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New Zealand reported 13 new community coronavirus cases on Thursday as the country tackles a fresh outbreak that ended an enviable run of more than 100 days without any locally transmitted infections. The new cluster, which now totals 17 cases, has prompted the country to put its most populous city …

The French military conducted training exercises with Greek forces off the southern island of Crete on Thursday, defence sources said, as tension persisted with Turkey over disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean. Thursday’s exercise was the first manifestation of French President Emmanuel Macron’s commitment to temporarily reinforce his country’s presence …

Belarusian police detained about 700 people on the fourth night of protests following President Alexander Lukashenko’s contested election victory, the former Soviet republic’s interior ministry said on Thursday. Security forces have clashed daily with protesters since Lukashenko claimed a landslide re-election victory in a vote on Sunday that his opponents …

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden and new running mate Kamala Harris made their first joint appearance on the campaign trail on Wednesday, with Biden saying Harris was “the right choice” to help him kick Donald Trump out of the White House. In a high school gymnasium in his hometown …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that the United States is in desperate need of terrorists in the region including ISIL terrorist group and seeks to support terrorists using Caesar sanctions law against Syria. Speaking to the members of the People’s Assembly’s third legislative term on Wednesday, he said, “Electing your …

President Donald Trump has privately discussed with advisers the possibility of replacing Defense Secretary Mark Esper after the November election in the wake of a number of differences between them, a source familiar with the internal debate said on Wednesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the two …

The Iraqi National Security Council held its session on Wednesday, headed by the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. An official statement stated that the Council discussed different topics on its agenda, in addition to the urgent and new issues. The Council strongly condemned the Turkish …

U.S. efforts to get the U.N. Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Tehran would fail, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Wednesday, a day after U.S. officials circulated a revised proposal. Washington streamlined its bid on Tuesday to win more support in the 15-member …

Three of 10 Americans who lost work during the coronavirus pandemic said they may have trouble paying for food or housing after a $600-per-week enhanced unemployment payment expired last month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. The poll conducted Monday and Tuesday found that Americans divide blame for …

Presumptive Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden has selected the California senator as his running mate for Vice President. Months after her presidential campaign collapsed amid questions over her political identity, Kamala Harris suddenly and forcefully found her voice — and at a fortuitous time. Harris, a 55-year-old US senator …

A report revealed the Trump administration didn’t break the law when it expedited $8bn in arms sales to the Gulf nations but concluded it failed to fully assess the humanitarian impact associated with the transfers. The US State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found that president Donald …

Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko has rejected allegations that the country’s pioneering COVID-19 vaccine is unsafe, dismissing them as groundless and leveled by rival competitors. Minister Murashko on Wednesday dismissed concerns raised by Western experts and media about the low number of clinical trials undergone to develop the first officially-approved …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health registered on Wednesday 3441 new cases, 2439 recoveries and 57 deaths of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours. The ministry said today, Wednesday, in the daily epidemiological report of COVID-19 pandemic in Iraq that 19933 samples were examined in all the specialized laboratories in Iraq …

Iraq has canceled an official visit by Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and summoned Ankara’s ambassador to Baghdad following a drone strike that killed two high-ranking Iraqi commanders in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Baghdad “categorically rejects and strongly condemns the blatant …

he Iraqi Presidency condemned, on Tuesday, the “flagrant aggression” of Turkey by bombing the Sidekan area in Kurdistan, considering it ”serious violation” of the country’s sovereignty. The official spokesman for the Iraqi Presidency said, in a statement received by AlghdeerTv”We condemn the attack carried out by Turkey through a Drone.” …

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday tapped Senator Kamala Harris as his choice for vice president, making her the first Black woman on a major party presidential ticket in U.S. history and providing him with a partner well suited to go on the attack against Republican President Donald Trump. …

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry dismantled five spying teams working for foreign intelligence services, deputy intelligence minister for counter-espionage said. “With the help of God Almighty and round-the-clock efforts of the intelligence forces a number of spies linked to foreign intelligence services of arrogant powers were identified and arrested as the strikes …

A Turkish drone strike on Tuesday killed two members of Iraq’s border guard and the driver of the vehicle they were in, the Iraqi military said. The attack took place in the Sidakan area in northeastern Iraq, near the Turkish and Iranian borders, the military said in a statement, calling …

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, agreed to form an “emergency” government in May after three bitter and deadlocked election campaigns, the goal was to stabilize Israeli politics in the face of a global pandemic. But less than 100 days later, their fractious coalition government could …

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide topped 20 million, more than half of them from the United States, India and Brazil, as Russia on Tuesday became the first country to approve a vaccine against the virus. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that one of his two adult daughters had …