WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden emphasized the need to close remaining gaps and finalize a Gaza cease-fire deal during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said Thursday. During the meeting at the presidential mansion, the two leaders discussed developments in Gaza and ongoing negotiations on...
Shast Bandari, Afghanistan — AFP Chinese engineers and the Taliban government broke ground in Afghanistan on a project to mine the world’s second-largest copper deposit after a 16-year delay caused by war. Surveyors estimate Mes Aynak, 40 kilometres southeast of Kabul, contains 11.5 million tonnes of copper ore, a vital electronics...
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly criticized allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver a speech at the US Congress, accusing him of “distorting facts” over his war conduct in Gaza. In a statement, Hamas slammed what it said “giving him an opportunity to polish his f...
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has called for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She says he is a war criminal who needs to be handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Tlaib also calls it utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties invited him to address Congress. Tlaib is a Palestinian-American lawmaker...
The International Criminal Court has accepted 64 fillings by states, organizations and persons to intervene in Prosecutor Karim Khan’s requests to issue arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas officials. Among the leaders with an arrest warrant out is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The US, Palestine, Germany, South Africa, Bangla...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a decades-old theory known as the “clash of civilizations” during his address to Congress, justifying Israel’s war on Gaza as a “clash between barbarism and civilization.” Saying he came to thank the United States on behalf of Israel, he asked for more arms for the ongoing war, which has [&hellip...
Washington, United States – AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Gaza cease-fire demonstrators Wednesday and called for a global alliance against the Iranian regime he accuses of funding them, as he addressed a US Congress divided by the war. Washington has become increasingly alarmed by the humanitarian toll of Israel&#...
Washington, United States – AFP Thousands of demonstrators angry over Israel’s war on Gaza marched on the US Capitol on Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked lawmakers for steady support. A group of protesters burned Netanyahu in effigy, along with American flags — a raucous end to a mostly peaceful mar...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army at dawn Wednesday killed five more Palestinians in an airstrike on a home in Jabalia town in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian official news agency Wafa quoted reported that the five Palestinians were killed during an Israeli raid on a home in the Juron area in Jabalia. It […]
ANKARA (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Israeli athletes are “welcome” to the Paris Olympics 2024, and added that Russian athletes’ participation in the international sporting event is up to the Olympic Committee. In a live-streamed interview with France 2 ahead of the games, Macron claimed that Is...
