Secretary General of the Union of Resistance Scholars Sheikh Maher Hammoud said that the US-Israeli plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause which they hope will be implemented by the Bahrain Workshop, will fail as their plans and plots against Syria, Iraq and Lebanon failed. In a speech on Tuesday during …
Read More »Lampard close to being new Chelsea manager.
Frank Lampard moved a step closer to being appointed Chelsea manager after Derby County granted him permission to speak to the English Premier League club about their managerial vacancy. Chelsea is looking for a new manager after Maurizio Sarri left the club to join Serie A champion Juventus earlier this …
Read More »FedEx sues the US Government.
US delivery company FedEx has filed a lawsuit against the US government, arguing that it should not be required to enforce federal government export bans. The move comes after FedEx mishandled a couple of deliveries for Huawei, and failed to deliver a Huawei smartphone shipped from Britain to the United …
Read More »Trump threatens “obliteration” as Iran slams sanctions on Khamenei.
US President Donald Trump has said has threatened Iran with “obliteration” if the country launches any attack on American forces in the Middle East region. In a Twitter rant on Tuesday railing against the Islamic Republic, Trump said, “Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that …
Read More »Johnson defends Brexit plan and ‘row’ silence
Boris Johnson has admitted he would need EU co-operation to avoid a hard Irish border or crippling tariffs on trade in the event of a no-deal Brexit. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the favorite to be the next PM said: “It’s not just up to us.” But he …
Read More »Rouhani derides new sanctions as ‘useless’
Iran’s president has responded with defiance to the latest sanctions imposed by the US, saying they show it is lying about wanting dialogue. Hassan Rouhani said the measures against Iran’s supreme leader unveiled by President Donald Trump on Monday would be “useless” and denounced the US plans to target his …
Read More »Ukraine fury as Russia gets human rights vote.
Five years after Russia had it’s voting rights removed because of the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly has voted to restore them. The assembly backed the proposal in the face of angry opposition from Ukraine, whose delegation later walked out. Russia had threatened to …
Read More »New deal or no deal: How will Britain’s next PM deliver Brexit?
The toughest job for Britain’s next prime minister will be to leave the European Union. But the new leader will have few options: find a divorce deal that parliament will ratify, leave without a deal or delay. Legally, Britain leaves on Oct. 31, seven months later than planned, unless the …
Read More »Palestinians rally against Kushner’s economic peace plan
Palestinians burned portraits of President Donald Trump as they protested in both the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday against U.S.-led plans for a conference on their economy in Bahrain. Many Palestinian business groups have said they will boycott the June 25-26 event, billed as part of …
Read More »US cyber attacks on Iranian missile systems failed: Minister
Iran said on Monday U.S. cyber attacks on its military had failed, while also hinting that it could be willing to discuss new concessions with Washington if the United States were to lift sanctions and offer new incentives. The longtime foes have come the closest in years to a direct …
Read More »Swiss to return $133 million to Uzbekistan after money-laundering probe.
The Swiss attorney general’s office (OAG) on Monday announced it was returning 130 million Swiss francs ($133 million) to Uzbekistan which it seized during an investigation involving a relative of the daughter of the country’s former president Islam Karimov. The OAG did not name the relative who was convicted on …
Read More »India’s top court orders investigation into ‘brain fever’ child deaths
India’s top court on Monday ordered an investigation into an outbreak of “brain fever” that has killed at least 122 children, after hearing a petition in which the state and central governments were accused of negligence. The disease, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, believed to be caused by dehydration and malnutrition, has …
Read More »Istanbul election showed that even the President can be defeated.
Change, hope, and a new beginning. That’s the promise of Istanbul’s newly elected mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. His slogan, “Everything will be great,” is on everyone’s lips in Turkey. Imamoglu’s win in the repeat of the mayoral vote invigorates Turkey’s fatigued opposition. It breathes new life into a part of the …
Read More »Two Eurofighter jets collide over Germany.
Two German armed forces Eurofighter jets have collided and crashed in the Müritz area of north-eastern Germany. Both pilots were seen to eject from their planes by a colleague in a third Eurofighter plane. One of the pilots has been found alive and a search is going on for the …
Read More »Boko Haram terrorists kill 11 Chadian soldiers in Lake Chad.
Boko Haram terrorists have killed at least 11 Chadian soldiers in the Lake Chad region bordering Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon. “The Chadian army lost 11 men including three officers… and six soldiers were wounded,” the regional authority told media on Sunday, adding that Chadian soldiers killed “26 Boko Haram …
Read More »Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6 trillion of student loan debt.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders will unveil a policy proposal that would eliminate all $1.6 trillion worth of American student debt. The 2020 hopeful is set to announce the bill in the House on Monday together with Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, …
Read More »Bitcoin tests 15-month highs after 10% weekend jump.
Bitcoin tested 15-month highs on Monday after jumping more than 10% over the weekend, with analysts ascribing the spike to growing optimism over the adoption of cryptocurrencies after Facebook unveiled its Libra digital coin. The biggest cryptocurrency hit $11,247.62 on the Bitstamp exchange late on Sunday, its highest since March …
Read More »Saudi soldier shoots dead three comrades, turns himself in: Report.
A Saudi soldier has reportedly opened fire on his comrades at a military base in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan, killing three of them before turning himself into authorities. Sabq News website, citing unnamed security sources, reported on Monday that the soldier, whose identity was not immediately known, …
Read More »Iraqi parliament votes in defense, interior, justice ministers
The education portfolio is the only one yet to be filled in Iraq’s government after lawmakers on Monday voted in Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi’s nominees as defense, interior and justice ministers. Najah al-Shammari, Yaseen al-Yasiri and Faruq Ameen were respectively confirmed in those posts, lawmakers said. But Safana al-Hamdani, the …
Read More »Zarif: B-Team, not Trump, wants war with Iran
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the B team was close to implicating US President Donald Trump in the war. Zarif’s reference to the telephone call was Saudi Arabia’s contact with elements of the terrorist “creation” group, which confirmed their cooperation in the case of the tanker bombing …
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