Russian President Vladimir Putin is self-isolating as a precaution after several members of his entourage fell ill with COVID-19, but is “absolutely” healthy and does not have the disease himself, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Putin, 68, will therefore not travel to Tajikistan this week for planned regional security meetings …

European Union – EU announced on Monday, that it has decided to deploy an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to observe the legislative elections scheduled in Iraq for 10 October, in response to an invitation by the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Iraq. The High Representative of the Union for …

The Independent High Electoral Commission revealed on Tuesday, the measures that will be taken on polling day, while indicating that it has received 6 complaints, some of them related to attempts to influence the will of the voter. “The biometric cards were printed in stages in the registration centers, as …

The Federal Court set a new date to consider budget appeals. “The Federal Court decided to set the 19th of this month as a new date to consider the appeals submitted regarding the budget,” Earlier, On August 24, the Federal Supreme Court decided to defer the decision on the 2021 …

A human rights organization has expressed serious concern about the deliberate medical negligence against political opponents and opposition figures kept in detention centers across Saudi Arabia, saying it is in line with the Riyadh regime’s brutal crackdown against pro-democracy campaigners in the kingdom Sanad human rights organization, which defends political and …

Donors have pledged more than $1.1 billion in aid for Afghanistan, where poverty and hunger are spiraling as foreign grants have dried up since the Taliban’s takeover last month. The pledges were made at a UN conference in Geneva as the world body has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis …

The Gaza Health Ministry has held the illegal Zionist entity responsible for the expiry of 50,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine recently delivered to the besieged coastal enclave. In a statement carried by Arab48 news website on Monday night, the ministry said the vaccines had been kept in inappropriate conditions and …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has paid a surprise visit to Moscow where Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that the presence of foreign forces without a UN mandate is hindering the West Asian country’s recovery. According to reports, a transcript of Monday’s meeting released by the Kremlin said Putin congratulated …

Lebanon’s new Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he has no “magic wand” to fix the country’s economic and financial crises, following more than a year of political deadlock over the formation of a government. Mikati made the remark in a statement on Monday, saying he has “no magic wand to …

The Syrian army has entered the town of al-Yadudah in the southern Province of Dara’a after 10 years following an agreement with local tribal elders brokered by Russia, reports said on Monday. Syrian military officials were accompanied by Russian forces as they made their way to the southern Syrian town …

Israeli forces have shot a Palestinian young man over an alleged stabbing attempt in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian man, identified as Muhammad Bilu, 27, sustained serious injuries after he was shot by Israeli forces near Gush Etzion Junction, on Monday morning. The Israeli military claimed that Bilu attempted …

Israeli regime officials have expressed alarm that the two Palestinian prisoners, who remain at large after the stunning jailbreak last week, could carry out an attack. Four of the six Palestinian prisoners who daringly escaped from the high-security Gilboa Prison in northern Occupied Palestine have been apprehended, while the remaining two are …

US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has expressed “deep concern” over the torture of a Saudi aid worker while in detention in the kingdom. “Deeply concerned with allegations of torture in detention of aid worker Abdulrahman al-Sadhan,” the Democratic congresswoman from California said in a statement on Twitter. …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has held talks with the Singaporean leader, foreign and deputy prime ministers in separate meetings on his two-day visit to Singapore. The visit is part of Wang’s six-day trip to four countries – Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia and South Korea – in the region that started …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has denounced the “shocking inequity” in the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, urging the Western governments to put a halt to booster doses until at least the end of the year. In an address to the 71st session of the Regional Committee for Europe, WHO …

Colombia has increased its troop presence on the joint border with Venezuela after five Colombian soldiers were killed and several others wounded in an attack. According to reports, the soldiers were killed Saturday in clashes that Bogota claimed were planned on its neighbor’s soil by armed groups from Colombia’s last …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is defending US “legacy” in Afghanistan after American forces’ defeat in the country and the swift takeover of the Taliban. The US top diplomat appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to justify the Biden administration’s chaotic handling of withdrawal from the war-ravaged country. …

Vaccines are effective enough at preventing severe cases of Covid-19 that there is no current need for the general population to be given third doses, according to a report in The Lancet published Monday. Some countries have started offering extra doses over fears about the much more contagious Delta variant, …

Dozens of students who were kidnapped from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara earlier this month have been reportedly released after the army began a military crackdown on criminal gangs in the area. An unnamed spokesman for Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle told Reuters on Monday that …

A security source reported that Iraqi forces bombed ISIS between Al-Azim borders, north of Diyala, and the Saladin Governorate. The source told Alghadeer News, “The Iraqi Army monitored, with thermal cameras, ISIS movements between the outskirts of Al-Azim near the village of Albu Khayal and the borders of Saladin.” The …