ANKARA (AA) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has again threatened to use nuclear weapons if the US and South Korea continue to show “open hostility” toward Pyongyang. “We will continue to make the U.S. and South Korea, which show open hostility towards the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and frequent...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has vowed to broaden support for the violence-wracked Sahel beyond the realm of security, pitching the United States as a better partner than Russia, which has been expanding its footprint in the region. Speaking to AFP on the highest-level visit ever by a US official to […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Friday welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s announcement to move ahead with Finland’s NATO membership bid, the White House said. “The United States welcomes President Erdogan’s announcement that he will send Finland’s NATO accession protocols to the Turkish Parliament and looks forw...
As the U.S. Senate on Thursday teed up a vote to end the congressional authorizations for the Gulf and Iraq wars, President Joe Biden formally backed the bipartisan bill. The progress on finally repealing the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force (AUMFs) comes just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the George W. Bush […]...
Palestinian rights activists on Thursday remembered the life and legacy of Rachel Corrie, the American human rights defender who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer on March 16, 2003 while trying to shield a Palestinian home from demolition in occupied Gaza. “Rachel was 23 when she was killed. She could have satisfied [...
Gallup poll results revealed Thursday that while, for the first time, more U.S. Democratic voters now sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis, left-leaning respondents also “want solutions that respect Israel’s needs as well.” According to the survey of 1,008 U.S. adults, 49% of Democrats said they sympathize more wit...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected criticism of the AUKUS deal with the US and UK made by his country’s former Premier Paul Keating, saying the world has changed since the 1990s. Albanese said in an interview with a local Radio 3AW Melbourne that he does not want to get into […]
Nearly 400 immigration justice and other advocacy groups on Wednesday added their voices to the call for President Joe Biden to reject family detention, amid reports that the White House is considering a revival of the practice that was used by the Trump and Obama administrations—despite the fact that it subjected thousands of families to [&he...
As the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq approaches, a leading research institute on Wednesday said that “the total costs of the war in Iraq and Syria are expected to exceed half a million human lives and $2.89 trillion” by 2050. The Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute [&...
U.S. federal regulators on Wednesday approved the first major railroad merger in more than two decades, a move that follows the East Palestine rail disaster and that critics warned would reduce competition, raise prices, cost jobs, and threaten safety. The Surface Transportation Board (STB) approved Canadian Pacific Railway Limited’s pro...
