By Kouthar Sambo Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have thanked the United States (US) lawmakers after they voted in favour of new aid packages for their countries worth billions of dollars and Africa receiving little aid. Speaking on VOC’s Drive Time on Wednesday, International Relations[…]
The United States hinted, on Friday, at disagreement with Israel over how quickly to scale down the war in Gaza, with President Joe Biden’s national security adviser saying such timing was now the subject of “intensive discussion” between the allies, Reuters reports. With intense ground fighting having expanded this month across the length of[…]
By Kouthar Sambo “The Pentagon just claimed that Hamas used Al-Shifa Hospital for military purposes but has yet to give the exact location or time of the so-called use.” This is according to the Resistance Movement, Hamas. The US State Department also alleged that Hamas used hospitals and schools as[…]
By Kouthar Sambo The Lady R case has impacted the country’s economy since the announcement by US Ambassador to South Africa Rueben Brigety claimed in May that South Africa supplied Russia with arms in December through the Lady R cargo vessel. The incident resulted in the rand taking a significant[…]
Washington has condemned as “terrorism” the killing of a Palestinian by suspected Jewish settlers, in language that appears to reflect US frustration with surging violence in the occupied West Bank under Israel’s hard-right government, Reuters reported. Israeli police detained two settlers following Friday’s attack near the village of Burqa. According to Palestinians,[…]
The US Senate has officially confirmed Nusrat Choudhury as a federal judge, making history as the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi American to join the federal judicial bench. The 50-49 vote took place on Thursday and passed along party lines. Choudhury will assume her lifetime appointment in Brooklyn[…]
The UAE said Wednesday it had exited a US-led multinational security force that protects shipping in the Gulf, in a high-profile sign of the ongoing rift between Washington and a key Middle East security partner. “As a result of our ongoing evaluation of effective security cooperation with all partners, two months ago,[…]
An imam at a New Jersey mosque was stabbed while leading the fajr (morning) prayer over the weekend, according to local authorities and community members. The incident took place on Sunday morning at the Omar Mosque in Paterson, New Jersey, around 5:30 am local time. When Imam Sayed Elnakib and[…]
The United States will not back away from its nearly eight-year-old deployment to Syria, where it is battling the remnants of Daesh, despite attacks on US forces there last week by Iran-backed militia, the White House said on Monday, Reuters reports. A one-way attack drone struck a US base in Syria on[…]
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to advance a bill aimed at repealing the 2002 authorisation that greenlit the US invasion of Iraq. The committee on Wednesday approved the measure, led by Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Todd Young, with a 13-8 vote. It would repeal both the 2002 Authorization for[…]
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