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South Korea and the United States fired eight missiles into the east sea of the Korean Peninsula in a tit-for-tat move after North Korea launched a series of short-range ballistic missiles, a report said. The ground-to-ground Army Tactical Missile System missiles were fired off South Korea’s east coast early on …

Armed assailants attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria on Sunday with gunfire and explosives, leaving at least 50 people dead. According to Press TV, the unidentified gunmen targeted the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State during a mass, lawmaker Ogunmolasuyi Oluwhole said, adding there were children and women among …

Most Americans believe the new legislation aimed at reducing gun violence should be prioritized over protecting gun rights amid a deadly spate of mass shootings in the country, according to a new poll. The ABC/Ipsos poll, which comes in the wake of a deadly string of mass shootings in the …

Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen more on Saturday night and Sunday morning, the latest outbreaks of gun violence in the wake of three mass shootings that have rattled the United States. In Philadelphia, a confrontation between two men escalated into a gunfight that …

A former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, who had overseen a secret prison in Thailand, personally observed interrogation sessions in which inmates were being tortured. Gina Haspel personally observed interrogation sessions of a prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of orchestrating the bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole in 2000. Seventeen …

US police authorities say three people have lost their lives and 11 others were wounded after gunfire broke out on a popular street in the US state of Pennsylvania, only two days after another fatal shooting incident in Iowa state. Police Inspector D. F. Pace said that two men and a …

A senior Iranian official has urged the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency to refrain from pursuing any political agenda in his work, stating that the Islamic Republic is strongly opposed to an anti-Iran resolution at the IAEA Board of Governors. Speaking with the IRIB TV1 television channel, …

The Arab League has called on the UN Security Council to force Israel to end its occupation and withdraw all of its forces from the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories. In a statement released on Monday, the General Secretariat of the organization said that the 15-member council should assume its responsibilities and …

Lebanese caretaker Defense Minister Brigadier General Maurice Sleem has called upon the international community and the United Nations to “move quickly and put an end to the renewed Israeli provocations,” after a gas drilling ship arrived in disputed waters in the Mediterranean Sea to conduct hydrocarbon exploration for Israel. Sleem said Israel’s activities …

French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the Tel Aviv regime’s insistence on illegal settlement construction and land expropriation policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, asserting that Paris supports the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. During a telephone conversation with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas, Macron expressed his concern in the face …

A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the United States is preventing the Arab country from offshore crude oil and natural gas exploration and production, stating that Beirut possesses the ability to tap its own energy resources to cover its domestic demands. “The US is the main opponent …

The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says the Saudi-led coalition has banned a Yemen-bound ship carrying tons of fuel from docking at Hudaydah Port in violation of a UN-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the siege and war on the impoverished country. Essam al-Mutawakel, a spokesman for the YPC, said in a …

Congressman Adam Schiff says US President Joe Biden should not visit Saudi Arabia or meet its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who was accused by American intelligence of ordering the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A team of Saudi operatives murdered Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist, in the Saudi consulate in …

A vast majority of Americans in a new poll support background checks on all gun sales, one day after the mass shooting at an elementary school in the US state of Texas.

Soaring inflation across the UK has caused “acute distress” to Britons, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has said, stressing that the Bank of England must take “decisive action” to get prices back under control. Addressing the House of Commons on Thursday, Sunak was at pains to say that “the high inflation …

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says it is still possible for parties to the 2015 Iran deal to reach an agreement if the American side proves capable of making a realistic decision. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Thursday address to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of …

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck the Tirapata region of southern Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

An appeals court Thursday rejected an effort by Donald Trump and two of his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, to avoid being deposed as part of a civil fraud investigation conducted by the New York attorney general’s office. New York’s Appellate Division, First Judicial Department found that a …

Josep Borrell claims the bloc’s armies would “run out of ammo in two weeks” if confronted with a conflict such as in Ukraine

The UAE’s Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday the first case of monkeypox, becoming the first Gulf country to detect a case of the disease. The patient is a 29-year-old visitor from a West African country and she is receiving the required medical care in the UAE, WAM added. Monkeypox …