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Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is filing suits against three of the country’s biggest tech companies: Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their CEOs. Trump said he was serving as lead plaintiff in the class-action suits, claiming he has been wrongfully censored by the companies. “We’re demanding …

The Biden administration is revamping the way the U.S. uses punitive sanctions, aiming to stem sweeping pressure campaigns, avoid collateral economic damage and act jointly with allies rather than unilaterally, according to people involved in the planning process, Ian Talley wrote for the Wall Street Journal. The administration has nearly …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow strongly supports the Southeast Asian diplomatic efforts to end the post-coup crisis engulfing Myanmar. During a joint press briefing with his Indonesian counterpart, Retno Marsudi, in Jakarta on Tuesday, Lavrov said that Moscow considered the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s position “a …

Coronavirus infections in the UK are likely to double in the next two weeks as the country lifts remaining COVID-19 restrictions, Health Secretary Sajid Javid says. Infections are currently running at just under 29,000 a day UK-wide, and according to Javid, the figure could reach 100,000 a day in the …

Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah resistance group has held Saudi Arabia’s spy service responsible for terrorist attacks targeting high voltage electricity transmission lines across the country. “With definitive evidence, we have concluded that the Saudi intelligence agency is behind the acts of sabotage against Iraqi transmission towers,” the group said in a …

In a phone talk on Tuesday, Iraqi President Barham Salih and Advisor to Iran’s Leader Ali Akbar Velyati conferred on the latest regional developments and deepening of relations between the two countries. In his conversation with Salih, Velayati referred to the positive measures of the President of Iraq, as well …

Russia is tracking a Spanish naval ship in the Black Sea, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Wednesday, as Ukraine and NATO countries both held military drills in the area. The ministry said the Spanish ship had entered the Black Sea on Wednesday to take …

Taliban insurgents on Wednesday reached the entry points to the capital of Afghanistan’s northwestern Badghis province, officials said, causing panic among local people and prompting prisoners to break out of the city’s prison. Provincial governor Husamuddin Shams told Reuters the Taliban had attacked the city of Qala-e-Naw from three directions …

The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its 14th day on Wednesday, with the death toll at three dozen, more than 100 people still unaccounted for, and authorities sounding grimmer The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the situation in Afghanistan had a tendency to swiftly deteriorate and said Moscow was ready to defend its regional allies if necessary. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Emomali Rakhmon, the president of Tajikistan, that Moscow would help the impoverished …

The container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March and has been detained there since is due to finally resume its journey on Wednesday after the owner and insurers reached a compensation settlement with the canal authority. One of the world’s largest container ships, the Ever Given became wedged …

German police on Wednesday raided the living quarters of two possible accomplices of the jihadists who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna last November, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said. Police searched the homes of Kosovan national Blinor S. and German Drilon G., who is suspected of failing to …

The leader of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state on Wednesday ordered a week-long extension of Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown, warning new cases are bound to rise as the country’s biggest city grapples with the highly infectious Delta variant. Sydney, home to a fifth of Australia’s 25 million people, was plunged …

Yemeni officials say the United States is fanning the flames of violence in the embattled southern province of al-Bayda by mobilizing and commanding Takfiri al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorists against the Yemeni army and allied popular forces, who have been defending the region against Saudi-led militants. “The United States, which falsely …

Wind gusts and heavy rains from Tropical Storm Elsa are expected in Surfside on Tuesday. Miami-Dade mayor said that search continued overnight through “extremely adverse and challenging conditions.” The confirmed death toll in the partial collapse of a 12-story residential building in Surfside, southeastern U.S. state Florida, has risen to …

The Biden administration is considering whether to continue to authorize the CIA and the Pentagon to carry out deadly drone strikes and commando raids in Afghanistan after the complete withdrawal of US forces from the country. CNN reported on Monday that as withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion, the administration of …

The spokesperson for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasoul announced on Tuesday that four ISIS members were arrested in four governorates. Rasoul said in a statement, The Counter-Terrorism Service carried out two operations in Nineveh and Kirkuk Governorate, in which it arrested two ISIS members. Rasoul …

Iraq registered, on Tuesday 8818 new cases of Covid-19 to take its total to 1,388,323, the health ministry said. It reported 31 deaths to take its coronavirus death toll to 17,376. It also reported 5998 recoveries to take its total to 1,277,242 (92.0%). The COVID-19 intensive care patients count to …

Warning by top WHO expert against premature rush back to normality comes amid growing concerns over spread of Delta variant of coronavirus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned governments around the world against easing COVID-19 restrictions too soon, saying countries that did so risked paying a heavy price for …

Egypt has said it received an official notice from Ethiopia that it had started the next phase of filling a controversial huge dam on the Nile River’s main tributary, raising tensions days before an upcoming meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the issue. In a statement late on …