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An independent human rights advocacy organization says 33 Palestinian women are suffering from inhumane conditions at Damon prison in the occupied territories, amid the Tel Aviv regime’s intensified crackdown on detainees. In a statement released on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies (PCBS) said Israel’s Prison Service (IPS) has …

A convoy of more than 30 US military trucks along with tankers has reportedly transported stolen Syrian oil from the northeastern province of Hasakah to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq. Local sources, requesting anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that 33 US military vehicles along with several …

The Israeli regime is planning to construct over 1,300 new settler units in the occupied West Bank as Tel Aviv continues to press ahead with its illegal settlement expansion activities and land grab policies across the Palestinian territories despite international outcry. The so-called Israeli ministry of housing made the announcement …

The Independent High Electoral Commission decided to manually recount votes in 297 electoral stations and responded to 461 appeals against the election results. The Commission said in a statement that it is studying the submitted appeals and 483 appeals were presented to the Board of Commissioners today. After completing the …

Iraq recorded 1247 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Sunday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 24 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 2139 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …

The 22nd brigade of al-Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) on Sunday initiated a security operation in al-Eith island, east of Saladin, to pursue ISIS terrorists sheltering there. A press release by the PMF’s media said that the troops found a pick-up the terrorists used for transportation in their operations. The …

Scientists in the US used a camera connected to a brain implant to help a blind person see again, NPR reported. The former teacher who had been blind for 16 years had the device implanted in her brain with no disruptions to brain activity or other health complications, according to …

Thousands of protesters held a rally in Bern, rejecting the introduction of Covid certificates aimed to curb the spread of the virus. The rally remained peaceful, unlike earlier October protests. Massive crowds of people flooded Bern, the capital of Switzerland, this Saturday, expressing anger over the Covid-19 measures adopted by …

Pro-military protesters blocked roads and bridges in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum on Sunday, but were dispersed by police, as tensions mount between supporters of the generals and interim government backers. Early in the day, demonstrators built barricades to cut off major roads and bridges in the city of more than 5 …

New York Times reporter Ben Hubbard had his phone hacked on numerous occasions, and cybersecurity researchers say Saudi Arabia was to blame. The hackers reportedly used the notorious Israeli-made ‘Pegasus’ spyware. Hubbard, a reporter covering the Middle East, wrote on Sunday that a hacking attempt was first made on his …

Colombian special forces have captured notorious drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, during a massive operation on Saturday. The alleged boss of the much-feared Gulf Clan had been on the run for over a decade. Around 500 troops and 22 helicopters were reportedly involved in the raid on …

President Tayyip Erdogan’s political opponents said his call to expel the ambassadors of 10 Western allies was an attempt to distract attention from Turkey’s economic difficulties, while diplomats hoped the expulsions might yet be averted. On Saturday Erdogan said he ordered the envoys be declared ‘persona non grata’ for seeking …

A fire broke out on Saturday on containers on a cargo ship carrying mining chemicals off British Columbia, and the Canadian Coast Guard said it is working with the U.S. Coast Guard to assess the situation, including environmental hazards. Sixteen crew members have been evacuated from the MV Zim Kingston, …

Restaurants and hair salons are shut. Schooling is remote. People are stuck at home after 8 pm At least one country in Europe has already returned to full-on crisis mode as COVID-19 flares anew from the UK to Russia to Singapore. Latvia’s response is the most extreme, but the Baltic …

The Al-Fateh Alliance, led by the Secretary-General of Badr Organization Hadi Al-Amiri, warned against not implementing the demands of the political and popular forces to manually recount ballots in all polling stations in Iraq. The leader, Abu Mithaq Al-Masari, told Alghadeer News, “situation is likely to escalate, especially with the …

A Yemeni human rights group, called The Eye of Humanity Center for Rights and Development, has released a report on casualties caused by six years of Saudi-led war on Yemen. The report says more than 44,000 civilians have been killed or injured since 2015 when Riyadh launched aggression against Sana’a. …

Iraqi Electoral Commission announced on Saturday that it had accepted 234 appeals against the election results, after evaluating 340 appeals. The commission said in a statement that Al-Ghadeer received a copy of it, “The Independent High Electoral Commission continues today, Saturday, October 23, to study the appeals submitted to it, …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries including Germany and the United States who appealed for the release of a jailed civil society leader. “I have ordered our foreign minister to declare these 10 ambassadors as persona non grata …

On Saturday, military intelligence detachments arrested an ISIS family in western Nineveh while crossing the borders with Syria. The Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Ministry of Defense said that a joint force of military intelligence and ground forces ambushed family members and arrested them while crossing the Iraqi-Syrian borders. …

Iraq recorded 1846 new cases of Covid-19 to bring its total to 2,043,963, the health ministry said. It reported 26 deaths to take its coronavirus death toll to 22,901. It also reported 2669 recoveries to bring its total to 1,982,232 (97 %). The COVID-19 intensive care patients count to 225. …