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Support for the Republican tax plan has ticked up slightly since President Donald Trump signed it into law, but it still hasn’t drawn the backing of a majority of voters, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The GOP’s top selling point for the tax plan recently — a spate of employee bonuses and wage […]

Dubay: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a directive to transfer $2 billion to Yemen’s central bank on Wednesday to “alleviate the suffering” of the Yemeni people. The bailout is expected to boost Yemen’s financial and economic situation while bolstering the Yemeni riyal. As the value of the riyal goes up, the living conditions of […]

China has criticized the US and Canada for holding a summit of nations, most of which supported Seoul during the 1950s war on the Korean Peninsula, saying evoking Cold War ghosts has no place in the world today. South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Canada’s Minister […]

International NGOs have condemned the US government’s decision to cut more than half of its planned funding to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.  Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a Twitter post late on Tuesday that Washington was “holding Palestinian kids’ humanitarian needs hostage to political agendas”. Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian […]

RIYADH: The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh held on Tuesday its first trial session of twins who killed their mother and tried to kill their father and brother on the orders of Daesh. Khaled and Saleh The public prosecution asked for the death penalty against the twins, Khaled and Saleh. The public prosecutor accused them […]

  Image captionSteve Bannon (centre) attended a House Intelligence Committee closed door meeting on Tuesday Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to US President Donald Trump, has been summoned to testify before a grand jury, US media report. He was reportedly subpoenaed by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who is leading an inquiry into alleged collusion […]

The US Government is withholding £47 million ($65 million) worth of aid from the Palestinians, reports say. Mr Trump had previously threatened to cut aid to the Palestinians AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump’s administration was expected to approve its annual contribution to UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency), worth £90 million ($125 million). Officials have said the US will provide just under half of that, withholding the […]

Over the past year or so, people who disapprove of President Moon Jae-in coined the term “Moonslam” and have used it to ridicule his supporters as “followers with blind faith.” Hong Joon-pyo speaks at the Liberty Korea Party’s event at the Ulsan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, South Gyeongsang Province, Monday. / Yonhap But knowing […]

ore than three-quarters of Yemenis are now in need of humanitarian aid as the war between rebels and the Saudi-backed government nears its fourth year, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Displaced Yemeni children sit outside a makeshift shelter exposing themselves to the sun light to try and keep them warm at a camp for […]

15 January – Somali refugee ZamZam Yusuf has a message for any neighbours who think she doesn’t have the right to call Leicester, in the English Midlands, home. ZamZam Yusuf at UN Headquarters in New York. Photo: UN News/Matt Wells “I would like to offer you a cup of tea” at my house, says the […]