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The Israeli regime is to approve next week the construction of 3,000 new settler units in the occupied West Bank as Tel Aviv continues to press ahead with its settlement expansion across the Palestinian territories. Citing the regime sources, Israeli media said on Friday the new units would be distributed …

The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children 5 to 11 years old, the U.S. drugmaker said on Friday. Sixteen children in the trial who had received a placebo got COVID-19, compared with 3 who were vaccinated, Pfizer said in briefing documents …

Large crowds protesting election fraud heads to the Green Zone in Baghdad

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the US has not achieved any of its goals during 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. “For two decades, the most powerful country in the world has been waging military campaigns in two countries that cannot be compared in any way. It was forced …

The Iraqi military intelligence agency announced arresting the person responsible for smuggling ISIS families from al-Hol camp to Iraq. The agency said in a statement that the Intelligence Division of the 20th Division in West Nineveh Operations Command confirmed the presence of a wanted man in the Al-Jaghifi complex area …

European leaders paid warm tributes to Angela Merkel on Friday as they wound up an EU summit, her 107th as Germany’s chancellor over nearly 16 years and probably her last, with one hailing her as a “haven of calm” in the maelstrom of EU diplomacy. Before the leaders of the …

Sixteen people were killed in an explosion and fire at a gunpowder and chemicals plant in Russia’s western Ryazan province on Friday, Russian state TV said, and one man was taken to hospital with serious burns. The disaster wiped out practically the entire shift of 17 workers who were on-site …

The US has already slipped into a recession that could be as bad as the 2007-08 meltdown, according to new research that punctures holes in media reports about the booming stock market and low unemployment. David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, and Alex …

Turkish media reports claim that the country’s intelligence forces have apprehended at least 15 people on charges of working for the Israeli Mossad spy agency. According to a report published by the Daily Sabah newspaper, a 200-strong team from the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) tracked the network, which consisted of …

At least one person has been killed and three others wounded when Saudi fighter jets struck pharmaceutical warehouses in Yemen’s capital province of Sana’a. They bombarded the facilities in the Saawan neighborhood on Thursday, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported, citing local sources. Saudi military spokesman Turki al-Maliki confirmed the …

Germany’s police have detained two former soldiers on terrorism-related charges for allegedly trying to form a pro-Saudi mercenary group of up to 150 members to fight in the war on Yemen. German prosecutors said in a statement that Arend-Adolf G and Achim A were detained on Wednesday in southern Germany. …

In the weeks leading up to the October 10 parliamentary elections, Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) promised to take steps to ensure people with disabilities could vote. But on election day, videos circulated suggested IHEC’s promises to make polling places accessible, with ballot boxes on the ground floor, went …

UN agencies are gearing up to vaccinate all of Afghanistan’s children under 5 against polio for the first time since 2018 after the Taliban agreed to the campaign, the World Health Organization says. For the past three years, the Taliban barred UN-organized vaccination teams from doing door-to-door campaigns in parts …

A volcano erupted in Japan on Wednesday, blasting ash several miles into the sky and prompting officials to warn against the threat of lava flows and falling rocks, but there were no reports of injuries or casualties. Mount Aso, a tourist destination on the main southern island of Kyushu, sent …

The head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Hadi Al-Amiri, stressed in a statement that “demanding rights through peaceful and civilized means is a right guaranteed by the constitution.” Al-Amiri asked the Independent High Electoral Commission to seriously consider all the appeals submitted to it in order to reassure everyone and prove …

Today, Wednesday, the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, Judge Jalil Adnan Khalaf, announced that he had received nearly 1,400 appeals from candidates who objected to the results of the general poll, confirming the start of looking into complaints and appeals. Khalaf said in a statement received by “Al-Ghadeer”, that …

Israeli forces have violently attacked Palestinian demonstrators during a national ceremony for Prophet Muhammad’s (Blessings of God upon him and his progeny) birthday anniversary in the occupied East al-Quds, leaving dozens of people injured and arresting as many others. Media reports said the clashes took place on Tuesday when Palestinians …

Hundreds of people in Bahrain have once again staged demonstrations to protest against the Manama regime’s normalization of ties with Israel and to demand the immediate release of political prisoners. Bahrainis held a rally in the village of Sanabis late on Tuesday to voice strong protest against Manama’s concession to …

The United Nations Middle East envoy has censured Israel’s unlawful demolitions and settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as the crippling siege the regime has imposed on Gaza, complaining of a lack of progress in efforts to achieve a so-called two‑state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. …

Pakistan’s military claims it “detected and blocked” an Indian military submarine from entering Pakistani territorial waters earlier this week. The Pakistani military said in a statement on Tuesday that the attempted incursion by the Indian submarine had occurred on Saturday night. It said the submarine had been “prematurely detected and …