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Qatar and Bahrain have reached an agreement to restore their diplomatic ties, following a long-running feud between the two Gulf nations. The two countries’ foreign ministries announced the decision in separate statements on Wednesday, following a meeting between their delegations at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) headquarters in the Saudi …

China has called on the United States to fulfill its international obligations and offer clarifications on its military-biological activities at home and abroad, amid reports about Washington’s military biological program in Ukraine. A spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Wenbing, said on Wednesday that Washington has so far …

Iran has slammed the “shameful” silence of the United States and some European countries in the face of Israel’s crimes and murders, calling for unity among Muslim nations to counter the Zionist regime and support the oppressed people of Palestine. Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday to mark …

NATO maintains 97 special forces personnel in Ukraine, including 50 British, 14 Americans, and 15 French forces, amid the war in the country, secret US military documents leaked online have revealed. The documents appear to offer a partial snapshot of US military assessments of the state of the Ukraine conflict …

A missile fired from Ukraine has reportedly been shot down over the Black Sea town of Feodosia in the Russia-controlled Crimea, local officials have unveiled. “A missile fired from the direction of Ukraine has been shot down over Feodosia,” said the head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksyonov in …

North Korea has announced testing a second underwater nuclear attack drone, two weeks after declaring testing the first such vehicle that it has credited with being capable of unleashing a “radioactive tsunami.” The North announced testing the Haeil-2 nuclear-capable drone on Saturday. “A national defense science research institute in the …

Germany’s ambassador to Chad will be expelled within 48 hours for his “impolite attitude” and “non-respect of diplomatic practices”, the government in N’Djamena said in a statement Friday. The ambassador, Jan Christian Gordon Kricke, has been in the role since July 2021, and the government gave no official explanation for …

A new batch of classified documents that appear to detail American national security secrets from Ukraine to the Middle East to China has been reportedly leaked on social media sites. The New York Times reported that the classified US military documents surfaced on social media on Friday. The classified US …

China has ordered sanctions against two American organizations for hosting Taiwan’s visiting President Tsai Ing-wen during a recent trip to the United States. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday that the Washington-headquartered think tank Hudson Institute and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California would be banned from …

Finland has announced its plan to procure the joint US-Israeli-made David’s Sling long-range missile defense system, after joint the US-led military alliance NATO. “This acquisition will create a new capability for the Finnish Defense Forces to intercept targets at high altitude,” Finland’s Defense Minister, Antti Kaikkonen, said on Wednesday, adding, …

Lebanese caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has filed a complaint with the UN Security Council (UNSC) and UN Secretary-General António Guterres against Israel after the regime said it had struck targets belonging to the Palestinian resistance group Hamas in southern Lebanon. According to Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA), …

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has once again condemned the latest Israeli aggression against the al-Aqsa Mosque stressing that the holy site is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims. Hussein Ibrahim Taha, the secretary general of OIC, made the remarks at an open-ended extraordinary meeting of the body’s Executive Committee …

Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday said he had canceled his trip to Washington for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on the orders of the prime minister due to the political situation in the country. However, Dar said he would attend important attend …

Veteran customs officer Pol Meuleneire was surprised to find the Easter treats were crafted not from the country’s famed chocolate, but enough MDMA to make 60,000 ecstasy pills. Belgium has become a hub for international cocaine trafficking, but is also becoming a key centre for mail-order synthetic narcotics. “It goes …

At least 20 African migrants were missing on Saturday after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official told Reuters. The coast guard rescued 17 others off southern city of Sfax from the same boat, two of whom are in critical …

Germany’s ambassador to Chad will be expelled within 48 hours for his “impolite attitude” and “non-respect of diplomatic practices,” the government in N’Djamena said in a statement Friday. The ambassador, Jan Christian Gordon Kricke, has been in the role since July 2021, and the government gave no official explanation for …

The U.S. Navy said on Saturday a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine was operating in the Middle East in support of the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet. The USS Florida entered the region on Thursday and began transiting the Suez Canal on Friday, Commander Timothy Hawkins said in a statement. “It is capable …

The EU nation is facing a birth-rate “crisis” despite the introduction of a financial incentive scheme Fewer than 400,000 babies were born in Italy in 2022, deepening what has been referred to as a “national emergency” as the country’s population declines to historically low levels, according to figures released by …

Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children, in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs targeting remote villages, residents said on Saturday. Gangs of armed men have attacked hundreds of local communities across northwestern Nigeria in recent years, while Islamist militants continue …

A senior member of Yemen’s popular Ansarullah resistance movement says the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should withdraw its troops from Yemen after Saudi Arabia informed the so-called Yemeni presidential leadership council of the decision to put an end to the eight-year devastating war in Yemen after eight years of aggression. …