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“Upwards of approximately 300 people” have been arrested after a rally on Capitol Hill in the US, according to police. Images from Washington DC showed protesters, many of who were from the group Jewish Voice for Peace, filling the Cannon House Office Building. They were chanting “the world is watching” and some wearing T-shirts that read…
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Details have emerged of what President Joe Biden plans to do after arriving in Tel Aviv later today. Speaking on board Air Force One, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the first thing the president will do is meet Benjamin Netanyahu. The encounter will be a “very small, restricted bilateral meeting”. After this, the…
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Officials in the US have said they will ask Congress for upwards of $2bn (£1.63bn) in additional aid to support conflict in both Ukraine and Israel. It was announced during a speech given by US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who also said President Joe Biden would be visiting Israel on Wednesday. On Sunday, White…
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The US is focused on getting Gazans to safe areas, President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Sunday. In an interview with American CBS News, Sullivan said Washington is also working to make sure Gaza residents can get access to food, water, medicine, shelter, and that they can be protected from the…
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Investigators at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s enforcement division have concluded that the co-founder of Voyager Digital broke derivatives regulations before the failed crypto lender plunged into bankruptcy last year, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The regulator intends to accuse Stephen Ehrlich of breaking its rules by misleading customers about the safety of their assets following…
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We reported earlier that the US was preparing to announce it will send seized Iranian small arms and ammunition to Ukraine. This has now been confirmed by the country’s Central Command, which said in an official statement that around 1.1 million rounds of Iranian ammunition, held since last year, were transferred to Ukrainian armed forces…
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More from the US now, and Joe Biden says he is worried Republican infighting could hurt Ukraine aid from Washington. Congress was thrown into further chaos yesterday when speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted after a historic challenge to his leadership from his own party. Now, a lengthy and messy battle is predicted to replace him, and…
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Russia has condemned an attack on the Cuban embassy in the United States and demanded an investigation into the circumstances behind it. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the attack in which two Molotov cocktails were reportedly thrown “must not be left unpunished and those responsible for it should be punished heavily”. She claimed…
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President Bola Tinubu has reluctantly allowed a federal judge in the United States to give his university certificate to his political opponent Atiku Abubakar. But the Nigerian leader pleaded with Judge Nancy Maldonado to block all other details, especially the gender, and admission records, among others, of the person who owns the certificate from being disclosed.…
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Kevin Costner will pay his estranged wife Christine Baumgartner less than half of what she currently gets in child support payments after their divorce judge sided with the Hollywood actor, according to US media. The Bodyguard star, 68, must give her $63,000 (£50,000) each month for their three children. She had been getting $129,000 (£102,000)…
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China strongly opposes “irresponsible” remarks recently made by U.S. military personnel, a military spokesperson said on Friday. Tan Kefei, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, stressed that the U.S. should do more that is conducive to the development of relations between the two countries and militaries, in response to a speech by the commander…
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After 17 days of competition, China and the US were locked in a dead heat for gold medal supremacy. Their competition at the games also represents their increasing great power rivalry. As the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo ended, the US barely edged China out on top of the gold medals tables on the last day.…
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The U.S. State Department said late on Friday it has terminated five cultural exchange programs with China, calling them “soft power propaganda tools.” “While other programs funded under the auspices of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act are mutually beneficial, the five programs in question are fully funded and operated by the (Chinese) government…
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of negotiations with the United States over the existing mutual thorny issues. “We will not negotiate with the United States as it will be fruitless and a loss,” Khamenei was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency. The Iranian leader said that…
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Sen. Angus King said Thursday he wants to know who is provoking whom as tensions heighten between the United States and Iran, as both sides are taking actions against each other. “I can’t reveal what I have seen in a classified setting,” the Maine Independent senator told CNN’s “New Day,” after revealing he’s reviewed some of the…
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Seven years after he first entered Ecuador’s embassy in London seeking asylum, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police and faces extradition to the United States. A bedraggled and sickly looking Assange on Thursday was dragged out of the building in the UK capital by officers and bundled into a police van after the South American country abruptly revoked…
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