WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Tuesday applauded the passage of legislation to provide Ukraine, Israel, and America’s Indo-Pacific partners with $95 billion in security assistance to support their national defense, including $9.15 billion in lifesaving humanitarian aid, and to stem the flow of fentanyl into the United States. Fellow Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley,
The Biden ally says outrage about the situation in Gaza is justified but protesters should condemn Hamas too.
After a monthslong journey, the bill cleared the Senate by a vote of 79 to 18. The two Vermonters were among only three progressives to oppose it.
Ms Champion’s committee of cross-party MPs visited el-Arish, a city in Egypt serving as a supply and logistics hub for the humanitarian aid effort to the Gaza Strip. Following the visit, where Ms Champion and her committee met aid workers so they could report back to the UK Government, the MP described Gaza as ‘lawless’. The committee published a report calling on the UK Government to press for more than 500 trucks of humanitarian aid a day to be allowed into Gaza; for all the crossings to open;...
National Security Adviser, under President Donald Trump, John Bolton says the "wide range" of possible deterrents he believes Israel has to attack Iran, and why he says he would call the President an embarrassment to the US.
Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Israel over the discovery of a nearly 300-body mass grave at the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis, emphasising the urgent need for international intervention to address the situation. The news comes days after an earlier mass grave was discovered near Shifa Hospital. “It is regrettable and shameful that violations of international law and humanitarian values continue in such a flagrant manner in the 21st century,” ministry spokesman Ahmed...
U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that spurred the latest war in Gaza
Bipartisan super-majority comes together to approve $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan
Brussels, April 23, 2024— The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s remarks by the European Union’s Josep Borrell about the need to protect journalists in the Israel-Gaza war and calls on all EU member states also to make or renew calls that both sides should respect international law during the conflict, take all measures to
Citing the national debt, U.S. Rep. Ben Cline (R-6th) voted against legislation that could send Ukraine $60 billion in foreign aid that passed the House over the weekend with bipartisan
Mediators are working on a compromise that will answer most of both parties’ main demands.
Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel on Friday with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, two officials said. At the same time, it warned that a possible Israeli offensive focused on Gaza's city of Rafah -- on the border with Egypt -- could have catastrophic consequences for regional stability.