The World Health Organization warned on Saturday that recovering from coronavirus may not protect people from reinfection as the death toll from the pandemic approached 200,000 around the globe. Governments across the world are struggling to lim...
According to a directive from the Kingdom’s Supreme Court ,Saudi Arabia will abolish flogging as a form of punishment,adding that flogging will be replaced by imprisonment or fines. As reported by BBC, the directive issued on Friday says this was a...
A number of European countries, including NATO members, who would like to ask Russia for help amid the coronavirus pandemic are not allowed to do so by their patrons, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday. “We know from various sources th...
US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering replacing its secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar, because of early missteps in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal and Politico reported on Saturd...
The air defenses of the Syrian Army confronted on Monday an “Israeli” aggression over Palmyra and shot down a number of the hostile missiles. According to media reports at nearly 11 p.m., the army air defenses confronted an “Israeli” missile aggress...
In a press statement, the head of the Liberated and Imprisoned Palestinian Affairs Authority, Qadri Abu Bakr, announced that a prisoner, Mohammed Majed Hassan, 21, had been infected with Coronavirus inside the Zionist “Al-Maskubiya” prison, two days...
The Iraqi government has announced that it will reopen the three border crossings with Iran to resume trade activities between the two countries. Omar al-Waeli, head of the border affairs department at the Iraqi Interior Ministry, said that in respo...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says neither the United States nor its European allies, with their ‘flimsy’ misreading of the landmark nuclear deal of 2015, is allowed to ‘lecture’ the Islamic Republic on its missile program. “US has be...
A spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” Hazem Qassem said that the widespread international rejection of the statements of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about his support for the West Bank annexation of the Israeli enemy, confirms...
A telephone call last month between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman degenerated into a shouting match just before Riyadh decided to flood the market with oil in a move which sent prices spiraling. Saud...
China firmly opposes the politicisation of nuclear energy cooperation by the United States, Foreign Ministry representative Geng Shuang said on Friday in the wake of a US nuclear energy strategy paper published a day earlier. The report stated that ...
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic crossed 190,000 on Friday, with nearly two-thirds of the fatalities in Europe, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources at 0740 GMT. A total of 190,089 people have died and 2,69...
The Yemeni Foreign Ministry in Sanaa on Thursday condemned the statements of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding the annexation of parts of the West Bank by the Zionist entity. “The United States of America was the one that legalized the usu...
The Department of Defence said in a press release on Wednesday that 82 additional military personnel have contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total to 3,578. Eighty-five US service members are currently hospitalized and 1,073 ...
The United States on Wednesday recorded 1,738 deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a lower toll than the day before, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University. The new deaths bring the total number of COVID-19 fatalities...
For the first time in history, the price of a barrel of US oil reaches zero, meaning that oil is freely distributed by producers in exchange for the cost of transporting it only to its final destination. Economists have revealed many of the causes of...
News reports stated that four Saudi tankers loaded with crude oil left Saudi Arabia in late March and are still stuck in the sea since April 1, off the coast of Egypt, Singapore and Malaysia without a final destination. The reports added that Saudi A...
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah on Wednesday elaborated on the excellence of Ramadan Month, calling on believers to take the opportunity of this holy month in order to get closer to Allah. In a televised address just few d...
China has blasted the United States for its move to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) amid global fight against the new coronavirus pandemic, saying the measure reflects Washington’s typical hegemonic mindset. Chinese Foreign M...
The death toll from the novel coronavirus in Europe has passed 110,000, according to figures compiled by AFP from official sources by 0920 GMT on Wednesday. With 110,192 people dead from 1,246,840 cases registered, Europe is the hardest hit contine...