Iraq recorded 45 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Tuesday. In its daily epidemiological report, the Ministry registered 146 recovery cases and zero mortalities. The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2325397 of …
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Turkey ‘destroyed’ EU hopes by jailing Erdogan critic: MEPs
Turkey “deliberately destroyed” its chances of joining the EU by jailing Osman Kavala, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the European Parliament said Thursday.
Read More »Moon May Have Been Covertly Siphoning Earth’s Water for Billions of Years
The Moon may look like a big dry ball, but there’s more water up there than you might expect.
Read More »Dozens killed in Haiti in 2 weeks of gun battles, thousands flee homes
Gun battles between rival gangs in Port-au-Prince have killed dozens in the past two weeks and forced thousands to flee their homes, Haiti’s civil protection authority and a U.N. agency said. The Chen Mechan and 400 Mawozo gangs, the latter of which kidnapped a group of U.S. and Canadian missionaries …
Read More »Saudi-led coalition has committed over 5,000 truce violations in Yemen
A Yemeni military official says the Saudi-led coalition forces and their allied militant groups have breached more than 5,000 times an UN-brokered nationwide truce, which went into effect more than a month ago with the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Read More »Russia expels Denmark embassy staff in tit-for-tat move
Russia says the move is in retaliation to Denmark’s expulsion of 15 Russian envoys as well as its support of Ukraine.
Read More »California declares unprecedented water restrictions amid drought
Residents have been warned to scale down their water usage this summer, as critical shortages loom.
Read More »Russian ruble hits highest level since March 2020
The Russian ruble briefly reached its highest level against the dollar since March 2020 on Thursday, supported by capital controls, while stock indexes also climbed as the market watched developments around possible new sanctions against Moscow. The volatile currency hit a high of 65.31 per dollar in early trading on …
Read More »OPEC+ to stick to modest boost in output as Russian war roils markets
OPEC and allied oil-producing countries decided Thursday to stick to a modest increase in production, even as Europe’s proposed phaseout of Russian oil threatens to yank millions of barrels off a global market already thirsty for crude.
Read More »Over 200 sailors moved off US aircraft carrier after multiple suicides
More than 200 sailors have moved off the USS George Washington aircraft carrier following a series of deaths and suicides among the crew, according to the US Navy.
Read More »South Korea’s spy agency joins NATO cyber defence group
First Asian state admitted to the military bloc’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence
Read More »UK issues grim economic forecast
The Bank of England warns of recession risk as it hikes interest rate to tackle soaring inflation
Read More »Bangladesh detains 450 Rohingya celebrating Eid on beach
Bangladesh police detained 450 Rohingya celebrating a Muslim festival on a beach, officials said on Thursday, in a further sign of growing intolerance towards the refugees.
Read More »Donald Trump Owes $100K and Counting for Refusing to Comply With Subpoena
Donald Trump has now accumulated a total of $100,000 in fines after he was found in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena issued to him by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Read More »France will increase financial aid to Ukraine by $300 mln, Macron tells donor conference
France will increase its overall financial aid to Ukraine this year to $2 billion from 1.7 billion, President Emmanuel Macron said in a video address to an international donors’ conference in Warsaw. The conference, aimed at helping Ukraine deal with the economic and humanitarian fallout of Russia’s invasion, is hosted …
Read More »Nearly 15 million deaths associated with Covid, WHO says
The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe, and …
Read More »International donors conference in Warsaw raises $6.5 billion for Ukraine-Polish PM
An international donors conference in Warsaw collecting funds for Ukraine hosted on Thursday raised 6.5 billion dollars to help the war-torn country, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said. Countries such as Finland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, and others pledged millions of euros to support humanitarian and military efforts in Ukraine …
Read More »Germany to end EU training mission in Mali
Germany will end its participation in the European Union training mission in Mali but is ready to continue with a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country under certain conditions, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Wednesday. France and allies fighting Islamist militants in Mali earlier this year said they would …
Read More »One death, over 5,000 asphyxiation cases throughout Iraq due to dust storm
The Iraqi Ministry of Health and environment recorded thousands of asphyxiation cases in all governorates, during the current dust storm. The Ministry spokesman, Seif al-Badr, revealed that more than 5,000 people were admitted to hospitals throughout Iraq in the last few hours, noting that most of them received the appropriate …
Read More »Heavy rain, floods in Afghanistan kill 22, destroy hundreds of homes
Heavy rain and flooding have killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes, and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, a disaster management official said on Thursday.
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