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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party has censured as “ridiculous” a local court verdict that handed him a three-year jail sentence over corruption allegations. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Party announced on Sunday that an appeal had been filed in the higher courts against the ruling, which also barred …

Russia has strongly criticized the efforts made by the West to mobilize the international community behind a peace plan proposed by Ukraine, saying such efforts are doomed to failure. According to Press TV, the remark was made by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Sunday in reference to a recent meeting …

France has reportedly made good its vow of supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine that can hit targets deep into Russia, with Kiev publishing footage of an undated video showing the Ukrainian president putting his signature on one of the missiles mounted on a bomber. The SCALP-EG, which is the French …

Major European financial firms have suffered at least 100 billion euros in direct losses from Russian markets since the outset of the Ukraine conflict back in February 2022, a new report unveils citing a survey study of their annual financial statements. “A survey of 600 European groups’ annual reports and …

Niger’s coup leaders are bracing for a response from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as a one-week ultimatum to restore the ousted government expired. Following the ouster of President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26, ECOWAS issued the ultimatum, demanding the generals relinquish power by August 6 or …

President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela has censured European leaders for their silence toward acts of sacrilege against the Holy Qur’an in Sweden and Denmark. “I condemn these racist acts of hatred against Muslim nations,” the president told Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news network on Monday. “The silence of European leaders over the burning of …

Israel has launched a new airstrike against Syria targeting the vicinity of the capital city of Damascus, causing casualties and material damage. Syria’s official SANA news agency quoted an unnamed military source as saying that the new Israeli act of aggression took place early Monday from the direction of the occupied …

An Israeli settler has run over a four-year-old Palestinian child near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, leaving him in a critical condition. The incident took place in the village of Kissan, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. According to Palestinian sources, the boy, identified as …

The United Nations has warned that millions of people are on the brink of famine in Sudan, as hunger and displacement are spiraling out of control in the African country amid the ongoing armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Response Forces (RSF). The United Nations …

NATO member states in northeastern Europe have bolstered their military forces on their mutual borders with neighboring Belarus. Poland, Lithuania and Latvia — which had already been on alert due to the escalation of tensions amid the war in Ukraine and the deployment of Russian Wagner paramilitary troops to Belarus– …

Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart has emphasized that Moscow was ready to return to the Black Sea grain deal as soon as the West met its obligations with regard to Russia’s own grain exports. In a statement on Putin’s call with President Tayyip …

The self-declared new leader of Niger on Wednesday said the junta would not bow to pressure to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, intensifying a standoff with the West African bloc which has threatened to intervene after last week’s coup. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed sanctions …

Italy’s foreign minister has warned against any military intervention by the West in Niger against the newly-formed junta in the African country, saying this would be seen as “new colonization.” “I think we must put pressure on democracy to be restored, but any Western military initiative should be excluded because …

Two people are reported dead in Okinawa, state broadcaster NHK says, as slow-moving Typhoon Khanun continues to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to southern Japan, prolonging the potential damage of the storm. A total of 41 people in Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures were injured, according to the Fire and …

Australia has rebuked the United States for the latter’s refusal to cease its prosecution of Julian Assange, saying it would persist in its efforts to have Washington drop its legal proceedings against the WikiLeaks founder. “This has gone on for too long. Enough is enough,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese …

The Supreme Court of India has begun hearing a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation by the government of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that stripped the Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status. The five-judge bench that has started hearing the petitions challenging the constitutionality of the legislation that …

The US establishment and the CIA are using Wikipedia as one of its tools to wage “information warfare,” the site’s co-Founder, Larry Sanger, has said. Intelligence agencies have been manipulating the online encyclopedia for more than a decade, Sanger told Pulitzer Prize winner American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald on Wednesday. …

Police found no shooter, and no one injured after reports of a possible active shooter in the US Capitol complex. US Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger told reporters on Wednesday that nothing concerning had been found after police swept three Senate office buildings. Earlier, US Capitol Police urged people inside …

Syrian commandos and Russian air forces have carried out a groundbreaking joint tactical training exercise, as reported by the Russian defense ministry on Thursday. The night drill took place in Syria’s Hama Province and marked the first of its kind for the two allies. During the exercise, the forces responded …

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has warned of a plan by the illegal Israeli settler groups to demolish al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied al-Quds and build a Jewish temple there instead. Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanu made the warning in a statement on Wednesday, rejecting the plan as a “dangerous and …