Thu 13 February 2025: The United States has imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan, escalating tensions over the court’s actions against Israeli officials. The move follows an executive order issued by President Donald Trump last week, which authorized asset freezes and travel bans on ICC officials. The sanctions come in response […]
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Thu 13 February 2025: Some 28 people were injured when a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd of people in Munich in what the state premier said was probably an attack on Thursday, as the German city prepared to host a top-level security conference. Police in the southern city said a […]
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Thu 13 February 2025: The suspension of foreign aid programs by US President Donald Trump puts 6.3 million people at risk of dying from HIV and AIDS over the next four years, a UN organization dealing with the viral disease warned on Friday. “There is still a lot of confusion… about how the waiver will […]
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Thu 13 February 2025: Half of Generation Z in the UK believe Britain is a racist country while only four in 10 young Brits say they are proud of their country, according to a newly published survey. Only 11% of Gen Z, age 18-27, said they would fight for Britain and 41% said there were […]
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Thu 13 February 2025: A new survey of 1,200 people in the US were asked what they thought of President Trump’s call for the United States to “take over” and “own” Gaza and transform it from a “demolition site” into the “Riviera of the Middle East”. The poll – conducted by the group Data for Progress […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: South Africa has vowed not to withdraw its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), despite the Trump administration’s threats and aid cut. There is “no chance” South Africa could withdraw its case it filed in December 2023, Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola told the Financial Times. “Standing […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects,” Trump said on Truth Social. He said they each talked about the […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: Australia on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Russian entity and five individuals over their alleged involvement in stealing the personal information of millions of customers of a private health insurance company in a major cyberattack in 2022. In a joint statement with Defense Minister Richard Marles and Home Minister Tony Burke, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the attack affected millions of […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: Palestinian Resistance group, Hamas, hailed Jordan and Egypt on Wednesday for rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. “We praise the position of our brothers in Jordan and Egypt, who reject the displacement of our people, and confirm that there is an Arab plan to rebuild Gaza […]
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Wed 12 February 2025: The irony should not be lost here. For most of the world, this so-called Deep State has been the American establishment which has often been involved in an agenda to undermine foreign governments. During the US Presidential election campaign, one of Donald Trump’s themes was the need to root out the […]
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