Official says final decision has not been made on shipment of thousands of bombs, which was halted amid review of the transfer of weaponsMiddle East crisis – live updates See all our Middle East coverageUS President Joe Biden’s administration paused a shipment of weapons to Israel last week in opposition to apparent moves by the Israelis to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a senior administration official has said.Biden has been trying to head off a full-scale assault by the Israelis...
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior
CNN By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so. Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so. Blinken made the comments to CNN’s Kylie Atwood in an interview Friday at the close of a three-day to trip to China, where the top American diplomat spent hours meeting with top Chinese officials including Xi, as the two countries navigated a raft of contentious issues from...
The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, according to a US official. The shipment, which was held back last week, includes 1,800 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds and 1,700 bombs weighing 500 pounds. “We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs and the impact they could have in dense urban settings as we have seen in other parts of Gaza,” the official said. CNN reported over the weekend that one shipment...
By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, according to a US official. The shipment, which was held back last week, includes 1,800 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds and 1,700 bombs weighing 500 pounds. “We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs
By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, according to a US official. The shipment, which was held back last week, includes 1,800 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds and 1,700 bombs weighing 500 pounds. “We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs
By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, according to a US official. The shipment, which was held back last week, includes 1,800 bombs weighing 2,000 pounds and 1,700 bombs weighing 500 pounds. “We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – The Joint Committee on Ways, Means, and Finance of the 55th Legislature has uncovered an additional $51.451,000 in revenue for the fiscal year 2024, bringing the total draft budget to $743.859,000. This discovery was made during the scrutiny of the budget as per Liberia’s Public Financial Law. By Gerald C. Koinyeneh []
TikTok and parent company ByteDance are suing to block the TikTok ban, which President Biden signed into law two weeks ago. If the company doesn't win in court, and doesn't find another company to sell TikTok to, the app will be banned by January.
Cat Campbell/For The Madera TribuneA bowl of homemade mushroom barley soup is a meal in itself.Sometimes it can be cringe-worthy to realize that one of my favorite foods (mushrooms) is actually a fungus. But then again, one of my favorite cheeses is Gorgonzola, and it gets its flavor and appearance from mold. And I mustn’t fail to include yeast, which helps us bake breads, as all three are types of fungi. So, I guess I am not really very picky.This time of year, I like to walk around my...
There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to “everything is bad.” While I’m not saying that everything is bad, I do wonder if we can have more of a “gap” than a transition, largely due to the...