Britain’s highest court was this week set to consider who the UK government recognizes as president in economically crippled Venezuela in a case that could determine the fate of gold worth $1.0 billion. A UK legal battle lasting more than a year has ended up at the Supreme Court in …

Haiti’s designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry will replace the country’s interim prime minister to honor the wishes of the country’s slain president, an official told The Associated Press on Monday. It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has been leading Haiti with the backing of …

Washington’s point man in talks aimed at ending decades of war in Afghanistan made a brief visit Monday to Pakistan as relations between Islamabad and Kabul reached a new low. Zalmay Khalilzad’s visit came just hours after Afghanistan withdrew its ambassador from Pakistan late Sunday after the diplomat’s daughter was …

A force from the Iraqi National Security Services apprehended a senior ISIS terrorist after a long manhunt throughout three governorates. A statement issued earlier today, Monday, by the Security Media Cell (SMC) said that the terrorist served in a variety of different positions in the terrorist organization, most prominently the …

Iraq on Sunday reported a record high of 9,883 COVID-19 cases in a single day, bringing the total tally to more than 1.5 million cases since the emergence of the virus. According to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, 62 patients have passed away from the complications of the virus, the …

Lebanon’s Presidency said that parliamentary consultations to choose a new prime minister will begin on Monday, July 26. Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri abandoned his months-long effort to form a new government last week.

In a parking lot in Los Angeles, a village of miniature prefab houses has sprung up, one of several sites in America’s second-largest city where so-called “tiny homes” are being put up to help the homeless get back on their feet. The City of Angels has a large homeless population, …

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France and South Pacific nations would launch a South Pacific coastguard network to counter “predatory” behavior, which an adviser said was aimed at illegal fishing. The United States and allies including France, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, are actively expanding their activity in …

The Danish cartoonist behind a controversial 2006 drawing of the Prophet Mohammed has died. Kurt Westergaard passed away at the age of 86 after a long illness, Danish daily Berlingske reports. Westergaard’s 2006 satirical cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper where he had worked since the …

The Biden administration on Monday transferred a detainee out of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility for the first time, sending a Moroccan man back home years after he was recommended for discharge. The Moroccan prisoner, Abdullatif Nasser, who’s in his mid-50s, was cleared for repatriation by a review board in …

A man in China has died after contracting a rare infectious disease from primates, known as the Monkey B virus, Chinese health officials revealed in a report Saturday. The victim, a 53-year-old veterinarian based in Beijing, was the first documented human case of the virus in China. According to the …

Britain will threaten this week to deviate from the Brexit deal unless the European Union shows more flexibility over Northern Ireland, one UK, and three EU sources told Reuters. David Frost, the British minister who leads Brexit negotiations, is preparing to announce a significant potential change on the protocol that …

Japan will soon remove senior diplomat Hirohisa Soma from its embassy to South Korea after he was reported to have made an inappropriate comment on President Moon Jae-in, Kyodo news agency reported on Monday, citing a government source.

Ethiopia has attained its second-year target for filling a mega-dam on the Blue Nile River that has stoked tensions with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan, an official told AFP on Monday. “The first filling already was done last year. The second one is already done today. So today or tomorrow, …

The Security Media Cell announced today that the intelligence agency had arrested six suspects wanted in terrorist cases, including a suicide bomber, in Kirkuk governorate. A statement of the cell said, “based on the defendants’ confessions, it was found that they fought along with ISIS terrorist gangs and that they …

Fifteen diplomatic missions call for ‘urgent end’ to offensives, hours after the Doha meeting failed to agree on a ceasefire. Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul have joined hands to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan, just hours after a peace meeting in Doha …

An Israeli company’s spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of more than 50,000 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials, and human rights activists around 50 countries, according to an investigation by 17 media organizations published on Sunday. One of the organizations, The Washington Post, said the Pegasus spyware …

Russia said on Monday it had successfully tested a Tsirkon(Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile, a weapon President Vladimir Putin has touted as part of a new generation of missile systems without equal in the world. The defence ministry said in a statement that the missile had been fired from the Admiral …

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘freedom day’ ending over a year of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England was marred on Monday by surging infections, warnings of supermarket shortages, and his own forced self-isolation. Summary England lifts most COVID restrictions Johnson was forced to isolate after trying to skip it PM …

Saudi officials have replaced the Kiswa (the cloth cover) of the Kaaba to commemorate the Day of Arafat and the start of Eid al-Adha, on Monday. The process of changing the Kiswa occurs annually on the second day of Hajj under the supervision of the President of the Holy Mosque. …