West Bank village, he swears he’ll never go back. Harvesting his tomatoes in the occupied West Bank, the 46-year-old says his former Israeli […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday American presidents should “have a say” in monetary policy decisions of the Federal Reserve. “I feel the president should have at least (a) say in there,” he told a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in the state of Florida. &...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said over the weekend that he has “no choice but to support electric vehicles” due to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s backing of him in the coming election. Speaking at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, Trump discussed the support he received fro...
