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Even though Barack Obama plans to celebrate his 60th birthday adhering to all the current health guidelines, the former president has come under fire – mainly from the Republican camp – for throwing a large party amid a resurgence of coronavirus cases due to the Delta variant. The celebration is …

Ferocious fighting is taking place in a major Afghan city, amid fears it could be the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban. Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand province is under heavy assault from the militants, despite US and Afghan airstrikes. The Taliban are said to have seized a …

Four Iraqi cities entered the list of the highest temperatures recorded in the world according to the Eldorado Weather website. Kuwaiti city of Jahra recorded the highest temperature reached 49.9 degrees, along with other 7 Kuwaiti cities that were among the 15 cities with the highest temperature. King Fahad Airport …

A number of heads of Iraqi forces and parties held a meeting at the Government Palace in Baghdad at the invitation of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, and Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Halbousi. And the media office of the Prime Minister …

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said on Monday he had hoped for a quicker pace towards the formation of a new government and that his efforts would not be open-ended. “I had hoped for a pace that was faster than this in the government (formation). It is a bit slow,” …

Ministry of Health and Environment – MOH detected on Monday, 12734 new cases of COVID-19. “8734 recovered cases were also detected among all the provinces of the country,” the statement included. 68 death cases were also recorded where 58885 were vaccinated in a matter of 24 hours.

A pandemic-related US government ban on residential evictions expired at midnight on Saturday, putting millions of American renters at risk of being forced from their homes. The expiration was a blow to President Joe Biden, who on Thursday made a last-ditch request to Congress to extend the moratorium, citing the …

The International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza has warned that power shortages pose a threat to the health and daily life for the population of the besieged Gaza Strip, saying 80% of Gazans live much of their day in the dark. In a new study, the ICRC found that …

The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said Monday, after record downpours dumped a year’s worth of rain on a city in just three days. Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province and the epicenter of the …

Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, in cooperation with the Asayish forces of Kurdistan Region, arrested leaders of the “Al-Qaqaa” battalion in ISIS, according to the spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Major General Yahya Rasool said in a statement that the service arrested five terrorists, including four leaders of the …

Unidentified gunmen assassinated, on Monday morning, the order of the 9th Brigade in the Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Sadiq al-Khashkhashi, while he was on his way from his home to work. A source in the Babylon Police said, “The gunmen opened fire at Al-Khashkhashi’s car, causing the driver to lose …

A large forest fire in the Greek island of Rhodes was taken under control early Monday morning, as the country continues to struggle with extreme temperatures and intense fires. #Rhodes seems to be calmer today. The smoke and ash cloud from Turkey seems to have blown away too. Not that …

South Korean officials said a decision on the annual August drills with the US has not yet been finalized, and joint exercises should not raise tensions, following a strong warning from Pyongyang. “The timing and method [of the drills] were not finalized,” South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson Boo Seung-chan told …

Millions of people were confined to their homes in China Monday as the country tried to contain its largest coronavirus outbreak in months with mass testing and travel curbs. China on Monday reported 55 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases, as an outbreak of the fast-spreading Delta variant reached over 20 …

The death toll from wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast rose to eight on Sunday as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in coastal resort towns. Two more people died on Sunday due to wildfires in the southern town of Manavgat, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, …

August 1 is now recognised across Canada as Emancipation Day, marking the end of slavery in the British Empire in 1834. After years of campaigning by Black legislators and community advocates, Canada on Sunday is officially marking the abolishment of slavery nearly 200 years ago in its first nationwide Emancipation …

Government forces are fighting Taliban assaults on major cities, including in Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar, whose airport was bombed by the Taliban. Afghan forces fought fierce street battles and bombed Taliban positions as the group’s fighters swarmed major cities amid an intensifying nationwide offensive. Hundreds of commandos were deployed …

 while confirming that their safety rate is high and there is no possibility of collapsing if they are exposed to a wave of heavy rainfall. Water Resources Adviser, Aoun Diab, said, that “all European and regional countries are exposed to heavy rain waves in a short time due climate change, …

Scientists believe that COVID-19 could affect male fertility after an early study showed patients who died from the virus had decreased sperm counts. Researchers also rebuffed what they called “myths” on social media about the effect of COVID-19 vaccines on male fertility. Scientists from the University of Miami examined six …

Algeria along with several others nations has officially begun the process of forming a group of African countries to reject Tel Aviv’s observer status in the African Union (AU) in order to preserve the principles of the bloc and to support Palestine. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, quoting the London-based online …