Arab and International

China has strongly refuted recent accusations by US President Donald Trump that Beijing authorities were responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing "mass worldwide killing". Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on…

The amount of military spending within Saudi budgets in its led-coalition against Yemen during the past five years exceeded its spending on the education and health sectors, reaching 20.9% of the total government spending. The financial…

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah affirmed the commitment of the resistance forces to the Palestinian cause, and move alongside the Palestinian people and loyal forces of the nation, to achieve the victory that is near,…

By Agha Hussain Over five years and billions of dollars’ worth of imported weaponry have gone to waste for Saudi Arabia in its war effort in Yemen. The Ansarullah movement, or ‘the Houthis’, which the Saudis tried to destroy to…

US homebuilding dropped to a five-year low in April, underlining fears that the novel Coronavirus crisis would lead to the deepest economic contraction in the second quarter since the Great Depression. Housing starts tumbling…

US President Trump said today that he is considering a travel ban on Latin America and called the high number of US Covid-19 cases a “badge of honor” because it means the US is testing more people. “We are considering it,” the…

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday offered his most vocal to date opposition to the Israeli government’s moves to annex Zionist settlements as part of the move to claim sovereignty over the occupied West Bank…

Muslims, non-Muslims and all freedom-seeking people across the world are bracing to celebrate the glorious Quds Day, a day that epitomizes the Palestinians’ entrenched valor and heroic resistance over the years against an illegal entity…

Iran’s Defense Minister says the Islamic Republic will give a crushing answer to any aggressor when it comes to defending its national security. Speaking in a meeting with the Iranian Parliament’s Commission on National Security and…

The Hamas resistance movement says the Israeli captives held in Gaza since Tel Aviv’s 2014 war on the blockaded Palestinian enclave will not be released until a “real” agreement is reached on exchanging prisoners. “A real…

Sanaa discussed with Tehran on Tuesday the humanitarian situation in Yemen as a result of the continued war and siege imposed by the Saudi-led coalition, and ways to deliver humanitarian aid and medicines to confront Coronavirus in Yemen.…

There have now been some 4,804,000 confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus globally, and 316,703 people have lost their lives, according to Johns Hopkins University. Some 1,858,754 people have also recovered from the…

China has been transparent, responsible, and prompt in its response to the coronavirus and sharing information with other countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday. “In China, after making painstaking efforts and enormous…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the World Health Organization is “damaging” its credibility by preventing Taiwan from obtaining observer status. WHO’s member states agreed during the virtual World Health Assembly to…

Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, confirmed that the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and the Iraqi Army stopped ISIS in Iraq. He added that "the Popular Mobilization Units is the eye of the homeland and all Iraqis will continue to…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II warns Israel that the regime should wait for a major clash with the kingdom if it goes ahead with plans to annex the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley. Abdullah said in…

Hamas has categorically rejected all projects aimed at undermining the Palestinian people's rights and their cause, stressing that the much-condemned US "peace" proposal and Israel's annexation plans are atop of these schemes. In a…

A number of captured members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have confessed to close cooperation with US military forces stationed at al-Tanf base in the central Syrian province of Homs to carry out various acts of terror and sabotage.…

Zionist enemy boats opened, on Saturday morning, heavy machine gun fire towards Palestinian fishermen boats off the northwestern Gaza Strip, while settlers cut dozens of olive trees in the West Bank. Palestinian sources reported that the…

China's ambassador to the United Nations, Wang Qun, says the United States’ position against the World Health Organization (WHO) is artificially prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, warning against the consequences of Washington’s…

The novel coronavirus has killed more than 300,000 people worldwide, mostly in Europe and the United States, since it emerged in China late last year, according to an AFP tally of official figures on Thursday at 2030 GMT. A total of…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the emerging coronavirus may never disappear and that it may turn into a disease that humankind will have to live with. “We have a new virus that infects humankind for the first time,…

Isma’il Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political bureau confirmed that there is a movement for the possibility of indirect negotiations with the Israeli occupation to reach a prisoner exchange deal. Haniyeh stressed that so far there has not…

Mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims, report says. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has accidentally disclosed the name of a Saudi diplomat suspected of…

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 297,259 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Thursday. At least 4,362,090 cases of coronavirus…

A total of 2,981,000 more Americans filed for unemployment insurance last week, bringing the total number of jobless claims filed amid the coronavirus pandemic to more than 36 million, according to the Department of Labor. Since late…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed on Wednesday Washington’s accusations against Russia and China as baseless, stressing that unilateral sanctions could only hinder humanitarian assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic. “It…

China expresses its resolute protest against US lawmakers’ bill on sanctions against China over the COVID-19 pandemic, Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on Wednesday. “The bill, introduced by several US senators,…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says there are no talks underway between Iran and the United States, reminding how Washington has proven to be an untrustworthy negotiation partner. “The Americans proved that one cannot rely on the…

A 24-hour curfew will be imposed across the Kingdom during the five-day Eid Al-Fitr holiday (May 23 to 27) to check the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. Until then…