According to statistics on the number of refugees in Arab countries, Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees, followed by Jordan and Iraq. The numbers vary among countries, depending on their location in conflict areas, their capabilities to bear the burden of refugees, and their own people’s needs. Due to …
Read More »Iraqi President and Iranian Leaders Discuss Strengthening “Long-Standing Friendship”
The Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, met with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the head of the Iranian Shura, Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf, on Saturday. In a statement, the Iraqi Presidency announced that the two leaders discussed the “friendship” between Iraq and …
Read More »Nearly 28 million Iraqi are eligible to vote in the upcoming provincial elections
More than 10 million Iraqis are at risk of losing their voting rights in the provincial election later this year, Hazim al-Rudaini, the vice president of the Strategic Center for Human Rights in Iraq, said on Saturday. In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, al-Rudaini explained that the total number …
Read More »Kim Jong Un’s sister warns US-S Korea pact risks ‘serious danger’
Kim Jong Un’s sister said North Korea would respond in ‘direct proportion’ to her country’s enemies – the US and South Korea. North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, has warned that her country will stage more displays of military might in response to …
Read More »Fire at Crimea fuel depot extinguished after drone attack, governor says (Videos)
A drone strike caused a fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky before it was extinguished, the city’s Moscow-installed governor said on Saturday. Experts examined the site and “it became clear that only one drone …
Read More »Air strikes hit Khartoum, envoy sees sides more open to talks
Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped. As dark smoke rose over Khartoum, a U.N. envoy offered …
Read More »Enhanced Iran-Iraq ties beneficial to both nations, entire region: President Raeisi
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says enemies are not pleased with the improvement of relations between Iran and Iraq, stressing that enhanced mutual ties will serve the interests of the two nations and the entire region. “Iran and Iraq will expand their interactions in proportion with the interests of the two …
Read More »Iraq Seeks to Upgrade Healthcare Services with German Assistance
The government of Iraq held talks with representatives from the German International Cooperation Organization (GICO) and the Deputy Minister of Health of Germany to explore ways of improving collaboration in the field of healthcare between the two nations. The meeting was presided over by Iraqi Health Minister Saleh Al-Hasnawi who …
Read More »‘Constant fear’: war shakes Sudan despite truce pledges
Strikes by air, tanks and artillery shook Sudan’s capital Khartoum and the adjacent city of Bahri on Friday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force. Hundreds have been killed and tens of thousands have fled for their lives in a power …
Read More »Iran’s president will visit Syria’s Damascus in first such visit since 2011
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Damascus next week, a senior regional source close to the Syrian government told Reuters on Friday. The visit will be the first by an Iranian president to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since war broke out in Syria in 2011. With military help and economic …
Read More »Tunisia retrieves bodies of 41 drowned refugees
Morgues and hospitals in the city of Sfax are full, officials say, as the death toll from refugee shipwrecks soars. Tunisian coastguards have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official has said, raising the number of victims of refugee shipwrecks off the country’s coast to 210 in …
Read More »Palestinian teenager fatally shot by Israeli forces in Bethlehem (Video)
A Palestinian teenager has been fatally shot by Israeli forces during clashes in the south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said the 16-year-old Palestinian, identified as Mustafa Amer Sabbah, was killed on Friday by Israeli “live fire” during confrontations that broke out …
Read More »China accuses US of destabilizing Korean peninsula
Earlier this week, Washington and Seoul agreed on the deployment of nuclear-armed US submarines to the region to deter North Korea. US plans to send submarines to South Korea armed with nuclear weapons will likely aggravate tensions in the region, China’s foreign ministry has said. Earlier this week, US President …
Read More »Palestinian man shot dead over alleged car-ramming, stabbing attack (Video)
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the central part of the occupied West Bank over an alleged stabbing and car-ramming attack against the regime’s troops. The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the incident occurred near the illegal settlement of Ariel, located close to the Palestinian …
Read More »UAE invites Iraqi premier to join world leaders at the global climate action summit in December
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Thursday received a formal invitation to participate in the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit, set to take place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) late in 2023. A press release by al-Sudani’s bureau said the invitation was delivered by the UAE’s charge d’affaires …
Read More »Iran seizes fleeing oil tanker which hit vessel, leaving two missing in Sea of Oman
The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy has seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Sea of Oman and directed it toward the country’s territorial waters after the ship hit an Iranian vessel and tried to flee in violation of maritime regulations. According to the public relations department of the …
Read More »Republicans pass debt-ceiling hike as US creeps toward financial calamity
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, defying Democratic President Joe Biden by attaching sweeping spending cuts for the next decade. The mostly partisan 217-215 vote was a win for Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who hopes to …
Read More »Argentina to pay for Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars
The global trend of substituting the US dollar with local currencies in trade transactions is speeding up as more countries are ditching the greenback. on Wednesday, Argentina said it will pay for Chinese imports in yuan instead of dollars to preserve its international reserves. In a meeting in Buenos Aires …
Read More »Peace talks only way out of Ukraine war, China’s Xi tells Ukraine’s Zelensky
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, the only way to end the war in Ukraine is negotiation between Kiev and Moscow. According to a report by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Wednesday, “Xi Jinping had a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky,” during which he said “talks …
Read More »Iraq set to become gas exporter in 3-5 years – PM
In a recent televised interview, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani projected that Iraq will transition from being one of the world’s leading gas-flaring countries to becoming a gas exporter within the next 3-5 years. The Prime Minister’s statement, broadcast by Al-Ula channel and recapitulated by his media office, comes …
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