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ISIS on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that killed five Egyptian soldiers in the country’s Sinai peninsula on Wednesday, the group said on its Telegram channel. Four others were injured when armed men opened fire early on May 11 at a security post on the coast of northeastern …

The UAE’s Federal Supreme Council has elected Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the President of the UAE, the Emirates News Agency WAM reported on Saturday. It makes 61-year-old Sheikh Mohamed the third President of the UAE. Dubai Ruler and Prime Minister of the UAE …

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.

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 …

More than 30 were rescued in the waters north of Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico, the Coast Guard said.

New Delhi has reported a successful test launch of an advanced 450-km range BrahMos missile from a Russian Sukhoi fighter jet

Police said two people were in custody following the 2 a.m. shooting in Deep Ellum, Dallas.

Central bank governor Godwin Emefiele and at least four of the ministers who resigned are looking to succeed Buhari as Nigeria’s president.

Ukraine asked the G7 group of rich nations on Friday to seize Russian assets and hand them over to help it rebuild after months of the war, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. Kuleba said he made the request while addressing a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in northern Germany. “We …

The EU’s foreign policy chief said on Friday that he believed there had been enough progress during consultations between his envoy and Iranian officials in Tehran this week to relaunch nuclear negotiations after two months of deadlock. Talks to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers have been on …

Israeli forces have attacked and beaten the mourners attending the funeral procession of veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by the regime troops in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. "The Israeli army is asking people if they are Christian or Muslim. If you’re Muslim you …

At least three people have been reported injured in an explosion at the Qari Saber Mosque in Kabul on Friday. Russia Today the Arabic language reported on Friday that at least three people have been reported injured in an explosion at the Qari Saber Mosque in Kabul. The report said …

Russia on Friday expelled 10 Romanian diplomats in response to similar expulsions by Bucharest.

A hospital in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada has received the bodies of seven Yemeni citizens who were tortured to death by the Saudi occupation troops in a border area neighboring the kingdom, in yet another indication of atrocities committed by Riyadh against civilians in the war-ravaged country, Yemeni …

A report by the Swedish government on the changed security environment facing the Nordic country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine says Moscow would react negatively to Sweden joining NATO and launch several counter-measures.

At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of the country’s first confirmed outbreak of the pandemic. The data represents an unprecedented admission of an …

At least a dozen Syrian government forces have been reportedly killed and more than a dozen others injured in a missile attack in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo.

Israeli military forces have once again raided the Jenin refugee camp, hours before the funeral of veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was fatally shot by the regime’s troops as she was covering one of the Israeli military’s raids on the camp.

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan died at the age of 73, Emirates news agency WAM reported on Friday. The Ministry of Presidential Affairs declared official national mourning for the death of the president for 40 days from Friday. Flags will fly at half-mast during this period. Work …

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that Israeli authorities were “fully responsible” for the killing of a veteran Al Jazeera reporter during clashes in the occupied West Bank and called for an international investigation. Shireen Abu Akleh suffered a gunshot wound to the head in Jenin on Wednesday. Al …