The U.S. has vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution demanding Palestine’s full membership in the United Nations. The 15-member council gathered in New York to vote on a draft resolution authored by Algeria recommending the admission of the State of Palestine. Twelve countries voted in favor with two abstentions, including the U.K. and...
By killing over 14,000 innocent children in Gaza, Israel has already outdone Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Turkish president said on Wednesday. Recep Tayyib Edogan said that with unconditional support from the West, Israel is carrying out massacres that are marks of shame in human history, both in Gaza and the West Bank, during his […]
A ProPublica report reveals that a special State Department panel advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken months ago to restrict arms sales to Israeli military units that have been accused of human rights violations. The panel’s recommendations aimed to disqualify a number of Israeli military and police units from receiving American as...
Google has fired 28 employees for involvement in protests against its $1.2 billion contract with Israel. The employees’ identities remain undisclosed. In a statement, the workers called Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and Thomas Kurian, CEO of the cloud in question, “genocide profiteers.” The firings came after an internal memo ci...
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a Black Lives Matter organizer, which now paves the way for him to be sued by a Louisiana police officer for negligence. The lawsuit stems from a 2016 protest in the city of Baton Rouge following the fatal shooting of a Black man, Alton Sterling, by two […]
New York, United States – AFP Donald Trump could not have made his feelings clearer: he would rather be anywhere else than in a New York courtroom Tuesday, on trial for business fraud. Dressed in a blue suit with a blue tie, former US president shifted between discomfort and anger, as he sat through the […]
Schnecksville, United States – AFP Donald Trump on Saturday blasted President Joe Biden over Iran’s major attack on Israel, alleging that his rival in November elections showed American “weakness” in the Middle East. “God bless the people of Israel. They are under attack right now. That’s because we show gre...
Muslim sites at various places in the U.S. witnessed attacks as community members marked the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday to mark the end of Ramadan. In Philadelphia, gunfire erupted, injuring three individuals at a gathering of around 1,000 people celebrating Eid. Police said 30 shots were fired and four guns were recovered from the scene. They took [...
Pasadena, United States – APRIL – AFP US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter’s icy moons as part of humanity’s hunt for extra-terrestrial life. The Clipper spacecraft is due to blast off in October bound for Europa, one of dozens of moons orbiting the Solar...
New York City has reached a $17.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by two Muslim women. It was against the police policy of removing hijabs during arrest photos. Although the city denies wrongdoing, the New York Police Department has altered its policy. It no longer mandates removing head coverings during arrests. The sett...
