Significance of US government shutdown
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US government shutdown significance
For the first time in nearly five years, the US government has shut down after the senate failed to reach a consensus on a new budget. A bill required to keep the government afloat until February the sixteenth fell ten votes short of the sixty needed. A heated bipartisan debate primarily over immigration and border security failed to convince the senate democrats to keep the government open for at least another month. As a result, hundreds of thousands of federal employees whose jobs are viewed as non-essential will be put on temporary unpaid leave. That will affect most staff in the departments of housing, environment, education and commerce and half of workers in the departments of treasury, health, defense and transportation. What’s more, National parks and monuments could face closure while visa and passport processing could experience delays.
Germany halts weapons sales to Saudi Arabia
More indications have been appearing that show the world is waking up to the truth about a deadly war that Saudi Arabia has waged against Yemen. Germany has announced that it plans to stop sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia. The decision appears to be connected to the kingdom’s role in leading a war that has claimed thousands of lives in Yemen and left the nation destroyed. It drew an immediate expression of praise from the Amnesty International which called on other countries to do the same. The key arms exporters that the Amnesty said needed to stop sales of weapons to the Saudis now are the US, UK, and France.
Humanitarian crisis: Gaza children starving to death
Hamas: Biden ceasefire optimism ‘premature’
Nowhere to go
April 18: ‘Axis of Resistance’ operations against Israeli occupation
Blinken ignoring staff recommendation to cut US aid to Israel: Report
Report: Israeli warplanes bomb positions in southwestern Syria, Iraq
US forces smuggle stolen Syrian oil into bases in Iraq: Report
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Situation normal after air defenses fire at 'suspicious objects' in Iran
‘Iran retaliation against Israel ensured no aggression would go unanswered’
US vetoes Palestinian request for full UN membership
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