British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday visited the church where lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death a day earlier in what police say they are treating as a terrorist attack. Amess, 69, from Johnson’s Conservative Party, was knifed repeatedly in the attack at about midday on Friday in …
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah says will not be dragged into civil war
Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says it will not be dragged into a civil war, despite martyring of seven Shia Muslims during recent violence, which is blamed on the Christian Lebanese Forces (LF) Party. At least seven people were martyred and 60 others injured in an attack on Thursday, during which …
Read More »Cambridge University halts $550mn deal with UAE over Pegasus spyware
The proposed $550 million deal between the University of Cambridge and the United Arab Emirates is on hold due to the Persian Gulf state’s use of Pegasus spying software, the university’s vice-chancellor has said. Cambridge’s outgoing vice-chancellor, Stephen Toope, said in an interview that “the revelations about Pegasus caused us to …
Read More »Israeli settlers violently attack Palestinian olive farmers
A group of Palestinian farmers harvesting their olive trees in the occupied West Bank have been attacked by around 30 Israeli settlers, according to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. The Friday attack, which left four people injured, began when Israeli settlers descended from a nearby settlement, hurling stones and spraying …
Read More »Amid outcry, calls mount for urgent action to protect Afghan Shias
Global condemnations continue to pour in after terrorist bombers attacked a Shia mosque in southern Afghanistan and martyred dozens of worshipers attending Friday prayers. At least 47 people were martyred and more than 80 others wounded after an explosion went off inside the Bibi Fatima mosque in the Afghan city …
Read More »Russia chases away US warship during joint drills with China
Russia says its naval forces have chased away a US Navy destroyer that attempted to cross the Russian sea border in the Sea of Japan. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the US destroyer USS Chafee sailed close to the Russian waters in the Peter the Great Gulf on …
Read More »Putin says Daesh terrorists amassing in Afghanistan
Russian President Vladimir Putin says hundreds of Daesh terrorists are amassing in northern Afghanistan and plan to infiltrate into ex-Soviet Central Asian countries. “According to our intelligence, the number of (Daesh) members alone in northern Afghanistan is about 2,000 people,” Putin said during a video conference meeting with leaders of …
Read More »Biden prepares to resume Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum policy in November
US President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to restart by mid-November a program begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US court hearings after a federal court deemed the termination of the program unjustified, US officials said Thursday. The administration, however, …
Read More »COVID testing site suspended in UK over delivering false negatives
A COVID-19 testing site in central England has been suspended after it was revealed that it had been wrongly giving negative PCR test results to people who were infected. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Friday that between September 8 and October 12, an estimated 43,000 people, mainly in …
Read More »Commission: 95% of the manual sorting of confined stations has been completed
The Independent High Electoral Commission confirmed, on Saturday, the completion of 95% of the manual counting of the total number of confined stations, which amounted to 3,681 stations. Imad Jamil, a member of the media team at the Commission, said in a televised interview, which was followed by / Al-Ghadeer, …
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