ANKARA (AA) – The US-built floating humanitarian pier in Gaza has been reattached to the coast several days after it had been dismantled due to unfavorable weather conditions, CNN reported. It quoted two US officials who confirmed the pier was re-anchored to the Gaza coast. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said the pier would ...
Washington, United States — AFP China’s support for Russia’s defense industry is prolonging the Ukraine war and “has to stop,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. China is providing critical support that enables “Russia to keep that defense industrial base going, to keep the war machine going, to ...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden attempted a political high-wire act Tuesday by announcing a citizenship pathway for half a million immigrants married to US nationals, in a counterweight to his recent crackdown on illegal border crossers. The Biden administration has been struggling to address immigration, a hugely div...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Two key Democrats in the US Congress signed off on a major arms sale to Israel that includes 50 F-15 fighter jets worth more than $18 billion, The Washington Post reported Monday. Citing three unnamed US officials, it said Representative Gregory Meeks and Senator Ben Cardin agreed to support the deal under […]
Mina, Saudi Arabia – AFP Pilgrims performed Sunday the last major ritual of the hajj, the “stoning of the devil”, in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of three concrete w...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Around 40,000 Palestinians offered Eid al-Adha prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, but there was no festive atmosphere. The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said in a statement that about 40,000 worshippers performed Eid al-Adha prayers. The Palestinian news agency WAFA repo...
Detroit, United States – AFP Donald Trump met with Black voters Saturday as he courted a community that largely supported his rival Joe Biden four years ago but has seen notable numbers of African Americans shift allegiance ahead of November’s presidential rematch. But the Republican former president also attended another campaign ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A heat wave currently roasting the southeastern US is expected to spread into the country’s Midwest and northeast, potentially affecting nearly 250 million people, the National Weather Service (NWS) said on Saturday. According to the NWS, temperatures will remain at 32 degrees Celsius (90F) or higher for at least a week, ...
Savelletri, Italy – AFP US President Joe Biden said Thursday that “the biggest hang-up so far” to a deal on a Gaza truce and prisoner release is Hamas. “I’ve laid out an approach that has been endorsed by the UN Security Council, by the G7, by the Israelis, and the biggest hang-up so far is […]
Judge Ryan Nelson of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has recused himself from a case challenging the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. Nelson had participated in a judicial delegation that toured Israel. Plaintiffs, including Palestinian human rights organizations, and Palestinian and American nationals, argued Nelson’s involvement compr...
