Author: Daily Sabah With Reuters
The White House on Thursday welcomed a call by jailed ringleader Abdullah Öcalan for the bloody-minded PKK terror group to lay down arms. “It’s a significant development and we hope that it will help assuage our Turkish allies about U.S. counter-ISIS partners in northeast Syria. We believe it will help bring peace to this troubled region,” said Brian Hughes, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that talks with Russia and Ukraine on a peace deal are “very well advanced” and credited Russia for its actions in the talks, as he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House. Starmer has urged the United States to provide a security “backstop” for any European forces that take part in a potential peacekeeping role in Ukraine at the conclusion of peace talks that Trump has pushed forward since taking office last month. Sitting alongside Starmer in the Oval Office, Trump said he thinks a peace deal reached with…
The UN Human Rights Chief accused Israel on Wednesday of showing an unprecedented disregard for human rights in its military actions in Gaza and said Hamas had violated international law. “Nothing justifies the appalling manner in which Israel has conducted its military operations in Gaza which consistently breached international law”, said Volker Turk, while presenting a new report on the human rights situation in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) also accused Hamas of grave violations since…
A ramming attack at a bus stop in northern Israel on Thursday injured seven people, one of them critically, Israeli medics said. Israeli police said the suspected attacker had nationalistic motivations and was a Palestinian from Jenin in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank who was married to an Israeli citizen. “Preliminary findings indicate that he deliberately targeted civilians” waiting at a bus stop at Karkur Junction, a statement from the Israeli police said. Israeli-Palestinian violence has spiked in the West Bank. Israel sent tanks into the northern West Bank for the first time in over 20 years on…
Arsenal’s faint title hopes dimmed even further after they were held to a 0-0 draw by Nottingham Forest despite dominating Wednesday’s Premier League match at the City Ground between the second and third-placed teams in the table. Arsenal were 11 points behind runaway leaders Liverpool, albeit with a game in hand, but failure to win extended the gap to 13 points after Liverpool later beat Newcastle United 2-0. Forest remained six points behind Arsenal in third place, keeping up their hopes of Champions League football next season, as they advanced to 48 points. They did well to absorb Arsenal’s pressure…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will go into effect on March 4 as scheduled because drugs are still pouring into the U.S. from those countries. Trump also said he would impose an additional 10% duty on Chinese goods on that day — on top of the 10% tariff that he levied on Feb. 4 on imports from China. Trump said drugs were still flowing into the U.S. at “very high and unacceptable levels,” with a large percentage of them the deadly opioid fentanyl. “We cannot allow this scourge…
Online rights activists have filed complaints with data protection authorities in several European countries about U.S. software firm Meta’s targeted advertising practices, the Eko group said on Thursday. The group said it had filed complaints with watchdogs in Norway, Germany and Spain after collecting evidence that Facebook’s parent company had not listened to explicit user requests to opt out of data collection and targeted advertisements. A Meta spokesperson said the company was unaware of the details of the Eko complaints and could not respond, but that it is committed to protecting users’ data privacy. In light of Europe’s data protection…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his proposed $5 million “gold card” visa would help the country pay down its debt while offering top companies a way to attract top immigrant workers. Trump said the country would start selling the visa in about two weeks.
French President Emmanuel Macron will go to London on Sunday at the invitation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Elysee palace said on Wednesday. An Elysee source said Macron will attend a gathering of European leaders in London. Starmer said earlier on Wednesday he will host leaders of Italy, Germany, Poland and other allies on Sunday to discuss their response to Donald Trump’s push for peace in Ukraine.
The U.S. must move quickly to achieve a trillion dollar reduction from the country’s deficit, Elon Musk said on Wednesday at President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting. Musk warned that the country would go bankrupt without spending cuts.