The Security Media Cell announced on Tuesday, the discovery of three hideouts for terrorist members in the Tarmiyah area. SMC in a statement received by the Alghadeer news said that the Special Missions Brigade of the Federal Police, participating in the security operation launched by the Joint Operations Command within …
Read More »Three other US military convoys targeted in Southern Iraq – reports
Iraqi media reported that three convoys carrying military logistics equipment for US forces were targeted in southern Iraq. Iraqi sources reported on Tuesday noon that three US military convoys were attacked in different parts of the country. The Saberin News reported that one convoy was targeted in Al Diwaniyah province, …
Read More »Hopes for quake survivors dwindle as storm lashes Haiti
Heavy rains lashed Haiti on Tuesday night, complicating rescue efforts and drenching thousands left homeless by a devastating earthquake that killed at least 1,419 people, as hopes dimmed for survivors. Tropical Depression Grace churned over the regions of southwest Haiti worst-hit by Saturday’s quake of magnitude 7.2, whipping devastated towns …
Read More »Poland recalls envoy to Israel amid spat over Holocaust restitution law
Poland has recalled its ambassador to the Israeli-occupied territories two days after Tel Aviv did the same, amid a row over a Polish law restricting World War II-era property restitution claims. In a statement released on Monday, Poland’s Foreign Ministry said that its envoy, Marek Magierowski, who is in his …
Read More »Sana’a waiting for positive UN approach to new peace initiative
Sana’a says it is waiting for a positive response from the United Nations and its new special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to an initiative put forward by the Houthi Ansarullah resistance movement aimed at helping end the war in Yemen. The Yemeni Supreme Political Council, in a statement published …
Read More »China holds assault drills near Taiwan after ‘provocations’
China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Tuesday with warships and fighter jets exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island, in what the country’s armed forces said was a response to “external interference” and “provocations”. Taiwan, which Beijing claims as Chinese territory, has complained of repeated People’s …
Read More »Fire at Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Japan
Chubu Electric Power Co Inc said fire alarms were triggered and a worker saw smoke early on Tuesday in the turbine building of the suspended No. 5 unit at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan. There were no injuries and no radiation leak, the company said. The local …
Read More »First German plane evacuated only 7 people from Kabul
A first German military plane to land in Kabul since the Taliban takeover evacuated only seven people, the government said on Tuesday, due to chaos at the Afghan capital’s airport. Germany, which had the second-largest military contingent in Afghanistan after the United States, wants to airlift thousands of German-Afghan dual …
Read More »Thousands evacuated in southern France as ‘fierce’ wildfire spreads
French firefighters battled on Tuesday to contain a large wildfire in the southern region of Var, as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he would visit the area to monitor the situation. Authorities urged people to stay well away from the blaze, near the village of Gonfaron, about 50 km (30 …
Read More »An explosion targets a convoy of the US-led Coalition in Baghdad
A security source reported today that unknown persons attacked a convoy of the US-led Coalition in Baghdad. The source told Alghadeer News, “An explosive device blew up targeting a logistics convoy of the US-led Coalition while it was passing within the southern borders of Baghdad.” No casualties were recorded.
Read More »Biden will Deliver a speech on the fall of Afghanistan on Monday, the White House said
President Joe Biden will break his silence Monday on the US fiasco in Afghanistan with an address to the nation from the White House, as a lightning Taliban victory sent the Democrat’s domestic political fortunes reeling. Cutting short his planned vacation, Biden helicoptered back to Washington from the Camp David …
Read More »Merkel says Germany may need to rescue 10,000 people from Afghanistan
Germany must urgently evacuate up to 10,000 people from Afghanistan for whom its has responsibility, Chancellor Angela Merkel told party colleagues, warning that the fallout from the conflict will last for a very long time. The remarks, made at a closed-door meeting of her Christian Democrat party on Monday and …
Read More »U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes
U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they had opened a formal safety probe into Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) driver assistance system Autopilot after a series of crashes involving emergency vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that since January 2018 it had identified 11 crashes in which Tesla models …
Read More »McConnell slams Biden’s ‘botched exit’ from Afghanistan
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) has criticized what he called President Joe Biden’s “botched exit” from Afghanistan after the Taliban entered the capital city of Kabul. The Taliban took control of the presidential palace in Kabul after President Ashraf Ghani fled the war-torn country on Sunday. It took the …
Read More »Hezbollah says will ‘definitely’ import fuel from Iran, and do this in broad daylight
Hezbollah says it will surely take action to import gasoline from Iran as means of countering Lebanon’s dire fuel shortage, a product of the country’s worsening economic situation. “We will definitely import gasoline and fuel residue from Iran,” the Lebanese resistance movement’s Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday, Lebanon’s …
Read More »8830 new cases and 9246 recoveries of COVID-19 in Iraq
Ministry of Health and Environment – MOH detected on Monday, 8830 new cases of COVID-19. “9246 recovered cases were also detected among all the provinces of the country,” the statement included. 68 death cases were also recorded where 108020 were vaccinated in a matter of 24 hours.
Read More »Global shares, Oil slip as Chinese economy unexpectedly stumbles
Global shares slid on Monday after a raft of Chinese economic indicators showed a surprisingly sharp slowdown in the engine of global growth, just as much of the world race to stem the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 with vaccinations. A 10-day run of gains for European stocks …
Read More »Detainee says China has secret jail for Uighurs – in Dubai
Woman says she was held for days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uighurs. A young Chinese woman says she was held for eight days at a Chinese-run secret detention facility in Dubai along with at least two Uighurs, in what may be …
Read More »Russia says Afghan president fled with cars and helicopter full of cash – RIA
Russia’s embassy in Kabul said on Monday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled the country with four cars and a helicopter full of cash and had to leave some money behind as it would not all fit in, the RIA news agency reported. Ghani, whose current whereabouts are unknown, …
Read More »Iraqi MOH opened an advanced lab to detect COVID-19 mutated strains
The Ministry of Health and Environment announced on Monday, the inauguration of an advanced laboratory to detect the mutated strains of Coronavirus. The Director-General of Public Health Department at MOH, Riyadh Abdul-Amir said, that “an advanced laboratory has been inaugurated to analyze the genetic sequences of viruses, noting that the …
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