BLINKEN RETURNS TO ISRAEL FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF TOUGH CONVERSATIONS WITH NETANYAHU AS DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS RAMP UP

2024-03-23T16:27+0100libyannewswire (en)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Israel Friday as part of an intensive diplomatic push to reach a 'sustained and immediate ceasefire' in Gaza and deter an Israeli offensive into Rafah. The stop in Tel Aviv caps Blinken's sixth round of shuttle diplomacy in the region since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

13:02 Regional - Blinken returns to Israel for another round of tough conversations with Netanyahu as diplomatic efforts ramp up

2024-03-22T12:26+0100nna-en (en)

NNA - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Israel Friday as part of an intensive diplomatic push to reach a “sustained and immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and deter an Israeli offensive into Rafah. The stop in Tel Aviv caps Blinken’s sixth round of shuttle diplomacy in the region since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Cholera: More than 35 million cholera vaccine doses were missing in 2023

2024-03-22T06:32+0100breakinglatest (en)

The number of cholera cases worldwide has risen so rapidly that there is a risk of a severe shortage of vaccines . Countries requested twice as many vaccine doses last year as were produced, reported the ICG coordination group, which monitors and distributes global vaccine supplies.

Amr Nabil/AP

2024-03-22T05:10+0100cnn (en)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returns to Israel Friday as part of an intensive diplomatic push to reach a “sustained and immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and deter an Israeli offensive into Rafah. The stop in Tel Aviv will cap Blinken’s sixth round of shuttle diplomacy in the region since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Not aspiring for CM post: Ponguleti

2024-03-22T00:13+0100timesofindia (en)

Hyderabad: Revenue minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy said the party has not opened its doors for other parties’ leaders yet to join Congress. He said there would be a flood of leaders from BRS and ready to jump into Congress if the party starts making such an offer.

US issues toughest ever car pollution rules to drive transition to electric vehicles | Environmental news

2024-03-21T12:00+0100exbulletin (en)

The auto industry, however, has pushed back against the Biden administration's efforts to tighten emissions regulations and accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. Biden's agenda also faced opposition from Republicans, as well as questions about whether the U.S.

Did Biden Know Israel was Indiscriminately Bombing Civilian Targets in Gaza? – WP Report Has the Answer

2024-03-18T23:51+0100palestinechronicle (en)

The US president was told in October that Israeli airstrikes were often carried out without “solid intelligence,” the newspaper claims. The White House knew since late October that Israel was regularly bombing civilian targets in Gaza, but US President Joe Biden continued to publicly defend the....

MIL-OSI USA: Costa Secures $12.2 Million for Local Projects in the San Joaquin Valley

2024-03-16T19:40+0100foreignaffairs-nz (en)

WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) secured $12,235,783 in Community Project Funding through the Fiscal Year 2024 budget. This funding will respond directly to some of the most pressing needs in Fresno and Tulare counties. The budget is expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden later this week.

Israeli occupation retreats from northern Hamad under Resistance fire

2024-03-16T15:25+0100almayadeen-en (en)

This photo released by the Israeli occupation forces on Sunday, November 5, 2023, shows ground occupation troops inside the Gaza Strip. ( AP. The Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip persists in repelling Israeli occupation forces, which have so far sustained significant losses in both equipment....

Battles in Khan Younis and al-Zahraa are at their peak

2024-03-16T02:03+0100almayadeen-en (en)

The Palestinian resistance persists in confronting Israeli forces invading the Gaza Strip, targeting their vehicles, mainly in the cities of Hamad in Khan Younis and Al-Zahraa in the central region. Earlier footage of the al-Quds Brigades targeting occupation soldiers and vehicles in the Abasan....

Sauteurs coastal disaster remains unresolved

2024-03-15T18:57+0100nowgrenada (en)

Over a year after taking office, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government has yet to address the severe coastal erosion and destruction in the Sauteurs area caused by a poorly designed breakwater project undertaken by the previous administration in 2017.

New Jersey voters may soon decide whether they have a right to a clean environment

2024-03-14T19:30+0100apnews (en)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey, known as much for its beaches and blueberries as for the chemical plants and refineries that line some of its major highways, is considering asking voters a fundamental question: Should the state guarantee its citizens the right to a clean environment? A bill making....

New Jersey voters may soon decide whether they have a right to a clean environment

2024-03-14T19:30+0100kob (en)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey, known as much for its beaches and blueberries as for the chemical plants and refineries that line some of its major highways, is considering asking voters a fundamental question: Should the state guarantee its citizens the right to a clean environment? A bill making....

