WASHINGTON (AA) – The delivery of a US-made Patriot air defense system to Ukraine will “significantly” bolster Kyiv’s ability to defend its skies amid relentless Russian attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday. Speaking at the White House alongside President Joe Biden, Zelenskyy said the system i...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday said the parties to the 2015 nuclear deal are “returning to realism” and that Tehran will take a final step if its “red lines are respected.” Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in Jordan’s capital Amman while boarding a flight back to Tehran after attending the [&...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Authorities confirmed Wednesday that several people were killed by gunmen in three days of attacks on two communities in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State. The police spokesman for Kaduna State, Muhammed Jalige, said in a statement that the chief of police visited Malagum and Sokwong in Kagoro, Kaura Local G...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The EU ambassadors have adopted a compromise text on visa liberalization for Kosovo ahead of the final adoption by the EU Council, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU said. “The Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU brings Kosovo one step further on its European path,” it […]
DETROIT, Michigan (AA) – Twitter CEO Elon Musk has claimed on his social media platform that the US “Government paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor information from the public.” Musk’s communication is a retweet of a lengthy thread from Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, entitled, “THE TWITTER FIL...
MOSCOW (AA) – Moscow has no positive expectations from a trip to Washington by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, a Kremlin spokesman has said. Asked at a press briefing in Moscow whether Russia expects that Kyiv’s position will become more constructive after Zelenskyy’s visit to the US and will change towards peac...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – The latest “Twitter Files” thread exposing the inner workings of pre-Elon Musk Twitter discloses how the social media giant helped the US military with a secret ‘PsyOp’ campaign. “Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media gi...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s foreign minister says he had a “friendly conversation” with his Saudi counterpart on the sidelines of the Baghdad summit in Amman, in the first high-level contact between the two sides since 2016. In a tweet on Wednesday, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan expres...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Scores of Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Jerusalem Islamic Endowment Department said 159 settlers entered the flash-point site in groups thro...
DEAD SEA, Jordan (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday called on Iraq and its neighbors to overcome divisions to ensure regional security. Macron’s remarks came during the opening session of the second Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership held in Jordan. Iraq is “one of the victims of regional instability,̶...
