Arab and International

US Jobless Claims Top 47.2 Million, 1.48 Million New

Thursday, 25 June 2020

  Another 1.48 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, a worse-than-expected figure that showed the continuing potency of the coronavirus pandemic. The new claims were a decr...

UN Chief Calls on Israel to Abandon West Bank Annexation Plan

Thursday, 25 June 2020

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Israel on Wednesday to abandon its plans to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank. "If implemented, annexation would constitute a most serious violation of international law, grievous...

Iran Slams Saudi Decision on Limited, Restricted Hajj

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Iran has expressed its objection over Saudi Arabia’s contradictory behaviour and foot-dragging with regards to the Hajj issue. The head of the Iranian Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, who had earlier said Iranian pilgrims would start going on Hajj p...

Corona death toll rises in Britain

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

The health authorities in Britain announced the increase in the death toll from coronavirus in the Kingdom to 42,927 cases, after counting 280 additional cases, including 171 new deaths recorded since Monday. The revised figures also include 109 dea...

Libya Warns Egypt against Military Intervention; France Backs Cairo

Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Libya’s High Council of State, an advisory body to the internationally-recognized government in the country, has warned Egypt against military intervention in Libya. “We urge the Egyptian army not to be dragged into a gamble, whose fate will be simi...

China Threatens ‘Appropriate Response’ to US over Media Curbs

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

  China on Tuesday threatened to launch an “appropriate response” after Washington cracked down on four more Chinese state media outlets in the United States. Beijing decried Monday’s move by the US State Department as “bare-faced political s...

Corona epidemic outbreaks among Zionist enemy soldiers

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Media in the Israeli enemy entity said on Monday that the number of corona virus infections in the ranks of the Zionist enemy army has risen, while more departments were closed in the “Echliov” hospital in “Tel Aviv” after discovering infections insi...