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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.”…

Again, it’s the double face of the US administration that is under the spotlight. A US-backed terrorist group has intercepted a convoy of ‘defectors’ seeking to lay down their arms and surrender to Damascus. The survivors told the Syrian…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Palestinians believe Israel is taking advantage of the disease caused by the coronavirus pandemic to grab more of their lands and to escalate aggression against the people of Palestine. Head of the anti-settlement commission of…

President Trump issued a major disaster declaration for Wyoming on Saturday, meaning that there is now such a declaration within all 50 states due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first time a president has ever declared a major…

Since Saturday, 2,186 more people in Russia have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the nationwide total to 15,770, according to the emergency team in charge of managing the country's response to the deadly infection. The fresh…

Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq, announces in a statement its refusal of appointing Mustafa Al-Kazimi to form the government, and considers that appointing a "suspicious" figure is waste of the people's rights and sacrifices. The Hezbollah…

More than 1.6 million people from across the world have so far been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, with the death toll surpassing 95,700, according to latest reports. The number of infections worldwide reached 1,605,279, while…

Canada is lifting a freeze on weapons exports to Saudi Arabia and has renegotiated a much-criticized $14 billion contract to sell General Dynamics Corp armored vehicles to Riyadh, Ottawa said on Thursday. The “significant improvements”…

The Secretary General of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Qais Khazali, considered Thursday that the violation of the constitution by the Iraqi president had caused the loss of a full month of government’s life, stressing the need for the…

The United States is now in second place in terms of the death toll from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) globally, behind Italy and ahead of Spain, according to Johns Hopkins University’s data. The number of people who have died of…

Using the COVID-19 pandemic to score political points is dangerous and will only result in “many more body bags,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday, less than a day after President Trump…

Several members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family have contracted the novel coronavirus more than six weeks after the country reported its first case, a New York Times report says. Over 500 beds are being prepared at the elite hospital that…

Spain recorded Wednesday a second successive daily rise in coronavirus-related deaths with 757 fatalities, lifting the total toll in Europe’s second-hardest-hit country after Italy by 5.5 percent to 14,555. The number of new infections…