Steve Witkoff was little known to the public before he turned out to be a key player in reaching a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
The Kansas City Chiefs have kept their bid for a historic third straight Super Bowl alive after holding off the Buffalo Bills 32-29 in an AFC Championship thriller to set up a National Football League (NFL) title clash with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles’ explosive ground game on Sunday carried them to a 55-23 triumph…
Court judgements in the United States have blocked efforts by President Donald Trump’s team to access Treasury Department records and lay off staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Early on Saturday, US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department…
US President Donald Trump has announced he will double planned tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium imports to 50 percent, escalating a trade war with the United States’s northern neighbour. In a social media post on Tuesday morning, Trump said the increased tariffs come in response to a decision by the province of Ontario to…
Mark Carney, the former head of the Bank of Canada, has formally entered the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the ruling Liberal Party. Carney launched his campaign for the party leadership at a rally in Edmonton, the capital of Canada’s western province of Alberta, on Thursday afternoon. “I’m back home…
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum seekers entering the US from Central America. Trump’s plan could affect hundreds of thousands of people from Honduras, a country which hosts a significant US military base. Here’s what’s at the…
Washington, DC – Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza — and the United States’ support for it — will “haunt” outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the rest of his life, says a former diplomat, who quit in protest over the war last year. Hala Rharrit told Al Jazeera in a phone interview that the…
