BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – Three Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday in an attack in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, according to local media. A security source told the local Baghdad Today news agency that an explosive device hit an Iraqi army patrol in the Al-Zab area in the al-Hawija district of the Kirkuk province. The source […]
A new analysis released Wednesday shows that earnings inequality in the United States has risen dramatically over the past four decades and continues to accelerate, with the top 0.1% seeing wage growth of 465% between 1979 and 2021 while the bottom 90% experienced just 29% growth during that same period. Examining the latest annual earnings [&...
As Congress prepares to boot millions of people off of Medicaid, landmark research published this week revealed that expansion of the government healthcare program—which some GOP decision-makers have blocked in their states—is tied to higher cancer survival for adults under 40. “Cancer is a leading cause of death in young adults diagnose...
The Pentagon’s stated commitment to transparency on civilian casualties faced questions Tuesday in an Intercept report noting that the Department of Defense has failed to respond to a group of House Democrats who set a three-month deadline to explain the U.S. military’s role in a 2017 Nigerian airstrike that killed more than 160 no...
U.S. Sen Ed Markey on Wednesday led a group of upper chamber lawmakers who urged the Biden administration “to fulfill its commitment in the Glasgow Statement by publicly releasing a plan for ending public financing of unabated international fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022.” Last year, dozens of countries and institutions in...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Joe Biden may become the first sitting US president to visit atomic bomb-hit Nagasaki in Japan early next year. Tokyo and Washington are “considering a visit by US President Joe Biden to Nagasaki in May 2023 when he travels to Japan for a Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima,” Kyodo News reported. […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine is preparing to take official steps to prove that Russia’s presence on the UN Security Council is “illegal” and to have it removed from the body, Kyiv has announced. “Ukraine is now preparing for official steps that will prove Russia’s illegal presence in the UN Security Council and l...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) has approved a controversial bill in its first reading to allow the upcoming national security minister to extend his powers to the police. Far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Strength Party, is set to become the national security minister in the upcoming government ...
ANKARA (AA) – A total of 547 detainees have died in Syrian regime’s detention centers in 2022, according to a UK-based human rights group. “The Syrian regime has registered thousands of forcibly disappeared persons as dead, including prominent activists from the popular uprising against its rule,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) sai...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Millions of Americans are traveling for the holidays to see family only to find out that in less than four hours they want to take a break from their loved ones, according to a Motel 6 survey released Tuesday. The survey polled 2,000 adults traveling to visit family for the […]
