ANKARA (AA) – Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the US announced Saturday that they would provide $11 billion to address regional and international food security challenges. The US welcomed the “decision by the Arab Coordination Group (ACG), which includes 10 Arab and national specialized financial developmental ins...
GENEVA (AA) – UN human rights experts have urged Israel to release Ahmad Manasra, a 20-year-old Palestinian who was imprisoned at the age of 14. They said Manasra’s mental health was deteriorating. “Ahmad’s imprisonment for almost six years has deprived him of childhood, family environment, protection, and all the rights he should have b...
LONDON (AA) – The new British prime minister must treat “systemic” Islamophobia in the ruling Conservative Party seriously, according to the head of the UK’s leading Muslim organization. As the party searches for outgoing Premier Boris Johnson’s successor, whoever wins “must represent everybody and they have to make sure that they do tha...
Tel Aviv, Israel – (AFP): The US and Israel will hold talks on renewing a “global coalition” against Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Wednesday as he welcomed President Joe Biden to the country. “We will discuss the need to renew a strong global coalition that will stop the Iranian nuclear programme,” ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority does not pin high hopes on US President Joe Biden’s current visit to the region, a senior official has said. Biden’s visit “aims to enhance US support to Israel at all levels and to provide it with protection against accountability for its crimes,” Wasel Abu Yousef, an Executive [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – John Bolton, former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has admitted that he was involved in planning coups in foreign countries. Bolton made the stunning revelation during an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper while discussing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol building by Trump’s suppor...
‘WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran is moving rapidly to provide Russia with hundreds of its domestically-manufactured drones to bolster the Kremlin’s war effort against Ukraine, a senior Biden administration official has disclosed. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said the US has information suggesti...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has agreed to extend its mandate for badly-needed cross-border aid deliveries into Syria for six months. The 12-0 vote came after Russia vetoed a UN resolution on Friday that would have extended cross-border deliveries from Türkiye for one year. The Council’s mandate expired Sunday. The res...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The findings of a US investigation into the killing of trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh have left her family in a state of abject disappointment. The family said that the findings of the US forensic examination only reiterate the Israeli narrative on the killing of the veteran Palestinian reporter. Ab...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman voiced hope Monday that a planned regional visit by US President Joe Biden this week will lead to a common market in the Middle East. Biden is scheduled to arrive in Israel on July 13 as part of a regional tour that also includes the West Bank […]
