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Iraq has signed an initial agreement with POWERCHINA to build solar power plants with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts, the government said on Wednesday. The first stage of the project will have a capacity of 750 megawatts, the Iraqi cabinet added in a tweet. Power from Iraq’s main grid suffers …

The Taliban stopped an Afghan United Nations staff member as he tried to reach Kabul airport on Sunday. They searched his vehicle and found his U.N. identification. Then they beat him. On Monday, three unknown men visited the home of another U.N. staff member who was at work at the …

A gunman killed three police officers and a private security guard on a rampage through a diplomatic quarter of Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, before being shot dead while holed up in a guardhouse at the French embassy’s gate. Videos on the internet, apparently filmed by onlookers …

China criticized Wednesday the US “politicization” of efforts to trace the origin of the coronavirus, demanding a US military laboratory be investigated, shortly before the release of a US intelligence community report on the virus. The US report is intended to resolve disputes among intelligence agencies considering different theories about …

The Taliban have told Germany that Afghans with legal documents will be able to travel on commercial flights beyond the Aug. 31 cut-off date after which evacuations from Kabul airport will no longer be allowed, a senior German diplomat said on Wednesday. “Director Stanekzai assured me that Afghans with legal …

Algeria announced on Tuesday that it was officially severing ties with neighbouring Morocco “starting today”, after months of tensions between the two countries. Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra made the announcement during a press conference on Tuesday evening. “It has been proven that the (Moroccan) kingdom has not ceased its …

Israeli forces have martyred a Palestinian teenage boy during a violent raid on a refugee camp in the northern West Bank. According to reports, the incident took place at the Balata refugee camp, situated near the city of Nablus, early on Tuesday, as the Palestinians clashed with the Israeli soldiers …

A state of uncertainty continues to dominate politics in Tunisia, as the country effectively remains without a government one month after President Kais Saied sacked his prime minister, with the chief executive now indefinitely extending the suspension of parliament. According to reports, Saied’s unexpected intervention last month granted him an …

Enrique Tarrio, a leader of the right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys, has been sentenced to five months in prison for setting a Black Lives Matter banner on fire in Washington as part of protests supporting former president Donald Trump. “Henry ‘Enrique’ Tarrio, 37, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today …

Russia is pushing forward with plans to modernize its navy using cutting-edge technology, with President Vladimir Putin revealing that several new warships and nuclear submarines are in the pipeline. Delivering a speech through video conference as part of the Army 2021 expo from the Patriot Park outside Moscow on Monday, …

The US forces stationed at Kabul’s international airport have reportedly been extorting money from Afghan nationals trying to flee the chaos in their homeland, following the collapse of Afghanistan’s military and the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Iran’s Nour News reported Tuesday that US Marines — who control sections of …

Thousands of Afghan asylum seekers who have already arrived in the UK are stuck in a “nightmarish limbo” amid mounting pressure to grant them the right to stay in Britain permanently. Nick Thomas-Symonds, the shadow home secretary, said on Monday that the Conservatives’ “chaotic handling” of Afghanistan evacuation “has put lives in danger …

More than 20 people have been killed in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northwest. Local officials said nine people were killed when “unidentified persons” raided the village of Ungwan Dooh in Kaduna state’s Zangon Kataf district on Sunday. “Nine corpses have been recovered so far following a search of …

A senior official from the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says the Palestinian nation and resistance groups will not remain silent in the face of the deteriorating economic situation in the Gaza Strip caused by the tight Israeli blockade and will take proper measures to assuage the sufferings of the …

A high-ranking United Nations official has warned that Yemen is spiraling faster toward food shortages and other humanitarian catastrophes, with millions of people in the Arab country ravaged by a Saudi-led war being “a step away” from famine and related diseases. “There is perhaps one overarching humanitarian priority and that …

Climate change activists held a demonstration in the City of London on Sunday as they started two weeks of protests focused on the capital’s financial district. About 200 demonstrators from the group Extinction Rebellion took part in the demonstration, aimed at highlighting the role of high finance in the climate …

The US State Department has reportedly come under a cyber attack with a possible breach of information. The extent of the attack and whether it has affected any operations is not clear in the Fox Business report, citing anonymous sources. According to Press TV, a US State Department spokesman, meanwhile, …

Twenty US Republican Party-governed states have kicked off a legal challenge to “unconstitutional” federal plans to ban so-called “ghost guns”. Attorneys general of West Virginia and Arizona led the states in issuing an official “comments” document opposing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) proposals to regulate the sale …

Iraq logged 7,151 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Monday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 78 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 9,142 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …

An airstrike of the Iraqi airforces destroyed a hideout of ISIS terrorists in Saladin, killing three, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Monday. In a press release issued earlier today, SMC said that a land force of the Saladin Operations Command encountered a group of terrorists while sweeping an …