New Jersey voters may soon decide whether they have a right to a clean environment

2024-03-14T19:30+0100startribune (en)

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey, known as much for its beaches and blueberries as for the chemical plants and refineries that line some of its major highways, is considering asking voters a fundamental question: Should the state guarantee its citizens the right to a clean environment? A bill making its....

New Jersey voters may soon decide whether they have a right to a clean environment

2024-03-14T19:25+0100sandiegouniontribune (en)

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey, known as much for its beaches and blueberries as for the chemical plants and refineries that line some of its major highways, is considering asking voters a fundamental question: Should the state guarantee its citizens the right to a clean environment? A bill making its....

House of Representatives passes bill that would ban TikTok due to national security concerns | Technology News

2024-03-13T22:48+0100exbulletin (en)

Opponents of Wednesday's bill raised concerns about free speech and called the move a knee-jerk effort that falls short of meaningful reform. Rather than targeting a company in a rushed and secretive process, Congress should enact comprehensive data privacy protections and better inform the public....

US House passes bill that would ban TikTok amid national security concerns

2024-03-13T18:37+0100aljazeera-en (en)

The United States House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill that could eventually ban the social media platform TikTok in the country, in its latest salvo against both China and big tech. The bill received resoundingly bipartisan support, with vote of 352 to 65 in favour.

House passes Mike Gallagher-led bill to force sale of TikTok

2024-03-13T16:14+0100jsonline (en)

TikTok. Gallagher, the leader of the House select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, has argued the Chinese government could use the platform to collect user data and promote propaganda. “We can’t take the chance of having a dominant news platform in America controlled or owned by a company....

Former defense minister turned over recently activated cell phone as “evidence” during investigation concerning dead marine

2024-03-13T08:36+0100hani (en)

Shortly before his departure to Australia to serve the South Korean ambassador, former Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-sup turned over a recently activated cell phone to the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), who was questioning him over alleged interference in a....

US pledges $100 mil more to help Haiti

2024-03-12T13:15+0100thenassauguardian (en)

The United States has pledged an additional $100 million to support a United Nations peacekeeping mission to Haiti to help bring stability to the troubled nation. Leaders from CARICOM, the United States, Canada, Mexico, France and Brazil were in Jamaica yesterday to reach a consensus on how to quell the violence in Haiti.

Real Estate News New bill would require sellers to disclose flood risk information to homebuyers Chris Gilmore 7:44 PM, Mar 11, 2024

2024-03-12T01:02+0100wptv (en)

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Heather Gaker’s nightmare began in May of 2015 when she fell in love with a property walking distance from the intracoastal in Boynton Beach. She didn’t want to show her face but she did want to share her story. "I was devastated,” she said.

2024 Session: Big Bend delegation bringing home bacon in state budget

2024-03-11T17:14+0100gainesville (en)

The $117 billion state budget Florida lawmakers approved Friday to end their annual session boosts the capital region with a major construction project and provides tens of millions of dollars for social services, health care, and environmental protection programs.

2024 Session: Big Bend delegation bringing home bacon in state budget

2024-03-11T17:12+0100ocala (en)

The $117 billion state budget Florida lawmakers approved Friday to end their annual session boosts the capital region with a major construction project and provides tens of millions of dollars for social services, health care, and environmental protection programs.

Korean media: Before the investigation of the case involved was completed, South Korea’s former defense minister left the country to take up his new post.

2024-03-11T07:40+0100tellerreport (en)

2024-03-11T06:37:51.099Z. Highlights: South Korea’s former defense minister left the country to take up his new post. Lee Jong-seop was accused of abusing his power, allegedly exerting pressure on the relevant military departments to investigate the case.

National Guard Can’t Carry Long Guns While Checking Bags in Subway

2024-03-10T01:53+0100nytimes (en)

Shortly after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that hundreds of National Guard soldiers would be deployed to patrol the New York City subway system and check riders’ bags, her office made an adjustment: Soldiers searching bags would not carry long guns. The change, which was first reported by The Daily News , was ordered by Ms.

Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

2024-03-08T21:18+0100msnbc (en)

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, announced a plan this week that could very well have been drafted by a Republican. On Wednesday, Hochul said, in the name of public safety, she’d be deploying 750 members of the National Guard plus some state and MTA police officers to do random bag checks at select subway stations.

Team Biden slow-walking Trump debate challenge amid age and stamina concerns

2024-03-08T19:02+0100gazette (en)

President Joe Biden isn't making an imminent decision on former President Donald Trump 's demands to debate him ahead of the general election, Democratic strategists close to his campaign say. Neither Biden nor Trump has yet cleared the delegate threshold to secure their party's nomination, but the....

