The liftoff of the United Arab Emirates’ Mars orbiter was postponed until Friday due to bad weather at the Japanese launch site. The orbiter named Amal, or Hope, is the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. The launch was scheduled for Wednesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, but …
Read More »UK set to ban Huawei from 5G, angering China and pleasing Trump
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G network on Tuesday, angering China but delighting U.S. President Donald Trump by signaling that the world’s biggest telecoms equipment maker is no longer welcome in the West. The United States has pushed Johnson to reverse his January decision …
Read More »Russia Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Distributed Next Month, and recent vaccine developments
As the race to find a novel coronavirus vaccine continues across the globe, Russia has reportedly become the first country to complete clinical trials of a vaccine candidate, with the potential to be distributed from around mid-August. A vaccine could be rolled out across the U.K. by the first half …
Read More »Haley reacts to Iran-China partnership
In a tweet, the Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, named Iran-China 25-year cooperation roadmap as a termination to what she called Iran’s global isolation. “The partnership … would vastly expand Chinese presence in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways, and dozens of other projects,” she claimed. In a meeting …
Read More »Trump calls on police to ‘take a stronger stand’ with ‘Radical Left’ Democratic city governments
US President Donald Trump has urged police officers across the country to fight back against the “disrespect” coming from the “Radical” Democrats running major cities. What exactly he meant was open to interpretation, as usual. “Never in history have Police been treated so badly as they are in Democrat run …
Read More »Covid-19: 2229 new cases and 2274 recoveries in Iraq today
Covid-19: 2229 new cases and 2274 recoveries in Iraq today The Iraqi Ministry of Health and environment registered today, Monday, 2229 new cases, 2274 recoveries and 100 fatalities of Covid-19. In a statement received by AlghderTv, the ministry said that 15380 tests were performed today, raising the total number performed …
Read More »Washington Redskins: NFL team dropping controversial name and logo after decades of criticism
A new name must still be selected for one of the oldest and most storied teams in the National Football League, and it was unclear how soon that will happen. But for now, arguably the most polarizing name in North American professional sports is gone at a time of reckoning …
Read More »Dozens wounded in blast, gunfire near Afghan intel agency office
Dozens of people have been wounded in a car bomb blast followed by a shooting attack near an office of the Afghan intelligence agency in the northern province of Samangan. Clashes broke out between Afghan security forces and unknown gunmen on Monday following the bomb attack that targeted a government …
Read More »Outrage as Trump White House smears Fauci while Covid-19 cases soar
A move by Donald Trump’s administration to discredit the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, by accusing him of being frequently “wrong” about the coronavirus pandemic has been derided as “atrocious” by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. The Democrat told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer the smear “is so …
Read More »Global COVID-19 cases exceed 13 million: Worldometer tally
The number of infections with the novel coronavirus has surpassed 13 million worldwide with the deaths exceeding 571,000 and recoveries over 7.58 million, according to Worldometer figures. According to the latest figures on Monday morning (+3:00 GMT), 13,069,861 people have so far been infected with the novel coronavirus globally, with …
Read More »21 injured in fire aboard ship at Naval Base San Diego
Firefighters on land, in the air and on the water on Monday were still battling a blaze on a Navy ship that injured at least 21 people and sent smoke billowing over San Diego. The fire began Sunday morning in a vehicle storage area aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, according …
Read More »US Feds to execute 1st inmate in two decades for Arkansas murders
The federal government is set to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Monday, over the objection of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings over the coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to die by lethal …
Read More »Four Dead as Fighting Resumes on Azerbaijan-Armenia Border
Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other Monday for skirmishes on their volatile border that have left four Azerbaijani soldiers dead and several troops wounded on both sides. The two neighbors in the South Caucasus have been locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan that has been under the …
Read More »IMF: Mideast loses $270B oil income amid virus, recession
The imf’s energy producers are expected to earn $270 billion less in oil revenue compared to last year as the region’s economic heavyweight, Saudi Arabia, sinks deeper into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund’s outlook released Monday. The international lender expects an overall economic contraction …
Read More »Manchester City Escapes Champions League Ban
Manchester City won its appeal against a ban from the Champions League, in a victory for the club’s owners, Abu Dhabi’s royal family and U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake. Soccer governing body UEFA had barred the English Premier League team from Europe’s most prestigious competition for two seasons and …
Read More »China trades sanctions with U.S. in row over Uighur Muslims
China announced “corresponding sanctions” against the United States on Monday after Washington penalised senior Chinese officials over the treatment of minority Uighur Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang. China’s move comes as relations between the world’s two biggest economic powerhouses have slumped over disagreements on issues including the coronavirus …
Read More »Russia ‘successfully completes’ human testing of COVID-19 vaccine + World updates
A Russian research center says it has successfully completed the clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on humans, and scientists in China and Thailand are also racing to start new phases in developing their own potential vaccines for COVID-19. There are no approved vaccines for the disease from …
Read More »Fresh Saudi airstrike kills nearly dozen civilians in northern Yemen
Nearly a dozen civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed when Saudi military aircraft struck a residential area in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor. Saudi fighter jets carried out an airstrike on a neighborhood in …
Read More »Denmark launches the first Covid-19 downloadable passport
Denmark has launched what is thought to be the first Covid-19 passport in Europe for use when traveling abroad and domestically. Citizens there can download the official document if they have tested negative for the illness within the last seven days. The innovation is different from the more controversial immunity …
Read More »Protest at Oregon courthouse continues as arrests, injuries mount
The now-nightly standoff between BLM protesters and officers guarding the courthouse in downtown Portland remains intense. On Saturday, activists attempted to block the area, and accused their opponents of using a ‘sound weapon.’ The Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland, Oregon has been in the focus of protests against racism and …
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