Summary | Fire kills at least 66, injures another 67 Iraqi PM orders arrest of Nassiriya officials Angry relatives clash with police near the hospital At least 66 people were killed and over 67 injured in a fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a coronavirus hospital in …

A crane attached to a high-rise under construction in Kelowna, British Columbia, collapsed on Monday causing multiple fatalities, police said. Several workers were near the crane when it collapsed, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Inspector Adam MacIntosh told reporters in Kelowna, according to a video of the news conference. JUST IN: …

Last week, Haitian police arrested two US citizens, Joseph Vincent and James Solages, on suspicion of murdering Haitian President Jovenel Moise in his own residence on Wednesday. Police had 26 other suspects, and 20 have been arrested. The detained Americans, reportedly involved in Moise’s assassination, were said to be working …

At least 41 people were killed and five injured in a coronavirus hospital fire in Iraq’s southern city of Nassiriya, Dhi Qar. “Health crews carried charred bodies out of the burning hospital while many patients were coughing from the rising smoke”, an Alghadeer reporter on the fire site said. Dhi …

Britain’s government said it would let parliament hold a vote on Tuesday to reverse a decision to cut the country’s overseas aid spending by around 4 billion pounds ($5.6 billion) a year. The finance ministry announced in November it would cut aid spending to 0.5 percent of national income from …

Belarus’ president Alexander Lukashenko is using migration to put political pressure on the European Union, it’s been claimed. It comes after Euronews reported migrant crossings on the Lithuania-Belarus border have soared this year. More than 1,500 illegal crossings have been registered in 2021, compared with just 81 for the whole …

Iraq logged 1,258,028 Live births in the past year, 2020, according to a spokesperson for the Iraqi Ministry of Planning. The Ministry’s spokesperson, Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi, told Alghadeer News, “the Central Bureau of Statistics registered 224,279 deaths over the last year from a total population of 40,150,200.” “Males are 20,336,180 …

France needs to push back the retirement age and the government will continue its pension reforms as soon as the COVID-19 situation is under control, French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised speech on Monday. Pension reform was a central pillar of Macron’s drive to create a more flexible …

The top US general in Afghanistan relinquished command Monday at a ceremony in the capital, the latest symbolic gesture bringing America’s longest war nearer to an end even as the Taliban continue a bloody onslaught across the country. General Austin “Scott” Miller — the highest-ranked officer on the ground in …

A United Nations (UN) report has revealed how the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated world hunger, raising concerns that the organization’s goal of ensuring no one is starving by 2030 is now unattainable. Published on Monday, the annual UN report, entitled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition of Food Security …

A joint force from the 41st Brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and security forces found a hideout and weapons belonging to the remnants of ISIS in Yathrib district, south of Samarra, Salahuddin. Based on intelligence information, the force also found medium and light ordnance, sticky bombs, and a …

At the request of the Supreme Court, Brazil’s federal police have formally opened a probe into President Jair Bolsonaro related to alleged irregularities in the purchase of an Indian vaccine and could now question him, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Monday. The president has been caught …

Israel’s closure of border crossings and its crippling restrictions on the movement of goods and individuals will have serious repercussions for the already dire humanitarian and economic situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, a rights advocacy group has warned. In a statement, the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights cautioned that …

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says the delegations in Vienna talks are reaching the final stage of the negotiations, which are aimed at reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers that was thrown into a state of limbo after the US illegally withdrew from the accord and Tehran …

Opening India’s tourist destinations and allowing pilgrimage travel could act as COVID-19 “super spreaders” of the third wave of infections, the country’s top doctor’s body warned on Monday. After a catastrophic second wave, driven largely by the more infectious and dangerous Delta variant, ravaged the country’s health system, India is …

Dozens of migrants scaled a fence and crossed the border from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Monday, just weeks after a similar crisis that saw thousands cross the frontier and clash with security. Migrants routinely try to enter Melilla and Ceuta, Spanish territories near the Moroccan border …

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday blamed US sanctions, tightened in recent years, for the medicine shortages, power outages, and other economic shortcomings that fueled unusual protests this weekend. Appearing alongside his Cabinet in a televised address, he also blamed a social media campaign for weaponizing the shortages against what …

Rich countries should not be ordering booster shots for their vaccinated populations while other countries have yet to receive COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization said on Monday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said deaths were again rising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delta variant was becoming dominant, and many …

Deployment of troops comes after six people killed in days of protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The South African military said it was deploying soldiers in two provinces, including its economic hub of Johannesburg, to help police cope with looting and arson attacks on businesses. The move comes as the …

A heavy security presence has been deployed to the city of Puri in India’s Odisha state – as the gods from the Shree Jagannath Temple board their chariots to visit other temples. This festival is called the “Rath Yatra” and it holds major religious significance for the Hindus as it …