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Kushner's plan recycles failed past proposals and will clearly not succeed. But was it meant to in the first place? Proposing an economic approach to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is nothing new and it was definitely not pioneered by President Donald Trump and his adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. It was put forward many times in the past by both...

Senior US official says Trump administration is considering expanding action against family members of Maduro officials. The Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions on the son of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a move to increase pressure on family members of top officials backing Maduro and suspected of corruption. The action by the US Treasury Department freezes any US assets belonging to Maduro's...

James Alex Fields Jr killed Heather Heyer when he drove his car into counterprotesters at 2017 Unite the Right rally. The self-described neo-Nazi who killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer when he rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters after a 2017 white supremacist rally was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Friday. James Alex Fields Jr,...

Justices also say they'll hear 'bridgegate' and religious school subsidies cases, but won't take Alabama abortion case. Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era programme shielding young migrants from deportation. The justices' order sets up legal arguments for late fall or early winter, with a...

Follow Al Jazeera's coverage of the G20 summit as leaders from the member nations gather in the Japanese city of Osaka. The annual summit of the Group of 20 nations is wrapping up its second and final day in Osaka, Japan. At the top of the agenda is the ongoing trade war between China and the United States, the world's two biggest economies. The G20 is an international leaders'...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - After carrying Argentina on his back so many times Lionel Messi could be forgiven for having an off day but while his team mates earned high praise for Friday’s Copa America quarter-final win over Venezuela the captain did not look like his old self. Argentina’s all-time top scorer often loses out to Diego Maradona in...

AFP/Hanoi Hanoi said it is committed to “freedom and fairness” in its trade ties with the United States, after President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on goods from Vietnam, a major exporter to America. Vietnam has seen a leap in exports to the US this year as the US-China trade war simmers, prompting businesses to migrate from China to safer,...

AFP /Cotonou The last time that cartographers mapped Benin, Elvis Presley had just released Jailhouse Rock, the Soviets had launched Sputnik — and the country was still a colony named French Dahomey. Things in the West African state have sure changed since 1957, and the old maps were left in the dust as the population nearly quadrupled and cities and towns...

Reuters/Washington Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives backed down to President Donald Trump and passed a $4.6bn aid package to address a migrant surge at the US-Mexico border without the additional protections for migrant children that liberals had sought. Trump, the Republican-controlled Senate and moderate Democrats insisted on finishing the emergency aid bill as soon as possible, without further...

IANS /New Delhi The Congress yesterday dissolved all the 280 block committees in the national capital with immediate effect, while over 140 party bearers resigned from their post in support of the party president Rahul Gandhi’s offer to step down from the post following the dismal performance of the party in the Lok Sabha elections. The party leaders from different states...

Reuters/Sydney Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday Canberra has yet to establish the whereabouts of an Australian man missing in North Korea for several days. The family of Alek Sigley said on Thursday they had not heard from the 29-year-old university student in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, since Tuesday. Sigley, who also runs a small tour company specialising in educational...

Reuters /Manila An explosion at a military base in the restive southern Philippines yesterday killed five people, including three soldiers, and wounded nine others in what Islamic State said was an attack by its suicide bombers. The military said the blast occurred at around noon at a base on Jolo island, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, a splintered militant network...

QNA/Washington The US administration, elites, organisations and parliamentarians, as well as American politicians, can play more effective role in pressuring the blockading countries and urging them to stop their violations of human rights, said the Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) HE Dr Ali bin Smaikh al-Marri. He noted that after more than two years, the Gulf crisis is...

Literacy figures in Qatar have shown a further improvement thanks to comprehensive plans to boost the education sector, according to a report issued by the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA). As reported by local Arabic daily Arrayah, the PSA report revealed that the illiteracy rate in 2018 had dropped to 1.2% as compared to the previous years for people aged...