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The illegal Zionist settlers have once again intruded into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces in the latest act of provocation against the sacred site. Palestine’s official WAFA news agency reported that scores of the illegal settlers, escorted by military forces, broke into the compound through …

Iran, Russia, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have reached an agreement to facilitate the transit of goods and fuel and improve maritime cooperation. The agreement was reached during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Thursday between Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash and Yevgeny Moskvichev, the head of Russia’s …

Nearly 20 states have sought to join the BRICS group of countries as more nations realize the benefits of joining the economic bloc, according to a senior Russian diplomat. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday the number of countries favoring BRICS membership continues to grow. BRICS is an …

Republican and Democratic members of US Congress introduced legislation on Thursday that would make it easier to finance Ukraine’s fight against Russia using seized and frozen Russian assets. Congress has approved more than $100 billion in military, humanitarian and economic assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict in …

Several Federal Government agencies in the United States, including the Department of Energy, have been targeted in a global campaign of cyberattacks exploiting a vulnerability in the widely used software MOVEit Transfer. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is providing support to the targeted agencies. Eric Goldstein, the CISA assistant …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated the growing use of national currencies for cross-border exchanges signals the end of the hegemony of the US dollar. Speaking on Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Putin said the present trend of using local currency for cross-border trade, including in …

Reiterating Moscow’s nuclear posture, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the country may deploy nuclear weapons only if Russia’s existence is threatened. “Nuclear weapons have been made to ensure our security in the broadest sense of the word and the existence of the Russian state, but we…have no such …

The US Justice Department has confirmed systematic police brutality and racism in Minneapolis while reporting on its probe into the city’s police department three years after the killing of George Floyd as racial profiling and violence by US police remains rampant across the country. In a scathing criticism of Minneapolis …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has rebuked visiting African leaders in their bid to ease tensions in the country’s raging conflict with Russia and insisting on the need to “free out land.” The diplomatic delegation came to Kiev on Friday to express the continent’s concerns about the fallout of the Ukraine …

Daesh-linked terrorists have slaughtered 41 people and abducted others in an attack on a school in western Uganda near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said. Ugandan authorities have found the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, after Daesh-affiliated rebels attacked a secondary school near the …

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has declared receipt of the first shipment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons deployed to the country as a deterrent, but vowed to use them if attacked. He further clarified in an interview on Tuesday that the decision to deploy the nuclear weapons in Belarus came after …

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has demanded from the US to respect its core concerns, such as the Taiwan issue, if it wants to restore strained ties between the two countries. Qin told his US counterpart Antony Blinken in a phone conversation on Wednesday to respect China’s “core concerns,” stop interfering …

Tens of thousands of junior doctors across Britain have waged a 3-day strike over low wages in the country, prompting health officials to issue warnings about huge disruptions in the sector. Nearly 47,600 junior doctors, who are members of the British Medical Association (BMA), took part in the new strike …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated his opposition to Sweden’s bid to join the US-led NATO military alliance, vowing to block the move at the organization’s upcoming summit in July since Stockholm continues to harbor anti-Ankara terrorists. Erdogan made the remarks on Wednesday prior to a meeting in Ankara between …

A 31-year-old man remains in custody after a triple knife attack left two students and a school caretaker dead and three others injured after they were rammed by a vehicle in Nottingham on Tuesday.

West Darfur state governor has been killed after publicly blaming the deaths of civilians on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as the conflict spreads in the African nation. The Sudanese army blamed the RSF for killing governor Khamis Abakar on Wednesday, depicting the murder as a “brutal act”, which …

A recently inked defense agreement has granted the US military an “unimpeded access” to Papua New Guinea (PNG) military bases, as part of Washington’s push to increase its military footprints in the Pacific to counter the influence of China. The full text of the 15-year agreement was tabled in Papua …

Ben Roberts-Smith, the former top Australian soldier, who was convicted of war crime by the court, has defended the atrocities he committed during his service in Afghanistan and has said he would not apologize for his actions. In his first public comments since the court ruling on Wednesday, Roberts-Smith, holder …

NATO Security General Jens Stoltenberg has urged the member states to arm Ukraine for an offensive against Russia, after reassuring that there is no consensus for the country to join the military alliance while it is at war with Russia. “The most obvious thing is to ensure they have the …

China poses a growing threat to global security, Germany said in its first national security strategy on Wednesday, underscoring Berlin’s shift in emphasis from economic interests to geopolitics following Russia’s war with Ukraine. Using blunt language about its top trading partner, the strategy document describes Beijing as aggressively claiming supremacy …