Today, Wednesday, the President of the Republic, Abdul Latif Gamal Rashid, called for the need to open an investigation and find out the circumstances of the incident in the wedding hall in Hamdaniya. The President of the Republic said in a blog post on the X website: “What happened to …

The Governor of Nineveh, Najm al-Jubouri, announced today, Wednesday, a week of mourning and the postponement of special celebrations on the occasion of the birth of the Prophet (PBUH) following a fire in the wedding hall in Al-Hamdaniya. A statement from his office received by Al-Ghadeer stated, “Al-Jubouri declared mourning …

Today, Wednesday, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) offered condolences to the victims of the wedding hall fire incident in Nineveh. The mission stated in a blog post on its page on the “X” website: “We feel shock and pain due to the huge loss of life and …

The Nineveh Governorate Health Department announced today, Wednesday, that 100 deaths and 150 injuries were recorded as a preliminary toll as a result of the Hamdaniya space fire incident. Ministry of Health spokesman Saif Al-Badr said, “The Nineveh Health Department recorded 100 deaths and more than 150 injured as a …

The Russian foreign ministry says Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s latest remarks on distancing his country from its alliance with Moscow are aimed at shifting blame for his failures onto Moscow while submitting to Western pressure was behind the “severe” defeat in Karabakh. In a statement on Monday, the ministry …

Niger’s military government has demanded a “negotiated framework” for the French troop planned pull-out from the West African country. In a statement released overnight, the government said the timeframe for the pull-out “must be set out in a negotiated framework and by mutual agreement.” The statement came after French President …

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused Guyana on Monday of allowing Exxon Mobile to take over a long-disputed border region rich in oil. During his weekly TV show, Maduro said that Exxon-Mobile, a company bidding for the offshore oil blocks, and the United States Southern Command were transforming Guyana into a US military …

Russian Black Sea Fleet commander Viktor Sokolov has appeared at a meeting in footage released by the country’s defense ministry, a day after Ukraine claimed to have killed him in a missile strike. The Russian defense ministry released the video and photos on Tuesday, showing Sokolov — one of Moscow’s most senior …

Today, Tuesday, the Ministry of Oil announced the final statistics for the quantities of crude oil exported and the revenues generated for the month of August. The Ministry stated, in a statement received by Al-Ghadeer, that “according to the final statistics issued by the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), the …

Last week, the “hacker” who targeted the Kuwaiti Ministry of Finance announced that the data he succeeded in obtaining after penetrating one of the ministry’s systems was being offered for sale. The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai reported that the hackers set the required ransom amount at 15 bitcoins (about 400,000 US …

Oil prices fell on Tuesday, amid fears that demand for fuel will be affected by major central banks keeping interest rates high for a longer period, even as supply is expected to tighten. Brent crude futures fell 38 cents to $92.91 a barrel by 0400 GMT, while US West Texas …

Colombian second division club Tigres FC has announced its president, Edgar Paez, was fatally shot after his team’s loss on Saturday night. According to local media reports, the 63-year-old Paez was driving home with his daughter after a home loss to Atletico FC when he was shot by two men …

National Security Advisor Qasim Al-Araji met in his official office in Baghdad with the Kuwaiti Deputy Ambassador to Iraq, Fahd Al-Fadhli, and discussed with him a number of issues of common interest. A statement by the Iraqi National Security Advisory stated that the two sides discussed during the meeting ways …

Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement says Saudi Arabia and its allies continue to violate the terms of a UN-brokered truce, stressing that 12 Yemeni soldiers got killed in one month along border areas. Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the spokesman of Ansarullah and head of Yemen’s national negotiating delegation, told Reuters news agency on Tuesday …

Palestinians have continued to protest near the border fence between the besieged Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied territories for the 10th consecutive day against the Israeli settler incursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque complex. On Monday, protesters waved Palestinian flags and set tires ablaze, amid chants condemning settler raids into the flashpoint …

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has vowed that his country will stand against the “wanton expansion” of military alliances, amid reports on the US-led NATO’s plan to open a liaison office in the Asia-Pacific. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday, Yi said his country would “oppose the …

More than 250 gatherings targeting Muslims were held across 17 Indian states over the first half of the current year, according to a report which highlights a rising pattern of anti-Muslim sentiment in India from 2014 onwards. The report, published by Hindutva Watch on Sunday, used real-time data to identify …

A powerful explosion rocked the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Monday evening, causing significant casualties and further turmoil as ethnic Armenians continued to leave the area following the recent Azerbaijani military offensive. The explosion occurred at a fuel storage facility near the regional capital of Stepanakert, leaving more than 200 people wounded, …

The Israeli tourism minister has travelled to Saudi Arabia for a United Nations conference, his office said, describing the visit as the first public trip to the country by an Israeli cabinet member. Haim Katz’s two-day visit to Riyadh comes as Saudi Arabia is pursuing a possible United States-brokered deal …

U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed without pay if Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. Workers deemed “essential” would remain on the job, but without pay. Many government agencies have not updated shutdown plans they have …