A fire broke out on Saturday on containers on a cargo ship carrying mining chemicals off British Columbia, and the Canadian Coast Guard said it is working with the U.S. Coast Guard to assess the situation, including environmental hazards. Sixteen crew members have been evacuated from the MV Zim Kingston, …
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Hungary’s Orban accuses US, Soros of meddling as 2022 election nears
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused the United States and Jewish American billionaire George Soros of trying to meddle in his country’s politics as Budapest is bracing for a parliamentary vote that is expected to be its toughest election in 15 years. Speaking during an event in central Budapest …
Read More »Tough winter could be coming with resurgent COVID-19
Restaurants and hair salons are shut. Schooling is remote. People are stuck at home after 8 pm At least one country in Europe has already returned to full-on crisis mode as COVID-19 flares anew from the UK to Russia to Singapore. Latvia’s response is the most extreme, but the Baltic …
Read More »Al-Fateh Alliance insist on recounting the votes manually in all polling stations
The Al-Fateh Alliance, led by the Secretary-General of Badr Organization Hadi Al-Amiri, warned against not implementing the demands of the political and popular forces to manually recount ballots in all polling stations in Iraq. The leader, Abu Mithaq Al-Masari, told Alghadeer News, “situation is likely to escalate, especially with the …
Read More »Group report: Thousands killed, half a million homes destroyed in Saudi war
A Yemeni human rights group, called The Eye of Humanity Center for Rights and Development, has released a report on casualties caused by six years of Saudi-led war on Yemen. The report says more than 44,000 civilians have been killed or injured since 2015 when Riyadh launched aggression against Sana’a. …
Read More »IHEC accepted 234 appeals against the election results
Iraqi Electoral Commission announced on Saturday that it had accepted 234 appeals against the election results, after evaluating 340 appeals. The commission said in a statement that Al-Ghadeer received a copy of it, “The Independent High Electoral Commission continues today, Saturday, October 23, to study the appeals submitted to it, …
Read More »Epic Games opposes Apple’s effort to pause antitrust trial orders
“Fortnite” creator Epic Games on Friday opposed Apple Inc’s efforts to put on hold orders handed down in an antitrust trial as a potentially lengthy appeals process plays out. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in September struck down some of the iPhone maker’s App Store rules, including a prohibition …
Read More »Syrian army troops block US convoy in Hasakah, force it to return
A US military convoy has been forced to retreat from an area in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah after government soldiers blocked it, amid public anger at the deployment of foreign forces in the oil-rich region. Syrian army troops, deployed at a security checkpoint near the village of al-Damkhiya southwest …
Read More »Italian former minister Matteo Salvini goes on trial for kidnap over blocked migrant ship
Former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini is facing up to 15 years in prison in a controversial trial over his 2019 order to prevent migrants picked up by NGOs while crossing the Mediterranean Sea from entering Italy. The trial, which started on Saturday in Palermo, is about one particular incident …
Read More »China passes education law to cut homework pressure on students
China has passed an education law that seeks to cut the “twin pressures” of homework and off-site tutoring in core subjects, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. Beijing has exercised a more assertive paternal hand this year, from tacking the addiction of youngsters to online games, deemed a …
Read More »US to release more information related to Kennedy assassination in December
The Biden administration said it will release more records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in December. Some of the information regarding Kennedy’s death on Nov. 22, 1963, remained off-limits to “protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct …
Read More »NATO gradually gathering forces near border: Russian defense chief
Russia’s defense minister accused NATO on Saturday of gradually gathering forces near Russia’s borders and being unwilling to discuss European security with Moscow on equal terms, Interfax news agency reported. Shoigu’s comments were the latest sign of mounting tension between Russia and NATO after defense ministers from the Western alliance …
Read More »US nuclear envoy visits S.Korea amid N.Korea missile tension, stalled talks
The US envoy for North Korea arrived in South Korea on Saturday amid stalled denuclearization talks and tension over Pyongyang’s recent missile tests. Special Representative Sung Kim’s visit came days after North Korea fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile which prompted criticism from Washington and calls for a return to …
Read More »Deadly clashes as banned Pakistan party continues protest seeking to free leader
Thousands of supporters of a banned radical party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Saturday departed the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore, clashing for a second straight day with police who lobbed tear gas into the crowd, a party spokesman and witnesses said. The group began their journey Friday with the goal …
Read More »Dozens break out of jail in southwest Nigeria: Official
Gunmen have attacked a prison in southwest Nigeria, freeing dozens of inmates, an official told The Associated Press on Saturday. The third jailbreak in Africa’s most populous country this year raises more concerns about how safe detention facilities are in the West African nation where authorities have struggled to stem …
Read More »Russian, Chinese warships hold first joint patrols in the Western part of Pacific
Russian and Chinese warships held their first joint patrols in the Western part of the Pacific ocean on October 17-23, Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Moscow and Beijing, which staged naval cooperation drills in the Sea of Japan earlier in October, have cultivated closer military and …
Read More »S.Korea says it reaches goal of 70% vaccinations for COVID-19
South Korea said on Saturday that it has achieved its goal of vaccinating 70 percent of its 52 million people, paving the way for a planned return to normal next month. The target, set a month before the country kicked off its inoculation campaign in late February, was reached by …
Read More »Turkey’s Erdogan orders expulsion of envoys from 10 countries including US, Germany
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries including Germany and the United States who appealed for the release of a jailed civil society leader. “I have ordered our foreign minister to declare these 10 ambassadors as persona non grata …
Read More »PM: Iraq needs an infrastructure that commensurates with its geographic location
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, on Saturday said that the country needs a developed infrastructure that commensurates with its geographic location. Al-Kadhimi’s comments came in a statement he made to journalists at the sidelines of the inauguration of the first compartment of the Baghdad-Hillah road, “we shall develop a …
Read More »Iraq reported 1,064 new COVID-19 cases and 36 deaths
Iraq recorded 1,064 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Saturday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 36 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 2,207 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …
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