French President Emmanuel Macron and Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Saturday held a phone call to discuss ways of strengthening bilateral relations between the their respective countries and expanding their economic partnership.    

France has banned government employees from using all types of social media platforms, gaming, and video-streaming apps on their work phones, citing cybersecurity and privacy concerns, amid widespread protests across the country. The ban, which comes into force immediately, includes Chinese-owned video-sharing TikTok application, Instagram, Candy Crush, and Netflix, the Ministry …

Top Indian opposition figure and Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi has pledged to continue fighting to preserve India’s democratic values, after he was expelled from the parliament following a defamation case over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Gandhi, 52, who represented a constituency in southern Kerala state as …

At least 19 people have been killed after a powerful tornado whipped through rural Mississippi, and led to flattening homes and knocking out power for thousands. According to the National Weather Service of the United States, the tornado hit Silver City and Rolling Fork on Friday night and caused damage about 60 …

Former US President Donald Trump has warned that filing court charges against him could result in “potential death & destruction,” escalating his attacks on the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation. Trump claimed on his Truth Social messaging platform on Friday that “NO Crime has been committed,” and warned of “catastrophic” results …

Criticism from human rights groups mounted on Friday over the brutality of French police in handling protests opposed to President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. French authorities arrested more than 450 people on Thursday in the most violent day of demonstrations since the start of the year against the bill to …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and the British Ambassador to Iraq, Mark Brassyion Richardson, convened on Saturday, underscoring commitment to bolstering bilateral cooperation and supporting the Iraqi government’s reform, development, and security initiatives.

US President Joe Biden plotted to blow up Russia’s Nord Stream pipelines last year to punish Germany for refusing to supply arms to Ukraine in the midst of the conflict, a leading investigative American journalist has said. In an interview with China Daily, published on Friday, US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist …

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At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured as a tornado and strong thunderstorms swept across Mississippi late on Friday, the state’s emergency management agency said after the twister left a trail of damage for more than 100 miles (160 km). Four people were missing as search and rescue …

Iraq halted crude exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and northern Kirkuk fields on Saturday, an oil official told Reuters, after the country won a longstanding arbitration case against Turkey. Turkey informed Iraq that it will respect the arbitration ruling, a senior Iraqi oil official said. Turkish shipping officials informed …

Firefighters said on Saturday they had stopped Spain’s first major wildfire of the year from spreading further through the eastern Valencia region, where it destroyed more than 4,000 hectares (9,884 acres) of forest and forced 1,500 residents to abandon their homes. An unusually dry winter across parts of southern Europe …

Kiev’s troops are suffering from a lack of ammunition, the Ukrainian president has said Ukraine has not yet accumulated enough resources to stage an offensive, President Vladimir Zelensky has admitted. In an interview released on Saturday by the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri, Zelensky said that the situation on the frontline “was …

Canadians have rallied outside the US embassy in Ottawa to demonstrate against the visit of President Joe Biden, and condemn the West’s supply of weapons to Ukraine. Chanting slogans, holding placards, and waving flags, protesters said the US is a belligerent country that is undermining peace and stability in the world, calling on Washington …

The move follows US oil giant’s pull-out from Chad in December Chad’s energy ministry has announced the nationalization of all the assets and rights that belonged to a subsidiary of US oil major ExxonMobil, including hydrocarbon permits as well as exploration and production permits, according to a Reuters report on …

Qatari billionaire Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani has submitted a new bid worth around 5 billion pounds ($6.12 billion) to buy Manchester United, Sky Sports News reported on Saturday. The second bid was confirmed on Saturday, after Sheikh Jassim’s representatives received an indefinite extension on Tuesday for an original deadline …

Beijing insists it would never ask any Chinese company to collect data or intelligence abroad. China has rejected charges by US officials that TikTok is used to collect Americans’ data, rebutting the claims after the company’s CEO was grilled by lawmakers in Washington amid growing calls to ban the popular …

Aleksandar Vucic was marking the 24th anniversary of the bloc’s bombing campaign, which killed thousands Serbians could only forget the “aggression” unleashed by the US-led NATO, in 1999, if their country ceases to exist, President Aleksandar Vucic warned on Friday. He was marking the 24th anniversary of the military bloc’s …

Israeli authorities have published tenders for more than 1,000 new settler units in the West Bank and East al-Quds, irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s illegal settlement expansion activities and land grab policies across the occupied Palestinian territories. The anti-settlement group Peace Now said in a …

The US and Canada have announced an immigration plan that will change the way they take in asylum seekers. While Ottawa vowed to accept 15,000 additional migrants, the deal allows both countries to reject those who arrive at unofficial border crossings. US President Joe Biden unveiled the new agreement alongside …