Russia has banned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior ministers from entering Russia over the UK’s “hostile” stance on the war in Ukraine. Russian foreign ministry has said it has barred entry to the country for the British prime minister, Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, the …

Twitter Inc adopted a ‘poison pill’ on Friday to limit Elon Musk’s ability to raise his stake in the social media platform, as a buyout firm emerged to challenge his $43 billion bid for the company. Thoma Bravo, a technology-focused private equity firm that had more than $103 billion in …

Vessel, headed from Egypt to Malta, had requested entry to Tunisian waters on Friday evening due to bad weather. A ship carrying 750 tonnes of diesel from Egypt to Malta has sunk in the Gulf of Gabes off Tunisia’s southeast coast. “The ship sank this morning in Tunisian territorial waters. …

The commander of the Kirkuk Joint Operations Command announced that the ISIS terrorists’ largest base in the Wadi al-Shay area of ​​Kirkuk province was destroyed on the third day of the Iron Hammer operation. Lieutenant-General Ali Al-Fariji said that a number of weapons, equipment, ammunition, and explosives belonging to ISIS …

Evacuation orders for close to 5,000 people are still in place as firefighters battle a deadly blaze in New Mexico. The wind-fueled wildfire has ripped through the mountain community of Ruidoso. The flames have destroyed more than 200 homes and killed two people since the wildfire broke out Tuesday. Authorities …

The presidential candidate says costs will soar if the EU bans Russian energy The US should compensate France for losses if the EU bans Russian energy carriers, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said in an interview with BFM TV. “The Americans, who will sell us liquefied gas and get …

Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, state television reported, completing the country’s longest crewed space mission to date. The astronauts landed nine hours after they left a key module of China’s first space station. While in orbit, the Shenzhou-13 mission astronauts took manual …

Planted explosives and not artillery are behind the incident at Green Village, the US military said Last week’s explosions at a base in Syria, that reportedly injured four US soldiers, may have been the work of charges planted by one or more people in the facility’s showers and ammunition depot, …

Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed in an attack by suspected militants near the border with Afghanistan. Pakistan’s military said in a statement on Friday that the troops’ convoy was ambushed the day before in the Isham area of North Waziristan, a district in the volatile northwestern province of Khyber …

Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic COVID-19 cases on Saturday and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its “dynamic clearance” approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, a central Chinese manufacturing area that includes Apple …

Mass rallies have been held across the Muslim world in solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine after Israeli forces on Friday barged inside the al-Aqsa Mosque and brutally assaulted the Palestinian worshippers. In Turkey’s most populous city of Istanbul, protesters converged outside the Israeli consulate early on Saturday, waving …

Fierce clashes have broken out between police and protesters in central Sweden’s Muslim-dominated area during demonstrations against a far-right group’s intention to burn the Holy Qur’an. The clashes erupted on the sidelines of a rally in Orebro city by the anti-immigration and anti-Muslim Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party led by …

Iraq recorded 102 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Saturday. In its daily epidemiological report, the Ministry registered 597 recovery cases with one mortality. The cumulative count of COVID-19 cases since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2323040, of …

Al-Anbar police command announced arresting the brother of terrorist Shakir Wahib, west of the governorate. The Command said in a statement that the terrorist, Amer Wahib Zaatar, was arrested in a special operation supervised by the head of the Al-Anbar police command. The statement noted that the Command was monitoring …

Lebanon is ready to work with Cyprus to exploit potential gas deposits in waters between the two east Mediterranean countries, Lebanon’s top diplomat said Friday, even though a deal on offshore rights hasn’t been formally finalized. Cyprus and Lebanon signed an agreement delineating their respective offshore exclusive economic zones in …

Russia’s FSB security service on Friday said it had detained four members of an extremist militant group in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow and said one was preparing a “terrorist attack,” the TASS news agency reported. The four were members of the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham group, it said.

A Finnish cabinet minister said Friday it was “highly likely” that Finland would apply for NATO membership, just hours after Russia warned of unspecified “consequences” should Helsinki and Stockholm join the military alliance. Moscow’s February 24 attack on Ukraine has sparked a dramatic U-turn in public and political opinion in …

At least 35 people died and 71 were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers to an Easter gathering veered off the road and landed in a gorge. The bus was carrying members of a local Zion Christian Church who were traveling to an Easter meeting in the southeastern …

A blast from a roadside bomb reportedly hit a convoy of the US-led Global Coalition in Babel today, Thursday. A source said that the explosion targeted a supply convoy of the Coalition within the governorate’s borders. No other information was reported. No one claims responsibility, but observers believe that the …

The Tesla owner has questioned Saudi Arabia’s role in the tech company after the prince ‘rejects’ the proposed deal. Elon Musk has questioned Saudi Arabia’s role in Twitter Inc after Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal tweeted his opposition to the billionaire entrepreneur’s offer to buy the social media company. …