Yearly Archives: 2024

Israeli military says it has struck several Houthi targets

Muhamad yehia & sahar ragab DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — The Israeli army says it has struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen on Saturday following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day. A number of “military targets” were hit in the western …

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UK election is a quaint reminder

Muhamad yehia Until last week I had not been present in the UK during a general election since 2005, when Tony Blair won the third and last of his elections against a Conservative called Michael Howard. Obviously, I am a talisman for Labour, as my family holiday this year happened …

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Global tech outage live updates

                                                                     Muhamad yehia Flights at Germany’s Berlin Airport were delayed on Friday morning as a widespread fault …

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Kenya’s dramatic flooding

  Muhamad yehia MACHAKOS, Kenya (AP) — With dismay, Martha Waema and her husband surveyed their farm that was submerged by weeks of relentless rainfall across Kenya. Water levels would rise to shoulder height after only a night of heavy downpour. The couple had expected a return of 200,000 shillings ($1,500) …

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JD Vance charted a Trump-centric

  Muhamad khalil- sahar ragheb WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ohio Sen. JD Vance traveled to the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, he wasn’t there to reassure Europe and other global allies that America would aid Ukraine in its war against Russia, as all of the other senators were. Instead, Vance was …

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Muhamad yehia NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday dismissed almost all of his Cabinet ministers and promised to form a new government that will be lean and efficient following weeks of protests over high taxes and poor governance. In a televised address, the president also dismissed …

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Iran threat prompted increased protection of Trump

Muhamad yehia WASHINGTON (AP) — A threat from Iran prompted the U.S. Secret Service to boost protection around Donald Trump before Saturday’s attempted assassination of the former president, though it appears unrelated to the rally attack, according to two U.S. officials. Upon learning of the threat, the Biden administration reached …

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Key takeaways from Biden’s news conference

Muhamad yehia WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden faced a test Thursday that he had avoided so far this year — a solo news conference with questions from the White House press corps. The news conference was meant to reassure a disheartened group of Democratic lawmakers, allies and persuadable voters in this …

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spects of US restrictions on asylum-seeke

                                                                   _ Muhamad yehia FILE -Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, speaks during a joint statement with President …

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A truce reduced fighting in eastern Congo

Muhamad yehia GOMA, Congo (AP) — A two-week truce heavily reduced fighting in eastern Congo, but with a week left aid workers and local civil society groups say not much help has reached millions of people who are trapped in one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. The two-week humanitarian …

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