Britain has rescued or intercepted a total of 1,115 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel over just two days, the country’s interior ministry said on Sunday. Rising numbers of Channel crossings by migrants in small boats have contributed to growing tensions between the UK and France following Britain’s departure …

An L-410 plane crashed near a city in the Tatarstan region on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring seven, the RIA news agency cited the emergency services as saying. The plane had been carrying a group of parachute jumpers onboard, the Emergencies Ministry said, according to the TASS news agency. …

Government forces have detained at least 500 people in a sweeping crackdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir, local officials said on Sunday, following a string of suspected militant attacks and targeted killings in the disputed region. Assailants fatally shot three Hindus and a Sikh person in the region’s main city of Srinagar …

The Security Media Cell announced today, Sunday, the success of the plan to protect the elections, while confirming observation of 190 violators. The head of the Security Media Cell, Major General Saad Maan, said, that “the Supreme Security Committee for the elections carried out its duty, and its plan was …

The Chairman of the IHEC’s Board of Commissioners, Judge Jalil Adnan, announced the participation rate in the public polling that started this Sunday morning. Jalil said, “The participation rate until midday is more than a third of the voters.” He added, “There is no malfunction in the voting devices. When …

Voters’ turnout ranged between 12 to 25% by 1200 pm (Iraq time), sources in the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) offices in 15 governorates revealed on Sunday. According to the sources, Saladin (25%) has attained the highest voters turnout so far, followed by Diyala (22%) and al-Anbar (228,000 voters, equivalent …

One woman is dead and 14 people are injured after a gunfight broke out in a bar in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Police are looking for “several shooters,” and no arrests have yet been made. Police were called to a bar in downtown Saint Paul in the early hours of Sunday …

The Chair of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), Jaleel Adnan Khalaf, said on Sunday that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) “dysfunctioned” and did not “malfunction”, stressing that all EVMs are back on duty. In a press conference he held earlier today, the chair of IHEC’s board of Commissioners said, …

A member of the National Election Observation Networks Alliance, the international expert in electoral affairs, Muhammad Khalil Al-Husseini, said on Sunday that the participation rate in the elections had reached 20%. Al-Husseini said, “The observers of the Alliance, according to 1,580 polling stations distributed throughout Iraq, including the Kurdistan Region, …

The Electoral Festival in Iraq Photography: Ali Al-Gharabawi  

With the start of the parliamentary elections, the number of polling stations for general voting is 8,273 with more than 55,000 stations. The number of polling stations in general voting is 8,273 with more than 55 thousand stations. More than 3,200 candidates in the elections are competing for 329 seats …

The head of the Al-Fateh Alliance, Hadi Al-Amiri, cast his vote in the early parliamentary elections, on Sunday (October 10, 2021). Polling stations opened in Baghdad and the provinces at 7 am, marking the start of general voting for the early legislative elections. About 24 million Iraqi voters participate in …

The head of the Supreme Committee for the election security, Lieutenant-General Abdul-Amir Al-Shammari, confirmed that no curfew will be imposed tomorrow. Al-Shammari said in a joint press conference with IHEC’s Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, Judge Adnan Jalil, “the Supreme Security Committee has taken decisions that facilitate the voting …

Iraq logged 1,227 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Saturday. The daily epidemiological report stated that 28 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 3,313 patients had achieved full recovery. According to the Ministry, the cumulative count of the Covid-19 …

Iraqi warplanes bombed a site of the terrorist organization of ISIS killing a group of militants sheltering inside in Diyala. According to the Security Media Cell (SMC), the Iraqi F16 carried out an ISIS headquarters in Wadi al-Thallab, south of Khanaqin. The attack destroyed the site and killed the terrorists …

Al-Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) has raised the alert status in preparation for the general election scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday. A press release by the PMF said, “the PMF raised the alert status to C starting from Saturday 9/10 at 18:00 until Monday 11/10 500 military times.” PMF urged the …

France will launch a campaign for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty as part of its upcoming presidency of the European Union, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday. A conference will be held in Paris gathering civil society groups from countries where the death penalty is in use or …

Ethiopians in the south of the country have voted almost unanimously to have their own state, part of a push for increased autonomy that’s intensified since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018. South West will become Ethiopia’s 11th state after 1.26 million Ethiopians in six zones and one …

The German and French foreign ministers have issued a joint statement saying that Poland has both a moral and legal obligation to respect the common rules of the European Union, which is joined in 2004. Heiko Maas of Germany and Jean-Yves Le Drian of France published their statement late Friday …

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will pledge to defend the island’s sovereignty and democracy in a major speech on Sunday, saying it faces challenges more complex and severe than ever, at a time when tensions with China have risen. Democratic Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has come under …