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Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has arrived in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi for the first leg of a three-nation visit to the Black Sea region. “The United States is committed to helping Georgia build its defense capacity and advance its Euro-Atlantic integration, and I’m looking forward to my meetings …

Germany’s Green Party on Sunday followed its prospective partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), in clearing the way for official three-way negotiations with the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP) to form the next government. According to Press TV, delegates at a Green Party conference in Berlin voted in favor of starting …

The US military has announced that two American and Canadian warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait last week in what China called an attempt “to provoke and stir up trouble” in the strait. The US military dispatched Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey through the waterway that separates China from …

France confirmed its ambassador to Belarus left the country on Oct 17, adding that the official in question – Nicolas de Lacoste – would now assume the role of special envoy in Belarus as of this Monday onwards. “France will keep on standing by the Belarus people and will look …

A Russia-led post-Soviet security bloc started its largest military drills near the Tajik-Afghan border in years on Monday amid cross-border tensions ahead of talks between Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders and major regional powers. Unlike Afghanistan’s other northern neighbors who have de facto acknowledged the Taliban leadership and started building working …

Italian police used water cannon and tear gas on Monday to clear a sit-in at the port of Trieste, where opponents of the government’s mandatory COVID-19 health pass have tried to block access. The northeastern port has been the focal point of protest in Italy over the introduction of new …

Gunmen killed at least 30 people in an attack in northern Nigeria’s Sokoto state, the governor’s office said on Monday. The assault began at a weekly market in Goronyo on Sunday and continued into Monday morning, Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said in a statement. Iliyasu Abba, a local resident, …

Human rights activists unfurled a banner reading “No Genocide Games”, waved a Tibetan flag and called for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics during the torch-lighting ceremony on Monday. Two women and a man sneaked past a tight police cordon and entered the archaeological site of the ancient …

Thousands of Iraq demonstrators have rallied nationwide to denounce the electoral commission results of last week’s legislative poll, according to which the Sairoon Alliance, led by influential Shia Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, has made progress and is staking its claim as the “largest bloc” in the house. On Sunday, people …

Iraq recorded 1716 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 18 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 3189 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …

Former MP of al-Fatah alliance, Muhammad Karim al-Beldawi, reiterated his bloc’s rejection of the October 10 polls results, deeming it an attempt of “systemic ostracism” of the patriotic forces. Al-Beldawi said in a statement, “The results of the elections are shocking to the public…because of the many violations; most notably …

One in five people in the EU is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, the bloc’s statistical office reported on Friday. “In 2020, there were 75.3 million people at risk of poverty in the EU,” Eurostat said in a press release, adding that “27.6 million were severely materially and …

Iraq recorded 1077 new cases of Covid-19, on Saturday to bring its total to 2,033,737, the health ministry said. It reported 25 deaths to take its coronavirus death toll to 22,738. It also reported 3007 recoveries to bring its total to 1,964,673(96.6%). The COVID-19 intensive care patients count to 262. …

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians whose scale was a taboo covered up for decades by French authorities. Macron told relatives and activists on the 60th anniversary of the bloodshed that “crimes” were committed on …

Two Hindu men have been killed in fresh religious violence in Bangladesh, police officials said on Saturday, taking the death toll to six from recent unrest in the Muslim-majority country. Protests began on Wednesday after footage emerged of a Quran being placed on the knee of a Hindu god during …

Angela Merkel’s final visit to Turkey as German chancellor on Saturday saw two of Europe’s longest-serving leaders pay tribute to one another as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted her for farewell talks overlooking the Bosporus. Erdogan had been in office for more than two years when Merkel came to …

Iran has vehemently rejected as “surprising” and “fake” accusations by Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev that Tehran cooperated with Armenia on organized drug trafficking, saying such claims only serve the Israeli regime’s interests and harm the fraternal relations between Tehran and Baku. “Unfortunately, it seems that despite the positive and private …

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says it will not be dragged into a civil war, despite martyring of seven Shia Muslims during recent violence, which is blamed on the Christian Lebanese Forces (LF) Party. At least seven people were martyred and 60 others injured in an attack on Thursday, during which …

A group of Palestinian farmers harvesting their olive trees in the occupied West Bank have been attacked by around 30 Israeli settlers, according to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. The Friday attack, which left four people injured, began when Israeli settlers descended from a nearby settlement, hurling stones and spraying …

Global condemnations continue to pour in after terrorist bombers attacked a Shia mosque in southern Afghanistan and martyred dozens of worshipers attending Friday prayers. At least 47 people were martyred and more than 80 others wounded after an explosion went off inside the Bibi Fatima mosque in the Afghan city …