Chinese Vice President Han Zheng met with tech tycoon Elon Musk and urged US firms to “seize the opportunity” to deepen economic ties with China, Beijing’s state media said Monday. Han — who is set to attend the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump later on Monday — met with Musk and other American business…
Two buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released in the Gaza ceasefire deal had to inch through a thick crowd when they at last arrived in the West Bank at 2 am Monday. After the doors opened, women hugged their relatives and cried tears of joy while throngs of people chanted, waved flags and climbed atop the…
Palestinians burst into the streets to celebrate and return to the rubble of their bombed-out homes on Sunday after a ceasefire deal halted fighting in Gaza, and three female hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their mothers inside Israel. Armed Hamas fighters drove through the southern city of Khan Younis with crowds cheering and chanting. In…
President Joe Biden on Sunday welcomed the ceasefire taking hold between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, saying the “region has been fundamentally transformed.” “After so much pain, death and loss of life, today the guns in Gaza have gone silent,” the outgoing president said, just hours after the ceasefire took effect. Biden was speaking during a visit…
Donald Trump’s top national security advisor said flatly Sunday that Hamas militants will never again govern Gaza. “They cannot be a terrorist organization any longer, and they will never govern Gaza. Period,” Mike Waltz said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Waltz, a former member of Congress and veteran of two combat tours in Afghanistan,…
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday Ukraine and Britain “had no room” for cooperation in the Sea of Azov, commenting on a new 100-year partnership agreement between Kyiv and London the two countries’ leaders announced on Thursday. The Kremlin said on Friday that any placement of British military assets in Ukraine under the new…
App no longer available on US Apple and Google stores after supreme court upholds lawmakers’ ban TikTok stopped working in the US late on Saturday, shortly before a federal ban on the Chinese-owned short-video app was due to take effect. The app was no longer available on Apple’s iOS App Store or Google’s Play Store….
Hardline Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and two other ministers from his nationalist-religious party have resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet over the Gaza ceasefire deal, their party said on Sunday. The Otzma Yehudit party is no longer part of the ruling coalition but has said it will not try to bring down…
Israel on Sunday said a truce with Hamas began in Gaza at 0915 GMT, nearly three hours after initially scheduled, following a last-minute delay on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the delay, Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed eight people. A statement from Netanyahu’s office, issued less than an hour…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Hamas provide a list of names of hostages to be freed on Sunday before any prisoner swap takes place. “We will be unable to move forward with the framework until we receive the list of the hostages who will be released, as was agreed,” his office said. When…
Several thousand people, mostly women, gathered in Washington on Saturday to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with some wearing the pink hats that marked the much-larger protest against his first inauguration in 2017. In Franklin Park, one of three kickoff locations for the “People’s March” that will wind through downtown, protesters gathered in light rain…
US President-elect Donald Trump has launched his own cryptocurrency, appropriately called $TRUMP, sparking feverish buying that sent its market capitalization soaring on Saturday to several billion dollars. In a message posted on his Truth Social platform and X, Trump unveiled the so-called meme coin, which is designed to capitalize on the popularity of a certain…
The Israeli military announced Sunday that it had recovered the body of an Israeli soldier, Oron Shaul, who had been held in Gaza since 2014. “Last night, in a special operation by the Shin Bet (security agency) and the IDF (military)… we brought back to Israel the body of Golani fighter Oron Shaul,” the military…
Israeli hostages’ families should ask the Israeli military to stop intensified strikes in the final hours before a ceasefire takes effect as this “would be reason for killing their children,” a Palestinian militant spokesperson said on Saturday. The spokesperson, Abu Hamza, is with the al Quds Brigades armed wing of the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza, which…
