The Arab League has reportedly granted Syria a conditional return to the 22-member body with immediate effect. The decision was made by Arab foreign ministers during a closed-door meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, media reports said. An Egyptian diplomat told the Abu Dhabi-based The National newspaper that …

A US F-16 jetfighter has crashed during military drills near South Korean capital Seoul, the US Air Force has announced, saying the pilot had safely ejected prior to the crash. “An F-16 Fighting Falcon assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing crashed in an agricultural area near Osan Air Base at …

British police have arrested leading republican movement and other organizers of an anti-monarchist protest, ahead of King Charles’ coronation on Saturday. A photo posted on Twitter showed Graham Smith, head of anti-monarchist group Republic, sitting on the ground surrounded by a group of police officers. An officer at the scene …

Thousands of people have staged a protest rally against a proposed nuclear submarine base at Port Kembla in eastern Australia as part of the country’s $244.1 billion AUKUS military pact with the United States and Britain. Protesters marched on Saturday carrying trade union flags and banners to voice their opposition …

More than 200 people have died in flash floods in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy rain destroyed buildings and forced aid workers to gather mud-clad corpses into piles. According to South Kivu governor Theo Ngwabije, dozens of people were unaccounted for in the Kalehe region, west of Lake …

The death of a 30-year-old homeless Black man, who was killed when a white man put him in a chokehold on the New York City subway, led to widespread outcry and protests in the United States. On Friday, New York City was reeling from the death of Jordan Neely, who …

A senior Russian diplomat has warned that the US and Russia are on the verge of an “open armed conflict” just two days after a suspected drone attack at the Kremlin that Moscow has blamed on Washington and Kiev. “We are working on preventing a fall of our relations with …

A local sheriff said police and fire crews responded to reports of an explosion at the facility. At least eight workers were hospitalized after a fire broke out at a Shell chemical plant in Texas on Friday, sending a towering column of black smoke into the sky. Officials say they …

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Saturday they would not return to Myanmar to “be confined in camps” after making a visit to the country as part of efforts to encourage their voluntary repatriation. Nearly one million Rohingya Muslims are living in camps in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox’s …

On Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad S. Al-Sudani met with Iranian Minister of Energy Ali Akbar Mehrabian and his delegation in Baghdad. The meeting focused on enhancing cooperation in the energy sector and addressing regional and international challenges. Discussions included topics such as electricity supply to the Iraqi national grid …

American weapon dealers have “swarmed” to Taiwan, seeking new business opportunities, Beijing has said. US military support for Taiwan is turning the island into a “powder keg” and risks igniting a regional conflict, China has warned, urging Washington to cease weapon sales to Taipei, while warning of “consequences” for countries …

Iraq has taken a significant step towards preserving its cultural heritage by receiving 6,000 artifacts borrowed from the British Museum for study purposes since 1923. The handover ceremony was attended by the Iraqi Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities, Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani, the Iraqi ambassador to London, Jaafar al-Sadr, and …

Envoys of Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are in Jeddah for talks on Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said, as the gathering’s international mediators pressed for an end to a conflict that has devastated the country. The U.S.-Saudi initiative is the first serious attempt to end three weeks …

King Charles III was anointed and crowned on Saturday in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years. In front of a congregation of about 100 world leaders and a television audience of millions, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of …

Israeli troops have shot and killed two Palestinians during a raid on a refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank, amid increasing tensions following the martyrdom of a top leader of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement in an Israeli jail. The two martyrs shot by the occupation …

Three members of a Saudi Arabian tribe opposed to the kingdom’s Neom megacity project have been sentenced to death, according to over a dozen UN rights experts. The men are from the Howaitat tribe, which inhabits the desert area in northwestern Saudi Arabia where the futuristic megacity is under construction. …

Police arrested a suspect on Friday after eight people were killed and 14 wounded in Serbia’s second mass shooting in two days in what President Aleksandar Vucic called a “terrorist attack” as the government approved tough new gun controls. The Balkan country was already reeling from a mass shooting on …

A London court has jailed Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu for nine years and eight months in Britain’s first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday. Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, and London-based doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were sentenced to four years and six months, and ten years, respectively, …

New orders at German factories have registered the biggest plummet since the covid-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, according to the latest data which has raised fears that Europe’s biggest economy might slip into recession. Demand for new orders declined by 10.7% on a seasonally and calendar-adjusted basis in March 2023 …

The Joint Operations Command announced on Friday that three ISIS members were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi fighter jets yesterday in Kirkuk. According to a statement issued by the Operations Command, Iraqi F16 aircraft targeted a terrorist cell in the Wadi al-Shai valley. The statement indicated that …