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The Iraqi Ministry of Health and environment registered today, Tuesday, 118 fatalities and 2426 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. In a statement received by AlghdeerTv, the Ministry stated that 11813 tests were performed today. The newly diagnosed cases were distributed as follows: Baghdad / Al-Rusafa 241 …

Brazilian President Bolsonaro, who has sought repeatedly to minimize the coronavirus as he urges the country back to work, has tested positive for covid-19, he told reporters on Tuesday. Bolsonaro, who has been an outlier among world leaders in his skepticism of both the coronavirus and preventive measures intended to …

Scientists using simulations in the lab have revealed that changes in the direction of the Earth’s magnetic field may take place 10 times faster than previously thought. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, gives new insight into the swirling flow of iron 2,800 kms below the planet’s surface …

China is forging ahead in the race to develop a vaccine to help control the COVID-19 pandemic, with Sinovac Biotech’s (SVA.O) experimental vaccine set to become the country’s second and the world’s third to enter final stage testing later this month. While a laggard in the global vaccine industry, China, …

A video of car rams past a BLM barrier in Seattle Two separate incidents on Monday saw cars deliberately driven into crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters – just as it was announced that the victim of a similar attack in Seattle has died. On Long Island in New York …

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on Tuesday dismissed a report fabricated by the “anti-Revolutionary elements” about an explosion at a nuclear site in the country’s central province of Yazd. In a statement released on Tuesday, the AEOI categorically denied the false claim raised by the anti-Revolutionary elements in the …

Saudi Arabia has issued guidelines for about 1,000 pilgrims who will be allowed to perform the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca later this month, an experience that will be unlike any before because of the coronavirus pandemic. The pilgrims will only be able to drink holy water from the Zamzam well …

One of the world’s leading epidemiologists thinks the coronavirus may not actually have originated in China, with samples of Covid-19 surfacing from Spain in early 2019. The coronavirus story keeps getting stranger… Dr. Tom Jefferson is a British epidemiologist working for the Cochrane Collaboration’s acute respiratory infections group. He also …

Oil prices fell on Tuesday amid concerns that a surge in new coronavirus cases, especially in the United States, will hamper any recovery in fuel demand. Brent crude LCOc1 futures declined by 24 cents, or 0.56%, to $42.86, by 1236 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 futures fell …

A nationwide antibody study in Spain has found that only 5.2 percent of the country’s population has been exposed to coronavirus, suggesting that herd immunity could be unachievable. The findings marked the conclusion of a three-month study into the prevalence of the virus, which involved testing almost 70,000 people across …

Britain is to resume selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite assessing that the country could be using them to commit war crimes, the government has announced. International trade secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday that the government had completed a review of how arms export licenses were granted in order …

The US drone strike that killed Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani was “unlawful”, the United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded in a report released Tuesday. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, concluded it was an “arbitrary killing” that violated the UN charter. The …

bbHisham al-Hashimi’s brother said, on Tuesday that the latter, received death threats from ISIS just few days before his assassination. This came in a talk to the media, among a group of mourners, where he accused the terrorist organization of masterminding the killing. A funeral ceremony is now taking place …

Russia has deployed 300 fighters, in Libya. The mercenaries, report Syrian sources, came from Deir Ez-Zor in eastern Syria, and are in Libya to support renegade Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. According to Anadolu Agency, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the fighters belonged to the Fatimiyoun …

Two people were killed in an explosion in a factory in the south of Tehran, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. “Human error was the cause of the blast in a factory … Two people were killed and three others were injured,” said a local official.

The Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday, the arrest of 10 terrorists in separate areas of Saladin Governorate. The agency added in a statement today that, “the detainees are wanted according to Article 4 for belonging to ISIS. The statement noted that “the …

The U.S. government has awarded Novavax Inc $1.6 billion to cover testing, commercialization, and manufacturing of a potential coronavirus vaccine in the United States, with the aim of delivering 100 million doses by January 2021. Novavax shares jumped 35% in premarket trade. The award is the biggest yet from “Operation …

The eurozone economy will drop deeper into recession this year and rebound less steeply in 2021 than previously thought, the European Commission forecast on Tuesday, with France, Italy, and Spain struggling the most due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The downbeat assessment of Europe’s economy comes amid concern the U.S. recovery …

At least 21 people have died and 15 have been left seriously injured after a bus carrying high school students veered off a road, broke through a guardrail, and sank into a reservoir in southwest China. The horrific incident happened at approximately noon local time in Anshun, in southwest China’s …

A leading Iraqi security analyst and government advisor has been shot dead outside his home in the capital Baghdad, sparking public anger and a wave of condemnations from the country’s senior officials. Three gunmen on two motorcycles fired at Hisham al-Hashemi, 47, from meters away on Monday, near his home …