Russian forces have almost encircled Severodonetsk, the easternmost city in Ukraine held by Kyiv, and are trying to storm it, a local official said Friday.

Police again fired tear gas and water cannon at students trying to storm Sri Lanka’s parliament Friday as the country was brought to a halt by a trade union strike demanding the government step down.

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, repelled the attacks of remnants of the ISIS terrorist group in Diyala province in eastern Iraq on Friday morning. Iraqi media sources reported that the preliminary results of a terrorist attack in ” Ziyābêh” area in “Abu Sayda” in Diyala …

Israel’s public security minister Omer Bar-Lev says the regime suffered “a very heavy price” after three people were killed and several others hurt in an attack on the occasion of Nakba (Catastrophe Day) which marks Israel’s eviction of Palestinians from their homeland and declaring its existence. Bar-Lev said following the …

Nearly 25 million tons of grains are stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave the country due to infrastructure challenges and blocked Black Sea ports including Mariupol, a UN food agency official said on Friday. The blockages are seen as a factor behind high food prices which hit a record …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of traditional strongholds in London and suffered setbacks elsewhere in local elections, with voters punishing his government over a series of scandals.

The head of the Al-Fateh Alliance and the Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Hadi Al-Amiri, issued a statement on the departure of the Deputy Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Abdul Karim Al-Ansari, following a traffic accident in Maysan Governorate on Friday (May 6, 2022). Al-Amiri said in a statement received …

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 …

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.

The Moon may look like a big dry ball, but there’s more water up there than you might expect.

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 …

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.

Russia says the move is in retaliation to Denmark’s expulsion of 15 Russian envoys as well as its support of Ukraine.

Residents have been warned to scale down their water usage this summer, as critical shortages loom.

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 …

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.

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.

First Asian state admitted to the military bloc’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence

The Bank of England warns of recession risk as it hikes interest rate to tackle soaring inflation

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.