Ex-US President Donald Trump thinks that incumbent leader Joe Biden has brought the world to the brink of a third world war. “Joe Biden has brought us to the brink of World War Three. We’re at the brink of World War Three, just in case anybody doesn’t know it,” he …
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Integrity Commission: Control of exchange transactions in violation of the law and exaggeration at Najaf Airport and Education Directory
The Federal Integrity Commission announced the implementation of (7) seizures of illegal exchange transactions and excessive maintenance work in Najaf Governorate, indicating that the total sums spent on it amounted to about one and a quarter billion dinars. The Media Center of the Commission stated in a statement that the …
Read More »Indian police detain more students over Modi controversial documentary screenings
University students across India are either being suspended or being detained by the police, over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role during the deadly Gujarat sectarian riots in 2002, as India continues to stop even the personal viewing of the documentary. In one …
Read More »Tunisia holds second round of parliamentary elections with turnout under scrutiny
Tunisians have headed to polls to take part in the second round of parliamentary elections, as all eyes are on the turnout amid deepening economic woes. A total of 262 candidates are competing for 131 seats in the new legislature, a body largely stripped of its powers following President Kais …
Read More »14 dead as Ukraine’s army strikes hospital with US-made missiles: Russia
Russia says Ukraine’s army has attacked a hospital in Luhansk using a US-made rocket system, killing at least 14 people. Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Ukrainian forces “deliberately attacked the building of a district hospital” in the town of Novoaidar. The strike was carried out …
Read More »Tens of thousands of Portuguese teachers take to streets in Lisbon to demand better pay
Tens of thousands of public school teachers and school staff have marched through the streets of capital Lisbon to demand higher wages and better working conditions. According to Press TV, the Saturday demonstrations were seen as a further step by the country’s teachers to put more pressure on the Portuguese …
Read More »2 US police officers involved in the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols ‘relieved of duty’
Two US police officers who were involved in the brutal killing of a Black man have been suspended following mass protests against police brutality in the country. The officers belonging to Shelby County, Tennessee, who responded to the scene of Tyre Nichols’s deadly arrest, were “relieved of duty,” Shelby County …
Read More »Syria strongly rejects OPCW’s ‘misleading report’ on alleged 2018 chemical attack
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has categorically rejected a report by the chemical weapons watchdog, accusing Damascus of an alleged 2018 chemical attack against its own people. “Syria totally rejects the report released by the so-called ‘Investigation and Identification Team’ of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) about …
Read More »Thousands of protesters hold fresh anti-Netanyahu rallies in Tel Aviv
Tens of thousands of protesters have held a massive rally again in Tel Aviv in the Occupied Territories against Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial reforms, which they say aim to weaken the regime’s Supreme Court in favor of the Israeli prime minister and his extremist cabinet. According to Press TV, the …
Read More »Israeli soldiers open direct fire at Palestinian journalists near West Bank city of Nablus
Israeli forces have opened direct fire on Palestinian journalists in the flashpoint town of Beita, near the West Bank city of Nablus, as tensions continue to escalate in the Occupied Territories. Wahaj Bani Moufleh said he and his colleague Mohammad Sumrin were covering the closure of the town’s entrance with …
Read More »CIA chief visits occupied territories amid deadly Jenin raid
CIA director William Burns has arrived in Tel Aviv to visit occupied territories and the West Bank, where he is expected to meet Israeli and Palestinian officials, two informed American sources have said. The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said on Friday that Burns arrived in Tel Aviv on Thursday and met …
Read More »Qur’an burning amounts to declaration of war against Muslim world, Ansarullah chief says
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has severely censured the desecration of the holy Qur’an by a far-right Swedish-Danish politician in Stockholm and Copenhagen, terming the sacrilegious move as a declaration of war against the Muslim world. Addressing a ceremony in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on Friday …
Read More »Parliament finishes reading and discussing five laws
The House of Representatives, in its third session of its first term for the second legislative year, within the fifth electoral session held today, Saturday, headed by Muhammad al-Halbousi, Speaker of the Council, and in the presence of 199 MPs, finished reading and discussing five draft laws. The media department …
Read More »Al-Sudani stresses the importance of exchanging experiences with Morocco in the fight against extremism and terrorism
The Prime Minister, Muhammad Al-Sudani, stressed the importance of exchanging experiences with Morocco in the file of combating extremism and terrorism. According to a statement by his media office, Al-Sudani received, today, Saturday, Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Cooperation, Nasser Bourita, and his accompanying delegation. The Moroccan minister …
Read More »Al-Amiri condemns the Israeli aggressive actions against the Palestinian people and praises the resistance
The head of al-Fatah Alliance, Hadi Al-Amiri, condemned the Israeli aggressive actions against the Palestinian people. Al-Amiri said in a statement, “We express our strong condemnation of the aggressive actions that the Zionist occupation authorities have been committing against the brotherly Palestinian people,” stressing that “the Zionist entity and its …
Read More »EU Commission says Ukraine has ‘unconditional support’ in war with Russia
The European Commission says Ukraine has the unconditional support of the European Union in the war with Russia. Speaking at an event in Germany on Saturday, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Kiev needed to defend European values. “We stand by Ukraine’s side without any ifs and buts.” According to …
Read More »Protests erupt in Berlin against government decision to send tanks to Ukraine
People have staged a rally in Berlin to protest against the government’s decision to send battle tanks to Kiev, and to denounce the United States as the utmost pusher of the war in Ukraine. Demonstrators, who took to the streets on Friday, opposed the escalation of regional conflicts and called …
Read More »Protests erupt across US after video shows fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols
The release of a graphic video clip showing five police officers in early January beating to death an African-American man in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee, has prompted widespread protests in several major cities across the country. The rallies broke out late Friday shortly after the release of police …
Read More »US general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to get ready
A four-star US Air Force general has warned of a possible military conflict with China over Taiwan as early as 2025, urging his commanders to push their units to reach maximum readiness for military operations this year. In a memo first released to the media on Friday and later confirmed …
Read More »UK house rents hit record high in decades, as cost-of-living crisis deepens
The average monthly rent across Britain, excluding London, has hit a new record of £1,172 per month, a leading British property company has reported, as the people are struggling to cope with the surging inflation and worsening cost-of-living crisis. Rightmove, a UK-based real estate company, said on its website on Friday that …
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