Rights advocates on Tuesday expressed disappointment and frustration with a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court order to keep the Title 42 policy used to swiftly expel migrants in place—at least until justices hear arguments for the case in February, with a final decision due by the end of June. Title 42 is the section of the U.S. public […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – More than 16,000 people have been displaced by inter-religious, ethnic and tribal violence in western Sudan, according to the United Nations. The violence first started last week when herders attacked a group of farmers in Amuri village, east of South Darfur. “Several villages were burned in Beilil locality i...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel has placed more than 600 Palestinian minors under house arrest in East Jerusalem in 2022, according to a Palestinian agency on Tuesday. “Israel has widely used the policy of house arrest in Jerusalem this year,” the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a statement. “Israeli occupatio...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Families of US soldiers who were killed by the ISIS have sued French cement giant Lafarge, which has pleaded guilty for supporting rebel groups in Syria. In October, Lafarge was slapped with a fine of $778 million by a US court for supporting several violent groups in Syria in 2013-2014, including ISIS. […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s finance minister has unveiled a budget aiming to use new tax revenues to draw the deficit back to nearly five percent of the GDP, as the country awaits an international bailout. The 2023 budget comes as the North African country grapples with massive public debt, shortages of goods from sugar to […]
MOSCOW (AA) – The US and NATO are seeking victory on the battlefield in Ukraine to destroy Russia, according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “The actions of countries of the collective West and (Ukrainian President) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is controlled by them, confirm the global nature of the Ukrainian crisis,” Lavrov said in an intervie...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces detained 22 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Most of the arrests took place in the town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, where 13 Palestinians were taken into custody. Israeli forces also raided the house of Qadura Fares, the head of [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine issued an official statement on Monday announcing its initiative to deprive Russia of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the UN. “Ukraine calls on the member states of the UN to resume the application of the UN Charter in the context […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin, soon to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said Sunday that the Electoral College is a “danger” to U.S. democracy and should be abandoned in favor of presidential elections decided by the popular vote. “The Electoral College now, which has given us five popular vote losers as president in...
ISTANBUL (AA) – World football authority FIFA has chosen, for the first time, a female Palestinian referee to officiate at the upcoming Women’s World Cup matches. The official Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Heba Saadia would make the calls at the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand from Ju...
