Negotiators from Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt Optimistic on Nile Dam Standoff
Delegations from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan continue to negotiate water usage issues relating to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam being built on the Nile River.
Month: February 2020
Trump Team Builds Massive War Chest for 2020 Election, Fueled by Impeachment Outrage
Groups supporting President Donald Trump’s reelection are raising enormous amounts of money, bringing in more than $60 million in January with more than $200 million on hand.
Barr says Trump tweets ‘make it impossible to do my job’ amid Roger Stone drama
The White House says President Trump isn’t ‘bothered’ or deterred after Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News on Thursday that the president’s tweets ‘make it impossible for me to do my job,’ in an unusual swipe at the president — although Barr emphasized that Trump ‘has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case.’
US House Acts to Remove Deadline for Equal Rights Amendment
In a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House has approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopening the process to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex.
China Still Not Sharing Coronavirus Information, Experts Say
Six weeks after announcing the appearance of a new, highly contagious and sometimes lethal virus, experts say China is still not sharing important data that could help contain the epidemic.
U.S. Navy Seizes Suspected Iranian Weapons Cache In Arabian Sea
The U.S. Navy says that it seized advanced weapons and weapon components believed to be of Iranian ‘design and manufacture’ intended for Huthi rebels in Yemen.
Israel strikes Iranian targets near Damascus
The IAF launched an airstrike in the Damascus area, according to the Syrian news agency SANA, in addition to multiple sources.
Atheist Awarded $150,000 After Kentucky Rejected ‘IM GOD’ License Plate
A federal judge has ordered the state of Kentucky to pay more than $150,000 in legal fees stemming from a lawsuit against the state Transportation Cabinet.
Top EU diplomat wants European strategy for Middle East peace
In light of US President Donald Trump unveiling of his Middle East peace plan in January, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc needs to formulate a European initiative to facilitate the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.
Republicans Revitalize The Charge To Pass Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
Republican Sens. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, are leading the charge to revitalize and pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
China’s online censors tighten grip after brief coronavirus respite
While censorship in China has tightened under President Xi Jinping, questions of transparency around the current outbreak are especially sensitive after Beijing’s cover-up of the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic fuelled suspicion and mistrust, and led to official calls for openness this time around.
Trump to Transfer $3.8B From Military to Fund Border Wall
The Trump administration is transferring $3.8 billion in recently passed military funding to finance construction of the president’s long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall, angering not just Democrats but also GOP defense hawks.
Religious liberty has been eroded in Switzerland
In the latest advance of the LGBTQ movement earlier this week, Swiss voters decided in a referendum to back hate speech legislation making supposedly ‘homophobic’ speech a criminal offence.
Christians deploy to help east Africans against locust swarms ‘as big as major cities’
Christian aid groups, along with pesticide-wielding UN troops, are deploying to eastern Africa to fight a locust swarm that experts say is the worst to hit the region in 70 years and could grow by 500 times between now and June.
Health expert: Coronavirus could establish ‘foothold’ in US
An American health expert is warning that the Chinese Coronavirus could soon ‘take a foothold in the US,’ where so far only 13 cases of the virus have been identified.
Senate Passes Bipartisan War-Powers Resolution to Limit Trump’s Ability to Attack Iran
The Senate voted 51-45 on Wednesday to pass a War Powers resolution aimed at curtailing President Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran, with eight Republicans voting with the Democrat-led measure in a bipartisan —but likely symbolic — check against the White House.
415 million children grow up in war zones, Save the Children reports
Nearly one in six children around the world — 415 million children in all — were living in a conflict zone in 2018, more than double the figure recorded in 1995, according to a report released Thursday by Save the Children.
UN publishes human rights blacklist targeting Israeli companies
The United Nations Human Rights Council published a blacklist of companies operating in Israeli settler areas across Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights Wednesday, accusing them of raising ‘particular human rights concerns.’
Israeli laser defense system successfully intercepts multiple drone targets
An Israeli-developed drone defense system successfully intercepted multiple targets and shot them down with a laser beam, aerospace company Rafael said Wednesday.
US budget deficit on track to hit $1 trillion for first time since 2012
The US budget deficit swelled at the beginning of 2020 even as the economy continued to grow at a steady pace.