Biden sworn in as U.S. president, takes helm of deeply divided nation

By Reuters,

Joe Biden arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning for his presidential inauguration, ready to take over a country battered by the coronavirus...

Italy becomes third country to top 30,000 Covid-19 deaths

By VOA,

Italy on Friday became the third country to record more than 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus, with only Britain and the United States reporting mor...

coronavirus , italy

Tanzania, Sudan, Nigeria on U.S. travel ban list

By CNN,

The Trump administration on Friday announced an expansion of the travel ban -- one of the President's signature policies, which has been derided by cr...

Tanzania , Travel ban , Trump

At least 40 killed, over 200 injured at Iranian commander Soleimani’s funeral

By Reuters,

Dozens of people were killed in a stampede as mourners packed streets for the funeral of a slain Iranian military commander in his hometown on Tuesday...

Huge crowds in Iran for Soleimani funeral as new commander promises revenge

By Reuters,

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians thronged Tehran’s streets on Monday for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by a U.S. drone...

Donald Trump , Iran , Qassem Soleimani

First Somali-American congresswoman ignites controversy in diverse Minneapolis

By VOA,

Representative Ilhan Omar has a way of attracting attention. Four months ago, the Democrat became the first Somali-American — and one of the firs...

Minneapolis

In polarized climate, some US Muslims feel threatened

By VOA,

Shahed Amanullah, a Muslim American tech entrepreneur from Northern Virginia, says it was hard to sleep after watching a video of a right-wing extremi...

US military

Lawyer for US-born Islamic State woman: she should return to US

By VOA,

A lawyer for an American-born woman who defected to the Islamic State says his client should be allowed to return the United States because she was bo...

Islamic state , US

Father sues to allow daughter who joined Islamic State to return to US

By VOA,

The father of an American-born woman who defected to the Islamic State terrorist group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration becau...

Islamic state

UAE used cyber super-weapon to spy on iPhones of foes

By Reuters,

A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and riva...

government , iphone , kaema , U.S

Trump wants the US out of Syria. But why?

By Citizen Reporter,

President Donald Trump once famously said he knew more about ISIS than US generals do. Now he wants to prove it. His big gamble on a sudden and rap...

china , US

Inside Qatar’s charm offensive to win over Washington

By Reuters,

There was much bonhomie as a few dozen people, including members of Congress and U.S. administration officials, gathered last week for dinner in a pos...

Counter Terrorism , President Donald Trump , Qatar , Qatar’s foreign minister , Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani. , The United Arab Emirates (UAE) , The United States

U.S. court says Trump travel ban unlawfully discriminates against Muslims

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries violates the U.S. Constitution by discriminating on the basi...

President Donald Trump , Trump ban on foreigners , U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals , US Supreme Court

Trump scrambles as ‘shithole’ remark fuels outrage

By AFP,

US President Donald Trump sought Friday to quell a global firestorm over his reported denunciation of immigration from "shithole countries" -- a slur ...

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Palestinian stabs Israeli in Jerusalem; anti-Trump protest flares in Beirut

By Reuters,

A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli security guard at Jerusalem’s main bus station on Sunday, police said, and violence flared near the U.S. Embassy in...

Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman , Palestinian stabs Israeli in Jerusalem; anti-Trump protest flares in Beirut , President Donald Trump

Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, sparks firestorm

By AFP,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday 6th December 2017 recognized the disputed city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital prompting an almost universal dipl...

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Supreme Court allows Trump travel ban to take effect pending appeal

By AFP,

The US Supreme Court said Monday that the government could fully enforce a revised ban on travelers from six mainly Muslim countries pending appeal, b...

Chad Travel ban , Donald Trump , High Court and Supreme Court , Iran , somalia , Syria , US Travel ban , Yemen

Trump’s Retweets of Anti-Muslim Videos Spark Discussion of Safety of Americans Abroad

By VOA,

The State Department said it has ongoing conversations with the White House on issues concerning the safety of American diplomats abroad, hours after ...

Islamic State chief is dead; Syrian Observatory says it has ‘confirmed information’

By Reuters,

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has...

300 Syrians leave besieged Damascus suburb after deal , ALLEPO , Islamic state , Islamic State kills 300 citizens in Syria , SYRIAN ARMY

Legal experts to Trump on travel ban: Put down Twitter

By VOA,

Memo from legal experts to President Donald Trump on resurrecting his stalled travel ban: Put down Twitter. Trump's 140-character musings Monday ma...