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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 pending next-of-kin...

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, wants to ...

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 the Palestini...

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 disaster in all ...

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 figure drast...

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 Brigades regret...

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 the death toll...

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” to the contr...

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 American for...

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 treats Al S...

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 the coronavirus...

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 criticized ...

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 rose by 4.4 ...

The U.S. suffered its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic yet, with nearly 2,000 deaths between Tuesday and Wednesday. The death toll now stands at 12,914, according to NBC News’ tally on Wednesday morning. It is worth noting that 402,471 co...

The head of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the occupying Israeli regime is feeling an existential threat to its political survival.   “At the time being, there exists a usurping entity in the occupied Palestine, which is worried ...

Not a single person died of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in mainland China over the past 24 hours, the first such day since January, according to China’s state health committee. The state committee said 32 new cases of the infection ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday wished British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a speedy recovery from the coronavirus, saying his “optimism and sense of humor” would help him get better. “I would like to express my sincere support at this ...

Two elderly South Korean coronavirus patients recovered from severe pneumonia after being treated with plasma from survivors, researchers said Tuesday, offering hope in the face of the global pandemic. Scientists have pointed to the potential benef...

Israeli occupation forces renewed on Tuesday targeting Palestinian farmers in the besieged southern and northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian News Agency, Ma’an, reported that the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on Palestinian farmers east of K...

Government forces in Libya say Emirati drones have carried out two airstrikes in support of Libyan rebels near the city of Sirte.   Mustafa al-Mujie, a spokesman for Libyan government forces, told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday that Emirati drones ...