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Climate experts are warning that Donald Trump’s upcoming term as U.S. president poses a grave threat to the planet if it blows up the international effort to curb dangerous global heating. They say his return to the White House is widely expected to result in the U.S. again exiting the Paris climate agreement. It may […]
California has elected a Muslim to the U.S. congress. Democrat Lateefah Simon will represent California’s District 12. Simon is a member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors. She also has served as the executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in the San Francisco Bay Area. As well, Simon was appointed [&helli...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has warned about inhuman and deadly living conditions in northern Gaza and said Palestinians are “starving while the world watches on.” “For the past month, North Gaza has been under a near-total brutal siege,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference, conveying a...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up at least 18 Palestinians, including two girls, in military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Thursday. Two girls and former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted several areas in the occupied territory, including Hebron, Qalq...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed a new controversial law that allows the deportation of family members of Palestinians involved in “attacks against Israelis.” The bill was approved in the second and third readings by 61-41 votes, making it an effective law. The legislation is widely seen to be targeting Ara...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed at least six Palestinians in airstrikes and artillery shelling on homes in northern Gaza as the army stepped up its ground assault in the enclave’s north. A medical source reported that five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home belonging to the Al-Asi […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least five Lebanese on Thursday were killed and three others injured in Israeli airstrikes on towns in southern and eastern Lebanon. The Lebanese state news agency (NNA) said four Lebanese were killed and three others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a home in Bazourieh town, near Tyre city, in southern […]
TRENTON, Canada / ISTANBUL, Türkiye (AA) – Social media app TikTok said it will challenge an order by the Canadian government to shutter its business in the country. The North American nation took the decision citing national security concerns, Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday. It means TikTok must close its ...
GAZA CITT, Palestine (AA) – Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza warned on Wednesday evening that it is struggling to care for dozens of injured people in extreme conditions, citing severe medical supply shortages and ongoing Israeli attacks in the region. Al-Awda Hospital Director Mohammad Saleha told Anadolu that the hospital has been facing “a...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada needs to act quickly to secure its borders against a “massive influx” of migrants because of Donald Trump’s US presidential triumph, Quebec Premier Francois Legault warned Wednesday. Quebec borders on four northeast US states, and Trump promised during his election campaign that he would order mass deportati...
