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After Morocco pulled off another FIFA World Cup 2022 shock on Sunday by defeating Belgium 2-0, riots erupted in the heart of Brussels and several other Belgian cities as angry fans torched scooters and pelted stones at cars. Police had to deploy water cannons and tear gas to disperse the …

Backing Ukraine is causing living costs to soar, the bloc’s chief Jens Stoltenberg admitted Europeans are about to face numerous hardships due to Western support for Kyiv, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Welt an Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. Despite this, he insisted that the members of the US-led …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has invited Iraq’s new Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani to visit Tehran. According to an official readout by his office, al-Sudani received Iran’s ambassador to Iraq, Mohammad Kadhim Al Sadiq, in Baghdad this morning, Saturday. The diplomat conveyed Raisi’s invitation and discussed with al-Sudani the bilateral …

The United States and NATO countries have started to speedily restock their own arsenals after efforts to supply Ukraine with arms and ammunition to fight Russia exhausted their own stocks. The New York Times reported on Saturday that after nine months passing since the Ukraine war kicked off, the West’s …

Urumqi residents were angered after a blaze killed 10 in a residential building under lockdown due to China’s zero-COVID policy. A fire that killed 10 people in China’s Xinjiang region has sparked anger at the zero-COVID policy as Beijing faces increasing public disapproval over its hardline approach to stopping the …

In an unusually divisive statement, Ukraine’s president took boxing legend Vitali Klitschko to task over long periods without electricity in the capital. In a rare public spat involving Ukrainian leaders, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised the mayor of Kyiv for doing what he said was a poor job setting up emergency …

Iraq’s 2023 budget bill gives primacy to the priorities his government program adopts, Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani said on Saturday. Al-Sudani’s remarks came during a meeting he headed today to discuss next year’s budget bill, an official statement said. According to the statement, al-Sudani said that the budget bill …

Iraq’s new Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani received the US representative Mark Takano and ambassador Alina Romanowski in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Friday. According to a readout issued by the prime minister’s office, the chairman of the Veterans Affairs house offered congratulations to al-Sudani for winning the confidence of …

Record spike in COVID infections for the second day in a week forces mass testing in Nanjing amid sweeping restrictions. China has ordered mass testing in the eastern city of Nanjing in Jiangsu province, the latest measure as the country for the second day in a row reported a record …

The Israeli occupation forces launched a number of armed incursions on Thursday across the occupied West Bank and al-Quds, arresting a number of young Palestinian men, amid ongoing illegal settler attacks on Palestinians and their property in Nablus and al-Khalil. Israeli soldiers arrested thirteen Palestinians who were taken away for …

Azerbaijan’s leader says France cannot take part in the peace talks with Armenia after ‘insulting’ Baku. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has said his country does not want France to take part in its peace talks with Armenia, calling off a four-way meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council …

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has vehemently condemned the meeting and resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council, noting that “multifaceted political goals” are behind these anti-Iranian measures. In a statement late on Thursday, the ministry blasted the measure of a few Western countries in “imposing” an anti-Iranian resolution to the …

Belgium has reportedly refused to supply the UK with a crucial component needed to maintain its nuclear arsenal A rift has emerged between Britain and Belgium after Brussels blocked the export of a component critical for maintaining the UK’s nuclear arsenal, The Times reported on Friday. In response, the UK …

Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Iraq is keen to maintain strong ties with Russia in various fields. The media office of the Prime Minister said in a statement that al-Sudani received a phone call from Putin and discussed with him bilateral relations, …

Russia has denied targeting the Ukrainian capital, saying “foreign and Ukrainian” air defense missiles, instead, caused damage to Kyiv. In a statement on Thursday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, “Not a single strike was made on targets within the city of Kyiv.” Any damage was “the result of the fall of …

Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, accused the South Korean government of being a “faithful dog” of the United States for mulling sanctions on Pyongyang for recently conducting a series of test missile launches. “As soon as the US spoke of ‘independent sanctions’ against the Democratic …

A top judge said the president’s “bizarre” election claims were based on a “fraudulent narrative” about faulty voting machines Brazil’s electoral court has rejected a request by Jair Bolsonaro to overturn the results of October’s presidential race, saying the outgoing leader had challenged the election in “bad faith” while slapping …

Almost 31,500 people were diagnosed with the disease on Wednesday, according to official data China on Wednesday registered its highest number of daily coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic almost three years ago, official data has shown. There were 31,444 new cases of the disease in the country …

Long-time opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as Malaysia’s prime minister Thursday in a victory for political reformers who were locked in a battle with Malay nationalists for days after a divisive general election produced a hung Parliament. Anwar took his oath of office in a simple ceremony at …

Blackouts are reported across the nation as rockets rain down on several cities with at least four people reported killed in Kyiv. A barrage of Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure has knocked out power across large areas of the war-torn country as well as parts of neighboring Moldova. In Kyiv, …