Author: Aidan
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Yemen Houthi rebels fire missile at US warship in Red Sea in first attack after American-led strikes
Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea on Sunday, but a U.S. fighter jet shot it down in the latest attack roiling global shipping amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, officials said. The attack marks the first U.S.-acknowledged fire by the Houthis since America and allied…
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Three Gunmen, One Israeli Killed In Clashes Along Lebanon Border
Three gunmen who crossed into Israel from Lebanon and an Israeli man were killed in clashes and a strike along the frontier between the two countries on Sunday, the army and medics said. Since the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip erupted on October 7, the Israel-Lebanon border has seen near-daily exchanges…
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Guatemala is expectant as the new president is set to take office after months of legal battles
Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo is scheduled to be sworn into office Sunday afternoon. But just like almost every day since his resounding Aug. 20 election victory, the inauguration will be tinged with doubts and tensions. The still-serving Attorney General, Consuelo Porras, has tried every legal trick in the book to put him on trial or in jail before…
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U.S. does not support Taiwan independence, Biden says
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday the United States does not support the independence of Taiwan, after Taiwanese voters rebuffed China and gave the ruling party a third presidential term. Earlier in the day, the Taiwanese ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate Lai Ching-te came to power, strongly rejecting Chinese pressure to spurn him, and…
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Taiwan ruling party’s Lai wins presidential election
Taiwan’s ruling party candidate Lai Ching-te on Saturday, January 13, won the island’s presidential election, a vote watched closely from Beijing to Washington. Lai delivered an unprecedented third consecutive term for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after a raucous campaign in which he pitched himself as the defender of Taiwan’s democratic way of life. Lai…
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US launches new air strike on Houthi target in Yemen
The UK and US have defended their action to carry out strikes against the Houthis in retaliation for the Yemeni rebel group’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Both have said the strikes are legal under international military law. US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN…
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US, British militaries launch massive retaliatory strike against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen
The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. The U.S. Air Force’s Mideast command said it struck over 60 targets at 16 sites in Yemen, including “command-and-control nodes,…
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Six Jewish students file federal lawsuit against Harvard, calling it ‘a bastion’ of ‘anti-Jewish hatred’
Several graduate and law students at Harvard University filed a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League school this week, accusing the administration of failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment on campus during the Israel-Hamas war Israeli Zionist genocide. The 79-page civil complaint, filed Wednesday in US District Court in Boston, alleges that antisemitism at…