Washington (AFP) – US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will seek to foster national unity, organizers said Monday, as fears of renewed violence prompted the Pentagon to authorize a surge of troops ahead of the event. About 15,000 members of the National Guard have been readied for deployment, with 6,200 already on the ground in Washington […]
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Extremists are calling on Trump supporters to “storm” the U.S. Capitol again and stage “armed protests” at state government buildings across the country — including in New York — in the lead-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to the FBI. An internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News warns that the armed actions are
U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer has announced his office in San Diego “will work closely with our law enforcement partners, including the U.S. Attorney’s office in the District of Columbia, to ensue that any individuals from San Diego or Imperial Counties who were involved in criminal activity at the U.S. Capitol are brought to justice. If we determine that federal charges should be brought in this District, we will aggressively prosecute all such matters.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Israel appears to be stepping up attacks on Iranian targets in Syria as President Donald Trump sees out his final days in office, with the latest rounds of strikes hitting suspected Hezbollah targets and Syria’s military complex. Israel has carried out at least three strikes in Syria over the past ten days, hitting southern Syria,
Egypt, Jordan, Germany and France on Monday asserted their commitment to supporting all efforts aimed at resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as their foreign ministers met in Cairo in an attempt to revive the Middle East peace process. The meeting comes as two Gulf Arab countries – the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain – as well
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Washington (AFP) – Key US lawmakers on Monday urged a quick reversal of outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s branding of Yemen’s Huthis as a terrorist group, saying he had worsened a humanitarian crisis. “The designation of the Huthis as a terrorist organization is a death sentence for thousands of Yemenis”, said Senator Chris Murphy,
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The US House of Representatives on Monday introduced a resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to remove President Donald Trump from office. The move pressures Pence to invoke the Constitution’s 25th Amendment and strip Trump of his powers by declaring him unfit to perform his duties. House Republicans blocked the measure, leading to a
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — According to former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, “The new normalization agreements between Israel and the Arab states have opened a window of opportunity for a new Middle East. Arab countries understood that they could not survive in constant tension with parts of the West and with Israel, so they
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Middle East, USA
Washington (AFP) – Since Vice President Mike Pence led the Congress session that ceremonially confirmed his boss Donald Trump had lost the November election, relations between the two top Republicans have plummeted to an Arctic chill. The men have not spoken after the president’s supporters violently stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, according to the US
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A day after the storming of the Capitol, Donald Trump finally issued a statement condemning it: “We have just been through an intense election, and emotions are high, but now tempers must be cooled, and calm restored. To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law, you will pay.” His sincerity can’t be doubted since he has made it clear that the people attending the Stop the Steal rally were [the following}:
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Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) and his wife Sarah Bloom, disclosed in a moving essay that their son Tommy, who was eulogized during the opening day of Congress by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, had committed suicide while in the throes of severe depression. [Donald H. Harrison]
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The U.S. blunder-filled vaccine rollout is “not working” and the U.S. should “hit the reset” on its strategy in order to distribute the vaccine faster, according to the former director of the Food and Drug Administration. Speaking to CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the U.S. needed a different strategy than the current
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PHILADELPHIA — After allowing an important feeding program created during the pandemic to lapse before the holidays, the Trump administration plans to restart it this month at the urging of Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser. While anti-hunger advocates are grateful for the intervention, however, they have complained that the program has been mismanaged.
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The daughter of a former Iranian president has spoken out against her country’s policies in Syria, saying that by assisting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Iran had participated in the killing of more than 500,000 people. Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, whose father Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was president of Iran from 1989 to 1997, gave an interview
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