The Portuguese superstar is currently without a club after leaving Manchester United Five-time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo has agreed to join Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr from January 1, according to Spanish sports newspaper Marca. Ronaldo, 37, left Manchester United on the eve of the Qatar 2022 World Cup by …

Iraq’s Parliament will approve the 2023 budget of 140 trillion Iraqi dinars ($ 95,923,261,000.00) in the coming days. A source in the Parliamentary Finance committee, Mouin Al-Kadhimi, revealed that Prime Minister Muhammad S. Al-Sudani directed the minister of finance to complete the 140-trillion-dinars budget law to approve it and then …

The Italian authorities have reported 4.6-magnitude earthquakes near the Aeolian Islands Earthquakes and tsunami waves have been registered in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Sicily after a volcano violently erupted on the Italian island of Stromboli on Sunday. According to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Monday reiterated his country’s willingness to expand the cooperation with the United Nations to resolve the displacement and climate change issues. Al-Sudani’s remarks came during a meeting with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, his bureau in …

Sudan’s military and political parties signed a framework deal on Monday that provides for a two-year civilian-led transition towards elections and would end a standoff triggered by a coup in October 2021. The initial agreement would limit the military’s formal role to a security and defense council headed by a …

The bloc may reportedly blacklist 180 Russian entities and individuals in the tech, financial, and media sectors EU officials have discussed a new sanctions package against Russia over the Ukraine war, Politico reported on Monday. The potential additional restrictions include nearly two hundred listings linked to key Russian industries, including …

South Korea says the North has fired a barrage of artillery shells into a maritime buffer zone. Pyongyang says it was a warning against Seoul’s “provocative actions.” The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that about 130 artillery rounds were simultaneously fired from two separate sites, …

Saudi forces have reportedly re-arrested a distinguished Shia Muslim cleric, as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on members of the religious community. According to Press TV, social media activists reported that members of the Presidency of State Security detained Sheikh Kadhim al-Amri, a well-known Shia scholar …

China has denounced as “illegal” the US stationing of troops in Syria and the smuggling of oil and grain from the war-torn Arab country. According to Press TV, media reports say the US occupation forces have sent 54 oil-laden tankers from northeastern Syria to their bases in northern Iraq. Some Syrians reportedly …

Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes has said that the US looks to shift its air defense systems from the West Asia to Ukraine. According to Politico, Hayes said the US is working with West Asian countries to move a handful of their air defense systems to Ukraine. The goal is to …

The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led. According to Press TV, the event, which was first of a planned five sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), was …

Japan is set to allocate 40 to 43 trillion yen ($295 to $318 billion) for military spending over five years from the next fiscal year that begins in April, reports say. That’s a relative jump from the current five-year military plan to spend 27.5 trillion yen and raises concerns that …

The European Union and the Group of Seven industrialized nations have agreed on a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil imports in an alleged attempt to starve Russia’s ongoing special operation in Ukraine. The bloc and the Group of Seven that includes the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, the United States, …

The United States has accused a Russian private military company of “threatening religious freedom” in the Central African Republic, adding its name to a list that also features the Daesh and al-Qaeda Takfiri terrorist outfits. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the designation on Friday, declaring the Wagner Group …

The US troops stationed in Lithuania near the border have prepared to get into military engagement with Russian forces, according to Lithuania’s top brass. Lithuanian Chief of Defense Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupsys said on Friday that the US forces stationed in the eastern European country along the border with Belarus …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-sudani on Saturday pledged to manhunt the perpetrators of the Speicher massacre that saw as many as 1,700 Iraqi airforces cadets shot dead by the hands of ISIS militants in 2014. Al-Sudani’s remarks came during a visit to the camp where the crime took place …

The House of Representatives voted to grant confidence by an absolute majority to Bankin Abdullah Rikani, as Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, and Nizar Muhammad Saeed, as Minister of Environment

Edward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor who leaked information about America’s surveillance programs, has received a Russian passport after swearing an oath of allegiance to the country. According to Press TV, Snowden, 39, was granted Russian citizenship in an order signed by President Vladimir Putin in September. …

US President Joe Biden signed into law Friday a rare intervention by Congress forcing freight rail unions to accept a salary deal, avoiding a possibly devastating strike — but putting the pro-union Democrat in an awkward political position. Biden signed the law in a brief White House ceremony only a …

Japan and South Korea have imposed new sanctions on North Korean individuals and entities in response to Pyongyang’s recent missile tests, a day after the US targeted North Korea with sanctions. The US on Thursday froze any assets held by three North Korean officials in the United States. The US …