Muhamad Yehia The UK prime minister says London and Paris will take the lead on drawing up a plan to ‘stop the fighting’, which will then be presented to US President Donald Trump. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said on Sunday that the UK and France will work with …
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Europe on the brink: US-Ukraine rift puts spotlight on continent
Muhamad Yehia Europe faces existential questions about its security future in the wake of the Oval office blow-up between presidents Zelenskyy and Trump. A summit in London tomorrow will be critical. Europe’s leaders are rallying to support Zelenskyy, after his White House blow-up with US President Trump, but they face …
Read More »Damascus marks first Ramadan in decades free from Assad family rule
Muhamad Yehia Syrians observe the first Ramadan in more than five decades free of the Assad family rule. Damascenes are experiencing the first Holy Month of Ramadan without the al-Assad family in more than five decades. Bashar al-Assad, who took over from his father Hafez, was the last of the …
Read More »Israel says it’s stopping all goods and aid from entering Gaza
Muhamad Yehia Israel said on Sunday it is stopping the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip, but it was not immediately clear if the supply of aid has been completely halted. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office did not elaborate on the decision but warned of “additional …
Read More »Some probationary employees reinstated by board that found Trump’s mass firings may be improper
Muhamad Yehia An independent board that looks at federal workforce complaints has decided to temporarily reinstate six employees who were fired by the Trump administration, in one of the first direct rebukes of the president’s moves to cut back the federal workforce starting with the termination of thousands of probationary …
Read More »US president promotes “Trump Gaza” plan in AI video
Muhamad Yehia President Donald Trump posted a video on his Truth Social account late on Tuesday, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like resort featuring a golden statue of himself, a hummus-eating Elon Musk, and shirtless American and Israeli leaders lounging …
Read More »Mexico and Canada tariffs effective date remains March 4, despite Trump’s claims that they’ve been extended
Muhamad Yehia President Donald Trump said that the drop in illegal border crossings into the United States since he took office is “not stopping” him from levying 25% tariffs on all Mexican and Canadian goods the US imports. This comes as a 30-day pause on those tariffs, which Trump tied …
Read More »DOJ tells judge that courts have no authority in case of fired federal watchdog
Muhamad Yehia A Trump administration lawyer boldly told a federal judge the courts had no authority in a case over a fired federal official who investigates whistleblower complaints in the civil service. The Justice Department laid out an essentially unfettered power of the presidency over the position leading the federal Office of …
Read More »Musk says weekend email blast was a “pulse check,” but Trump has a warning for non-responders
Muhamad Yehia Speaking from President Donald Trump’s first second-term Cabinet meeting, Elon Musk said the email blast requiring federal workers to detail their past week’s work was wrongly interpreted as a performance review, and “it actually was a pulse check.” “I think that, you know, perhaps, was first interpreted as …
Read More »How the timing of Trump’s first Cabinet meeting compares with past presidents
Muhamad Yehia Most of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members were confirmed by the Senate in time for his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Four members requiring Senate approval had not yet been confirmed, including US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who was voted in by the Senate the same day. It is …
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