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Senior Chinese officials, releasing a lengthy report on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, defended their government’s actions and said that China provided information in a timely and transparent manner. National Health Commission Chairman Ma Xiaowei said Sunday that a recent news media report that the Chinese government didn’t …

A Northern California sheriff’s deputy was killed and two law enforcement officers wounded Saturday when they were ambushed with gunfire and explosives while pursuing a suspect, authorities said. Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was shot and killed in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area near Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim …

A security source revealed that the Prime Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, has assigned a new Chief of Staff to succeed Othman Al-Ghanmi, who became Minister of the Interior. Al- Kadhimi assigned Lieutenant General, Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah to head the Army Staff, the source, who requested …

We have created “a perfect storm” for diseases from wildlife to spill over into humans and spread quickly around the world, scientists warn. Human encroachment on the natural world speeds up that process. This outlook comes from global health experts who study how and where new diseases emerge. As part …

Thousands of Lebanese protesters took to the streets on Saturday, with some throwing stones and demanding the government resign over its handling of a deep economic crisis as hardship increases. The demonstrators, many wearing face masks and carrying the national flag, converged on the main square in Beirut that was …

The Qatari FM said the government is currently consulting with the organizing committee, preparing to alter the designs of the nearly completed stadiums to adhere to health official instruction. Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the fallout that is projected to follow it for years to come, Qatar’s foreign minister …

Two Buffalo police officers were charged with assault Saturday, prosecutors said after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester in recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Both pleaded not guilty to second-degree assault. They were released without bail. The officers had been suspended without pay …

Iraq has told OPEC it would start an urgent plan to cut its oil production gradually to fully comply with its quota, an OPEC delegate said on Saturday after the group demanded that Baghdad and other laggards adhere to a pact on output curbs. Iraq’s plan would include reaching a …

Iraq reported 1252 new cases of Coronavirus during the past 24 hours, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced on Saturday. The new casualties were distributed as: Baghdad / Rusafa 498 Baghdad / Al-Karkh 165 Baghdad / Medical City 2 Najaf 47 Basra 149 Sulaymaniyah 45 Erbil 29 Kerbala 34 Wasit …

Parliamentary sources said on Saturday that the leader of the “Al-Fateh” coalition, the Secretary-General of Badr Organization, has submitted a formal request to resign from the Iraqi parliament. Al-Amiri submitted a formal request to the parliament presidency to resign, without further details, the sources told Alghadeer News. This comes at …

The Iraqi Parliament voted on Saturday on the seven vacant portfolios in the government of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. “The Parliament voted on Ihsan Abd al-Jabbar Ismail as Minister of Oil and Fuad Mohammad Hussein Baki as the Minister of Foreign Affairs,” The media department of the parliament said in …

With its overall Covid-19 death toll exceeding 34,000 people, Brazil is now the country with the third-highest number of deaths in the world, surpassing Italy. Brazil is widely regarded to be the current global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with more new daily deaths and cases than any other country. …

The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Brigadier Yahya Rasoul, confirmed today, Saturday, that “the operations of the Iraqi heroes – the victory of sovereignty, have achieved their goals as planned.” Rasoul said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency “conscious”, seen by “Al-Ghadeer”, that “the operations …

Police in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty detained dozens of anti-government protesters who took to the streets on Saturday even as a new, more liberal law on demonstrations was expected to come into force. The Central Asian nation has frequently been criticized by human rights groups for requiring public rallies to …

US President Donald Trump has approved a plan to withdraw 9,500 American troops from bases in Germany by September, US media say. Trump, who has long complained that European members of Nato should spend more on their own defense, reportedly wants US troop levels capped at 25,000. Troops would either …

Tens of thousands of Australians defied government calls to stay at home Saturday by spilling onto the streets for Black Lives Matter protests in major towns and cities across the country. Marchers in Sydney, Melbourne and elsewhere rejected arguments from law enforcement and conservative leaders that mass protests could fuel …

Iran’s newly-elected Parliament Speaker has implicitly rejected any deal with the United States, saying that negotiation with infidels is not allowed in Islam. Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf quoted a verse from Holy Quran on his Twitter page implying that any compromise with infidels is disallowed. «فَلا تَهِنُوا وَ تَدْعُوا إِلَى السَّلْمِ …

French forces have killed the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali, France’s defense minister said. Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of Westerners in the …

The office of Iraq’s leading cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani sent a message on Saturday to the Iraqis, in which he called on them to adhere to the “strict” precautionary measures after the increasing number of cases of Corona pandemic in the country. “Respected Iraqis … in these difficult days …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn in public to help stop the spread of coronavirus. The global body said new information showed they could provide “a barrier for potentially infectious droplets”. Some countries around the world already recommend or …