Tokyo (AFP) – Turkey has warned Washington against its new sanctions on Iran, saying isolating the Islamic Republic is “dangerous”, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday. Washington this week imposed a second set of sanctions on Iran that aim to isolate the country’s banking sector and slash its oil exports. Eight countries including Turkey […]
NBC, Facebook and even Fox finally Pull Trump’s Racist Campaign Ad
New York (AFP) – Fox News, NBC and Facebook have pulled a Trump campaign ad branded racist, which equates a convicted Mexican murderer with Central American migrants en route to the US border. NBC pulled the ad after coming under fire for showing the commercial during the widely watched “Sunday Night Football” program ahead of […]
Christian Leaders Seek Repeal of Israel’s biased Jewish Nation Law
Jerusalem (AFP) – Senior Catholic clerics in Jerusalem called Sunday for Israel to repeal a controversial law giving Jews a “unique” right to self-determination in the country. “We must draw the attention of the authorities to a simple fact,” bishops and archbishops of the Roman Catholic, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic and Greek Melkite churches said […]
Yemen: Pro-Saudi and Pro-Sana’a Forces Battle at Hodeida as UN Warns of ‘Living Hell’
Hodeida (Yemen) (AFP) – Intensified fighting shook a key rebel-held port city on Yemen’s Red Sea coast on Sunday, leaving dozens dead as the United Nations warned that children in the war-torn country face “a living hell”. The bloodshed comes despite growing international pressure to end a years-long conflict that has killed thousands and pushed […]
Trump’s Sweeping Iran Sanctions Target Oil Sales, Bank Transfers
Washington (AFP) – Iran’s oil exports and financial transactions will be targeted under US sanctions that take force Monday, six months after President Donald Trump bolted from a nuclear deal. Three days ahead, Washington detailed its specific actions targeting Iran’s banking, shipping and energy sectors, threatening penalties against companies, even those of US allies in […]
Will Red-State Voter Suppression Measures Defeat the Democrats?
Electoral rules at the state level effectively exclude many minority voters to the detriment of Democrats
As Saudi-led War Grinds on, 2.2 mn. Yemeni Children Suffering Malnutrition
And fully 7 million Yemeni Children face Food Insecurity
Global Heating worse than Thought – it Has gone into the Oceans
by Patrick GALEY | – Paris (AFP) – The world’s oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said Thursday, leaving Earth more sensitive still to the effects of climate change. Oceans cover more than two thirds of the planet’s surface and play a vital […]
Turkey attacks US Allies, Syrian Kurds, who are Fighting ISIL; & they go on Strike
YPG condemns Turkey’s “provocations”
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