Runoff elections were designed under Jim Crow laws to blunt the Black voting power. This time, historic Black turnout made Warnock and Ossoff winners. ( read original story ...)
Georgia judges: Pandemic could backlog jury trials for years
Georgia's court system could take years to dig out of piled-up cases with jury trials delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, judges told state lawmakers Wednesday ... ( read original story ...)
16,000 new jobs created in first half of Georgia’s fiscal year
Nearly $6 billion in new investments created more than 16,000 new jobs in Georgia during the first half of fiscal year 2021, Gov. Brian Kemp said. ( read original story ...)
Mitch McConnell No Longer Controls The Senate After Georgia’s Democratic Senators Were Sworn In
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock officially give Democrats tiebreaking power in the Senate. Sen. Alex Padilla was also sworn in to Vice President Kamala Harris’s seat. ( read original story ...)
State of Palestine : Humanitarian Situation Report, End of Year 2020
English Situation Report on occupied Palestinian territory about Contributions, Coordination, Epidemic and more; published on 20 Jan 2021 by UNICEF ... ( read original story ...)
Zionist Settlements No Impediment to the Liberation of Palestine
Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer Reports from the usurped land of Palestine say the Gregorian calendar year 2020 that went by saw a record number of new Zionist settlements built i ... ( read original story ...)
Palestine reports 497 new COVID-19 cases
Kaila on Wednesday announced that Palestine recorded 10 new deaths and 497 new COVID-19 cases in the Palestinian territories, bringing the total infections to 172,896 and the death toll to 1,918. ( read original story ...)
Palestine’s Abbas congratulates Biden on his inauguration
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated Joe Biden on Wednesday for his inauguration as the new president of the United States and Kamala Harris as the vice president. Abbas expressed his ... ( read original story ...)
UAE envoy reaffirms desire to increase bilateral ties: FO
Hamad Obaid Ibrahim Salem Al Zaabi on Wednesday reaffirmed his country’s desire to develop bilateral ties with Pakistan on the basis of mutual respect, understanding, and common interests, the Foreign ... ( read original story ...)
Just hours before Biden’s inauguration, the UAE and US come to a deal on F-35 sales
F-35 joint strike fighter aircraft and 18 MQ-9 Reaper drones from the United States. According to Reuters, which broke the news, the agreement was one of the final acts of the Trump administration, ... ( read original story ...)