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WASHINGTON, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden said Friday he was “overjoyed” after Hamas released two American hostages abducted during the militant group’s surprise attack from Gaza on Israel. Biden spoke by phone to the two women after they were freed and promised they would have the government’s support “as they recover from this terrible ordeal,” the White House said. “Today, we have secured the release of two Americans taken hostage by […]
BEIJING, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – Beijing on Friday stressed its nuclear programme was only intended for self-defence, insisting nations had nothing to fear as long as they did not threaten China with attack. Washington said this week that China’s nuclear arsenal was developing much faster than US projections had previously anticipated, and Beijing is likely to have more than 1,000 operational nuclear warheads by 2030. Asked about the claim, China’s foreign ministry expressed its […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – US soldier Travis King has been charged with desertion for crossing into North Korea and a raft of other crimes including assaulting fellow soldiers and soliciting child pornography, US media reported on Thursday. The United States Army has brought eight charges against King, who had been stationed in South Korea, according to a document cited by multiple US outlets. The charges include kicking and punching other soldiers, possessing a […]
Worldwide Caution: Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State @StateDept advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased… pic.twitter.com/waIpqmWu2m — Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) October 19, 2023 WASHINGTON, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – The State Department on Thursday issued a rare “worldwide caution” advisory for US citizens everywhere, citing terrorism and potential for anti-American […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 19, 2023 (AFP) – A US Navy ship in the Red Sea on Thursday shot down missiles and drones that had been fired by Iran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen, possibly at Israel, the Pentagon said. Three “land-attack cruise missiles and several drones” were intercepted by a destroyer, Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder told reporters. The attack was “launched by Huthi forces in Yemen” potentially toward targets in Israel, he added. The ship, […]
By Frankie TAGGART WASHINGTON, Oct 19, 2023 (AFP) – The US intelligence community has estimated there were likely 100 to 300 people killed in the strike at the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, according to excerpts of a document seen Thursday by AFP — far fewer than the nearly 500 deaths that health authorities in the Hamas-ruled enclave originally described. An unclassified US intelligence assessment, provided to AFP by a Capitol Hill source, estimates the […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – Federal prosecutors on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to have election conspiracy charges dismissed on the grounds that he enjoys immunity for actions he took while in the White House. “No one in this country, not even the president, is above the law,” special counsel Jack Smith’s team wrote in a 54-page motion filed with the judge presiding over the landmark case. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican […]
By Frankie TAGGART WASHINGTON, Oct 19, 2023 (AFP) – Republicans lurched further into disarray Thursday as their nominee to lead the US House of Representatives looked incapable of securing the gavel and a plan to install an interim speaker collapsed in angry recriminations and accusations of bullying. President Joe Biden has announced plans to ask Congress this week for “unprecedented” aid to help Israel in its conflict with Hamas militants, understood to be part of […]
By Daniel AVIS WASHINGTON, Oct 19, 2023 (AFP) – US inflation is “still too high” despite a recent slowdown, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday, leaving the door open for a new interest rate hike. Additional evidence of “persistently above-trend growth” or fresh signs of tightness in the labor market “could warrant further tightening of monetary policy,” he told a conference in New York. The Fed recently slowed its aggressive campaign of monetary tightening […]
By Danny KEMP WASHINGTON, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – President Joe Biden on Thursday said Hamas and Russia are both out to “annihilate” democracies, in an impassioned speech to the nation from the Oval Office where he made the case for assistance to Ukraine and Israel as a vital US interest. Hamas and Russian President Vladimir Putin “represent different threats but they share this in common: they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy,” […]
By Tim Witcher and Adel Zaanoun in Gaza Strip TEL AVIV, Oct 18, 2023 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on a visit to Israel Wednesday backed his ally’s stance blaming Islamist Palestinian militants for a rocket strike on a hospital that killed hundreds in war-torn Gaza and has inflamed anger across the Middle East. Arab countries have blamed Israel, which has rained bombs on Gaza since the bloody October 7 attack by Hamas — […]
TEL AVIV, Oct 17, 2023 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden will pay a solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday following the Hamas attacks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced, as he also said Israel and Washington had agreed to develop a plan for aid to Gaza. Blinken spoke after meeting for nearly eight hours at the defence ministry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the top US diplomat’s second visit since the October […]
