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The Iraqi Chargé d’Affairs in Ankara, Khalil Ibrahim, announced on Saturday that seven Iraqis died in the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria last Monday. Ibrahim, in a statement to Al-Iraqiya News channel, clarified that seven Iraqis were confirmed dead in the earthquake in Turkey, and eight others are …

The death toll from the calamitous earthquake in Turkey and Syria will “double or more” from its current level, which is now close to thirty thousand, the United Nations emergency relief coordinator has warned. “I think it is difficult to estimate precisely as we need to get under the rubble, …

There are an estimated 600,000 homeless persons in the United States of America, a staggering number for the world’s largest economy, 30% of whom are families with children. Every night more than 300,000 men, women and children in the United States stay in homeless shelters, an additional 200,000 or so …

Politicians are considering a new congressional visit to Taiwan, according to a report The US House of Representatives Select Committee on China is discussing whether it should send a congressional delegation to Taiwan despite realizing that such a move would likely rile up Beijing, Nikkei reported on Sunday, citing an …

At least 11 people, mostly civilians, were killed in an attack in central Syria blamed on ISIS, a war monitor said Sunday. ISIS “attacked about 75 people on Saturday while they were collecting truffles in the Palmyra area, in the eastern countryside of Homs,” the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human …

A high-ranking Israeli military officer has reportedly been killed in one of the occupying regime’s airbases in the south of Tel Aviv in what is said to be an “accident possibly caused by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).” The revelation was made in a tweet by the son of Secretary …

British arms and military vehicles could be manufactured in Ukraine under license, easing the country’s dependence on supplies of arms from Western allies, the Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday. The Telegraph said British defense industry executives had traveled to Kyiv to discuss plans to set up joint ventures to manufacture …

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the unidentified object that was flying over northern Canada has been shot down and the wreckage will be analyzed for further information. On Saturday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a statement to Sputnik that it was tracking “a high-altitude airborne …

A 250kg second world war bomb has exploded unexpectedly in UK’s Great Yarmouth, police have said. Emergency services and agencies declared a major incident following the discovery of the large unexploded device at a river crossing in the Norfolk town on Tuesday, and had been working to disarm it. On …

The administration of US President Joe Biden has imposed new sanctions on China, targeting the country’s several companies for supporting Beijing’s military modernization efforts. The US Commerce Department said on Friday it added five Chinese companies and one research institute connected to Beijing’s aerospace programs including airships and balloons to …

Chinese Foreign Ministry has urged the United States to stop abusing “long-arm jurisdiction” and unilateral sanctions which have distorted multilateralism and weakened international trade. “The US’ long-arm jurisdiction is an arbitrary judicial practice, wielded by the US government on the strength of its national power and financial hegemony, to enforce …

Iraq’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammed Al-Halboosi, called on Arab countries to help Syria reclaim its place in the Arab world and regain its stability. A statement by a-Halboosi’s media office said that the latter arrived in Cairo today, to attend the fifth Congress of the Arab Parliament. During his speech, Al-Halboosi …

Rescuers in Turkey have pulled out two women alive who were trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings for 122 hours after the region’s deadliest earthquake in two decades. A day after Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the response of rescue and relief forces and said that they should have reacted …

The restrictions come days after the Pentagon brought down a suspected Chinese ‘spy balloon’ The US announced new sanctions against China on Friday, targeting six companies linked to Beijing’s suspected surveillance program. The move comes after a Chinese “spy balloon” was spotted and shot down in US airspace. In a …

The First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament pledged that Baghdad would continue sending aid to Syria until the after-earthquake crisis ends. During an official visit to Damascus, Mohsen Al-Mandalawi meets Syrian Prime Minister Hussein Arnous. “The Iraqi people, Parliament, and government share affliction with their Syrian brothers; every Iraqi …

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the key to defeating the enemies’ hybrid warfare against the Iranian people is to maintain unity, calling on people to attend nationwide February 11 demonstrations. In a Friday statement, the IRGC felicitated the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution victory. The Iranian nation considers …

Millions of Iranians have taken to the streets across the country to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the US-backed Pahlavi regime in 1979. The rallies in the capital Tehran began at 9:30 a.m. local time (06:00 GMT) on Saturday, with demonstrators from various social strata …

North Korea has staged a massive military parade to mark the founding anniversary of its armed forces, displaying more intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which state-run media claimed have the “maximum nuclear attack capability.” North Korea held the nighttime military parade in Pyongyang on Wednesday as leader Kim Jong-un, accompanied by …

US President Joe Biden says Washington is not looking for a conflict with China, shortly after warning Beijing against what he called threats to American sovereignty. “We’re going to compete fully with China, but… we’re not looking for conflict — and that’s been the case so far,” Biden told PBS on …

Iran’s advancing capabilities to manufacture and operate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have had worried US officials, with a bipartisan group of 60 lawmakers urging the Biden administration to target the country’s drone program, claiming it has “far-reaching implications” for American interests in the region and beyond. According to Press TV, …