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A truck filled with 2,000kg of illegal fireworks has exploded while police officers were in the process of seizing the goods. EXPLOSION! LAPD was disposing of illegal fireworks in South LA when the explosion occurred. At least 5 are injured. @KTLA @heli_CvP pic.twitter.com/99e9TzVtOr — Ryder Christ (@RyderChristNews) July 1, 2021 …

The United States on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries that are implicated in the use of child soldiers over the past year, placing a NATO ally for the first time in such a list, in a move that is likely to further complicate the already fraught ties …

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations says a guarantee by the United States that it will never unilaterally withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal again is crucial to a successful conclusion of the ongoing talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the agreement. Speaking to reporters after a United Nations Security …

Donald Rumsfeld’s legacy is “death and destruction, and a militarized American public,” American journalist Don DeBar has said, commenting on the death of the former US defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war. Rumsfeld died at the age of 88 in Taos, New Mexico, his family …

President Joe Biden will nominate academic Amy Gutmann as US ambassador to Germany, two sources familiar with the issue said on Wednesday, as the two countries move closer after relations deteriorated under former President Donald Trump. Gutmann, 71, who would be the first woman to serve in the role, is …

Search-and-rescue efforts stretched through a sixth day on Tuesday at the site of a collapsed Florida condominium complex where at least a dozen people died and 149 more remained missing amid fading hopes of finding anyone else alive. Remains of the 12th casualty in the disaster, which could rank as …

Fighting with government forces in central Afghan cities comes as foreign troops continue to withdrawal from the country. Taliban fighters have launched an attack on Ghazni, clashing with Afghan forces and using explosives in an attempt to seize the central Afghan city, local officials have said. Tuesday’s assault on Ghazni, …

A source reported today that a meeting was held between the head of the Al-Fatah Alliance Hadi Al-Amiri and Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in the Green Zone. The source told Alghadeer News that during the meeting, Al-Amiri stressed that the demands of the political forces and armed factions changed after …

More US voices have joined the chorus of opposition to President Joe Biden’s weekend airstrikes against facilities belonging to Iraqi anti-terror resistance groups on the Iraq-Syria border, with Democrats expressing frustration over his decision to sidestep Congress again. Democratic lawmakers have already been infuriated over Biden’s airstrikes in the region …

The head of Al-Fateh Alliance Hadi Al-Amiri, military and political leaders in the funeral ceremony of the Popular Mobilization Forces- PMF martyrs, following the American aggression on the Iraqi-Syrian border.    

Search-and-rescue teams pulled two more bodies from the concrete and steel rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium tower on Monday, bringing the death toll to 11 with 150 people still listed as missing four days after the disaster. Pouring rain and slabs of cement hampered round-the-clock efforts to pick …

The Iranian spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday urged the parties in the Vienna talks to make their decisions on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “We have made and announced the decisions we should have …

Eleven people were shot, one fatally, in gunfire in a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago late Sunday, Chicago Tribune reported on Monday. The shooting happened around 10:55 p.m. when three men emerged from an alley and fired shots into a crowd of people standing outside. A woman who …

Al-Fatah Alliance condemned the US bombardment of a force of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) near the Iraqi-Syrian borders, deeming the attack proof for the U.S. pervasiveness against the Iraqi people. A statement of the political bloc issued today, Monday, mourned the fighters who perished in the airstrike, “by the …

The official death toll from the partial collapse of a high-rise condominium complex near Miami rose to nine on Sunday, with more than 150 people still missing, as rescue teams picked through the rubble for a fourth day without detecting further signs of life.

The United States claims it has conducted airstrikes against three targets allegedly belonging to Iraqi resistance groups along with Iraq and Syria’s common border.

Donald Trump held his first big campaign-style rally since leaving the White House, giving a vintage, rambling speech Saturday to an adoring audience as he launched a series of appearances ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned Iran that it will become “very hard” to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement if negotiations in Vienna on a potential revival of the multilateral deal continue without progress.

A press videographer who was traveling with President Ashraf Ghani’s delegation tested positive for COVID-19, according to a notification released by Congress’s Office of Attending Physician on Friday.

A judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22-1/2 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020, a video of which galvanized a national protest movement against racism.