Biden asks for aid to Ukraine to halt Putin and says Israel must not use humanitarian aid as a bargaining chip

2024-03-08T13:05+0100elpais-en (en)

Foreign policy bookended President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. In two blocks separated by domestic issues, the Democratic leader made an energetic defense of aid to Kyiv and, to close his speech, of the U.S. contribution to humanitarian aid to remedy the catastrophic situation in Gaza,....

Women inducted into Kerala’s Fire and Rescue Services for the first time

2024-03-07T17:41+0100thehindu (en)

For the first time since its inception, the Kerala Fire and Rescue Services inducted women officers into the force on Thursday. The first batch of 82 women fire fighters concluded their year-long training programme with a passing out parade at the Special Armed Police (SAP) parade ground in Peroorkada here.

China blames U.S. for bilateral tensions, reaffirms support for Palestine

2024-03-07T07:11+0100nbcnewyork (en)

China Foreign Minister Wang Yi said U.S. has been devising "new ways to suppress China," saying U.S. accusations against China had reached an "unbelievable degree." Wang's comments came as the U.S. Senate's homeland security committee voted Wednesday to move a bill that could limit U.S. market excess for Chinese biotech firms.

Juli Lynne Charlot, creator of ’50s ‘poodle skirt’ fad, dies at 101

2024-03-06T17:55+0100WashingtonPost (en)

The fashion world brims with origin stories. There’s Coco Chanel popularizing the little black dress in the cocktail culture of the 1920s. There’s Mary Quant staking claim to the miniskirt in London’s Swinging Sixties. Tucked deep within fashion lore was one of the most curious tales — kept alive....

MSNBC hosts mock Virginia voters for calling immigration their top issue and laugh at concerns about the flood of immigrants to the US.

2024-03-06T07:28+0100whatsnew2day (en)

Exit polls found that Trump’s immigration policies are widely acceptable in Virginia, and 64 percent of voters trust the former president more on border security. Americans now say immigration is the top issue facing the nation: 28 percent of voters consider it the top concern, ahead of the state of the government and the economy.

MSNBC anchors mock Virginia voters for calling immigration their top issue and laugh over concerns with flood of migrants into US

2024-03-06T06:47+0100dailymail (en)

MSNBC anchors Jen Psaki , Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow joked about Virginia voters concerns over immigration Early exit polls indicated immigration was the top issue for Republican primary voters in the Old Dominion state; The United States is expected to be grappling with more than 8 million asylum....

The minister and Last Generation

2024-03-05T14:04+0100breakinglatest (en)

Minister Sangiuliano, I use this space to invite you to think again. Not to change her ideas, of course, but to listen to those of the kids of the Last Generation. On Sunday some of them returned to the Uffizi in Florence, they have arrived in front of Primavera by Botticelli and again they staged a protest.

Farming without Farmers: An interesting disclosure

2024-03-05T13:19+0100thehimalayantimes (en)

We have often heard about cars without drivers or self-driving cars. We are also familiar with the Engineers without borders. But farming without farmers sounds very incredible indeed. This harsh reality was exposed by Toni Hagen in a newly written book in view of several efforts made for....

Donald Trump Wins North Dakota Caucuses, CBS News Projects

2024-03-05T04:47+0100goodwordnews (en)

This victory comes one day after that of the former American ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley. won his first victory races for the 2024 presidential nomination, winning the Washington, D.C. Republican presidential primary. The White House candidates are now turning their attention to Super Tuesday....

With ShotSpotter staying in Chicago for the time being, dispute continues over the system’s usefulness

2024-03-04T00:13+0100eagletribune (en)

But the alert sent officers out looking for a shooter, and when they got there they heard a loud bang. One officer opened fire in the direction of a boy who had just set off a firecracker, but did not hit him. The episodes paint a picture of the limits of a controversial system Chicago has decided....

Beto O'Rourke claims Texas city safer because of immigrants after Trump's visit

2024-03-03T22:09+0100nypost (en)

Former presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke claimed Sunday that El Paso, Texas is one of the nation’s safest cities because it’s “city of immigrants” as he rebuked “El Paso, Texas, where I’m from has consistently been one of the safest cities in America, if not the safest city in America,” O’Rourke....

Editorial: City must approve open space disposal so vital flood mitigation efforts can continue

2024-03-03T14:01+0100dailycamera (en)

It’s hard to believe, but flood mitigation efforts at CU South are still facing hurdles. After the City Council initially approved the South Boulder Creek flood mitigation project in 2015, residents have since voted to move ahead with the plan — more than once. CU has agreed to transfer land to make it happen.

