ANKARA (AA) – Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, last Thursday paid a visit to northeastern Syria. In a written statement, CENTCOM said: “General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla, commander of the U.S. Central Command, traveled to northeast Syria to speak with American troops and visit sites ...
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday denied reports that U.S. President Joe Biden would imminently approve the Willow Project, saying “no final decisions” have been made on the highly controversial $8 billion ConocoPhillips oil drilling endeavor in northern Alaska slammed by critics as a “climate catastrop...
Progressives celebrated Thursday after Michigan’s Democratic-led House approved legislation that would rescind anti-union “right-to-work” laws imposed by Republican lawmakers in 2012 and restore prevailing wage requirements eliminated by the GOP in 2018. “Everyone deserves fairness and respect when they’re on the ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has said the AUKUS nuclear pact between the US, the UK and Australia is a “textbook case of nuclear proliferation,” calling on the three partners to “act in the interest of regional peace and stability.” “We urge the US, the UK and Australia to abandon their cold war mentality and zero-sum […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Moscow and Washington continue discussing issues of prisoners exchange via special channels, Russia’s deputy foreign minister has said. Speaking to Russia Today Arabic, Sergey Ryabkov said “some progress” has been made in recent months on humanitarian issues, which is a “positive moment” in Rus...
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP): Two decades after the US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein, its war-weary people recount their painful memories of dictatorship, major conflict and years of violent turmoil. Some described the iron-fisted repression under Saddam, the terror and devastation unleashed by the US occupation and the chaos that ensued....
Santa Clara-based Silicon Valley Bank, a major lender to technology startups, collapsed on Friday after its emergency attempts to raise money and find a potential buyer failed, forcing regulators to step in and take over the institution. The speed of SVB’s collapse, the largest since the fall of Washington Mutual in 2008, stunned observe...
Ignoring pleas from human rights defenders, the Biden administration will issue a visa to far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich—who earlier this month said an entire Palestinian town of over 5,000 people should be “wiped out” by Israel—the minister’s office announced Thursday. Smotrich is scheduled to speak Sund...
The Pentagon is helping to shield Russia from International Criminal Court accountability for its atrocities in Ukraine, fearing such a reckoning could set a precedent allowing the tribunal to prosecute U.S. war crimes, a report published Wednesday revealed. According toThe New York Times, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III and other Pentagon ...
Demanding an end to “the international embarrassment” of low teacher pay in the United States, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday introduced legislation to guarantee a minimum salary for public school educators of $60,000 per year, moving to fulfill a pledge he made during his 2020 presidential campaign. The Vermont Independent s...
