Arab and International

It's a year of carnage for oil nations. But at least one will emerge from the pandemic both economically and geopolitically stronger. With 4 billion people around the world under lockdown as the coronavirus pandemic grows, demand…

The United Nations has expressed concern about the rapid spread of the new coronavirus in overcrowded prisons in the United States and the rest of the American continent. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)…

A Chinese coronavirus researcher who was “on the verge” of making a breakthrough in the pandemic fight has been killed in a suspected murder-suicide. The research assistant professor, identified as Bing Liu, 37, was found in his…

The Saudi government issued a ministerial decision  on Sunday to regulate the labor contract during exceptional circumstances caused by the coronavirus outbreak. It stipulates reducing salaries in the private sector by 40 percent with the…

President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said Palestine will nullify all agreements with the United States and the Zionist entity if the Tel Aviv regime annexes any part of the occupied West Bank, urging the international…

US President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday that his country will ‘definitely’ report on the origin of COVID-19 soon. “We will be reporting very definitively over a period of time,” he told reporters at the White House. Trump…

Canadian Anthropologica journal revealed on Monday Canada's participation in killing the Yemeni people, by selling weapons to countries of coalition waging war on Yemen over the past five years. The report, written by Jelena Golubović,…

A newspaper report, on Sunday, revealed the long history of the UAE in support of the division of Yemen since 1994, where it worked to incite its separatist militias and finance them with money and weapons to spread chaos and sabotage to…

Norwegian journalist Helge Simonnes drew a startling parallel between US President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. In his opinion piece in the newspaper Dagsavisen, titled “A Tarzan Against Corona”, Simonnes wondered whether Americans…

Britain’s death toll from the coronavirus has topped 32,000, according to an updated count released on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics. The figures pushed Britain past Italy to become the second-most affected country…

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s plan to seize Palestinian land in the area of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil. The ministry,…

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake hit on Tuesday western city of Homs in Syria. The agency quoted “SANA” from the National Center for Seismic Monitoring in Damascus as saying in a statement: The tremor occurred at two forty-five minutes local…

US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to comment on the situation with coronavirus outbreak in California. According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of coronavirus cases in Mexico is 23,471, with 2,154 deaths. Meanwhile, in…

World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom said Monday that the distribution of a vaccine for the COVID-19, not its development, is the key challenge in the global fight against the contagious disease caused by the novel…

The Iraqi Council of Representatives announced, Saturday, its intention to hold a meeting next week to vote on the government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi. The sources stated that the meeting will be to vote on Mustafa Al-Kazemi’s government,…

Yemen’s Ambassador to Iran says his country does not need international aid and can fend for itself in case the naval and air blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition waging a bloody military onslaught against the impoverished nation is…

Israeli enemy aircraft on Sunday flew over the Lebanese capital, Beirut and its suburbs, as well as violating the airspace of Al-Matn. The enemy aircraft also mid-air violated Jezzine. The enemy aircraft also flew at low altitude, over…

Iran's permanent ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva has criticized the United States for attempting to extend an arms embargo against the Islamic Republic, saying the US must be held to account for taking advantage of the UN…

US President Donald Trump on Friday increased his estimate of possible deaths in the United States from the coronavirus, telling a White House event he hopes for less than 100,000 fatalities, a higher upper limit than the 60,000 to 70,000…

Protests against stay-at-home orders to combat the coronavirus pandemic have been held across the United States amid growing anger over the policy’s economic impact that has left millions of Americans unemployed. Rallies were held…

The Egyptian Interior Ministry announced early Sunday that 18 terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces when Egyptian force targeted a den in the vicinity of the city of Bir al-A’abd, in the northern Sinai…

The Zionist enemy forces launched a campaign of arrests in various areas of the West Bank and al-Quds (Jerusalem) at dawn Sunday, Palestinian media reported. According to the SAFA news agency, the enemy forces arrested seven Palestinian…

Zionist enemy forces on Saturday morning opened fire at Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the south and north of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources reported that the enemy forces opened fire towards farmers working in the lands near…

At least 10 Iraqi fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have been killed in an attack by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Iraq’s Salahuddin Province. The coordinated assault which took…

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday his hard-fought trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the coronavirus pandemic and he threatened new tariffs on Beijing, as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over…

US President Donald Trump has apparently balked at his own intelligence agency’s conclusions by claiming that he saw evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in China. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Trump said that he was…

As the United States pressed Saudi Arabia to end its oil price war with Russia, President Donald Trump gave Saudi leaders an ultimatum. In an April 2 phone call, Trump told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman that unless the…

Secretary of Iranian Judiciary's Headquarters for Human Rights Ali Baqeri-Kani on Friday urged the immediate release of detained Iranian scientist Dr. Sirous Asgari in the US prison. Iran is concerned about the health of all Iranians…

US President Donald Trump had warned Saudi Arabia earlier in April that he would end American military support for the kingdom if Riyadh did not end its oil price war with Russia and cut production. In a phone call on April 2, Trump told…

The National Salvation Government's spokesman, Minister of Information Dhaifallah al-Shami, on Thursday called on the German government to review its decision to consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Al-Shami condemned the…