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The White House says Cornell University’s $1bn and Northwestern University’s $790m in federal funding have been blocked. The United States government has frozen more than $1bn in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790m for Northwestern University to investigate alleged civil rights violations, according to the White House. The development follows threats by the […]
An Israeli negotiating team has reportedly extended its stay in the Qatari capital Doha, a day after the US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff was in town to try and find a path forward between Israel and Hamas. The deal reportedly on the cards is an . . .
In his first interview since an armed group backed by Rwanda seized swaths of his country’s territory this year, Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered the United States and Europe a stake in his country’s vast mineral wealth, a sector currently dominated by China. Congo is considered to be among […]
United States President Donald Trump has made a series of claims about Ukraine and its leader as he seeks to end the country’s three-year war with Russia. Trump’s relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy soured publicly as Trump called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and said he “started” the war with Russia, a claim PolitiFact rated
The flurry of diplomatic activity around peace talks in the Ukrainian conflict came as Russian forces continued to inch forward on several parts of the frontlines, while continuing to take heavy losses. Ukrainian forces are under pressure along a stretch of the frontlines . . .
Top US government officials have walked back on some of President Donald Trump’s proposals about taking over Gaza and resettling Palestinians permanently to neighbouring countries, after global condemnation and pushback from Middle East states. Trump on Tuesday said the US would “take over” and “own” Gaza after resettling Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary redevelopment plan […]
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine – Leaning on a wooden cane, 72-year-old Fathi Abu al-Saeed navigates the rubble-strewn streets of Khan Younis’s al-Katiba neighbourhood — a daily ritual since he returned from displacement in the coastal region of al-Mawasi following the January 19 Gaza ceasefire. Carefully stepping over debris left by 15 months of relentless […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the United States to discuss the second phase of the ceasefire agreed with Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza, his office says. Negotiations for the second stage of the ceasefire are due to begin in Washington, DC on Monday, Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday as the […]
Last week, senior Hamas and United States officials expressed to the media their mutual willingness to engage in “a dialogue”. The statements by senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk and US presidential Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff most likely meant to test the waters for future diplomatic moves, perhaps due to their shared recognition that […]
Among the host of executive orders signed by United States President Donald Trump following his inauguration on Monday was the lifting of sanctions imposed on more than 30 Israeli settler groups and entities by the administration of former President Joe Biden. Settler violence has long been a fact of life for Palestinians living within the […]