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Hamas official says group would lay down weapons if two-state solution is implemented 2024-04-25
Naharnet

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders....

photo: AP / Abdel Kareem Hana

Russia vetoes US-drafted UN Security Council vote on stopping space arms race 2024-04-25
Gulf News

UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Wednesday vetoed a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a move that prompted the United States to question if Moscow was hiding something. The vote came after Washington accused Moscow of...

photo: UN / Loey Felipe

White House admits covert deliveries of long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine 2024-04-25
MENA FN

(MENAFN) The White House acknowledged on Wednesday that it is executing covert deliveries of long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine, fulfilling a longstanding request from Kyiv. Leader Joe Biden ... ......

photo: AP / Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Dickson/U.S. Army via AP

No one is above the law. Supreme Court will decide if that includes Trump while ... 2024-04-25
Newsday

WASHINGTON — On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president. “The law applies equally to all persons, including a person who happens for a period of time to occupy the Presidency,”...

photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool / The Washington Post

In China, Blinken Tries to Fix the Unfixable 2024-04-25
Time

It could almost have been a vacation. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday to be whisked to a basketball game and a dinner of steamed buns atop a balcony overlooking the city’s Ming Dynasty Yu Garden. America’s top diplomat even took time to post on Instagram from...

Stripping Trump of any Secret Service Protection 2024-04-25
Armstrong Economics

COMMENT: I have been a Democrat all my life, and I am 72. I suppose I was a Democrat because my father was. Like you, after watching what they have been doing to Trump and the flood of illegal aliens that have resulted in my own neighborhood becoming no longer safe, I will vote for Trump. After...

photo: AP / Joe Maiorana

US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023 2024-04-25
CNN

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than century. There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for every 1,000 females...

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Assange Assurances: An Australian Response 2024-04-24
Consortium News

The Australian government has been relatively quiet on the U.S. assurances on Julian Assange. CN Live! speaks to an Australian senator, lawyer and former diplomat for their views....

photo: AP / David Cliff

US top diplomat Blinken visits China amid escalated tensions over Taiwan 2024-04-24
Al Jazeera

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China for a three-day trip, following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Blinken, who landed in Shanghai on Wednesday, is expected to meet business leaders in...

photo: Public Domain / Chuck Kennedy

Blinken back in China seeking pressure but also stability 2024-04-24
Korea Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by at the Kong Fuan, Director General of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China R. Nicholas Burns and U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai Scott Walker, upon his arrival in Shanghai, China, April 24,...

photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein, Pool