INTERNATIONAL United States President Joe Biden has appointed a new American representative for Palestinian affairs, boosting the country’s relationship with Palestinian leadership despite the American consulate remaining closed. The Biden administration on Tuesday informed Congress that Hady Amr, who previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, would be elevated to[…]
INTERNATIONAL The US Navy said Tuesday it had scuttled a boat transporting “explosive materials” from Iran to supply Houthi rebels in Yemen with enough power to fuel a dozen ballistic rockets. The boat, which the US Navy seized on 8 November in the Gulf of Oman, was sunk on Sunday, the Bahrain-based United States Fifth Fleet[…]
INTERNATIONAL It’s been more than six years, but Suad Abdelaziz still cannot believe what happened to her cousin. In June 2016, a US court found 25-year-old Muhanad Badawi guilty of “aiding and abetting the attempt to provide material support” to the Islamic State (IS) group. According to prosecutors, her cousin had purchased a[…]
INTERNATIONAL US intelligence officials have reportedly claimed that the United Arab Emirates attempted to manipulate the American political system, despite being a close political ally. Three unnamed sources told the Washington Post that the National Intelligence Council compiled a document and briefed senior US policymakers on how the UAE had attempted to influence American foreign policy[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iran has produced its first hypersonic ballistic missile cable of penetrating all air-defence systems and travelling inside and outside the Earth’s atmosphere, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency on Thursday. Hypersonic missiles, which like traditional ballistic missiles can[…]
INTERNATIONAL In Arizona’s La Paz county, about two and a half hours from the state capital Phoenix, the community has been facing an increasingly severe issue. They’re running out of water. As the entire American southwest faces the worst drought in 1,200 years, underground aquifers are being looked to as a lifeline.[…]
LOCAL The United States says it will continue to partner with South Africa to prevent militant group ISIS from exploiting the country’s economy to raise and move funds to support the growth of ISIS affiliates and networks. The US has announced sanctions targetting four people and eight companies that are[…]
A group of more than 50 Democratic lawmakers have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden, urging him to use his platform at the Cop27 climate conference to shine a light on Egypt’s crackdown on human rights, call for the release of political prisoners, and urge for all of civil society’s participation[…]
INTERNATIONAL US government officials have not been invited to a Saudi investment conference planned for later this month, with the organiser saying they did not want the gathering “to become a political platform”. The decision not to invite American officials, a departure from previous years, comes as tensions rise between[…]
INTERNATIONAL Muslims who challenged the constitutionality of the “no-fly list” were removed from it after they sued the government, prompting concerns that the programme wants to evade legal scrutiny. “The government removes people from their secret lists only when they fear that a court might impose restraint on their lawlessness,”[…]
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