A hospital in the northwestern Yemeni province of Sa’ada has received the bodies of seven Yemeni citizens who were tortured to death by the Saudi occupation troops in a border area neighboring the kingdom, in yet another indication of atrocities committed by Riyadh against civilians in the war-ravaged country, Yemeni …
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Musk says Twitter deal ‘temporarily on hold’ over report about fake accounts
It was not immediately clear based off Musk’s tweet if any official steps had been taken to halt the acquisition. There’s another twist in the Twitter deal.
Read More »Erdogan says Turkey opposes letting Finland, Sweden join NATO
A report by the Swedish government on the changed security environment facing the Nordic country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine says Moscow would react negatively to Sweden joining NATO and launch several counter-measures.
Read More »North Korea reports first COVID-19 death as fever spreads ‘explosively’
At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of the country’s first confirmed outbreak of the pandemic. The data represents an unprecedented admission of an …
Read More »Dozens of Syrian forces killed, injured in terrorist missile attack in Aleppo: Report
At least a dozen Syrian government forces have been reportedly killed and more than a dozen others injured in a missile attack in the northwestern Syrian province of Aleppo.
Read More »Israeli forces raid Jenin camp ahead of slain reporter’s funeral
Israeli military forces have once again raided the Jenin refugee camp, hours before the funeral of veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was fatally shot by the regime’s troops as she was covering one of the Israeli military’s raids on the camp.
Read More »UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed dies at the age 73
UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan died at the age of 73, Emirates news agency WAM reported on Friday. The Ministry of Presidential Affairs declared official national mourning for the death of the president for 40 days from Friday. Flags will fly at half-mast during this period. Work …
Read More »One terrorist killed, nine captured in separate security operations in Baghdad and Kirkuk
Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Agency on Thursday killed a senior ISIS commander and captured nine members of the in separate operations in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and Kirkuk. According to an official statement on Thursday, an ISIS commander was killed, and another was arrested in an ambush near al-Awashra village in Kirkuk. …
Read More »Palestinian president blames Israel for Al Jazeera reporter’s killing
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that Israeli authorities were “fully responsible” for the killing of a veteran Al Jazeera reporter during clashes in the occupied West Bank and called for an international investigation. Shireen Abu Akleh suffered a gunshot wound to the head in Jenin on Wednesday. Al …
Read More »Number of refugees fleeing Ukraine war exceeds 6 million -UN agency
The number of people who have fled Ukraine to escape war has passed 6 million, in Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the end of World War Two, a U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday. Russia’s invasion, which started on Feb. 24, has triggered a massive displacement of people, including more …
Read More »Sanctions hurting west more than Russia, Putin says
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Western countries were worse hit by sanctions imposed on Moscow over Ukraine than Russia, which he insists has been resilient in the face of “external challenges.” Western countries have slapped Russia with a barrage of unprecedented sanctions after Putin sent troops into neighboring …
Read More »Spain, Morocco to open land borders next week after two years
The land borders between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla will reopen next week, Spain said Thursday, after being closed for more than two years due to COVID-19 restrictions and tensions between the two countries. Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters the reopening will start …
Read More »Taliban prohibit men and women from dining together in Afghan city
Taliban authorities have banned men and women from dining out together and visiting parks at the same time in the western Afghan city of Herat, an official said Thursday.
Read More »Number of Americans applying for jobless aid ticked up last week
Applications for unemployment benefits rose by 1,000 to 203,000 for the week ending May 7, the US Department of Labor reported Thursday.
Read More »No gas supply for entities under Russian sanctions, says Kremlin
Foreign energy companies subject to Moscow’s retaliatory sanctions will no longer be able to receive gas supplies from Russia, a top official has said.
Read More »COVID claims 1 million US lives, leaving trail of loss
The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday life and quickly transformed it.
Read More »Ukraine war could result in bigger, lasting threat: China’s Xi to France’s Macron
Chinese President Xi Jinping warns that the Ukraine crisis could result in a bigger and more lasting threat to global peace, as the war grinds through its third month.
Read More »North Korea fires 3 ballistic missiles; reporting COVID outbreak
North Korea fired three ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest such move as the isolated country races to advance its weapons programmes on the day it first reported a COVID-19 outbreak. Three short-range ballistic missiles were fired …
Read More »Scientists unveil image of ‘gentle giant’ black hole at Milky Way’s center
Scientists on Thursday provided the first look at what they called the “gentle giant” lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, unveiling an image of a supermassive black hole that devours any matter wandering within its gargantuan gravitational pull. The black hole – called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr …
Read More »Crypto meltdown deepens as stablecoin Tether drops below dollar peg
The meltdown in TerraUSD, one of the world’s largest stablecoins, sent shockwaves through cryptocurrency markets on Thursday, pushing another stablecoin Tether below its dollar peg and sending bitcoin to 16-month lows. Cryptocurrencies have been swept up in a sell-off across higher risk assets, which has picked up steam this week …
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