On Monday, the Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Hadi al-Amiri, discussed the political developments in the Iraqi scene with the head of the Wisdom Movement, Ammar al-Hakim, in his office in Baghdad. The meeting was attended by members of the political offices of the Badr Organization and the National Wisdom …

Seoul and Washington are discussing joint nuclear exercises amid flaring tensions with Pyongyang, SK’s President Yoon Suk-yeol has said. Yoon’s comments, made in an interview published Monday, follow similar ones where he called for “war preparation” with an “overwhelming” capability. On Sunday North Korean state media reported that leader Kim …

Football star and Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo is on his way to Saudi Arabia where Saudi club Al Nassr announced he will display his new team’s blue and yellow colors on Tuesday. ?| @Cristiano greets his fans on the way to Riyadh to join his new club! #EKHNews_EN pic.twitter.com/XYU1fTgUhQ — …

A senior health official in the UK has warned that an ongoing crisis in the country’s National Health Service is putting up to 500 lives a week at risk. The President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Adrian Boyle, told the British media that the NHS can’t carry …

Mexican authorities said on Sunday at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez and two more died during a later armed aggression elsewhere in the city. The Chihuahua state prosecutor said in a statement that among those who died in …

Iraq’s Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, chaired on Monday a meeting of the Ministerial Council for Economy. Al-Sudani’s media office said in a statement that the meeting discussed the budget bill draft. The meeting parties laid emphasis on the need to implement strategic plans in the fields of health, education, …

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve attack on their quarters in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk province. Footage posted online showed a building purported to be a vocational college in the town of Makiivka, the twin …

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian youths during a nocturnal raid on a village near the city of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian medical sources said the fatalities were caused as the regime’s forces stormed the village of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin. They identified …

An ancient sarcophagus was returned to Egypt from a museum in the US after authorities determined it was looted. The nearly three meters (9.5ft) tall sarcophagus was housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Texas until Egyptian authorities sought it back as part of government efforts to stop the …