Abdul Rahim al-Hwaiti was shot dead by security forces after refusing to give up his property for a mega-project. Saudi activists and dissidents have disputed an official narrative alleging a Saudi citizen who refused government orders to give up hi...
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say President Donald Trump was too slow in taking major steps to address the threat to the United States from new coronavirus, a poll published on Thursday said. According to the Pew Research Center, 65 percent said T...
US Space Command accused Russia of testing a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile on Wednesday, alleging that the test was “another example that the threats to US and allied space systems” were ” real, serious and growing.” The US militar...
US President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday there had been “a concerted effort” by congressional Democrats “to make life difficult” by refusing to approve his nominations for several vacant offices. The Senate is in recess until May 4, although ...
Americans filed 5.2 million jobless claims last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, pushing the four-week total to over 22 million as the coronavirus pandemic continued to send the workforce into a tailspin. The new report, which covers t...
Saudi Arabia has conducted its 800th execution under the five-year reign of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz last week, the UK-based human rights organisation Reprieve reported yesterday. This is double the amount of executions recorded since 2015 ...
Britain’s leading arms manufacturer is found to have sold above £15 billion ($18.9) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the kingdom started a brutal war against Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished nation. The Guardian carried a news article o...
The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 126,898 on Wednesday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT from official sources. More than 2,001,200 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territor...
The coronavirus death toll in the US surpassed 26,000 Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were more than 609,000 confirmed cases in the country. The United States recorded 2,228 deaths related to the coronavirus over the past 24 h...
Warships of Zionist enemy targeted on Wednesday with machine gun fire Palestinian fishermen boats off the sea of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. The news agency “Safa” quoted eyewitnesses as saying: The Zionist gunboats targeted t...
The Omani Health Ministry Tuesday reported 86 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s overall infections to 813 and four deaths. The ministry confirmed that six more patients of Covid-19 have recovered, raising the number of recoveries to 130 ...
Egypt’s Interior Ministry announced that a national security officer killed and another one along with several soldiers were wounded in a shootout in Cairo on Tuesday. The ministry said in a statement that the police forces exchange of fire with a t...
The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 120,013 on Tuesday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT from official sources. More than 1,923,390 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territorie...
UK health officials on Tuesday reported that the country’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has increased by at least 813 in the last 24 hours with England alone recording 744 more deaths. On Monday, UK health authorities reported that the t...
Jordan ended a period of total curfew in the kingdom’s provinces at midnight of Monday, during which citizens were prevented from leaving their homes altogether. With the end of the 48-hour ban, citizens are allowed to leave their homes to provide s...
A senior official with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically dismissed as “untrue” reports that it will soon reach a deal to swap prisoners with Israeli Enemy. Moussa Dodin, member of Hamas’ political bureau, made the comment in...
The Libyan National Army, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar shot down a Turkish drone plane that took off from the Maitiqa military base in the capital Tripoli, the Libyan National Army (LNA) said Tuesday. The Libyan National Army’s Military Infor...
The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 114,539 on Monday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT from official sources. More than 1,853,300 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories...
One of the 584 sailors who tested positive for coronavirus aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt has died in Guam of complications related to the virus, the Navy has announced. The unnamed sailor, whose anonymity is being preserved pending next-of-kin...
Lendman said, “There's no question that the Iraqis want the US out. The US has no intention of leaving. All countries it went to war against, it occupies them, it considers them permanent US sovereign territory, wants to exploit the people, wants to ...