Author: Anadolu Agency

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday said that he will not step down despite calls for his resignation over his vote to advance a Republican-drafted funding bill. “Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer told NBC. He faced criticism from Democrats over his last week’s decision to back the spending bill which helped avoid a government shutdown. Many Democrats, including Representatives Glenn Ivey and Delia Ramirez, believe that move gave President Donald Trump too much power, and suggested Schumer step aside. Schumer said the continuing resolution (CR) was “certainly bad”, and added a shutdown “would be 15 or 20…

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Sunday met with his Palestinian counterpart Mohammad Mustafa in Cairo to address ongoing efforts to sustain the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza and explore avenues for the reconstruction of the strip, Egypt’s government said. Madbouly reaffirmed Egypt’s support for Palestinians, emphasizing the importance of keeping them on their land, the statement said. He highlighted a reconstruction plan Egypt crafted and recently endorsed by an emergency Arab League summit in Cairo, noting that further coordination with regional and international partners, as well as Palestinian counterparts, would refine its implementation details. The Arab summit,…

South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI has rejected an $800 million acquisition offer from US tech giant Meta, Bloomberg reported Monday. Instead of selling, the company has chosen to expand as an independent business. Meta has been in talks to acquire Seoul-based FuriosaAI since early this year, according to the report. The US company has shown interest in a select number of Asian firms, including FuriosaAI. Led by June Paik, a former engineer at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., FuriosaAI develops semiconductors for artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing and related services. Meta is making significant investments in AI infrastructure…

The Israeli military announced on Monday evening that it intercepted two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip targeting the Sderot settlement and adjacent areas. “Following the sirens that sounded at 19:02 in the communities near the Gaza Strip, two projectiles that crossed into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip were intercepted by the IAF (air force),” it said in a statement. Earlier, the army reported that sirens had been activated in Sderot and surrounding regions. Israel’s Army Radio noted this was the first time sirens had blared in Sderot since the ceasefire in Gaza ended, adding that the rockets originated…

Five Palestinians were injured, and several others arrested during attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian communities in the southern West Bank on Monday evening, including Hebron and Bethlehem. Jihad Nuwaja, head of the local council for the village of Susya in southern Hebron, told Anadolu that “Israeli settlers stormed the Susya area and attempted to steal a herd of sheep, but young locals confronted them and prevented the theft.” Nuwaja explained that both Israeli police and military forces arrived at the scene as the illegal settlers were attacking the residents. However, they did not intervene to stop the violence, leaving…

Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to US Congress, died at 49 after battling glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, CNN reported Sunday. Her family announced her passing on X Sunday, saying she died peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones. Love represented Utah’s 4th Congressional District from 2015 to 2019. Utah Governor Spencer Cox praised Love as a “trailblazer and visionary leader.” In May, Love shared her diagnosis on CNN, discussing her hopeful outlook and the role of her faith and immunotherapy treatment.

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday said that he will not step down despite calls for his resignation over his vote to advance a Republican-drafted funding bill. “Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer told NBC. He faced criticism from Democrats over his last week’s decision to back the spending bill which helped avoid a government shutdown. Many Democrats, including Representatives Glenn Ivey and Delia Ramirez, believe that move gave President Donald Trump too much power, and suggested Schumer step aside. Schumer said the continuing resolution (CR) was “certainly bad”, and added a shutdown “would be 15 or 20…

US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday said that he will not step down despite calls for his resignation over his vote to advance a Republican-drafted funding bill. “Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer told NBC. He faced criticism from Democrats over his last week’s decision to back the spending bill which helped avoid a government shutdown. Many Democrats, including Representatives Glenn Ivey and Delia Ramirez, believe that move gave President Donald Trump too much power, and suggested Schumer step aside. Schumer said the continuing resolution (CR) was “certainly bad”, and added a shutdown “would be 15 or 20…

Russia and the US began the latest round of bilateral talks on Monday in Saudi Arabia. Russian state news agency TASS reported that the negotiations started in Riyadh in a closed format and that Saudi security officials requested journalists at the venue to leave the premises. On Thursday, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov, following a phone call with US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, announced that the new round of talks would take place on March 24 in Riyadh. The meeting is aimed “mainly to work out the prospects for the possible implementation of the well-known initiative concerning the safety…

American technology company Apple on Monday announced the launch of a 720 million yuan ($99.3 million) investment fund to accelerate clean energy development in China, advancing the company’s goal to transition its supply chain to 100% renewable energy by 2030. The second phase of the China Clean Energy Fund, managed by Schroders, is set to add nearly 550,000 megawatt-hours of wind and solar capacity annually to China’s power grid. “This builds on the success of the initial fund,” launched in 2018, which created over 1 gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy projects across 14 provinces, it stated. “Our suppliers in China…