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Britain will introduce legislation to ensure key public services maintain minimum safety levels during industrial action, as the government seeks to limit disruption from strikes now involving tens of thousands of workers. The government said on Thursday it would bring the bill to parliament in the coming weeks and would …

Congress remains in deadlock as insurgent Republicans continue to thwart Representative Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House speaker The US House of Representatives has adjourned yet again after lawmakers failed to appoint a new House speaker for the second day in a row, leaving Congress in disarray amid an uprising against …

South Korea says a North Korean drone intruded into the no-fly zone over the presidential office in the capital, Seoul, last month. On Thursday, South Korea’s military said that a North Korean drone had entered the no-fly zone over the presidential office in Seoul during a rare incursion last month. …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed the possibility of meeting with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in forthcoming talks with Russia to discuss peace and stability in the region and in the Arab country. Erdogan said on Thursday that a trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers from Turkey, Russia, …

On Monday, the Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri, discussed the political developments in the Iraqi scene with the head of the Wisdom Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, in his office in Baghdad. The meeting was attended by members of the political offices of the Badr Organization and the National Wisdom …

Seoul and Washington are discussing joint nuclear exercises amid flaring tensions with Pyongyang, SK’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has said. Yoon’s comments, made in an interview published Monday, follow similar ones where he called for “war preparation” with an “overwhelming” capability. On Sunday North Korean state media reported that leader Kim …

Iraq’s Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, chaired on Monday a meeting of the Ministerial Council for Economy. Al-Sudani’s media office said in a statement that the meeting discussed the budget bill draft. The meeting parties laid emphasis on the need to implement strategic plans in the fields of health, education, …

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve attack on their quarters in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk province. Footage posted online showed a building purported to be a vocational college in the town of Makiivka, the twin …

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian youths during a nocturnal raid on a village near the city of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian medical sources said the fatalities were caused as the regime’s forces stormed the village of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin. They identified …

For much of the global economy, 2023 is going to be a tough year as the main engines of global growth – the United States, Europe, and China – all experience weakening activity, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Sunday. The new year is going to be …

ISIS said Saturday that it carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia the previous day. “A cell of soldiers of the caliphate managed to attack an Egyptian police roadblock… with a machine gun,” the terrorist group’s Amaq news agency said. …

It’s the American spy plane that dangerously approached a Chinese jet, not the other way around, Beijing insists Washington’s account of last week’s air incident over the South China Sea, involving a Chinese military jet and a US spy plane, disregards the truth and is “pure slander and hype,” the …

KYIV: Explosions were reported throughout Ukraine on New Year’s Eve as Russia carried out its second major round of missile attacks in three days on Saturday, Reuters reported while quoting Ukrainian officials. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said at least one person had been killed and eight wounded after a series …

Local residents say a loud explosion was heard before 8 am local time on New Year’s Day An explosion was heard outside the military airport in Kabul which is feared to have caused “multiple casualties”, Afghanistan’s Taliban government has said. “Today morning an explosion took place outside Kabul military airport, …

Pyongyang needs “overwhelming military power” to protect its sovereignty, Kim Jong-un says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for the country to develop a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and boost its nuclear arsenal amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, state-run media reported. Pyongyang requires “overwhelming military power” …

Future historians may come to regard 2022 as a hinge in history, marking the end of one era and the beginning of another. Major war returned to Europe, with the attendant threats of nuclear strikes, the door closed firmly shut on the U.S. policy of strategic engagement with China, and …

The head of the Al-Fatah coalition, Hadi al-Ameri, said that the rise in the dollar exchange rate in Iraq is a plan to control the country’s economy. Al-Ameri said in a speech he made on the occasion of the first anniversary of the assassination of the deputy head of the …

Leading indices have sold off on high inflation, geopolitical tensions, and tightening monetary policy Major European stock indices struggled in 2022, with most showing their worst performance since before the Covid-19 pandemic, CNBC reported on Friday. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index began the last trading day of the year down …

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg had called on members of the military alliance to supply more weapons to Ukraine, saying it is in their “security interests” to make sure Kiev prevails in the protracted war against Russia. In an interview with the German news agency DPA on Friday, Stoltenberg renewed …

Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, the most right-wing in the Israeli regime’s history, is facing opposition even from regime officials in the occupied Palestinian territories who hold fascist views, according to a political commentator. Sa’d Nimr, professor of political science at Birzeit University, made these remarks in an interview aired on Thursday. …