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Indonesia’s most volatile volcano on Sunday spewed ash and hot gas in a massive column as high as 6km (3.7 miles) into the sky. Mount Merapi’s clouds of ash, accompanied by a rumbling sound heard kilometres (miles) away, blanketed several villages on the main island of Java. Indonesia’s Center for …

China lost at least 40 soldiers in a clash with India at their disputed border this week, a federal government minister has said, as the nuclear-armed countries remained locked in confrontation on the frontline on Sunday. China has not said anything about any losses in the hand-to-hand combat that took …

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday said his country has a legitimate right to intervene in neighbouring Libya and ordered his army to be ready to carry out any mission outside the country, if necessary. Sisi’s comments came amid high tensions over regional rival Turkey’s intervention in Libya. He …

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck 8 km (5 miles) northwest of Perry, Oklahoma, late on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was at a depth of 7.9 km, it added.

US President Donald Trump, addressing a less-than-full arena for his first political rally in months, blasted anti-racism protests and defended his handling of the coronavirus on Saturday in a bid to reinvigorate his re-election campaign. The president, who revels in large crowds and had predicted that his first rally in …

Public health experts issued dire warnings. Local officials expressed unease. The coronavirus cases continued to climb. And still, they came. President Trump’s most faithful supporters piled into tents or lounged in lawn chairs, some wearing masks, and others dismissing the need for face coverings, as they waited hours and, in …

Kidnapped by members of the so-called Islamic State six years ago, a young Yazidi woman was recently found in Turkey and returned to Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on Saturday, a relative said. Halima Hussein Khalaf was kidnapped in 2014 and was moved to Turkey after the group’s territorial collapse in both …

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment registered, on Friday, 69 fatalities and 1635 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. In a statement received by AlghdeerTV, the Ministry said that 11226 tests were performed today, raising the total number of performed tests since the beginning of the …

A top U.S. federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, on Friday refused to step down after the administration abruptly said it was replacing him. The dramatic standoff marks the latest in series of unusual actions by Attorney General William Barr that critics …

Oil prices rose on Friday but pulled back sharply from early highs on concerns that continued spread of the novel coronavirus could stall the United States’ economic rebound. Crude benchmarks followed other assets lower, pulling back from session highs after Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said more fiscal and …

Russia has lambasted the US’s newly-unveiled space strategy document as “aggressive”, saying Washington views space as a new “arena” to wage “war.” “The document confirms the aggressive course by Washington in the space sphere,” said Russia’s Foreign Ministry in a statement on Friday. “Space is seen by the US side …

The armed forces spokesman, Brigadier Yahya Saree, said that the Saudi aggression forces continue their escalation on various fronts, during the past week they launched more than 25 offensive operations and infiltrations distributed on the fronts of Marib, Al-Jawf, Al-Sahel, Saada, Al-Bayda and the borders. It is quick and clear …

President Trump backed Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the aftermath of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder to distract reporters from covering Ivanka Trump’s use of a private email server, a new book claims. Early copies of John Bolton’s ‘The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,’ were obtained Wednesday …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the European countries that sponsored a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) against the Islamic Republic serve the interests of the United States and the Israeli regime. On Friday, the UN nuclear agency’s Board of Governors passed a resolution — put …

In a conversation last year, US President Donald Trump allegedly said that he did not care whether Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) militants made a return to Iraq, according to claims made in former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s new book “The Room Where It Happened”. In the memoir, which is …

On Friday night, Brazil became the second country in the world to surpass 1 million cases of the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The nation is on track to overshadow the U.S. for the most coronavirus deaths in the world by the end of July, according to …

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said on Saturday that Britain, France, and Germany have entered a non-constructive and dangerous game. Referring to the resolution of the IAEA Board of Governors against the Islamic Republic, he said, “What is certain is that we do not accept the action of …

A review into the 2m social distancing rule in England will conclude “within the coming days”, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said. It comes amid warnings many businesses will not survive under the current guidance as the government prepares to ease more restrictions on 4 July. Pubs, restaurants and hotels …

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi is reportedly planned to visit Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US in a bid to provide economic protection for his country. As Media reported, in his first round of trips to other countries as of getting appointed, Al-Kadhimi is set to visit the named countries …

Ten Palestinian civilians were injured, on Friday, by Israeli soldiers during the weekly peaceful demonstration against illegal settlements, in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, according to a local source. Morad Eshteiwi, coordinator of the popular resistance in the village, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli forces …