Donald Trump avoids jail time or a fine, but the US president-elect’s criminal conviction will be on his record. Donald Trump has become the first former United States president ever sentenced for a crime. But the US president-elect avoided penalties for his conviction for falsifying business documents in relation to hush-money payments made to an…
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived for talks on Ukraine and the Middle East with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Britain on Thursday. Starmer welcomed the French head of state to his Chequers country residence northwest of London, AFP reporters saw. The British leader said they were set for a “really important discussion about a number of issues of mutual…
“On the F-16 program, we’ve been co-leading the international Air Capability Coalition,” Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said The United States, its allies and partners plan to continue training more Ukrainian pilots for combat use of American F-16 fighter jets, Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said at a regular briefing. “On the F-16 program, <…>…
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will accept the decision of the Constitutional Court that is trying parliament’s impeachment case against him, even if it decides to remove the suspended leader from office, his lawyer said on Thursday. “So if the decision is ‘removal’, it cannot but be accepted,” Yoon Kab-keun, the lawyer for Yoon,…
Lebanon’s defaulted sovereign dollar bonds climbed for a fifth day on investor optimism that a candidate will be picked after a two-year vacuum The candidate backed by Hezbollah and Amal Movement withdrew from Lebanon’s presidential race late Wednesday and announced his support for the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces. Sleiman Frangieh, a politician from North Lebanon…
The Taliban’s foreign office said they saw India as a “significant regional and economic partner” after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021. India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met acting Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai on Wednesday. Afghanistan’s…
Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday he had secured Slovakia’s gas supply during a visit to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last month, just before Ukraine halted the transit of gas from Russia at the start of 2025. “I needed to secure at a minimum gas for Slovakia’s domestic consumption – which…
A French journalist was briefly detained by Israeli troops on Wednesday in the buffer zone that separated Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights until Israel entered it last month, the army said. Spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told a press briefing that the journalist “came too close to the soldiers, was questioned and…
At least six people were killed and several others injured late on Wednesday in a stampede in southern India after thousands of devotees queued outside one of the most visited Hindu temples to collect tokens for a free visit to the deity. Authorities had set up counters at a school to issue tokens from Thursday…
Reports that cases of a flu-like virus called HMPV are rising in China have sparked concern, but experts have dismissed fears that the situation is comparable to the beginnings of COVID-19 five years ago. Here is what you need to know about HMPV: Similar to flu HMPV stands for “human metapneumovirus” and generally causes a…
The Biden administration will not revoke the terror designation on Syria’s “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,” according to US officials familiar with the matter. The US has made clear since it first reached out to HTS and Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, that it would need to see words turned into action. Biden administration officials told Al Arabiya…
The maps show Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria as part of Israeli territory. The Arab League strongly condemned Wednesday the publication by official Israeli accounts of maps depicting parts of Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria as part of Israeli territory. Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit “warned that the international community’s failure to…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday played down concerns over comments by US President-elect Donald Trump that he understood why Russia does not want Ukraine to join the NATO defense alliance. Zelenskyy, who has pushed for an invitation to join NATO before Trump’s return to the presidency, cautioned against making assumptions on the US position and said…
The US Education Department on Wednesday noted concerns about discrimination against people of Arab and Jewish ancestry at Johns Hopkins University and reached a settlement with the institution to resolve the complaints. The university has agreed to review its anti-harassment policies and to provide training to staff and students on addressing discrimination and harassment based…
