The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized the use of a booster shot of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11, making everyone in the country over the age of 5 eligible for a third shot. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Read More »Iran says awaits US response to nuclear talks ‘solutions’
The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the Islamic Republic has already introduced special initiatives for the advancement of the Vienna talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, stressing that the United States needs to make a political decision and respond to Tehran’s proposals.
Read More »‘Military tension will rise’: Russia chides NATO Nordic expansion
Decisions by Finland and Sweden to join the Western military alliance threaten to increase the chance of armed confrontation, Russian official says.
Read More »Israel detained one million Palestinians since Nakba in 1948: Advocacy group
A prisoners advocacy group says more than one million Palestinians have been detained by Israel since the ‘Nakba’ in 1948, which marked the loss of the Palestinian homeland.
Read More »Dust storm in Iraq suspended flights at airports; 4000 cases of suffocation reported
Iraqi media sources reported a large dust storm in various parts of Iraq and the suspension of flights at Baghdad and Najaf International Airports due to low visibility. Severe dust storms ripped through various provinces in Iraq on Monday. Social media users also posted pictures of various provinces, including Najaf, …
Read More »3 killed, many injured in California, Texas shootings
Shootings in a church in California, and a market in Texas left at least three dead and several injured on Sunday, US authorities said.
Read More »Ceasefire reached to evacuate wounded from Azovstal plant in Ukraine’s Mariupol
Russia’s defense ministry said Monday that an agreement has been reached to evacuate injured soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol. “An agreement was reached with representatives of the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal in Mariupol to evacuate the wounded,” the ministry said. It added …
Read More »Battle rages for the region of Donbas
Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium. At a meeting in Germany, the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty …
Read More »Sweden approves NATO membership bid
The country’s ruling party has followed the example of neighboring Finland
Read More »On Nakba, ‘catastrophe’ lingers on amid Israeli apartheid: Palestinian Ministry
On the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (Day of Catastrophe), Palestine’s Foreign Ministry says the catastrophe lingers on amid Israel’s apartheid against the Palestinian people.
Read More »3 US military convoys targeted in Iraq
Local sources reported that three US military logistics convoys have been targeted in Iraq’s Al Diwaniyah and Samawah cities.
Read More »10 killed in US shooting live-streamed on Twitch
A man in military-style gear entered a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and began firing a rifle
Read More »Finland officially decides to join NATO
The Nordic country’s bid to join the US-led military bloc now needs approval from parliament
Read More »Putin tells Finland that swapping neutrality for NATO is a mistake
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto on Saturday that ditching neutrality and joining NATO would be a mistake that could damage relations between their two countries, the Kremlin said. The two countries said their presidents spoke by phone two days after Finland declared its intention to …
Read More »Iraq’s fighter jets bomb an ISIS hideout in Nineveh
Iraqi warplanes bombed a cave used as a hideout by ISIS militants in Qara Gogh, northern Nineveh, the Security Media Cell (SMC) reported on Saturday. The SMC said that the Iraqi F-16 fighter jets carried out four airstrikes on the cave sheltering members of the extremist group. The attack was …
Read More »Pentagon: Congress must pass $40 billion Ukraine aid bill by Thursday
The Pentagon said that Congress must pass a pending $40 billion Ukraine aid package by Thursday to avoid interrupting US weapons shipments to the Kiev government in its war with Russia.
Read More »Iraq exhumed remains of Saddam-era victims from mass grave
Iraqi authorities have exhumed the remains of 15 people from a mass grave believed to hold dozens more likely killed under former president Saddam Hussein, an official said Saturday.
Read More »G7 threatens to reinforce Russia sanctions, continue military aide to Ukraine
Diplomats from the Group of Seven (G7) countries threaten to reinforce economic and political pressure on Russia and continue supplying weapons to Kiev as the conflict in Ukraine grinds into its third month with no solution on the horizon.
Read More »Thousands in London mark 74th anniversary of ‘Nakba’, pay homage to slain Palestinian journalist
Thousands of people from all walks of life have staged a mass rally in the United Kingdom to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the ‘Nakba,’ or Catastrophe when more than 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly driven from their homes as Israel proclaimed its illegal existence in 1948. People gathered in front …
Read More »Three ISIS terrorists killed in western Iraq
The Security Media Cell announced that three ISIS terrorists were killed in an F-16 raid in al-Anbar, western Iraq. The Cell said in a statement that Iraqi F-16 targeted an ISIS underground tunnel, in which terrorists were hiding, south of Kubaysa, al-Anbar.
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