A huge fireball has been seen rising over a port in Dubai as the UAE’s largest city was rocked by a major blast. The blaze broke out within a container stored on a ship anchored in the Jebel Ali port, the city government has said. Local residents reported hearing a …

Haitian President Jovenel Moise has been assassinated at his private residence. According to media reports, gunmen stormed the private residence at around 1 am local time on Wednesday and fatally injured the president and wounded the First Lady, the office of Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in a statement. …

Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is filing suits against three of the country’s biggest tech companies: Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their CEOs. Trump said he was serving as lead plaintiff in the class-action suits, claiming he has been wrongfully censored by the companies. “We’re demanding …

The Biden administration is revamping the way the U.S. uses punitive sanctions, aiming to stem sweeping pressure campaigns, avoid collateral economic damage and act jointly with allies rather than unilaterally, according to people involved in the planning process, Ian Talley wrote for the Wall Street Journal. The administration has nearly …

There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying. The Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop was en route from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana, a village in the north of the Kamchatka …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow strongly supports the Southeast Asian diplomatic efforts to end the post-coup crisis engulfing Myanmar. During a joint press briefing with his Indonesian counterpart, Retno Marsudi, in Jakarta on Tuesday, Lavrov said that Moscow considered the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s position “a …

Coronavirus infections in the UK are likely to double in the next two weeks as the country lifts remaining COVID-19 restrictions, Health Secretary Sajid Javid says. Infections are currently running at just under 29,000 a day UK-wide, and according to Javid, the figure could reach 100,000 a day in the …

Italy has eased the restrictions on the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in an apparent attempt to soothe diplomatic tensions with the kingdoms, despite the duo’s bloody crimes during the war on Yemen. In July 2019, the Italian government temporarily suspended arms sales …

Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah resistance group has held Saudi Arabia’s spy service responsible for terrorist attacks targeting high voltage electricity transmission lines across the country. “With definitive evidence, we have concluded that the Saudi intelligence agency is behind the acts of sabotage against Iraqi transmission towers,” the group said in a …

In a phone talk on Tuesday, Iraqi President Barham Salih and Advisor to Iran’s Leader Ali Akbar Velyati conferred on the latest regional developments and deepening of relations between the two countries. In his conversation with Salih, Velayati referred to the positive measures of the President of Iraq, as well …

Russia is tracking a Spanish naval ship in the Black Sea, the Interfax news agency cited Russia’s defence ministry as saying on Wednesday, as Ukraine and NATO countries both held military drills in the area. The ministry said the Spanish ship had entered the Black Sea on Wednesday to take …

Taliban insurgents on Wednesday reached the entry points to the capital of Afghanistan’s northwestern Badghis province, officials said, causing panic among local people and prompting prisoners to break out of the city’s prison. Provincial governor Husamuddin Shams told Reuters the Taliban had attacked the city of Qala-e-Naw from three directions …

Nigerian police confirmed on Monday 27 persons earlier kidnapped by gunmen from a secondary school in the country’s northwestern state of Kaduna had regained their freedom. A group of unidentified gunmen stormed the Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi town, Chikun local government area, in the early hours of Monday, …

The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its 14th day on Wednesday, with the death toll at three dozen, more than 100 people still unaccounted for, and authorities sounding grimmer The search for victims of the collapse of a Miami-area high-rise condominium reached its …

Thousands of Peruvians took to the streets on Tuesday to protest uncertainty over the result of the presidential election a month ago, as the confirmation of leftist Pedro Castillo is held up by ballot challenges from his conservative rival. Supporters of Castillo, carrying colorful Wiphala Andean flags and banners with …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that the situation in Afghanistan had a tendency to swiftly deteriorate and said Moscow was ready to defend its regional allies if necessary. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told Emomali Rakhmon, the president of Tajikistan, that Moscow would help the impoverished …

The container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March and has been detained there since is due to finally resume its journey on Wednesday after the owner and insurers reached a compensation settlement with the canal authority. One of the world’s largest container ships, the Ever Given became wedged …

German police on Wednesday raided the living quarters of two possible accomplices of the jihadists who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna last November, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said. Police searched the homes of Kosovan national Blinor S. and German Drilon G., who is suspected of failing to …

The leader of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) state on Wednesday ordered a week-long extension of Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown, warning new cases are bound to rise as the country’s biggest city grapples with the highly infectious Delta variant. Sydney, home to a fifth of Australia’s 25 million people, was plunged …

Yemeni officials say the United States is fanning the flames of violence in the embattled southern province of al-Bayda by mobilizing and commanding Takfiri al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorists against the Yemeni army and allied popular forces, who have been defending the region against Saudi-led militants. “The United States, which falsely …