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Biden to Address US and Explain Decision to Drop Out
Biden to Address US and Explain Decision to Drop Out

US President Joe Biden will give what could be his final Oval Office speech on Wednesday to explain why he dropped out of November's election and deny that he will spend six months as a lame duck. With the world's eyes already on a looming clash between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Biden will insist in his address to the nation ...

Trump Files Complaint Over Harris Using Biden's Election Funds
Trump Files Complaint Over Harris Using Biden's Election Funds

Republican candidate Donald Trump's campaign has filed a complaint on Tuesday to the Federal Election Commission over Vice President Kamala Harris' use of campaign funds raised by Joe Biden. President Biden ended his reelection campaign on Sunday, following a disastrous debate performance and growing dissent within the Democratic Party over his ...

North Korean Trash Balloons Hit South's Presidential Building
North Korean Trash Balloons Hit South's Presidential Building

Trash-carrying balloons sent by North Korea hit the South Korean presidential compound on Wednesday, security officials told AFP, prompting Seoul to mobilize chemical response teams in the escalating tit-for-tat propaganda war. It is the first time the South Korean leader's office in downtown Seoul, which is protected by scores of soldiers and a ...

Joe Biden, 50 Years a Politician
Joe Biden, 50 Years a Politician

From his beginnings as a senator, to his nomination as Barack Obama’s running mate and his election as President of the United States, Joe Biden has left a mark on America’s political history over the last fifty years. Let us take a deep dive into his long-spanning career in the service of Uncle Sam. In recent weeks, Joe Biden made a plethora ...

Nepal Plane Crashes With 18 Dead, Pilot Sole Survivor
Nepal Plane Crashes With 18 Dead, Pilot Sole Survivor

A passenger plane crashed on takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage, but all 18 others aboard killed, police in the Nepali capital told AFP. Nepal has a woeful track record on aviation safety, and the Himalayan republic has seen a spate of deadly light plane and helicopter crashes over the ...

The US Presidential Race and Its Impact on the Middle East
The US Presidential Race and Its Impact on the Middle East

The recent rise in regional tensions – marked by Houthi attacks on Tel Aviv and Israel’s unprecedented response of targeting the port of Hodeidah – signals a broadening of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This could usher in a new phase of military intervention that extends beyond traditional boundaries, without necessarily escalating into a ...

Germany Bans Islamist Group Over Alleged Hezb, Iran Links
Germany Bans Islamist Group Over Alleged Hezb, Iran Links

Germany on Wednesday banned the Hamburg Islamic Centre, an association that has been under investigation for several months over its alleged support for Lebanon's Hezbollah group and its links to Iran. Tehran reacted in fury, summoning Germany's ambassador to Iran to condemn a "hostile action" it branded as a "clear example of Islamophobia". ...

Macron Won't Name New French PM Until After Olympics
Macron Won't Name New French PM Until After Olympics

French President Emmanuel Macron, on Tuesday, dismissed a left-wing alliance's push to name a new prime minister after snap elections, saying parties in a fractured parliament must come together to build a broad coalition after the Paris Olympic Games. "Of course we need to be concentrated on the Games until mid-August," Macron told broadcaster ...

US Announces Sudan Ceasefire Talks
US Announces Sudan Ceasefire Talks

The United States announced Tuesday that it had invited Sudan's warring sides to hold ceasefire talks next month. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington had invited Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to start US-mediated negotiations beginning on August 14 in Switzerland. "The United States remains ...

Who Is Lucie Castets, NFP's Choice for French PM?
Who Is Lucie Castets, NFP's Choice for French PM?

Lucie Castets was nominated as prime minister of France by head of the Green Party Marine Tondelier, Tuesday on X, following initial reports by newspaper L'Humanité. 37-year-old Castets told AFP she had accepted the nomination "with great humility but also great conviction," believing herself a "serious and credible candidate" for prime ...

US Secret Service Director Resigns After Trump Assassination Attempt
US Secret Service Director Resigns After Trump Assassination Attempt

US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday, a day after acknowledging that the agency failed in its mission to prevent an assassination attempt against Donald Trump. Cheatle was facing bipartisan calls to step down after a 20-year-old gunman wounded the former Republican president and current White House candidate at a July ...

Is Yemen on the Brink of Renewed Civil War?
Is Yemen on the Brink of Renewed Civil War?

Yemen may be at risk of collapsing back into civil war as the increasingly empowered Houthi regime, hardening western policy and an intensifying economic war pushes the war-ravaged country towards the brink. “This is the tensest period I've seen since the truce, we may even have war next week”, says Mohammed al-Basha, analyst at the US-based ...