Alex Saab, a fugitive Colombian businessman accused of acting as a money launderer for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime, has been extradited to the US from Cape Verde, the US Justice Department said on Saturday. Saab is set to make his first court appearance on Monday, October 18 in a …

With new regulations aiming at countering money laundering in force, the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) auctioned $52 million only in foreign currency today, Sunday. Alghadeer News correspondent said that CBI’s sales of foreign currency in today’s auction amounted to $52,070,000, down by 74.76% compared to Wednesday’s $206,422,600. Our correspondent …

Independent candidates who secured seats in the upcoming parliamentary lineup contemplate forming a large bloc that exclusively encompasses MPs not affiliated with the status quo parties, newly elected MP Basem Khashan revealed on Sunday. In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, Khashan said, “talks are underway to form a bloc …

Iraq recorded 1716 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Sunday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 18 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 3189 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …

Thousands of demonstrators stormed the streets north of Baghdad and south of the country, protesting the election results announced by IHEC yesterday. Sources say that the demonstrators are citizens who rejected the election results because of fraud, noting that they blocked the highway linking Baghdad with the northern governorates. The …

Former MP of al-Fatah alliance, Muhammad Karim al-Beldawi, reiterated his bloc’s rejection of the October 10 polls results, deeming it an attempt of “systemic ostracism” of the patriotic forces. Al-Beldawi said in a statement, “The results of the elections are shocking to the public…because of the many violations; most notably …

Adults at high risk for cardiovascular disease may face serious side effects if they start a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin. Doctors should no longer routinely start most people who are at high risk of heart disease on a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin, according to new draft guidelines by …

One in five people in the EU is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, the bloc’s statistical office reported on Friday. “In 2020, there were 75.3 million people at risk of poverty in the EU,” Eurostat said in a press release, adding that “27.6 million were severely materially and …

Iraq recorded 1077 new cases of Covid-19, on Saturday to bring its total to 2,033,737, the health ministry said. It reported 25 deaths to take its coronavirus death toll to 22,738. It also reported 3007 recoveries to bring its total to 1,964,673(96.6%). The COVID-19 intensive care patients count to 262. …

Leicester City fired on all cylinders late on to beat Manchester United 4-2 at home in the Premier League on Saturday, ending a four-match winless run and piling more pressure on visiting manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The result also ended United’s record 29-game unbeaten away run in the league as …

An ambitious project aiming to learn more about the birth and development of the solar system has launched from Florida ahead of a 12-year mission to reach asteroids near Jupiter. Given the same name as a skeleton of a human ancestor that provided scientists with insight into evolution, the Lucy …

The US Treasury Department has reported more than half a billion dollars was paid by victims of ransomware cyber-attacks in the first six months of 2021. The ransomware attackers use malicious software that encrypts a victim’s files and holds the data hostage until a ransom is paid. The Treasury’s Financial …

Tens of thousands of union members and other Italians gathered in Rome to stand up against rising fascism on Saturday, a week after right-wing extremists forced their way into the headquarters of Italy’s most powerful labor confederation while protesting a COVID-19 certification requirement for workplaces. The head of the CGIL …

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961 protest by Algerians whose scale was a taboo covered up for decades by French authorities. Macron told relatives and activists on the 60th anniversary of the bloodshed that “crimes” were committed on …

Two Hindu men have been killed in fresh religious violence in Bangladesh, police officials said on Saturday, taking the death toll to six from recent unrest in the Muslim-majority country. Protests began on Wednesday after footage emerged of a Quran being placed on the knee of a Hindu god during …

Angela Merkel’s final visit to Turkey as German chancellor on Saturday saw two of Europe’s longest-serving leaders pay tribute to one another as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted her for farewell talks overlooking the Bosporus. Erdogan had been in office for more than two years when Merkel came to …

Police say four Russian tourists were found dead at a beach resort in western Albania. Albanian police issued a statement Saturday saying the four were found asphyxiated in a hotel sauna in the village of Qerret late Friday. Police did not give more details about the circumstances of the deaths, …

Britain’s interior minister Priti Patel on Saturday said that security measures would be put in place for lawmakers so they could keep doing their job after an MP was murdered, adding that people who attacked democracy would not succeed. “All measures are being put in place for the security of …

French Prime Minister Jean Castex paid tribute on Saturday to history teacher Samuel Paty a year after he was murdered by a radical, saying France would stand up for its values of secularism and freedom. Paty’s attacker, a teenager of Chechen origin, had wanted to avenge the teacher’s use of …

A teenager triggered a large-scale police operation after a restaurant owner mistook a toy gun he was carrying for a real weapon. A witness raised the alarm after seeing the 15-year-old, who was wearing a camouflage outfit and holding what appeared to be a rifle, running up and down the …