Israel begins work on road linking Jerusalem with Judea, Samaria
Taiwan is caught in the middle of a dangerous love triangle. Last week Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was welcomed to New York – now she’s held a face-to-face meeting in California with the speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy. Supporters waved Taiwan flags; after the two politicians entered the Ronald Reagan Presidential…
BAMAKO, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, three West African Sahel nations ruled by military juntas, signed a security pact on Saturday promising to come to the aid of each other in case of any rebellion or external aggression. The three countries are struggling to contain Islamic insurgents linked to al Qaeda…
Heartbreaking footage has captured grief-stricken families in Iran searching through rows of dead bodies after the Islamic Republic started massacring anti-regime protesters in a ruthless crackdown. Dozens of bodies zipped up in black bags were seen piled up outside the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center near Tehran as relatives desperately tried to identify their slain loved…
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI)for theU.S. decreased by 1.0 percent in November 2022 to 113.5 (2016=100), following a decline of 0.9 percent in October. The LEI is now down 3.7 percent over the six-month period between May and November 2022—a much steeper rate of decline than its 0.8 percent contraction over the previous…
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 34 people, according to a local civil society leader. Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press that the attackers stormed the church in Komanda town at around…
Reports suggest that the rate of migrants illegally traversing the border between Canada and the United States could surpass previous years’ figures. Data provided by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) indicates a surge in migrant encounters along the northern border—with figures from October 2023 to April 2024 reaching 9,460, still with five months left in…