INTERNATIONAL The US government failed to evaluate civilian casualties and the use of American-made weapons in the killings caused by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, according to an internal government report seen by the New York Times. The report by the Government Accountability Office focuses on attacks between 2015-2021 by the Saudi-led[…]
INTERNATIONAL Several top US lawmakers have signed a letter urging President Joe Biden to rework Washington’s relationship with Saudi Arabia and told him to warn the kingdom against pursuing more strategic cooperation with China on ballistic missiles. The letter, spearheaded by Congressman Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was signed[…]
The Yemeni government yesterday demanded the United States pressure the Houthi group in order to lift the siege imposed on the city of Taiz, Anadolu news agency reported. This came during a meeting between Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington, DC, according[…]
INTERNATIONAL More than a dozen prominent Syrian civil society groups have urged the United States envoy to the United Nations to launch an investigation into the 2013 killing of 41 civilians in the neighbourhood of Tadamon in Syria’s capital Damascus. “We are writing to demand immediate action to address this massacre, which[…]
Iran yesterday said a deal to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers was not in sight, adding that the US was to blame. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters that “more than one issue is still pending between Iran and the United States.” He explained that messages coming from Washington “are far from providing[…]
US President Joe Biden has announced that America will join other Western Nations in a new partnership to help South Africa finance a quicker transition away from coal. South Africa is the largest carbon emitter in Africa. The US, Britain, France, Germany and the European Union will form part of[…]
The United States on Thursday authorised an extra dose of Covid vaccine for people with weakened immune systems, as the country struggles to thwart the Delta variant. Emergency use authorization for a third injection of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines was granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulator.[…]
China has said it will take “necessary measures” to respond to the blacklisting of Chinese companies by the United States over their alleged role in abuses of Uighur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities. The Commerce Ministry said the US move constituted an “unreasonable suppression of Chinese enterprises and a[…]
US President Joe Biden will explore diplomacy but not seek any “grand bargain” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as he embarks on a new approach to pressuring Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, the White House said on Friday. “Our goal remains the complete[…]
The Saudi Arabia-led alliance’s military intervention in Yemen has not only failed in its objective to rout the Houthi rebels, but the kingdom finds itself in a position in which it might be forced to capitulate. Saudi Arabia has failed its primary objectives of defeating the Houthis and restabilising the[…]
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