The result of the British Conservative Party leadership contest will be announced at 1130 GMT on Monday, the party said on Friday. Polls have projected foreign Secretary Liz Truss will beat former finance minister Rishi Sunak to become Britain’s next prime minister.
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Mystery of Egypt’s pyramids may be SOLVED as scientists reveal ‘lost ancient secret’
New evidence about the Nile bolsters a long-standing theory of how ancient Egyptians managed to build the massive pyramids of Giza thousands of years ago. Researchers led by geographer Hader Sheisha at Aix-Marseille University in France used paleoecological clues to help reconstruct what Egypt’s Nile river might have looked like …
Read More »Oil climbs ahead of OPEC+ meeting next week
Oil prices climbed on Friday on expectations that OPEC+ will discuss output cuts at a meeting on Sept. 5, though concern over China’s COVID-19 curbs and weakness in the global economy loomed over the market. Brent crude futures were up $1.59, or 1.7%, to $93.95 a barrel by 11:19 a.m. …
Read More »Iraqi PMF arrested an ISIS leader south of Baghdad
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) arrested on Thursday, an official affiliated with ISIS and carried out a joint operation with the Iraqi army west of Mosul. PMF said in a statement that the Intelligence and Information department apprehended an ISIS official south of Baghdad. The detainees worked with the terrorist …
Read More »Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian man in West Bank
Israeli forces have killed a young Palestinian man in what is claimed to be a response to a stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said the killing was carried out on Friday afternoon as the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on …
Read More »Suspect arrested after assassination bid against Argentina vice-president (Video)
Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner escaped unharmed on Thursday after a man fired a loaded gun at her that failed to go off inches from her head. The attack, which the economy minister called an assassination attempt, comes at a time of acute political and social frictions inside …
Read More »Trump attacks Biden calling him ‘insane’, ‘suffering from dementia’
Former US president Donald Trump has called his predecessor Joe Biden “insane, or suffering from late-stage dementia” after the latter accused Trump and his diehard right-wing supporters of being a threat to the United States. In a speech on Thursday night against Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) …
Read More »UNSC urges Iraqi sides to engage in political dialogue
The United Nations Security Council has “appealed for calm and restraint” in Iraq, asking the parties to refrain from violence and seek a political solution, days after the Arab country saw a two-day turmoil. The UNSC issued a statement on Thursday following this week’s developments in Iraq. Condemning the violence …
Read More »Deadly blast in Afghanistan kills pro-Taliban cleric, 17 others
An explosion outside a mosque in Afghanistan has killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric and a number of civilians, marking the latest in a series of terrorist attacks since the Taliban’s rise to power last year. The blast, which took place during the Friday prayers in the Western city of Herat, …
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