Representative of the Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV) at the Human Rights Council described the situation in Yemen as the most catastrophic man-made crisis of all times and stressed that all armed countries including US, UK, and France, should stop military support of the coalition. “According to the …
Read More »Guatemala admits it is a cocaine-producing nation, not just transit point.
Guatemala must now consider itself a cocaine-producing nation and not just a transit country for the powerful narcotic after authorities discovered new coca processing laboratories, the interior minister said. Last year, Guatemala discovered plantations growing coca, along with a laboratory to process the leaf into cocaine. Until recently, the crop …
Read More »Abdul Mahdi: We seek to form a strategic partnership with China
Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said the government is seeking to form a strategic partnership with China to promote Iraq and restore infrastructure. Abdul Mahdi said in a statement on his visit to the People’s Republic of China received by Alghadeer: We attended this large executive delegation to discuss and develop …
Read More »Trump’s interaction with foreign leader is part of whistleblower complaint – officials.
The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader, according to two former U.S. officials familiar with the matter. Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that …
Read More »Fox News poll suggests president to lose in 2020!
Fox News poll suggests president to lose in 2020, amid impeachment struggle and revelations of secret ‘promise’ to a foreign leader A new Fox News poll sees Donald Trump lagging behind his 2020 challengers as news breaks that a promise the president made during a phone call to a mystery …
Read More »Tunisian ex-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Dies at 83 – Report
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, commonly known as Ben Ali was a long-serving Tunisian president between 1987 and 2011 when he was ousted as a result of a coup Former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali passed away on Thursday after suffering a health crisis, the former president’s lawyer …
Read More »Iraq announces its position on the presence of ‘international forces’ in the Gulf
Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Al-Sahaf said on Thursday that Iraq will not join any “international force” claiming to protect the waterways in the Gulf, and rejects the participation of the Zionist entity in it. Sahaf said in a press statement, “Iraq will not join any international force to protect …
Read More »Real Madrid humiliated by PSG
There was a time when Zinedine Zidane could do no wrong. That time feels an age ago. Dressed in black and likely boasting a mood to match, Zidane watched on as his Real Madrid side succumbed to a 3-0 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain in its opening Champions League game on …
Read More »Qatar Airways annual loss widens to $639 million amid lingering Gulf dispute
Qatar Airways reported a loss of 2.3 billion Qatari riyals ($639 million) on Wednesday for the year ending March 31, as it grappled with the second year of an embargo by neighbors that has restricted its air routes and driven costs higher. The results mark a steeper loss from the …
Read More »Zarif: Military strike on Iran will lead to ‘all-out war’ in region
“I am making a very serious statement that we don’t want war; we don’t want to engage in a military confrontation … But we won’t blink to defend our territory,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif told CNN in an interview. Asked what the consequence of an American or a …
Read More »US Using Oil as Weapon: Zangeneh
Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh stressed the non-political nature of oil, saying the US was using oil as a weapon which was not the right approach. Responding to a question on Thursday about the current state of the oil market in light of recent problems at Saudi Aramco oil …
Read More »Over dozen displaced Iraqi Izadi families return home from Syria
More than a dozen families from the Izadi minority group have repatriated to Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, after four years of displacement caused by the Daesh terrorist group’s occupation of their homeland and brutal atrocities committed against them. The media department of the Iraqi security forces said in a …
Read More »Poland advises nationals to return home.
With no end to the Brexit impasse in sight, European governments are growing increasingly anxious over the status of their UK-based citizens in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Poland is leading the way by advising its UK-based citizens to consider their options carefully in a post-Brexit world. The Polish …
Read More »Opinion: Netanyahu lost Israeli vote, but Palestinians were bound to lose whoever won.
Vladimir Lenin is said to have opined that the only thing certain about British elections is who is going to lose. He meant the British working class, at a time when they were effectively unrepresented in the political system. Equally, whatever the outcome of the Israeli elections, the Palestinians will …
Read More »26 children die in a boarding school fire.
Twenty-six children have died after a fire broke out in a boarding school in a suburb outside the Liberian capital Monrovia, a government spokesman said. The children were sleeping in a building attached to a mosque at the Quranic Islamic School in Paynesville City when it caught fire at around …
Read More »French police eject 800 migrants from Dunkirk makeshift camp.
French police have cleared more than 800 migrants from a makeshift camp that sprung up outside a gymnasium near the northern port of Dunkirk last spring. The move on Tuesday followed a court ruling that the camp had become a health and security hazard, AFP said. The mayor of Grande-Synthe …
Read More »Trump names new national security advisor to replace Bolton.
US President Donald Trump has named Robert C. O’Brien – a hostage affairs envoy he sent to Sweden to try and negotiate the release of jailed rapper A$AP Rocky this summer – as his new National Security Advisor. Trump announced O’Brien’s nomination on Wednesday, saying that he has “worked long …
Read More »Iraqi intelligence arrest five Islamic State terrorists in Diyala.
Iraqi military intelligence forces announced on Tuesday that five Islamic State terrorists were arrested in the eastern province of Diyala. “Acting on intelligence information, troops of the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate caught five Islamic State terrorists in Mandali district in Diyala,” Alsumaria News quoted the directorate as saying in a …
Read More »Trump impeachment hearing opened by Congress for first time
Corey Lewandowski, the outspoken Republican operative who served as Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, has appeared before Congress as part of the House Judiciary Committee’s first official hearing in a Democratic-led impeachment investigation. Mr Lewandowski, a 45-year-old political commentator currently mulling a bid for Senate in his home state of …
Read More »Seventh death linked to mystery vaping illness.
A man from California is the seventh person to die from a suspected vaping-related illness in the US, reports say. The man, in his 40s, had been ill for a number of weeks before he succumbed to a “severe pulmonary injury associated with vaping”, according to Tulare Country public health …
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