ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON (AA) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his American counterpart, Joe Biden, agreed on Friday to temporarily deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza via Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing. In a phone call, the two presidents addressed the severe humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, including the lack ...
President Joe Biden has announced the cancellation of $7.7 billion in student debt for another 160,000 borrowers. This brings the total loan forgiveness amount approved by the Biden administration to $167 billion for more than four million Americans. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the debt relief means one out of every 10 borrowers...
Washington, United States – AFP The White House said Wednesday it opposed “unilateral recognition” of a Palestinian state after Ireland, Norway and Spain announced they would establish relations. President Joe Biden “has been on the record supporting a two-state solution,” his national security advisor, Jake Sulli...
Los Angeles, United States – AFP Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 10 others denied charges in Arizona on Tuesday that they were involved in a plot to subvert the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden. Giuliani, who appeared by video link, was ordered to post a $10,000 surety after spending weeks [&helli...
Human rights advocates globally slammed President Joe Biden for his condemnation of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor’s move to seek arrest warrants for Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Biden’s denunciation drew ire for its perceived double standards, with critics accusing him of defending atrocities. The pr...
Israeli lobbyists are intensifying efforts to influence a Democratic primary by investing nearly $2 million to oppose Jamaal Bowman in New Yokr’s 16th Congressional District race. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) super PAC, United Democracy Project, launched ads criticizing Bowman. They accuse him of being independ...
Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden denied on Monday that Israel’s war on Gaza was “genocide” as he defended the key US ally against a series of international legal cases. “What’s happening is not genocide, we reject that,” he said, referring to a case in the International Court of Just...
Washington, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden on Monday denounced an application by the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor for an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister and defense minister. Secretary of State Antony Blinken separately warned that efforts to secure a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaz...
Atlanta, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden said Sunday he heard the voice of Gaza war protesters as some students turned their backs on his graduation ceremony speech at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. A small number of graduates carried out the silent protest, with some holding […]
Atlanta, United States – AFP President Joe Biden told students on Sunday at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr that he heard their voices over the protests against Israel’s war on Gaza that have roiled US campuses. As one student stood with his back to Biden during the graduation ceremony […]
