Tijuana, Mexico — AFP Muslims from Algeria, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan wait for US asylum at a shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana — more used to seeing migrants from Latin America than the Middle East. At the Assabil Inn, Mexico’s first shelter catering for US-bound Muslim migrants, the background stories of the ...
West Palm Beach, United States — AFP Donald Trump, whose attempted White House return is based in part on attacking President Joe Biden as old and feeble, has turned 78 — just three years younger than his election rival — with growing questions over his own health. Whoever wins the November election will set a […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Biden administration is set to announce a major immigration relief program granting legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who have lived in the US for at least 10 years, officials have reported. According to sources familiar with the plans, the program, known as “Parole in Place,”...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Senate early Saturday passed a bill to reauthorize federal spying powers on foreign targets for another two years. With a vote of 60-34, the bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was approved after midnight. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan welcomed the passage ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – As the 2024 US presidential election approaches, the consequences of the Biden administration’s Gaza policy are becoming evident. President Joe Biden made his first campaign stop this year in the state of Michigan earlier this month, meeting with members of the United Auto Workers union and patronizing a Black-owned...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Jordanian King Abdullah II will visit Washington next week for a meeting with US President Joe Biden, the White House has said. The February 12 meeting comes as regional efforts continue to broker an agreement to halt Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip. The White House said Abdullah and Biden will […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Kremlin has said it does not welcome “any actions” that will destabilize the Middle East, as Washington vowed to “respond” to a drone attack near the Syrian-Jordanian border that killed three US soldiers. “We do not welcome any actions that lead to destabilization of the situation in the region, which lead […]...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi group has termed US attacks against its targets as “ineffective,” vowing an “open battle” against Washington. “We tell the Americans that your aggression against Yemen will fail,” Ali al-Qahoum, a member of the Houthi Political Bureau, told the media. “We will confront the US aggression with all might, and [&...
ANKARA (AA) – Electric carmaker Tesla has said it will halt production at its facility in Germany for two weeks, citing supply chain disruptions due to the Red Sea shipping attacks. “Due to a lack of components, we are therefore forced to suspend vehicle production at GigaBerlin for the period between January 29 and February [&hell...
LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
