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The Popular Mobilization Forces announced, today, Friday, that they had thwarted an infiltration for ISIS remnants west of Tuz Khurmatu district. A statement by the Popular Mobilization, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that “a force from the 52nd Brigade of the Popular Mobilization thwarted an infiltration of ISIS terrorist remnants west of Tuz …

The Biden administration has added 14 Chinese companies along with 20 other entities – including some from Iran and Russia – to its economist blacklist over purported “human rights violations.” The US Commerce Department claimed on Friday that the companies had been “implicated in human rights violations and abuses in …

Hundreds of Irish artists, including actors, novelists, playwrights, poets, designers, composers, architects, painters, sculptors, filmmakers and others, have expressed solid support for the international anti-Israel movement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), and announced that they intend not to perform or exhibit in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. The Ireland Palestine …

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced, on Saturday, that Iraq has achieved more than one hundred thousand scientific research published in international journals . A statement by the ministry, a copy of which was received by “Al-Ghadeer” on July 10, 2021, stated that “Iraqi universities and colleges …

The Assistant Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Abdul Karim Al-Ansari, called today, Saturday, for creating a suitable political and security environment for free and fair elections, far from ideological confusion and sectarian climate. This came during the periodic meeting of the Central Shura and the leadership body to discuss political …

The owner of a food-processing factory in Bangladesh was arrested for murder on Saturday over a fire that killed 52 people who were trapped inside the building, police said. The six-storey factory outside the capital Dhaka was built without permission, according to police who said it had no emergency fire …

A senior US State Department official has pleaded with Iraqi resistance groups to “just leave us alone” following a surge in attacks against American bases and forces in the Arab country. “I understand that some of these militias completely disagree with what the United States is trying to do in Iraq …

The European Union has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70% of adults in the bloc, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement on Saturday. Von der Leyen, who had tweeted on May 9 that …

Israeli forces have injured 411 Palestinians during clashes with anti-settlement protesters in the town of Beita and the nearby village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus. According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, 23 Palestinians were shot with live ammunition fired by Israeli forces during clashes on …

U.S. President Joe Biden increased pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to move against ransomware groups operating in Russia, warning the United States is prepared to respond if cyber hacks are not stopped. The two leaders held an hour-long phone call on Friday, their first since they discussed …

A suicide car bomb targeting a government convoy exploded at a busy junction in Somalia’s capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people, an eyewitness said. Abdiasis Abu Musab, military operations spokesperson for the al-Qaida-linked militant group al-​Shabaab, told Reuters it was responsible for Saturday’s attack. The group, which wants …

South African police said on Saturday that 27 people had been arrested over violent protests linked to former president Jacob Zuma’s imprisonment. Protests raged this week in parts of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), Zuma’s home province after the former president handed himself over to police to serve a 15-month jail term for …

Australia’s New South Wales state reported its biggest daily rise in locally acquired coronavirus infections this year on Saturday, with authorities warning that worse may yet to come for Sydney, which is in a three-week hard lockdown. There were 50 new cases of community transmission in the country’s most populous …

The Security Media Cell announced that the National Security Agency had arrested five terrorists in al-Anbar, in two separate operations. The cell said in a statement that after receiving intelligence information, the National Security Service detachments in al-Anbar Governorate carried out an operation during which three ISIS terrorists were arrested. …

Acute food insecurity has soared 40% this year as recent food price hikes have exacerbated existing pressures from conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says. Defined as any lack of food that threatens lives, livelihoods or both, acute food insecurity is impacting, …

US senator and a candidate in the 2020 US presidential election, Bernie Sanders believes the American society is “oligarchic” where majority of wealth is accumulated by a handful of affluent elites. In a Twitter post Thursday, the US senator from Vermont said the “top 1% owns more wealth than the …

The three countries discussed Ethiopia’s mega-dam at a UN Security Council meeting; significant disagreements remain between the three parties as Ethiopia fills the dam for the second year in a row. The UN Security Council session on Ethiopia’s Nile River dam got heated Thursday as Egypt and Sudan voiced serious …

About 155 million people around the world live at crisis levels of food insecurity, 20 million more than last year, a new report says. Eleven people die every minute of hunger, according to a new report by Oxfam, which also found the number of those facing famine-like conditions globally has …

A Taliban delegation in Moscow said on Friday that the group controlled over 85% of the territory in Afghanistan and reassured Russia it would not allow the country to be used as a platform to attack others. Foreign forces, including the United States, are withdrawing after almost 20 years of …

While the world reels under the effects of the Delta variant, a new Covid-19 mutation is now on the radar of several countries. The Lambda variant, or C.37, believed to have originated from Peru, was designated as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 14. …