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China on Saturday slammed the United States for imposing “barbarous” sanctions in response to Beijing’s crackdown in Hong Kong, capping a dramatic week of deteriorating relations between the world’s two biggest economies. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong government described the sanctions as “shameless and despicable,” adding that it fully supported “countermeasures.” …

Today, the laboratories of the Ministry of Health and Environment recorded 3325 new cases of the emerging coronavirus in Iraq, while the number of complete recoveries reached 2,307 new cases of recovery. The Ministry indicated that (17125) models have been examined in all specialized laboratories in Iraq for today. Thus, …

Two former US soldiers have been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Venezuela on charges including terrorism, after a failed bid to invade the Caribbean country last May, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said. Luke Alexander Denman, 34, and Airan Berry, 41, “admitted” to “conspiracy, association (to commit crimes), …

More than 160,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Friday, as talks over an economic relief bill broke down between Democrats in Congress and the White House. The grim milestone, which includes 10,000 deaths nationwide in the past nine days, comes …

On Friday, Iraq’s Ministry of Health and Environment announced an all-time record high of over 3,400 new infections of the coronavirus that were detected in the country over the previous 24 hours. The new figures raise the total infections to 144,064. The ministry also reported that 75 new deaths had …

Hezbollah’s leader denied on Friday accusations that his movement has arms warehoused at Beirut port, backing an investigation into a huge blast there that rocked the city. In a televised speech, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Tuesday’s explosion “an exceptional event” in Lebanon’s modern history that required unity and calm. Hezbollah …

Over 100 people in the U.S. died in the first half of 2020 after taking the anti-malarial medicine hydroxychloroquine or related drugs while sick with COVID-19, according to a report. Analysis of new data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) adverse events reporting system by the Milwaukee Journal …

France and Germany have quit talks on reforming the World Health Organization in frustration at attempts by the United States to lead the negotiations, despite its decision to leave the WHO, three officials told Reuters. The move is a setback for President Donald Trump as Washington, which holds the rotating …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message referred to the 75th anniversary of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, saying the US, ISRAEL nuclear weapons “threaten our region”. “75 years ago today, the US gained the infamy of becoming the 1st and ONLY user of nuclear …

Just days after the brutal killing of prominent Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey in the fall of 2018, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dispatched a group of hitmen, known as the Tiger Squad, to Canada to seek out and kill one of his former top intelligence officials who had …

US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Thursday lost its bid for a fourth debate with Democratic candidate Joe Biden in early September. In rejecting the request, the Commission on Presidential Debates said it remains committed to the current schedule of three 90-minute debates beginning in late September. It said …

The World Health Organization warned governments against “vaccine nationalism” on Thursday and urged leaders to make plans now on how to share life-saving inoculations against coronavirus. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the threat of COVID-19 can only be snuffed out with global coordination — especially when a vaccine …

US President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani called the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization a “domestic terrorist group” led by “killers” who “hate white people” during a television appearance Thursday. Giuliani, who also served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, spoke during a segment of Fox …

The holy city of Kerbala, which used to host pilgrims from all around the world, is now quarantining dozens of COVID-19 patients in buildings owned by Imam Hussein holy shrine administration. The administration has also built 10 medical centres across the country and aims to build 10 more, to be …

Economic recovery around the world could come faster if any COVID-19 vaccine is made available to all as a public good, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday. He was speaking in an online panel discussion with members of the Aspen Security Forum in the United …

China says it has no intention of ratcheting up tensions with the United States and engaging in a diplomatic war with Washington. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remark in an interview with the official Xinhua news agency late on Wednesday, putting forward four principles to advance Sino-US ties. …

Weeks of record job losses have left the United States with unemployment rates not seen in more than a decade, with millions of Americans facing the prospect of a permanent job loss as the resurgence of the coronavirus has caused many states to reimpose restrictions. The US administration is expected …

Iraq registered, on Thursday, more than 3000 new cases and of Covid-19, as well as about 2500 recoveries and 76 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment said in a statement that, 16591 tests were performed today, in which the total becomes 1.092.741 The newly recovery …

Testimonies of hibakusha ‘very important in changing the entire narrative about nuclear weapons’ “In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow; a hundred thousand more were hurt.” These haunting words, written by the journalist John Hersey …

Joyce Greenberg Brown first learned about political organizing from Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957, when he visited her youth group at a Philadelphia YWCA. She worked for George McGovern in Pennsylvania in 1972 and managed field offices in Florida for Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. She was so …