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Hundreds of people have rallied in coup-hit Sudan to support a new military-backed initiative which purportedly aims to end the country’s persisting political crisis. According to Press TV, the demonstration was held in the capital Khartoum on Sunday outside a conference hall where meetings have been held since a day …

Hundreds of Black candidates are running in midterm elections in the United States in November, after which Democrats are likely to lose the control of Congress to Republicans. Many the candidates are looking to make history as the first Black elected official in their respective races, The Hill reported on Sunday. “I’ve …

A 29-year-old Delaware man died in an apparent suicide early on Sunday after crashing his car into a barricade near the US Capitol and firing shots into the air, police said. While the man was getting out of the crashed car, it became engulfed in flames just after 4 a.m. …

Former US President Donald Trump has called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to return documents reportedly seized from his Florida home that are protected by attorney-client and executive privileges. A report in The Washington Post, citing informed sources and experts, said on Thursday the search underscores the concern among government …

US Republican senators are planning to use an interim report about President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to scrutinize him if the party clinches the majority in Congress this year. The strategy is expected to be published this week in a 118-page, an interim report called “‘A Strategic Failure’:  …

Several Palestinian groups have pledged solidarity with their fellow Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the site of a recent Israeli bloodshed. On Tuesday, the Israeli military raided a house in the city, destroying the structure with missiles, thus killing or wounding those who were inside, Palestinian …

Iraq condemned on Saturday, the Israeli aggression on Gaza, which killed about 14 people. “Iraq condemns and denounces the Zionist aggression, which targeted many areas in the Gaza Strip, and resulted in the death of Palestinian citizens, including a girl, and the injury of others.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

The Islamic Jihad has fired more than 100 rockets toward the occupied territories after the Israeli regime assassinated one of the Palestinian resistance movement’s senior commanders during a massacre.

Russia has registered a total of 820,307 COVID-related deaths since the start of the pandemic in the country in April 2020, the state statistics service Rosstat said on Friday. It said 4,991 people had died of COVID-19 or related causes in June, down from 7,098 in May. Russia recorded more …

At least one person was killed and one severely wounded after torrential rain caused intense flooding in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, on Friday, a police officer said. Unusually heavy downpours hit the city for the second time in less than a month, sending brown, knee-deep water gushing down streets and grid-locking …

Israeli air raids on Friday killed at least 10 people, including a commander of the Islamic Jihad group, as fears of an all-out war on Gaza again gripped the besieged Palestinian territory. Multiple blasts could be heard and seen throughout Gaza. Israeli reconnaissance drones could be heard hovering over the …

Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said. Government agencies and the army have set up aid and relief camps in …

Four people have been confirmed dead after explosions and fire at two residences in Laurel, Nebraska, police said Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Friday to boost cooperation in the transport, agriculture, finance, and construction industries, they said in a joint statement after a four-hour meeting. Turkey mediated a deal signed by Ukraine, Russia, and the United Nations in Istanbul last month under …

Lebanese media reported on Friday that a massive fire broke out in a building located near Beirut port.

The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group on Friday claimed responsibility for a deadly blast in a Shi’ite residential area in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the group said.

China is set to end cooperation with the US on several key issues including climate change, anti-drug efforts, and military dialogue, as the two sides engage in a war of words over Taipei.

Pyongyang is also seeking to ramp up fissile material production, a UN report seen by the outlet says

Ten people, including a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad and a five-year-old child, have been killed in an airstrike by Israel on a center affiliated with the resistance movement in the besieged Gaza Strip, only days after the regime arrested a senior figure of the group.

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, accepted a £1 million ($1.19 million, 1.21 million euro) donation from the family of the deceased Saudi terrorist, Osama bin Laden, The Sunday Times reports.  Charles, who is the longest-serving heir apparent to the throne in British history, personally secured the 1 million pound …