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Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has criticized the European Union’s continuation of its “ineffective” sanction policy towards the Islamic Republic. The top diplomat made the remarks in a Tuesday phone call with the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. “Sanctions are an unfriendly measure in the relations between the Islamic …

Russian security forces stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that attempted to infiltrate the border region of Bryansk, officials say. Bryansk governor Alexander Bogomaz said Tuesday that Russian soldiers and security services stopped the Ukrainian group near the village of Kurkovichi. “There were no casualties,” Bogomaz said on social media. Ukrainian shelling …

US politician Robert Kennedy Jr. has confirmed the existence of American biological laboratories in Ukraine which are used to produce banned biological weapons. “We have bio-labs in Ukraine because we are developing bioweapons,” the Democratic Party presidential candidate told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a video interview posted on the …

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says despite the West’s comprehensive arms supplies to Ukraine, the military resources in the country were “almost exhausted.” Shoigu told a security conference in Moscow on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine exposed vulnerabilities in Western weapons systems that Moscow would soon share. “In the special …

The United Nations has warned that millions of people across Sudan are running out of food and are on the brink of famine as the situation in the war-torn Northeast African country is spiraling out of control. The international body said on Tuesday that the ongoing armed conflict has impeded …

Russian air defense systems have destroyed three Ukrainian drones over the Kaluga region bordering Moscow. The Russian defense ministry said on Wednesday that its defense systems repelled the attempted drone attack, destroying the three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) deployed for the offensive. The attempted attack took place at around 5 …

Intense fighting between rival military factions in Libya’s capital Tripoli has reportedly killed 27 people. Armed factions battled in several districts overnight and into Tuesday morning in the city’s worst violence this year. However, the military commander at the center of clashes between rival militias in the Libyan capital has …

The entire police department of Minnesota state’s Goodhue city has quit work over a pay dispute with the mayor of the Upper Midwestern US city. Goodhue Police Department — consisting of a chief, a full-time officer, and five part-time officers – entirely resigned on Monday in protest to a long-lasting …

President Vladimir Putin says Russia is open to enhancing relations of “military-technical” cooperation with those nations seeking to safeguard their national interests. The Russian president made the remarks while addressing the Army-2023 international military-technical forum, which takes place at Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center outside Moscow. Putin proposed broadening interaction in …

Rising food prices have forced low-income households in the United Kingdom to make “desperate choices” between keeping up their bills and putting food on the table, the UK-based consumer association ‘Which’ has warned. The cost of some basic food items such as cheese, butter and bread has soared by more …

The United Nations and West Africa’s main regional bloc have strongly condemned a threat by Niger’s coup leaders to prosecute the country’s ousted president for “high treason.” On Sunday night, the coup leaders, who deposed President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26, accused him of “undermining the internal and external security …

At least 35 people were killed in an explosion that created a huge fire ball at a fuel station in Russia’s remote Caucasus republic of Dagestan, spurring condolences from President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Images distributed by the emergencies ministry showed burnt-out cars silhouetted by the massive blaze and rescue …

The United States has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $200 million, as the Ukrainian troops are struggling to penetrate heavy Russian fortifications as part of their so-called counteroffensive. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Monday that the package included artillery rounds and dozens of …

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) ambassadors to Britain have called on governments to fight against Islamophobic acts amid recurring desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden and Denmark. In a statement released on Monday, the envoys representing the 57-member OIC in the UK warned that acts contemptuous of any …

Russia has launched a massive air attack on Ukraine’s western region of Lviv and the northwestern region of Volyn – bordering Poland – striking buildings as reported by local officials, amid reports of another Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian drone production plant. Three people were killed and several hospitalized …

Hawkish former US president Donald Trump has again been slammed with an extensive fourth set of criminal charges after a grand jury from the State of Georgia issued an indictment blaming him for plotting to overturn his 2020 electoral defeat to his Democratic rival and current President Joe Biden. The …

The death toll from Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in southern Iran has risen to two, as a man who was critically injured during the attack has succumbed to his gunshot wounds. Chief Justice of Fars Province Kazem Mousavi said on Monday that the man, who was …

Hawkish ex-US National Security Advisor John Bolton has slammed the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy as aimed at merely delaying Kiev’s defeat, further calling for imposing harsher sanctions “clandestinely.” “Ukraine’s offensive failures and Russia’s defensive successes share a common cause: the slow, faltering, nonstrategic supply of military assistance by the West,” …

New Development Bank (NDB) launched by the BRICS bloc aims to increase local currency fundraising and lending, amid Western sanctions against founding shareholder Russia, South African Finance Ministry has announced. According to South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, increasing local currency use among NBD members will be on the summit’s …

Niger’s coup leaders say they will try President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason.” According to Press TV, a spokesman for the military accused Bazoum of “undermining the internal and external security of Niger” in a statement late Sunday. The junta spokesman, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane, said the gathered “necessary evidence” could …