Author: Press Room
A study commissioned by the Viennese government has found that young Muslims display stricter adherence to Islamic principles and are often more authoritarian than other groups. According to a report commissioned by the Vienna City Council Office for Education and Integration, carried out by sociologist and integration expert Kenan Güngör, and surveying over 1,200 people aged 14 to 24 in the Austrian capital city, found that one in three young Muslims believe that everyone should follow the requirements of Islam. A further 41 per cent of Vienna Muslims said that they believed their religion should take precedence over the local…
Uyghur human rights activists and organizations have asked President Donald Trump this week to use his visit to Beijing, China, to raise the issue of the Communist Party’s ongoing genocide against their people, which is linked deeply to the Chinese economy through state-sponsored slavery. President Trump is currently in Beijing, having arrived to much fanfare on Wednesday. Much of Thursday, local time, consisted of scheduled talks with dictator Xi Jinping and his top officials on a variety of topics of mutual interest, following by a lavish banquet in the American president’s honor. Chinese state media and the White House have…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced this week that April marked twelve consecutive months of zero releases of illegal aliens apprehended by Border Patrol at the southwest border with Mexico into the United States — a milestone officials say reflects the most secure border in American history under President Donald Trump. DHS reports a 94 percent drop in illegal border apprehensions compared to the Biden era, with daily crossings now lower than what agents encountered in a single hour at the height of the 2023 crisis. Twelve straight months of ZERO releases at the border. Under President Donald Trump’s…
Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview Friday morning that he still intends for the House to vote on changes to the Senate’s version of a stalled housing affordability package — despite intense opposition from White House officials and Senate Republicans. “Yeah, I don’t think we have the votes to pass the Senate bill as is, so we’re going to stand by the House product,” Johnson said. In doing so, Johnson is defying White House officials and GOP senators who are deeply opposed to his plan to amend the housing bill on the House floor next week and send it…
Mark Rutte wants to triple military aid to Zelensky, with Western taxpayers footing the bill NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte wants NATO members to cough up 0.25% of their GDP for Ukraine. This figure seems minuscule, but how much hard-earned taxpayer money does it add up to?Rutte floated the idea at a closed-door meeting of NATO ambassadors last month, and will likely be raised at the bloc’s annual summit in Ankara in July, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed NATO diplomats.How much money does Rutte want to give Ukraine?The combined GDP of NATO’s 32 member states adds up to $57.2 trillion,…
The Israeli government announced it is preparing to sue the far-left New York Times for defamation. “Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper,” wrote the Israel Foreign Ministry wrote on X, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.” Prime Minister Netanyahu later released his own statement on X: Today I instructed my legal…
Republicans uneasy about the political risk of sending taxpayer dollars toward the new White House ballroom are hoping the Senate’s rule keeper will make the decision for them as soon as Friday. Lawmakers in both parties are watching closely for Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough to decide whether Republicans’ latest party-line bill can include a $1 billion Secret Service provision that could fund parts of President Donald Trump’s ballroom project. Bipartisan staff will meet with MacDonough Friday on that provision and the rest of the Judiciary Committee’s section of the bill, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose private scheduling.…
“Declining imperialist powers” are desperately trying to reverse the shift toward multipolarity, Abbas Araghchi has said BRICS member states must join forces to counter the US´ growing “sense of superiority and impunity,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday.Speaking at the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi, Araghchi said that while Iran has twice come under US-Israeli aggression over the past year, many other member countries of the economic group have also faced “hateful pressure and coercion” from Washington.“We cannot ignore the common and dangerous threat we all face,” he said.The group “should become one of the main…
“In Iraq, it took more than three years to reach that high. In Vietnam, it took six years.” More than 6 in 10 Americans now say President Donald Trump’s war in Iran was a “mistake,” according to a poll out Friday from the Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos. Within two months, the war—which has inflicted thousands of civilian deaths and caused gas prices to spike worldwide with little tangible gain—has reached levels of unpopularity that previous wars now seen as historic boondoggles took years to reach. The Post has asked the “mistake” for other major wars. But CNN senior political reporter Aaron Blake explained: “In Iraq, it…
The Star-Spangled Banner could be heard playing in the background during President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated visit to China – a notable showing ahead of meetings with the adversarial communist country. Video shows President Donald Trump walking alongside Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping. Both leaders stop and the Chinese military band begins to play America’s national anthem as Trump salutes. The Chinese national anthem was played after. After touching down in China, Trump arrived at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square at 10:00 a.m. Beijing time, which is 12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. Video shows what appeared…