Qatar will hold talks Tuesday with Hamas, Egypt, and Turkey to discuss US President Trump’s Gaza peace plan. The talks aim to find a path to end the conflict and bring peace to the region. Qatar’s foreign ministry said Hamas promised to review the plan seriously. These discussions show regional efforts to resolve the Gaza […]
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Trump says North Korea summit could still happen
One day after abruptly pulling the plug on a high-stakes summit with North Korea, US President Donald Trump said Friday the meeting with Kim Jong Un could go ahead after all — and would “likely” happen on the originally scheduled date of June 12. The summit would be an unprecedented meeting between a sitting US […]
N. Korea preps nuclear site demolition despite US summit doubts
Invited foreign journalists gathered in North Korea Wednesday to witness the slated destruction of the reclusive regime’s nuclear test site, a high profile gesture on the road to a summit with the US that Donald Trump now says might not happen. In a surprise announcement Pyongyang said earlier this month that it planned to “completely” […]
NASA program to track greenhouse gas is canceled
A NASA program that cost $10 million per year to track carbon and methane, key greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, has been cancelled, a US space agency spokesman said Thursday. The end of the program — called the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) — which tracked sources and sinks for carbon and made high-resolution […]
Anti-Muslim hate crimes in US rose by 15 percent in 2017: CAIR
BOSTON: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in a report on Monday revealed a study stating that hate crimes against United States Muslims rose by 15 percent in 2017 for the second time. CAIR, an advocacy group, recorded about 300 US hate crimes targeting Muslims in 2017. The hate crime incidents vary from the June […]