A Rasmussen survey has found that only 18% of US voters are convinced that the government played no role in the January 6 breach More than six in ten Americans believe it’s at least “somewhat likely” that federal government agents helped provoke the January 2021 Capitol riot, a new poll …

A judge in Baghdad issued arrest warrants on Saturday (March 4) for four former officials from former Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s government for their alleged involvement in Iraq’s massive $2.5 billion corruption scandal, Agence France Presse (AFP) said. According to an official cited by AFP, the warrants include former finance …

The European Union said Saturday it was setting up a “humanitarian air bridge” to deliver aid to Goma in the conflict-hit eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, where fighting with the rebel group M23 has displaced more than 600,000 people. …

Three children were found dead and two others injured inside a home in the Ellis County city of Italy in US Texas state on Friday afternoon, police said. Ellis County Sheriff’s Deputy Jerry Cozby said law enforcement officers were first called about 4 p.m. to a home on the 300 …

While Saudi media reported a large fire in eastern Saudi Arabia, some social media users claimed that the fire was ignited by a missile attack. Saudi media, on Friday evening, without mentioning the cause, reported the occurrence of a fire in the industrial city of Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia. …

A large fire broke out Friday evening at a fuel storage depot in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, killing at least 17 people. At least 17 people were killed when a fire broke out on Friday at a fuel storage station operated by Indonesia’s state energy company Pertamina (PERTM.UL) in the capital …

An explosion and fire near an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region killed at least 12 people Friday, police said, although local residents reported a much higher death toll. The explosion in the Emuoha council area of the southern Rivers state occurred along a pipeline targeted by …

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani, said the primary challenge in Iraq is “corruption.” In an interview with Al-Arabiya TV, Al-Sudani considers ISIS a threat in the country, but corruption is the number-one challenge. Concerning foreign intervention, the prime minister stressed that “neither the United States nor other country …

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has condemned rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. In his speech on the opening day of the UN’s Least Developed Countries (LDC) summit in Qatar on Saturday, Guterres said that wealthy nations should provide …

North Korea on Saturday blamed the United States for what it said was the collapse of international arms control systems and said Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons were a just response to ensure the balance of power in the region. “The Korean peninsula is turning into the world’s biggest powderkeg and war …

Russian artillery pounded the last routes out of Bakhmut on Friday, aiming to complete the encirclement of the besieged Ukrainian city and bring Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest battle of the war. The head of Russia’s Wagner private army said the …

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi held talks for a second day in Iran on Saturday aimed to cooperate with a probe into uranium traces found at undeclared sites. Grossi, who arrived in Tehran on a two-day visit on Friday, met for the second time …

Six European countries have called on the Israeli regime to halt the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank amid escalated tensions between Palestinians and extremist settlers. In a joint statement on Saturday, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Poland, and Spain said that the illegal entity should “reverse …