ATHENS (AA) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday said she agrees with US Vice President JD Vance’s criticism of Europe on free speech and democracy. “Europe has lost itself a bit,” she said in an interview with the Financial Times. According to the Italian premier, Vance’s remarks were aimed not at European citizens, [&helli...
GAZA CITY, Palestine/ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 24 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said. Israeli warplanes struck a home in Al-Saftawi neighborhood, north of Gaza City, leaving seven people dead, a medical source said. One Palestinian was killed in another airstrike targeting a home near ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Senator Bernie Sanders announced Thursday that he will force votes next week on halting nearly $9 billion in new military aid for Israel after it broke a ceasefire in Gaza with large-scale strikes that have killed hundreds Palestinians. Sanders said he would force votes on two resolutions of disapproval to block the [&h...
Washington (MNTV) – In an extraordinary twist that’s rocked President Donald Trump administration, The Atlantic has published a new trove of Signal messages involving top security advisers. The Atlantic magazine on Wednesday released a set of group chat messages that laid bare how senior Trump officials casually discussed sensitive operational...
Two major academic groups in the U.S. are taking the White House to court. The American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association filed a lawsuit in Boston. They accuse the former Biden administration of creating a climate of repression on university campuses. The groups say students and scholars who speak ou...
A Columbia University student is suing the Trump administration for trying to deport her. Twenty-one-year-old Yunseo Chung, a legal U.S. resident, joined protests in support of Palestine on campus. She says the U.S. government is revoking her status unfairly. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an arrest warrant and has moved to deport...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Newly elected African Union (AU) Chair Mohamud Ali Yusuf has vowed that the organization’s military assistance to Somalia will remain steadfast under his leadership, reports Somali Guardian. Yusuf, who assumed the AU’s top post recently, during a visit to Somalia lauded President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as a “visionary and ...
PORT SUDAN, Sudan (MNTV) – The number of internally displaced people within Sudan has fallen but it is still more than 9 million, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said, according to Sudan Tribune. The IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) update, seen by Sudan Tribune, reports a 2.4% decrease in the number of internall...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s announcement of establishing an agency aimed at displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry also denounced “the approval of the separation of 13 illegal settler neighborhoods in the West Bank, paving the way for their legitimization as colonia...
ANKARA /ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 36 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Monday, medical sources said. A medical source said four people lost their lives when Israeli warplanes struck a house in the southern city of Khan Younis. Six more people were killed and several others injured in […]