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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran and Venezuela have managed to withstand heavy pressures and the hybrid warfare of the United States, stressing that resistance has proved to be the sole way to such coercive policies. The Leader pointed to the US’s enormous pressure campaign and …

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has sounded the alarm about the “dangers of disorder” taking over the world, citing the Ukraine conflict as a warning signal. Addressing the annual Shangri-La Dialog in Singapore Austin, Austin likened the situation in the pro-Russia regions in eastern Ukraine to a “preview of a …

Heavy fighting continues around Ukraine’s strategic city of Severodonetsk in Donbas, as Russian forces push to bring the eastern region completely under control. In an address on Saturday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said battle for the city was “probably one of the most difficult throughout this war.” The battle for …

The US national average price of gasoline has reached the $5 mark for the first time in US history as inflation hit a 41-year high of 8.6 percent in May. The national average price jumped 19 cents in the past week, and on Saturday hit $5 a gallon regular, according …

Russia has warned NATO against military buildup in Poland, saying Moscow will proportionately respond to such a move. The head of a foreign ministry department in charge of Russian relations with Europe said on Saturday that Moscow’s “response, as always, will be proportionate and appropriate.” Oleg Tyapkin said any possible response …

Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez has been sentenced to a 10-year prison term more than a year after being arrested on charges of leading a US-backed plot in 2019 to oust re-elected socialist president Evo Morales. Anez will serve 10 years in a women’s prison in La Paz, the administrative …

Russia and China have inaugurated a new cross-border bridge in the Far East in a bid to further boost trade and counter rising US-led sanctions as Washington and Beijing traded threats of military conflict over Taiwan. The bridge linking the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to the Chinese city of Heihe …

The protraction of war in Ukraine, which is now into its fourth month, could erode the West’s interest in helping the country in the face of Moscow’s military operation, officials and analysts say. Top Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, have in recent days expressed fears that “war fatigue” could push …

US President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia, a country he once vowed to make a “pariah”, has again laid bare the duplicity of Washington’s foreign policy and human rights rhetoric. The visit, which has now been postponed until July, has already stirred up a hornet’s nest, with human …

Responding to Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Western countries have imposed a slew of anti-Russian sanctions aiming to “isolate” Russia from the global economy. Commenting on the Western sanctions targeting Russia’s economy, President Vladimir Putin stated that it is impossible to isolate such a big country. “For a country like …

Hundreds of residents of Wasit governorate demonstrated in front of Wasit thermal power station in Zubaidiyeh district in protest against the lack of electricity supply in the governorate. “Ahmed Al-Shammari,” one of the demonstrators, told the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) that we demonstrated in front of the Wasit Thermal …

The National Security Adviser, Qassem Al-Araji, called on the United States of America to pressure countries to withdraw their nationals from al-Hol border camp. The Chancellery said in a statement: “Al-Araji met in his office today, Wednesday, with the new US ambassador to Baghdad, Alina Romanowski.” Al-Araji welcomed Romanowski, wishing …

China says the United States should stop fabricating and spreading false information and end taking pride in its “empire of lies.” At a press briefing in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said it was reasonable that the Disinformation Governance Board established by the US was paused …

In a startling disclosure, Russia’s ambassador to Washington says the US authorities had persuaded him to denounce his motherland and condemn the Kremlin’s military operation in Ukraine. Speaking to Russia’s state TV on Wednesday, Anatoly Antonov said the US spy agency was encouraging defections among Russian diplomats and that he …

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned that the Ukraine conflict may cause a social and economic crisis around the world. The conflict combined with the other crises is threatening to unleash “an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution, leaving social and economic chaos in its wake,” Guterres said Wednesday …

China and Russia say the United States is fueling tensions over North Korea, as Pyongyang has recently increased its missile tests. Last month, China, the North’s closest ally, and Russia, whose relations with the West have sharply deteriorated over its military operation in Ukraine, vetoed a US-led push at the …

The Russian government says it has no intention to cut gas supplies to any more European countries as Moscow’s scheme of receiving gas payments in rubles is working as planned. Speaking in his daily conference on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that everyone who was to be cut …

Populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Thursday instructed the lawmakers affiliated with his movement to write their resignation letters in an escalation of the bitter political deadlock holding up the formation of a new government in Iraq. In a televised speech he delivered earlier today, Thursday, al-Sadr said, “if the …

The US has approved a $120 million sale of naval equipment to Taiwan to boost the self-ruled island’s “combat readiness” amid heightened tensions with China. The equipment would help Taiwan’s ships “maintain proper equipment… and meet the practical needs of combat readiness tasks in light of recent frequent activities by …

A drone exploded near the US consulate in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, the latest in a series of attacks in the area amid growing anti-American sentiments in the country. Security sources said the US consulate’s military section in the Shorsh neighborhood, located in the northern city of Erbil, was targeted …