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Health Secretary Matt Hancock has bypassed parliamentary scrutiny and given new powers to the UK security and intelligence organization, GCHQ, to allow it to obtain information from public-health IT systems until the end of 2020. The National Health Service (NHS) has been instructed by Hancock to hand over information to …

France experienced the most severe economic contraction since the Second World War in the first quarter of this year, in light of the Corona crisis, official data showed Thursday. The French statistics agency said that France’s gross domestic product contracted by 5.8% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to …

Donald Trump has said the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire on Thursday, even as the number of Americans who have died of coronavirus surpassed 60,000. The country has recorded 60,207 deaths from coronavirus, and 1,030,487 cases of the virus have been …

Criminals are using food delivery services as a cover to transport drugs and other illegal goods during the coronavirus crisis, which has seen countries around the world go into lockdown, said the Interpol police organization on Thursday. Interpol said it had received reports from police in Ireland, Malaysia, Spain, and …

The American police announced the arrest of a man who shot the headquarters of the Cuban embassy in Washington, DC. The officer refused to reveal the name of the shooter, his motives and the number of bullets he fired, expressing his conviction that no human casualties were caused by the …

As the United States pressed Saudi Arabia to end its oil price war with Russia, President Donald Trump gave Saudi leaders an ultimatum. In an April 2 phone call, Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that unless the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) started cutting oil …

More than 180 Palestinian, regional and international human rights campaigners and organizations have called upon the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, to investigate the crimes being perpetrated by Israeli forces in the occupied territories. The rights groups, in a joint open letter initiated by Palestinian …

The Human Rights Commission in Iraq’s southern province of Basra is calling for a ‘state of emergency’ as the number of coronavirus cases increases. The commission said in an appeal directed to the Coronavirus task force and governor’s office in Basra that the current situation requires a state of emergency …

The Ministry of Electricity and local officials said on Thursday that the rate of supplying electrical energy in six Iraqi governorates, including the capital, Baghdad, had decreased due to the targeting of power transmission towers in Diyala Governorate with roadside bombs. The Ministry of Electricity said in a statement today …

Donald Trump on Wednesday backed away from a vow made less than 24 hours earlier that the United States “very soon” would be able to test up to 5m people per day for coronavirus, falsely contending he never uttered those words. “Right now, they’re testing about 200,000 per day. So …

A new antibody test to check whether someone has been infected with coronavirus, and said to be 99 per cent accurate, has been certified for use across Europe. Global diagnostics specialists Abbott, which has a UK base in Maidenhead, has said it is expecting to have shipped millions of the …

Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Al Kadhimi has sent his government programme to Parliament in the hope of breaking the country’s political deadlock. Earlier this month, President Barham Salih tapped Mr. Al Kadhimi to lead Iraq, making him the third nominee in 10 weeks to take the position. “My government programme …

At least five hideouts belonging to the Islamic State (IS) terrorists were found in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk on Wednesday, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. The hideouts were discovered during an operation by the federal police forces in the village of Garhakazan, in which they also seized …

In violation and blatant interference in the internal affairs of Iraq, the US Secretary of State stated that. Iraqi leaders must put aside a sectarian quota system and make compromises to help the formation of a government and help the bilateral relationship between Washington and Baghdad, U.S. Secretary of State …

Despite infecting more than 3 million people around the world, there are still 33 countries and territories that have yet to report a single case of the novel coronavirus. These include Comoros, Lesotho, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and tiny far-flung island nations in the Pacific such as Nauru, Kiribati, and the Solomon …

The crash happened in Station Road, Rochdale, at about 14:10 BST, according to Greater Manchester Police. North West Ambulance Service said five people have been taken to hospital, one with “a significant leg injury”. None of the injuries are life-threatening. Richard Street and Station Street have been temporarily closed as …

At least a dozen Lebanese banks across the country were torched and vandalized during the second consecutive night of angry protests fuelled by frustration over the national currency’s unfettered depreciation. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets from Beirut to southern Sidon along with Nabatieh, the Bekaa Valley, and Tripoli …

Saudi Arabia has urged the separatists allied with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to end the self-rule rule they have newly announced in Yemen’s south and return to cooperation under a Riyadh deal, as a rift in the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen cracks open again. The Saudi cabinet …

Shocking fresh statistics show the devastating impact Covid-19 is having on the UK, revealing that it has recorded its highest weekly death toll since comparable records began in 1993. New figures released by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday show that a total of 22,351 people died in the …

The Kingdom, one of the world’s major crude producers, also suffered a dropped in oil revenues, as oil prices have been extremely volatile due to the new coronavirus pandemic. Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit has reached $9 billion in the first quarter of 2020, citing a performance report released by the …