ARAB, Ala. (WHNT) — Occupied seats and teary eyes filled the Sanctuary at Liberty Church as community members gathered at a vigil for Violet Satterfield. The vigil was held at Liberty Church in Arab at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Violet was airlifted to Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham on Monday night after a possible drowning […]
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What to know about Trump’s outreach with Arab Americans led by his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump’s allies are working to win over Arab American voter s who are unhappy with President Joe Biden’s support for Israel. The effort is led by Massad Boulos, whose son married Tiffany Trump, the former president’s younger daughter, two years ago. Boulos, a Lebanese-born businessman, is now using his connections […]
Trump allies hope his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law can help flip Arab American votes in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One of Donald Trump’s emissaries to Arab Americans is a Lebanese-born businessman who moved to Texas as a teenager, speaks Arabic, English and French, and recently joined the Trump family when his son married the former president’s younger daughter. Massad Boulos has taken on the challenge of trying to convince a […]
US launches lobbying blitz to sell Gaza cease-fire plan to Hamas through Arab and Muslim nations
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has launched an intense drive to persuade Hamas and Israel to accept a new cease-fire proposal in the nearly eight-month-old war in Gaza while it also presses Arab nations to get the militant group to go along with the terms. It comes as President Joe Biden suggested in a […]
China promises aid for Gaza and praises relations with the Arab world
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday promised help for the Gaza Strip and spoke in favour of a peace conference, at a meeting with top representatives of Arab countries. China supports full UN membership for Palestine and the convening of a larger, more authoritative and more effective international peace conference, Xi said in Beijing on […]
China’s Xi pledges more Gaza aid and talks trade at summit with Arab leaders
Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promised more humanitarian aid for people in Gaza as he opened a summit with leaders of Arab states in Beijing on Thursday. “Since last October, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has escalated drastically, throwing people into tremendous suffering,” he said in a […]
Pakistan says United Arab Emirates to invest $10 billion in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani government said Thursday that the United Arab Emirates committed to investing up to $10 billion in Pakistan during a meeting in the UAE capital between that country’s president and the Pakistani prime minister. The office of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement that UAE President Mohammed bin […]
Reactions to Raisi’s death pour in from Arab world leaders, militias
Numerous Arab countries expressed their condolences following the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in a helicopter crash. Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, writing on X, offered “his sincere condolences to the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Egypt and Jordan expressed expressed solidarity with Iranians. […]
Arab League calls for UN peacekeepers in Palestinian territories
The Arab League on Thursday called for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. At a summit meeting of the 22-member organization, the group also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and strongly condemned the advance of the Israeli army into the city of Rafah in […]
For Arab American Leaders, Biden’s Shift on Gaza Is Too Little, Too Late
WASHINGTON — Seven months into Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, Muslim and Arab American leaders say their channels of communication with President Joe Biden’s White House have largely broken down, leaving the administration without a politically valuable chorus of support for his significant shift on the conflict this week. Biden’s announcement that he had […]
Why Palestinians can count on American students but not Arab allies to protest
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maya Gebeily CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Palestinians may be gratified to see American university campuses erupt in outrage over Israel’s offensive in Gaza, but some in the embattled enclave are also wondering why no similar protests have hit the Arab countries they long viewed as allies. Demonstrations have rocked U.S. universities this […]
United Arab Emirates struggles to recover after heaviest recorded rainfall ever hits desert nation
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates tried to wring itself out Thursday after the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to hit the desert nation, with its main airport allowing more flights even as floodwater still covered portions of major highways and communities. Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, allowed […]