Arab and International

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…

Saudi Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Jadaan has tried to justify the position of King Salman and his son from the responsibility for the deteriorating economic and living conditions of the Saudi citizen, by placing full responsibility on…

The US government’s $3 trillion effort to rescue the economy from the coronavirus crisis is stirring worry at the Pentagon. Bulging federal deficits may force a reversal of years of big defense spending gains and threaten prized projects…

The number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in the United States may be higher than the current official death toll count given, National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said during a Senate…

A Saudi Arabian energy ministry official said on Monday that the ministry has directed national oil company Aramco to reduce its crude oil production for June by an extra voluntary amount of 1 million barrels per day, on top of the…

At least one civilian was killed and 20 others wounded when an explosive device exploded in a market in al-Bab town of northeastern Aleppo countryside, where terrorist groups supported by Turkish occupation forces are deployed. According…

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shatyyeh has called on the international community to recognize an independent Palestinian state if Israel goes on with its plan to annex larger parts of the occupied West Bank. During a press…

Former US President Barack Obama committed the “biggest political crime in American history,” says the country’s current leader, Donald Trump. “The biggest political crime in American history, by far!” the president wrote in a…

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday condemned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for telling one lie after another in his attacks on China over the origin of novel coronavirus and other issues. Source: Press TV

Sales of Saudi crude have reached practically zero. Saudi oil tankers are lost in the open sea, including the world's largest Saudi tanker, "Super Tank," without a final destination. More than 40 million barrels of Saudi oil are stored at…

There’s something profound about the irony. The world’s highest coronavirus death tolls belong to two countries whose leaders came to power promising the restoration of greatness and control – the United States and Great Britain. Neither…

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said that slowly removing lockdowns is key to reviving economies, noting a “great deal of success” in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but…

Gulf stock markets lost ground in early trade on Monday, with Saudi Arabia’s index falling the most after the kingdom said it will triple its value-added tax rate and suspend a cost of living allowance for state employees to shore up its…

In light of COVID-19 crisis, UN officials Monday called for the immediate release of Palestinian children held in Israeli detention centers. In a joint press statement, Jamie McGoldrick, Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied…

Iraq's pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha'abi, says its anti-terror fighters have killed a top leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in eastern province of Diyala. In an interview with…

A US report confirmed that radical changes will take place in Saudi Arabia, the most prominent of which is the lifestyle of its citizens in the near future, adding that the Saudis will not live as their parents lived and they see that the…

The US military is removing Patriot antimissile systems from Saudi Arabia as part of a shift of forces and equipment in the region, a US official confirmed. The Wall Street Journal first reported o Thursday that Washington is moving…

The new coronavirus has now infected 4,101,641 people and killed 280,435 others globally, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The United States remains the worst-hit nation, with more than 1,340,000 cases of infection and over…

A high-ranking official with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has denounced any form of normalization of ties with the Israeli Enemy regime as a crime that cannot be absolved. Speaking through the video link at an Arab…