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More than a hundred human rights organizations have called on US lawmakers to support a war powers resolution aimed at stopping Washington’s military involvement in the ongoing Saudi war on Yemen, which has entered its eighth year. “It’s been almost two months since the UN-brokered truce in Yemen expired, violence …

More than 1,100 journalists and other employees at The New York Times plan to stage a 24-hour strike, in what would be the first such move at the newspaper in more than four decades. The newspaper’s staffers signed a pledge not to work for one day on Thursday unless a contract deal …

EU leaders are furious with Hungary for blocking an eighteen billion euro financial aid package for Ukraine, the first tranche of which is due to be released to Kiev next month. According to Press TV, finance ministers from the twenty-seven-nation bloc came together on Tuesday to try and resolve the …

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Saudi Arabia on a visit hailed by Beijing as “epoch-making” as the proximity between Beijing and Riyadh grows amid the Arab kingdom’s souring relations with the United States, particularly over the Saudi support for oil output curbs. The Chinese leader arrived in Saudi …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani has departed to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to participate in the China-Arab Summit, an official statement by his bureau said on Wednesday. A source told said that Prime Minister al-Sudani will hold a series of meetings with the Saudi Monarch Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, Crown …

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko says attempts to remove Russia from the Group of 20 (G20) are bound to fail. The House and Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday excluded Russia from the Group of 20 and other entities in an agreement on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) …

Israeli news website i24NEWS quotes the Saudi FM as saying that “the direction of Saudi-Israeli relations is normalization.” Senior diplomatic officials said the normalization process between Saudi Arabia and the Israeli occupation is a matter of time, the Israeli news website i24NEWS reported on Tuesday, citing an official document it …

‘Expected side effects were in-keeping with what can be anticipated from the vaccine in this age group,’ regulator says Britain’s health regulator on Tuesday authorized the use of a Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for infants and children aged six months to 4 years. In a statement, the Medicines and Healthcare products …

Britain faces widespread industrial unrest in the run-up to the Christmas holiday and into January as workers struggling with double-digit inflation resort to strike action to demand better pay and working conditions. Below are some of the industries in which labour unions have undertaken or threatened strikes, echoing actions across …

Russia and Ukraine said on Tuesday they had exchanged 60 prisoners of war on each side in the latest of a series of such swaps. Russia’s defence ministry said the 60 freed Russian soldiers would be flown to Moscow to receive medical care and psychological support. In a video shared …

Russia says it currently sees no prospects for talks on Ukraine, days after US President Joe Biden said he would sit with Russian President Vladimir Putin “if he’s looking for a way to end the war.” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that he agreed about the need for …

Iraq’s Parliament will approve the 2023 budget of 140 trillion Iraqi dinars ($ 95,923,261,000.00) in the coming days. A source in the Parliamentary Finance committee, Mouin Al-Kadhimi, revealed that Prime Minister Muhammad S. Al-Sudani directed the minister of finance to complete the 140-trillion-dinars budget law to approve it and then …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Monday reiterated his country’s willingness to expand the cooperation with the United Nations to resolve the displacement and climate change issues. Al-Sudani’s remarks came during a meeting with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, his bureau in …

Sudan’s military and political parties signed a framework deal on Monday that provides for a two-year civilian-led transition towards elections and would end a standoff triggered by a coup in October 2021. The initial agreement would limit the military’s formal role to a security and defense council headed by a …

The bloc may reportedly blacklist 180 Russian entities and individuals in the tech, financial, and media sectors EU officials have discussed a new sanctions package against Russia over the Ukraine war, Politico reported on Monday. The potential additional restrictions include nearly two hundred listings linked to key Russian industries, including …

South Korea says the North has fired a barrage of artillery shells into a maritime buffer zone. Pyongyang says it was a warning against Seoul’s “provocative actions.” The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that about 130 artillery rounds were simultaneously fired from two separate sites, …

Saudi forces have reportedly re-arrested a distinguished Shia Muslim cleric, as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on members of the religious community. According to Press TV, social media activists reported that members of the Presidency of State Security detained Sheikh Kadhim al-Amri, a well-known Shia scholar …

China has denounced as “illegal” the US stationing of troops in Syria and the smuggling of oil and grain from the war-torn Arab country. According to Press TV, media reports say the US occupation forces have sent 54 oil-laden tankers from northeastern Syria to their bases in northern Iraq. Some Syrians reportedly …

Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes has said that the US looks to shift its air defense systems from the West Asia to Ukraine. According to Politico, Hayes said the US is working with West Asian countries to move a handful of their air defense systems to Ukraine. The goal is to …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-sudani on Saturday pledged to manhunt the perpetrators of the Speicher massacre that saw as many as 1,700 Iraqi airforces cadets shot dead by the hands of ISIS militants in 2014. Al-Sudani’s remarks came during a visit to the camp where the crime took place …