Richard Trumka, the powerful president of the AFL-CIO who rose from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to preside over one of the largest labor organizations in the world, died Thursday. He was 72.
The federation confirmed Trumka's death in a statement. (...)
Lebanon sometimes looks for leaders who are not affiliated to any of its powerful forces or families as a way of easing tensions. In the case of new Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, this may at least partially explain how he managed to earn the (...)
Some weeks ago, after over a decade of arctic temperatures between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the former began to grope for ways to sidle up to the latter. This was prompted at least in part by the fact that Israel was developing much closer relations (...)
While the Gulf media – Saudi outlets in particular – have focused on Tehran protests calling for the downfall of the regime, the Iranian media is talking about an imminent breakthrough in Saudi-Iranian relations.
An invitation was extended to Saudi (...)
The West is wary of tensions between Iran and Israel, which at the very least could ruin nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the 5 + 1 countries. That is why Washington and European capitals took their time to respond to an attack on an oil (...)
In another dispiriting setback for the nation's efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same (...)
North Korea said Friday that leader Kim Jong Un called for stronger capability to cope with any foreign provocation as he met with military officers ahead of annual drills next month between South Korea and the United States that Pyongyang views as (...)
A pro-democracy protester was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison in the closely watched first prosecution under Hong Kong's national security law as the ruling Communist Party tightens control over the territory.
Tong Ying-kit, 24, was (...)
Washington is sending USAID Administrator Samantha Power to Ethiopia this week while warning of punitive measures if aid is unable to reach the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands of people are believed to be experiencing famine.
A statement (...)
Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday declared Tehran would not accept Washington's "stubborn" demands in talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal and said the United States had failed to guarantee that it would never abandon the pact again.
"The Americans (...)
North and South Korea are in talks to reopen a joint liaison office that Pyongyang demolished last year and hold a summit as part of efforts to restore relations, three South Korean government sources with knowledge of the matter said.
South Korean (...)
We all have our theories and views about how the world works and how different actors deal with each other on the domestic and the international level. Some of us base these views on what they see directly without assuming any hidden actions behind (...)
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman travelled to China to hold talks in the Chinese city of Tianjin with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Feng on 25-26 July following stops in Tokyo and Seoul.
In Tokyo, Sherman (...)
Supposedly, there is nothing worse than a war, but actually there is something worse – an incomplete war. An incomplete war is a war that has lost its purpose and deviated from its original mission and one that ends in massive compromises and (...)
On 26 July 1956, president Gamal Abdel- Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal. In his annual address to the nation from Manshiya Square in Alexandria, he said that the famous canal would now become Egypt's exclusive property. Until that point, Egypt (...)
Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi's election to the Iranian presidency is likely to be a turning point. After he is sworn in on 3 August, all Iranian political institutions will be controlled by hardliners, from the office of the Supreme Leader, the (...)
A top Chinese diplomat took a confrontational tone on Monday in rare high-level talks with the United States, accusing it of creating an "imaginary enemy" to divert attention from domestic problems and suppress China.
Amid worsening relations (...)
President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi are expected to announce on Monday that they've agreed to end the U.S. military's combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, according to a senior Biden administration official.
The (...)
Iraq's prime minister says his country no longer requires American combat troops to fight the Islamic State group, but a formal time frame for their redeployment will depend on the outcome of talks with U.S. officials this week.
Mustafa al-Kadhimi (...)
Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company's first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.
The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, (...)
تتصدر برامج التجسس Pegasus عناوين الأخبار مرة أخرى، كشف تقرير جديد صادر عن صحيفة The Washington Post و 16 شريكًا إعلاميًا عن استخدام Pegasus للتجسس على الصحفيين ونشطاء حقوق الإنسان ورجال الأعمال.
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American diplomats are escalating a charm offensive with Central Asian leaders this week as they work to secure a close-by spot to respond to any resurgence of outside militants in Afghanistan after the U.S. military withdraws.
But even as (...)
More than 40 people have died and dozens were missing Thursday in Germany and Belgium as heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents that swept away cars and caused houses to collapse.
Recent storms across parts of western Europe (...)
Egypt is a critical partner to the US in the efforts to address climate change issues and the energy transition towards green, said David Livingston, senior advisor to the US special presidential envoy for climate at the State Department.
Livingston (...)
The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July (...)
