ANKARA (AA) – France has condemned Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to annex the occupied West Bank. “France condemns the recent remarks of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in favor of the annexation of the West Bank by Israel,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It recalled that those re...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella has responded sharply to Elon Musk’s controversial comments on Italian judges. Musk, set to play a major role in the new US administration led by Donald Trump, harshly criticized a Rome court for having blocked the detention of a second batch of migrants in an Albanian detention center. [&h...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump met Wednesday at the White House for transition talks. “Congratulations and looking forward to having a, like we said, smooth transition — do everything we can to make sure you’re accommodated, what you need,” Biden told Trump in the Oval Offic...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing two sources. The appointment places Noem in charge of an agency central to Trump’s immigration and border security agenda, which includes plans for mass dep...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Democratic Party lost a lot of votes in last week’s presidential election by focusing on such issues as gender ideology, global warming and abortion instead of the basic “kitchen table issues” of ordinary Americans, says a senior pollster. Brent Buchanan, the founder of Cygnal, a Washington, D.C.-based public opinion ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state, according to a report published on Monday. Trump may still make a last-minute change, but he seems to have decided on Rubio, said The New York Times, citing three people familiar with his plans. Neither Rubio’s ...
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will appoint former congressman Lee Zeldin to run the Environmental Protection Agency. “He will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days to “further enhance” the alliance between the two countries. “In recent days, I have spoken three times with US President-elect Donald Trump. These were very good and impo...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call not to escalate the situation in Ukraine, a report said Sunday. The call took place Thursday, The Washington Post reported, adding that Trump reminded Putin of the considerable US military presence in Europe. The call, if confirmed, would mark th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump announced late Sunday that the former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan will serve as his administration’s “border czar.” “I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining...
