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At least seven crew members were killed and 22 others were injured as a blaze broke on the Jag Leela oil tanker at the Belawan port of the city of Medan in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, media reported on Tuesday, citing local authorities. According to the Jakarta Post newspaper, the …

Qatar Airways has warned its employees of “substantial” redundancies as it struggles with a collapse in demand. Its chief executive Akbar Al Baker wrote to staff warning of the job losses, although he did not say how many were under threat. Qatar Airways said it needed to “act decisively to …

Lebanon’s government has ordered a full shutdown of the country for four days amid an increase in new cases of infection with the new coronavirus. “The lockdown is set to begin at 7 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) on Wednesday and will end at 5 a.m. on Monday, with the …

Iraq reported 95 new cases of Coronavirus during the past 24 hours, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. The new casualties were distributed as: Baghdad / Rusafa: 32 cases, Baghdad / Al-Karkh: 26 cases, Medical City: 13 cases, Basra: 18 cases, Diyala: 5 cases, Kerbala: 1 case. The …

At least 19 people have died in two separate attacks in Afghanistan’s Kabul city and Nangarhar province. The attacks targeted a hospital and a funeral of a local police commander. Gunmen stormed a hospital on Tuesday in an ongoing attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, as a suicide blast killed …

UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned the attack and called on the perpetrators to be brought to justice. Three UN troops were killed and four more wounded when their convoy hit a roadside bomb early Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the war-torn West African state. UN chief …

A preliminary study by French researchers had claimed, smokers might be 80 percent less likely to infect COVID-19 than non-smokers of the same age and sex. The conclusion has arrived at a study done on 482 patients in a Paris hospital from 28 February 28 to 9 April, where it …

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi forces managed to capture 15 ISIS members in Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate during the Ramadan operation. In a statement released by a senior official of Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, he declared that the location of the terrorists in the Nineveh area has been …

Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates said he tried to warn President-elect Donald Trump of the dangers of a major viral outbreak soon after the 2016 race, but feels guilty for not being more vocal. “I chose, when I met with people all the way up to the top, in …

Donald Trump stormed out of his latest coronavirus press conference in the White House Rose Garden on Monday afternoon after again taking exception to questions from two female reporters, his latest meltdown over the crisis. Before he spat with CBS reporter Weijia Jiang and Kaitlin Collins of CNN, the president …

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has confirmed that he has tested positive for coronavirus and is now in hospital. Peskov, a household name in Russia, has worked with President Vladimir Putin for twenty years. “That’s right, I am ill. I’m getting treatment,” he said when asked about his diagnosis by …

The Israeli military says one of its soldiers has been killed by a stone dropped on his head during an arrest campaign near the northern West Bank city of Jenin. It said staff sergeant Amit Ben Ygal, 21, was struck in the head by a rock thrown from a rooftop …

Chinese authorities plan to test all of Wuhan’s 11 million residents for Covid-19 in a little over a week. After more than a month without newly-recorded cases, the disease has suddenly reappeared in the city. All districts in the city were ordered to submit a plan on how they will …

The government of former Saudi-backed Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has threatened to “confront every armed rebellion” by once-allied UAE-aligned separatists, urging them to abandon a recent “self-rule” declaration in the war-torn country’s southern regions. In a series of Tweets on Tuesday, the Hadi regime’s embassy in the US …

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says there are no talks underway between Iran and the United States, reminding how Washington has proven to be an untrustworthy negotiation partner. “The Americans proved that one cannot rely on the results of talks with them,” Zarif told the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting’s …

A leader in Iraq’s Badr Organization says US forces have transferred Daesh terrorists from Syria into Iraq amid Washington’s attempts to reinforce the American presence in the country. “Eyewitnesses living along the border with Syria have informed security officials that American forces are conducting extensive airborne transfers of Daesh terrorists …

Oil prices fell on Monday as investors worried about the second wave of coronavirus infections, but new output cuts from Saudi Arabia tempered worries about oversupply and limited price losses. Brent crude futures lost 96 cents, or 3.1%, to $30.01 a barrel by 11:25 a.m. EDT (1525 GMT). West Texas …

France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, three EU diplomats said. Belgium, Ireland, and Luxembourg also want to discuss the possibility of punitive economic measures during …

The leader of the Islamic State group in South Asia and the Far East has been arrested in Kabul, Afghanistan’s intelligence service says. Zia ul-Haq, also known as Sheikh Omar Khorasani, was held with two other senior leaders of the militant group. The Taliban are the main militant group in …

The biggest domestic football league in the world, the English Premier League, has been given the green light to return by the UK government with matches played behind closed doors. The Premier League has been in lengthy discussions and debates with its member clubs over “Project Restart” which will form …