With ShotSpotter staying in Chicago for the time being, dispute continues over the system’s usefulness

2024-03-03T12:27+0100chicagotribune (en)

Early one morning last May, on a bungalow-lined street in Avalon Park, ShotSpotter detected real gunshots: more than half a dozen rounds fired. It was a busy night, and officers didn’t make it to the scene for more than half an hour. But when they arrived they found 24-year-old Aréanah Preston, a....

Why aren’t people in Accra better prepared for floods?

2024-03-02T15:01+0100theghanareport (en)

Floods are the second most prevalent and most devastating natural disaster in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2000 and 2019 floods accounted for 64% of all disaster events in the region. They affected the livelihoods of about 53 million people and killed more than 14,000.

Hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants’ sentences improperly lengthened: Appeals court

2024-03-01T19:56+0100gazette (en)

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that potentially hundreds of defendants charged for their actions at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot had their sentences improperly lengthened, raising the possibility that many will have to be resentenced. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Jan.

In light of enemy's threat to continue its aggression, resistance threatens it with more messages from field

2024-02-29T22:34+0100sabanews-en (en)

[01/March/2024] CAPITALS March 01. 2024 (Saba) - At a time when the Zionist enemy entity threatens to continue its attacks on Gaza Strip during Ramadan, if a truce agreement is not reached. The Palestinian resistance factions confirm their readiness for more messages from the field, which clearly....

Akufo-Addo’s silence on Akosombo Dam flood victims in SONA 2024 unfortunate – NDC

2024-02-29T19:11+0100theghanareport (en)

The Volta Region’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed disappointment over President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s omission of the dire plight of the Akosombo Dam Spillage victims in his 2024 State of the Nation’s Address. The party described as unfortunate, the government’s failure to....

Onuesoke Applauds Delta Govt For Signing MOU On Restoration Of Mangrove Forest

2024-02-29T18:19+0100urhobotoday (en)

LAGOS FEBRUARY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Delta State gubernatorial aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has applauded Delta State government for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a United Kingdom based organization Serendik Capital UK for the restoration....

KZN delivers 690 000 housing units built since dawn of democracy

2024-02-29T15:14+0100devdiscourse (en)

KwaZulu-Natal has made strides in the delivery of housing units, with a total of 690 000 housing units having been built since the dawn of democracy in 1994. This is among the province’s achievements highlighted by Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube, delivering the State of the Province Address on Wednesday.

SONA 2024: NDC condemns Akufo-Addo’s silence on flood victims

2024-02-29T15:09+0100AdomOnlineGhana (en)

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region has condemned President Akufo-Addo over what they describe as a “deliberate omission” of flood victims during his recent State of the Nation’s Address (SONA) to Parliament. According to the group, the glaring oversight of the 40,000....

Polls: The Public Blames Joe Biden - Not the GOP - for Migration Disaster

2024-02-29T14:24+0100breitbart-com (en)

Polls show that the public disagrees with President Joe Biden’s media-magnified, campaign-trail claim that Republicans are the bad spoilers in border security. Biden is visiting the Mexican border today to make that claim to a national TV news audience.

SONA2024: Volta NDC condemns Akufo-Addo’s silence on Akosmbo dam spillage

2024-02-29T13:58+0100citinewsroom (en)

The Volta Region’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) has voiced deep disappointment and concern over President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s omission of the dire plight of victims of the Akusombo Dam Spillage in his 2024 State of the Nation’s Address.

690 000 houses built in KZN since democracy

2024-02-29T10:40+0100sanews (en)

KwaZulu-Natal has made strides in the delivery of housing units, with a total of 690 000 housing units having been built since the dawn of democracy in 1994. This is among the province’s achievements highlighted by Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube, delivering the State of the Province Address on Wednesday.

Sanwo-Olu Swears in New Permanent Secretaries

2024-02-29T10:09+0100concise (en)

In a solemn ceremony held at the Banquet Hall of Lagos House, Ikeja, on Wednesday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu administered the oath of office to five newly appointed Permanent Secretaries, marking a significant step in the state’s administrative apparatus.

MIL-OSI Africa: 690 000 houses built in KZN since democracy

2024-02-29T09:43+0100foreignaffairs-nz (en)

Source: South Africa News Agency. KwaZulu-Natal has made strides in the delivery of housing units with a total of 690 000 housing units having been built since the dawn of democracy in 1994. This is among the province’s achievements highlighted by Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube, delivering the State of the Province Address on Wednesday.