Washington, United States – AFP President Joe Biden attempted a political high-wire act Tuesday by announcing a citizenship pathway for half a million immigrants married to US nationals, in a counterweight to his recent crackdown on illegal border crossers. The Biden administration has been struggling to address immigration, a hugely div...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of State on Monday designated the Iraq-based Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya as “specially designated global terrorists.” The State Department said in a statement that the group’s secretary-general, Haydar Muzhir Ma’lak al-Sa’idi, has also been designated as a terrorist. Har...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP A US envoy held talks with top Israeli leaders to press for de-escalation on the Lebanese border, as an Israeli official said Hezbollah had fired thousands of projectiles towards Israel in the last eight months. Israel and Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily cross-border fire since October last year...
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,”...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces struck Gaza on Friday as truce efforts failed to make progress and tensions surged on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Witnesses reported strikes on the southern city of Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, men...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Department of State has imposed sanctions on a radical Israeli group for disrupting humanitarian aid to the civilians in the Gaza Strip. “The Department of State is today designating Tzav 9, a violent extremist Israeli group that has been blocking, harassing, and damaging convoys carrying lifesaving humanit...
In a contentious move, the House of Representatives has voted to halt American funding for the reconstruction of Gaza. The amendment to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, introduced by Republican representatives, passed without a recorded vote. Pro-Israel Rep. Brian Mast criticized the idea of rebuilding a region devastated by US-ba...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States said Thursday that Russian espionage charges against Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich have “zero credibility,” after Moscow’s prosecutors sent his case to court. “There’s absolutely zero credibility to those charges. We have been clear from the s...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Wednesday to keep pressing to seal a Gaza cease-fire deal, saying that not all Hamas demands were acceptable but voicing hope that gaps could be closed. Consulting with key mediator Qatar on the Hamas response to President Joe Biden’s plan, Blinken said Hamas could have [&h...
The US has blacklisted three additional Chinese companies for their alleged involvement in Uyghur forced labor. This brings the total number of blacklisted firms to 68 under the 2021 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The newly blacklisted entities are Dongguan Oasis Shoes, Shandong Meijia Group, and Xinjiang Shenhuo Coal and Electricity. The...
