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Martin Griffith, the UN envoy to Yemen, warned on Friday of the danger of the collapse of the “Riyadh Agreement”, which was signed by the government of the resigned Hadi, with the so-called UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, after armed confrontations. At the same time, he stressed that the United Nations …

Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly condemned lynching of a 16-year-old teenager by a group of protesters in Baghdad’s Al Wathba Square, warning about the consequences of such brutality. In a statement read out by his representative during a sermon on Friday, Ayatollah Sistani said the recurrence of such crimes will …

At least three members of the so-called civil defense group White Helmets have been killed while transporting a shipment of explosives inside an ambulance in Syria’s west-central province of Hama, amid reports that they are preparing to carry out terrorist and chemical attacks across the country in a bid to …

Today, Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the American accusations that Tehran was responsible for missile attacks on American military bases in Iraq. “Accusing Tehran of the Aramco attack and the attacks on American bases in Iraq are just false allegations, and the Americans will later realize that they are …

A Sudanese court has indicted the country’s former president Omar al-Bashir for corruption and illicit possession of sizeable amounts of foreign currency, sentencing him to two years in confinement. The sentence was issued on Saturday against the 75-year-old, who was the country’s head of state for three decades before being …

The House Judiciary Committee has approved impeachment charges against President Donald Trump with a vote strictly along party lines. The process is expected to advance to a full House vote next week. After debating articles of impeachment in a heated session on Thursday, the committee voted 23 to 17 to …

U.S. President Donald Trump reprised his ridicule of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg on Thursday after the Swedish climate activist was named Time’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg won the magazine’s annual honorific on Wednesday for her work inspiring millions of young people to take action against climate change. “So …

Final results of the British general elections showed that the Conservative Party won 364 seats and the opposition Labor Party won 203 seats. In detail, the Conservative Party won 364 seats, or 43.6% of the seats, while the Labor Party won 203 seats, 32.2%. The Scottish National Party won 48 …

A group of “protesters” in Baghdad have, in an extremely brutal and shocking way, stabbed into death and cut the throat of a 16-year-old teenager before hanging him by his ankles. The boy, identified as Haitham Ali Ismael, had been berating the protesters for three days for obstructing the street …

The Iraqi army says two Katyusha rockets have landed near the “outside perimeter” of Baghdad International Airport. No casualty or damage has been reported so far following the Wednesday attacks, Reuters quoted a statement from the Iraqi military on Thursday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. …

At least seven fighters from the Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries when a massive bomb explosion struck their convoy in Iraq’s north-central province of Salahuddin. Safa Tamimi, spokesman for Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades) – a group operating under the umbrella …

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco has just pulled off the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history, raising $25.6 billion. The IPO, however, fell short of the Saudi Crown Prince’s $2 trillion valuations. The company sold 3 billion shares priced at 32 riyals ($8.53) each. The mega-float exceeds …

Israeli forces have arrested four staff members of a Palestinian TV channel in Jerusalem al-Quds in a move condemned by the Palestinian Presidency. Israeli forces stormed the place from where a Palestine TV morning show was being broadcast on Friday, arresting the anchor, Dana Abu Shamsiyeh and the cameraman, Amir …

For the second time in two days, a deadly shooting has occurred at a US Navy base leaving at least Four people dead and several others injured. Four people including the suspected shooter were killed and seven others were injured on Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, said …

Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. In figures described by its director-general as “an outrage”, the WHO said most of last year’s measles …

Hundreds of thousands of strikers paralyzed the transport system on the first day of industrial action which prompted the closure of schools across the nation. According to union leaders, more than 1.5 million people turned out across the country, with police using tear gas to disperse them. Just in Paris …

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said on Friday that a new prime minister must be chosen without foreign interference after the incumbent Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation a week ago. Al-Sistani urged political leaders to abandon partisan politics in choosing a new head of government and said he would have …

At least 23 people died and more than 130 were injured in Sudan after a fire triggered an explosion at a factory in northern Khartoum on Tuesday, according to state news agency SUNA. The incident happened while a tanker truck was offloading gas at a ceramics manufacturing company in an …

U.S. President Donald Trump called Justin Trudeau “two-faced” on Wednesday after the Canadian Prime Minister appeared to be caught on camera joking about his press appearances during a chat with other leaders at a NATO summit in Britain. Trudeau was filmed at a Buckingham Palace reception for NATO leaders on …

NATO leaders gathered at a golf resort near London on Wednesday for a summit acrimonious even by the standards of the Trump era, aiming to tackle sharp disagreements over spending, future threats including China and Turkey’s role in the alliance. With U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron …