Arab and International

Iraq’s Ministry of Health and Environment said Thursday that it has detected a sixth case of coronavirus for a young Iraqi man in Baghdad who returned home from Iran. The number of cases recorded for the new the virus has jumped to…

Italy’s new coronavirus spread south on Tuesday to Tuscany and Sicily, as authorities reported a surge in the number of infected people and Rome convened emergency talks with European health ministers. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has…

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the apparent frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race, said he would not attend this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, saying that the group offers a platform to leaders who…

Iran has denounced the Israeli regime’s attacks on civilians and targets of the resistance front in Gaza and Syria, criticizing the international community’s inaction on Tel Aviv’s repeated atrocities in Palestine and its violation of the…

The Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen (OSESGY) is hosting a consultative meeting with a group of Yemeni public and political figures in Amman, Jordan, on 26-27 February 2020. The meeting brings together a…

A top U.S. health official said the spread of coronavirus in the country now appears to be inevitable. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Immunization and…

The Egyptian Presidency’s Office on Tuesday announced three-day mourning throughout the country over the death of the former Egyptian president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, according to a spokesman for the presidency office. Mubarak died on…

Iran's Health Ministry says the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the country has reached 12, while the number of confirmed infections stands at 64. The ministry's spokesman Iraj Harirchi was speaking at a press conference in…

Experts from the World Health Organization have visited the locked-down central Chinese city at the epicentre of the deadly global coronavirus outbreak, Chinese authorities said Monday. The trip over the weekend is the first reported…

The second round of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission (JMC) talks to reach a lasting ceasefire and to restore security to civilian areas concluded on 23 February at the Palace of Nations in Geneva. The talks took place in the…

Israeli jets have bombed several locations across the Gaza Strip after Palestinian resistance groups fired rockets towards Israel in retaliation for the murder of a Palestinian earlier in the day.   The Palestinian Information Center…

A number of human rights centers have renewed their call to international human rights and humanitarian societies and organizations for an international investigations on the Razeen Prison. It is classified as the third worst Arab prison,…

The main stock exchanges’ shares in Saudi Arabia on Sunday continued to record heavy losses for the second day in a row, affected by the recent attacks on Aramco facilities in Yanbu. The index of Saudi stock exchange fell 0.3 percent, as…

South Korea raised its alert on the coronavirus to the highest level Sunday after reporting three more deaths and 169 new infections. The country has seen a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases since a cluster of infections…

The World Health Organization warned Saturday that African health systems would be ill-equipped to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak should cases start to proliferate on the continent. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…

Israeli occupation forces launched on Sunday and Saturday evening a massive arrest campaign among Palestinian citizens in the occupied Palestinian territories, where they arrested three Palestinians from the West Bank and four others from…

The fighter jets of the Israeli army penetrated on Saturday the Lebanese air spaces, leadership of Lebanese army said on a statement. According to SANA Agency, six fighter jets belonging to the Israeli army penetrated the Lebanese air…

Israeli military forces have shot dead a young Palestinian man in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds for an alleged stabbing attempt against police forces amid tensions over the so-called deal of the century unveiled by US President…

A Palestinian youth was killed on Saturday from his wounds, after the Israeli occupation forces fired live ammunition towards him, near Bab Al-Asbat in the Old City of occupied al-Quds. The Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that,…

Violent explosions rocked in the early hours of Friday shook the Yanbu oil and industrial area in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Saudi news agency SPA reported a statement by the coalition spokesman, Turki al-Maliki, about an attack with a…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed for the first time the presence of pro-Turkish Syrian militants in Libya. “Turkey is there with a training force. There are also people from the Syrian National Army,” Erdogan told…

South Korea’s coronavirus cases nearly doubled Friday, rising above 200 and making it the worst-affected country outside China as the number of infections linked to a religious sect spiked. A total of 100 new cases were confirmed by…

Former teleSUR presenter and creator of The Empire Files Abby Martin is suing the U.S. state of Georgia which blocked her participation last month at a media conference at Georgia Southern University because she refused to “sign a…

Donald Trump offered Julian Assange a pardon if he would say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic party emails, The Gurdian reported, saying that a court in London has been told this. The extraordinary claim was made at…

Israeli occupation forces on Thursday launched massive campaign of raids and arrests against Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds, Palestinian media reported. According to Palestinian sources, the Israeli army…

At least two Iranians have died in hospital after testing positive for the new corona virus in the city of Qom, the head of the city’s University of Medical Sciences told News Agencies on Wednesday. “Two Iranians, who tested positive…

In light of the policy of repression and restricting freedoms and espionage in the Emirates, Etisalat, on Wednesday, announced that as per BlackBerry Ltd notice, BlackBerry services such as BlackBerry Messenger – Pin to Pin – BlackBerry…

The American Newsweek magazine said today, Monday, in a report on locust outbreaks and their growing numbers more than in previous years, that the 10 hurricanes that witnessed the Middle East and East Asia region. The reason is that it…

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s push to ban the sale of assault weapons failed on Monday after some of his fellow Democrats balked at the proposal. Senators voted to shelve the bill for the year and ask the state crime commission to…

Beijing will begin receiving applications for tariff exemptions for 696 products from the United States, including medical equipment, crude oil, pork, beef, soybeans, starting 2 March, authorities announced on Tuesday. The news comes a…