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CIA director William Burns has arrived in Tel Aviv to visit occupied territories and the West Bank, where he is expected to meet Israeli and Palestinian officials, two informed American sources have said. The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said on Friday that Burns arrived in Tel Aviv on Thursday and met …

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has severely censured the desecration of the holy Qur’an by a far-right Swedish-Danish politician in Stockholm and Copenhagen, terming the sacrilegious move as a declaration of war against the Muslim world. Addressing a ceremony in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on Friday …

The European Commission says Ukraine has the unconditional support of the European Union in the war with Russia. Speaking at an event in Germany on Saturday, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Kiev needed to defend European values. “We stand by Ukraine’s side without any ifs and buts.” According to …

People have staged a rally in Berlin to protest against the government’s decision to send battle tanks to Kiev, and to denounce the United States as the utmost pusher of the war in Ukraine. Demonstrators, who took to the streets on Friday, opposed the escalation of regional conflicts and called …

The release of a graphic video clip showing five police officers in early January beating to death an African-American man in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee, has prompted widespread protests in several major cities across the country. The rallies broke out late Friday shortly after the release of police …

A four-star US Air Force general has warned of a possible military conflict with China over Taiwan as early as 2025, urging his commanders to push their units to reach maximum readiness for military operations this year. In a memo first released to the media on Friday and later confirmed …

The average monthly rent across Britain, excluding London, has hit a new record of £1,172 per month, a leading British property company has reported, as the people are struggling to cope with the surging inflation and worsening cost-of-living crisis. Rightmove, a UK-based real estate company, said on its website on Friday that …

North Korea has denounced the US pledges of sending battle tanks to Ukraine, saying that the decision reflects a “sinister intention” and Washington is “further crossing the red line” to win hegemony by proxy war. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s influential sister Kim Yo Jong on Saturday warned against Washington’s escalating …

People have held monumental rallies across several Muslim countries throughout the world, condemning instances of desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Europe. In Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka, Muslims gathered outside a mosque after Friday prayers to voice outrage over acts of blasphemy targeting the Muslim holy book by extremist European …

The Kremlin’s press secretary says former US President Donald Trump has got it right in his observation regarding his successor’s opposition to restoring peace in Ukraine. Trump basically nailed it by suggesting that the White House could put an end to the Ukraine conflict in no time, Dmitry Peskov said …

The Russian communications watchdog, Roscomnadzor, has restricted users’ access to the websites of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Roscomnadzor’s service, which provides data on any restrictions of access to websites and web pages, reported on Friday that access from Russia had been limited …

The documentary alleges that Modi ordered police to turn a blind eye to deadly riots while he was Gujarat state’s chief minister. Police have detained many students in the Indian capital, New Delhi, over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role during the deadly …

People have held monumental rallies across several Muslim countries throughout the world, condemning instances of desecration of the Holy Quran in Europe. Mass demonstrations erupted in the capital Baghdad and various Iraqi cities to renounce Paludan protest in Sweden on January 21 and a similar incident in the Netherlands last …

American taxpayers are footing the bill for the conflict while domestic issues are being neglected, a group of Republicans in Congress has claimed. Several Republican lawmakers have raised red flags about the decision by the administration of US President Joe Biden to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. The move …

A Muslim teen has been hospitalized after being shot twice by a US police officer in Tracy, California on Friday. The 17-year-old was armed with a knife and was reportedly chasing another male. After the Tracy Police Department received a call regarding a “suspicious circumstance between two male subjects,” an …

The footage sheds light on the violent arrest of Tyre Nichols by Memphis law enforcement officers The US city of Memphis, Tennessee released several videos on Friday showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by police. Nichols, a 29-year-old black FedEx worker who had been stopped for reckless driving, succumbed …

Palestinian media say at least two Israeli settlers have been shot and wounded outside the occupied Old City of al-Quds, in the latest retaliatory operation against the occupying regime’s new round of violence. The Palestinian Ma’an news agency said the two settlers were injured on Saturday morning in a “shooting …

The European Commission says Ukraine has the unconditional support of the European Union in the war with Russia. Speaking at an event in Germany on Saturday, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Kiev needed to defend European values. “We stand by Ukraine’s side without any ifs and buts.” She …

Lebanon’s judge Tarek Bitar, who is probing the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion, has unexpectedly reopened the blast’s case, charging eight top officials with roles in the tragedy. Bitar reopened the case on Monday before charging Prosecutor General Ghassan Oueidat and seven other ranking personalities with, what he has called, …

Russia has warned that foreign-backed terrorists are preparing to stage a series of acts of sabotage and terror attacks in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib to implicate Syrian and Russian military forces and fabricate pretexts for military action in the war-ravaged Arab country. Major General Oleg Yegorov, the deputy head …