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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
An overnight Russian drone attack on the Kyiv region killed one person, injured at least four and set several houses on fire, Mykola Kalashnyk, governor of the region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, said on Wednesday. The body of a civilian was found in a residential house that caught fire as a result of the attack, Kalashnyk wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app. “My condolences to the family and loved ones,” he said. He said that at least four other people in the region were injured overnight and at least five homes and two multi-storey residential buildings…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Apple Inc should get rid of any diversity, equity and inclusion rules, one day after company shareholders voted to keep the tech giant’s DEI policies. “APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES, NOT JUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM. DEI WAS A HOAX THAT HAS BEEN VERY BAD FOR OUR COUNTRY. DEI IS GONE!!!” Trump wrote in a post on his private social media platform.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a reversal of concessions given to Venezuela on an oil transaction agreement by his predecessor Joe Biden. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said he has ordered that the agreement dated November 26, 2022 be terminated “as of the March 1 option to renew.” Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and his government have always rejected sanctions by the United States and others, saying they are illegitimate measures that amount to an “economic war” designed to cripple Venezuela. Maduro and his allies have cheered what they say is the country’s resilience despite the measures,…
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.