Singapore, Singapore – AFP US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday hailed a “new era of security” in the Asia-Pacific region, as Washington strengthens its network of alliances aimed at countering China’s growing military might and influence. From Japan to Australia, the United States has been deepening defence ti...
United Nations, United States – AFP At the request of Baghdad, the UN Security Council unanimously decided Friday that the United Nations political mission in Iraq would leave the country at the end of 2025 after more than 20 years. Earlier this month, in a letter to the council, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Thursday boycotted a UN tribute to the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died earlier this month in a helicopter crash. “The United States will not attend today’s United Nations tribute event for President Raisi in any capacity,” Nate Evans, spokesman for the US mission to the UN wrote [&he...
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has labeled Israel a “rogue state” following a brutal military strike in Rafah. On May 26, Israeli forces bombed tent camps in a humanitarian zone, burning alive at least 45 Palestinians and wounding hundreds more. The attack has drawn global condemnation, with harrowing images of the aftermath. US officials have...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United States is wary of a new UN resolution on Israel’s war on Gaza, its deputy ambassador said Wednesday as a draft seeks an immediate cease-fire. Algeria called an urgent UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday after an Israeli strike killed 45 people at a tent camp in […]
Washington, United States – AFP The White House said Tuesday it did not support sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the tribunal’s prosecutor sought an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We don’t believe that sanctions against the ICC is the right approach here,...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States said Tuesday it still considers Israel’s assault on the southern Gazan city of Rafah to be “limited in scope” despite a weekend attack that left 45 people dead as a blaze tore through a camp for displaced people. “Right now it is still our assessment that what [&he...
Ghazni, Afghanistan — AFP The black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge of the crater created by the mine, one of the devices that kills a child every other day in Afghanistan. Afghans have been able to return to fields, schools and roads since the Taliban authorities […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz said on Friday his country rejected Saudi Arabia’s condition of “establishing a pathway to a future Palestinian state” for normalization of ties. He spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken after a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to immediate...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – The leaders of some top US universities were grilled by Congress on Thursday for their handling of Free Palestine camps on campuses. The presidents of the University of California, University of Los Angeles (UCLA), Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Northwestern University in Illinois were scrutinized by the House E...
