Washington, United States – AFP The United States said that Iran’s elections Friday are certain to be unfair, as the conservative establishment seeks to blunt boycott calls. “I have no expectation that Iran’s elections will be free and fair, and I suspect that a great number of Iranians have no expectation that those el...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Thursday denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warnings of a risk of nuclear war as “irresponsible,” but said there was no sign of greater risk. “It is not the first time we have seen irresponsible rhetoric from Vladimir Putin. It is no way for the leader...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Thursday asked Israel to provide answers after more than a hundred displaced Palestinians scrambling for aid were killed in Gaza. “We are urgently seeking additional information on exactly what took place,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters as he offe...
TEL AVIV – AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted he has been under “pressures to end the war” on Gaza. “Today I am pushed, together with my friends, to end the war before we achieve all its goals. These pressures are increasing,” he said in a statement on Thursday. He also warned the […...
NEW YORK (AA) – The US and Russian representatives to the UN exchanged heated words Tuesday during a Security Council session on Gaza. In his remarks at the session, titled “Protection of civilians in armed conflict,” Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia accused his “Western colleagues” of allowing Israel to use hunger ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump easily won their parties’ primaries in the state of Michigan on Tuesday. Trump emerged as the winner in the Michigan Republican primary, defeating his main rival, Nikki Haley, according to US media projections. On the Democratic side, Biden has won despite facing ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The US and the UK carried out 22 airstrikes targeting three Yemeni governorates, including the capital Sanaa, the Yemen-based Houthi group said on Sunday. The US and British “aggression” targeted the city of Sanaa and its countryside with 17 airstrikes, the Houthi-affiliated Saba news agency reported. “The US-British ...
Beijing, China – AFP China warned Wednesday that a US decision to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza pushed the conflict into an “even more dangerous” situation. Washington on Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution drafted by Algeria, which demanded an immediate humanita...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemeni Houthis on Wednesday said the US and the UK carried out six overnight airstrikes on several areas in the Al Hudaydah province in western Yemen. “The American-British aggression targeted the Al-Araj area in Al Hudaydah with four raids,” reported the Houthi-run Saba news agency. The Houthi Al-Masirah ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Prospects for a cease-fire dimmed Sunday after the United States signalled it would veto the latest push for a UN Security Council resolution and mediator Qatar acknowledged that separate truce talks have hit an impasse. Efforts to pause the over four-month-old war languish as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
