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US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly

By Rachel Mohamed United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, delivering a speech that criticised global migration and climate change policies. He also rejected international efforts to establish a Palestinian state, emphasising the need for a ceasefire related to the hostage deal in Gaza. Mustafa EFE, political analyst and president of the Centre for African Strategic Studies, told […]

today25 September 2025

International News

Arab League to lobby UN to recognise Palestinian state

Arab states will soon embark on a diplomatic drive to persuade the United Nations to recognise a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war, Reuters reported Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said. Six Arab foreign ministers met in Amman on Saturday to follow up on earlier decisions taken by the Arab League to counter US President Donald Trump’s move in […]

today8 January 2018

International News

Trump ignores warnings with ‘reckless Jerusalem move’

President Donald Trump has announced that the US formally recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will begin the process of moving its embassy to the city, breaking with decades of US policy. In a much anticipated speech in Washington on Wednesday, Trump reversed decades of US policy in defiance of warnings from around the world that the gesture risked creating further unrest in the Middle East. "I have […]

today7 December 2017

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