Hamas has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan. In a press statement on monday, Hamas described the plan as an “aggressive scheme”aimed at displacing Palestinians and undermining their national cause. Hamas said that the Palestinian people, who have endured genocide and forced displacement by…
The United States immigration authorities have been granted the ability to arrest individuals at schools, churches, and hospitals following President Donald Trump’s administration’s reversal of policies that previously classified these locations as off-limits for enforcement. The policy change ends over a decade of restrictions protecting these “sensitive areas.” The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to travel to Paris on Wednesday to meet President Emmanuel Macron two days after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. The French head of state is expected to receive the German chancellor at the Élysée Palace around midday. In addition to the future positioning of the EU with regard…
Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed several lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to block his agenda in court. After his inauguration on Monday, Trump, a Republican, ordered U.S. agencies to refuse to recognise the citizenship of children born…
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has urged the European Union to be open to talks with the U.S. President Donald Trump, rather than being silent about new tariffs imposition. EU countries should act with an outstretched hand towards the Trump administration, “but not allow our hand to be slapped away without limits,” Habeck said at…
President Donald Trump has lifted U.S. sanctions imposed by his predecessor on extremist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in a reversal praised by the Israeli far right. Joe Biden’s administration had imposed sanctions on Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians. The Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been…
Donald Trump has been sworn in as U.S. president after taking the oath of office in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington. Trump swore the oath in a grand ceremony attended by his family, former U.S. presidents and dignitaries from the United States and abroad. “The Golden Age of America begins right…
Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Centre For Change, says new U.S. President Donald Trump will restore stability in troubled global regions by curbing terrorist groups’ activities and reining in their sponsors. Okei-Odumakin made this known in a statement titled: “America’s Baton Change and the World,” on Monday in Lagos. The human rights activist stated that as…
Donald Trump and his wife Melania have arrived for a church service in Washington a few hours before he is set to be sworn in for a second term as president of the United States. The service was being held at St John’s Episcopal Church near the White House. Vice President-elect JD Vance and his…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his imminent inauguration as U.S. President. He had heard Trump’s demands to restore direct contacts between Moscow and Washington and to do everything to prevent a third world war, Putin told Russian news agencies at a meeting of the National Security Council on Monday. “We certainly…
