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Manufacturing activity in the euro zone collapsed last month as government-imposed lockdowns to stop the spread of the new coronavirus forced factories to close and consumers to stay indoors, a survey showed on Monday. The coronavirus has infected more than 3.5 million people globally and killed around 247,000 so with …

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged the world to unite to defeat the new coronavirus. “This virus will be with us for a long time and we must come together to develop and share the tools to defeat it,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told …

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Monday that Germany was “succumbing to American will” by banning Hezbollah and designating it a terrorist organization. In a televised speech, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said last week’s German move, which Israel and the United States have long urged, would not deter Hezbollah from …

World leaders, organizations and banks on Monday pledged 7.4 billion euros ($8 billion) for research to find a vaccine against the new coronavirus, but warned that it is just the start of an effort that must be sustained over time to beat the disease. The funds, pledged at a video-conference …

The Iranian Parliament on Monday voted for the details of a government monetary reform bill which will change the country’s currency name and drop four zeros from banknotes. Under the new law, which will come into effect after the final approval of the Guardian Council, the national currency unit will …

Iraq’s Al-Nujaba Movement, which forms part of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), has claimed that the US has been planning to “transfer” senior Daesh commanders and other terrorists from eastern Syria to neighboring Iraq. “Washington is insisting on the implementation of a plot to return the terrorists to Iraq by …

The vice president for science and technology says Iran is to export diagnostic kits that it has indigenously produced for identification of the new coronavirus patients to Germany and Turkey. Speaking to IRNA on Monday, Sourena Sattari identified the devices as serologic test kits developed by Iranian science-based companies that …

Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the UK say the finding has “enormous potential” to control the disease. Malaria is spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes, so protecting them could, in turn, protect people. The researchers …

“The Americans and the ISIL terrorists are repeating the same scenario they played during the collapse of Mosul in 2014, in Babel, Salahuddin, and Diyala provinces and they are attempting to distort security and stir instability in those regions,” said Qasim al-Maamouri, the commander of Hashd al-Shaabi’s Division 26, was …

Fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, began a major operation against Daesh in Anbar on Monday, managing to kill and injure dozens of terrorists in the western province. According to Iraqi security sources, the area of Haditha, which lies about 130 kilometers southwest of …

Haditha clans’ fighters in Anbar province have killed on Monday, ISIS suicide bombers, after they were trapped inside a mosque in Al-Medham village west of Haditha district, 160 km west of Ramadi city west of Iraq. The spokesman of the clans’ fighters said in a video recording that they had …

In his rush to accuse Beijing of unleashing the scourge of Covid-19 on an unsuspecting world, the US Secretary of State said the coronavirus was man-made, before making a U-turn without even blinking. “The best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I don’t have reason to disbelieve …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated economic inequality in the United States, even despite the fact that billionaires’ taxes have surged during this period. US billionaires have increased their wealth by $282 billion during the novel coronavirus pandemic, as estimated by the Institute for Policy Studies. “Between 18 March and 10 …

The Egyptian army said today, Sunday, that 15 of its members were killed or injured in recent operations in the Sinai Peninsula, and that 126 terrorists were killed. The General Command of the Armed Forces said in a statement: “As a result of the valiant hostilities of our armed forces …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did not undergo surgery during almost three weeks of absence from public life, a South Korean official said on Sunday, as the two Koreas exchanged gunfire at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two sides. The government official declined to provide reasons, but said …

Muhammad al-Ghabban, head of al-Fateh parliamentary bloc in the Iraqi parliament, said that the Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi “repeated the mistakes of the former official in the mechanism of selecting the candidates”, as he put it. Al-Ghabban said that “the political blocs have previously agreed with Al-Kadhemi to authorize the …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the five main conditions under which measures taken in the crisis of the outbreak and spread of the new Corona virus will be eased in the country. There are five key tests that we must satisfy before we can adjust the current measures. …

FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani has said that moving the European soccer season to the calendar year is a “possibility to be discussed” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic which has brought football to a standstill around the world. In an interview with Italy’s Radio Sportiva, Montagliani, who is seen …

The prison population in the United States, the largest in the world, is being badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic even as officials are saying the disease has plateaued. More than 80 percent of the nearly 2,500 inmates at a prison in Marion, Ohio as well as 175 staff members …

Iraq’s Badr organization, which is part of the country’s Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd al-Sha’abi, says the US and Saudi Arabia are seeking to reactivate Daesh, adding that recent attacks by the Takfiri terrorist group serve that aim. Mohammed Mahdi al-Bayati, a senior leader in the Badr Organization, revealed fresh …