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With visits to four states scheduled, U.S. President Donald Trump plans to inject himself as often as possible this week into Democrats’ carefully choreographed plans to nominate Joe Biden as their presidential candidate. At the same time, Trump’s travel this week, to states likely to prove crucial to whether he …

China welcomed on Monday to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation” over a U.S. threat to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Iran. The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran. Russia and China …

A US airstrike targeted a Syrian Army checkpoint in the country’s northeast, killing one soldier and wounding two others, according to SANA. The soldiers were targeted by a warplane after they prevented an American military patrol from passing through the area, the outlet reported. The incident occurred southeast of Qamishli, …

A security source said on Monday, that Iraqi soldiers were wounded in two separate attacks in south of the city of Mosul, the center of Nineveh Governorate. The source said, that “the first attack happened by an unknown gunmen opened fire this morning at a military checkpoint of the Iraqi …

The prime minister postponed the country’s general election on Monday by a month to Oct. 17 as the city of Auckland remains in lockdown due to a new outbreak of the coronavirus. Jacinda Ardern has been under pressure to put off the polls as political parties said it was impossible …

Lebanon should be locked down for two weeks after a spike in COVID-19 infections, the caretaker government’s health minister was quoted as saying on Monday. “We declare today a state of general alert and we need a brave decision to close (the country) for two weeks,” Hamad Hassan told Voice …

Japan was hit by its biggest economic slump on record in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic emptied shopping malls and crushed demand for cars and other exports, bolstering the case for bolder policy action to prevent a deeper recession. The third straight quarter of declines knocked the size …

Jordan will seal off a city near the Syrian border from Monday following the largest daily rise in four months in coronavirus infections, which officials say have come mainly from its northern neighbour. The health ministry said half of the 39 cases recorded in the last 24 hours were from …

Crowds gathered in Prague and Warsaw on Sunday to show their support for protesters in Belarus who are demanding President Alexander Lukashenko step down after what they say was his fraudulent re-election a week ago. A large white and red Belarusian flag was placed at the centre of a heart …

A new opinion poll shows that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a nine percentage-point lead over President Donald Trump nationally with less than three months before the 2020 election. The NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll, released on Sunday, found that 50 percent of registered voters favored Biden while …

U.S. officials have explored potential times and places for a Trump-Putin summit, including next month in New York, said people familiar with discussions. US President Donald Trump has told aides he’d like to hold an in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the November election, according to four people …

Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel, Israel’s intelligence minister said on Sunday. Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic relations, reshaping Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight …

The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, announced on Sunday, the arrest of the “most dangerous terrorist” who participated in the Camp Speicher massacre. Rasoul said in a statement, “The anti-terrorism forces were able, through field follow-up and months of efforts, to arrest the …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday sealed a defense cooperation deal with Polish officials that will pave the way for the redeployment of American troops from Germany to Poland. In Warsaw at the end of a four-nation tour of central and Eastern Europe, Pompeo and Polish Defense Minister …

US President Donald Trump says he is considering pardoning former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden who is currently living in Russia after he leaked secret documents about US telephone and Internet surveillance in 2013.  Trump’s comments followed his interview with the New York Post earlier this week in …

Thousands of user accounts for online government services in Canada were recently hacked during cyber-attacks, authorities said Saturday. According to Press TV, the attacks targeted the GCKey service, used by some 30 federal departments and Canada Revenue Agency accounts, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat explained in a press release. …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may recall lawmakers from a summer recess to address changes at the Postal Service that have prompted anger among Democrats and alarm about possible impact on the 2020 election. According to Press TV, a Democratic congressional aide confirmed a Politico report that Pelosi could call …

The new coronavirus has so far infected 21,468,279 people and claimed the lives of at least 771,181 others across the world since it first emerged late last year, according to figures released by the Johns Hopkins University. The United Kingdom has imposed a 14-day quarantine for people arriving from France …

Hundreds of Israelis protested outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in al-Quds on Saturday (August 15), over corruption allegations and his handling of the Coronavirus crisis, with lower turn-up this weekend as opposed to previous ones. “Crime minister,” read most of the banners carried, as protesters waved Israeli flags and …

The Ministry of Health and Environment announced the daily epidemiological situation of the new Coronavirus pandemic in Iraq for Sunday, August 16, 2020 The ministry said in a statement that AlgahdeerTV received a copy of it that “(19,278) samples have been examined in all the specialized laboratories in Iraq for …