The new coronavirus has been found in the blood of more than six million people around the globe so far, according to Johns Hopkins University, and some 369,126 people have died of the disease caused by the virus (COVID-19). Latin America report...
Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and injured in Minneapolis on Saturday night when police moved into an area occupied by about 500 protesters in the southwest of the city shortly after the 8 p.m. curfew. Footage taken ...
Al-Aqsa holy mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site, reopened on Sunday after being closed for over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of worshippers in protective masks were let into the compound before the first prayers of...
Syria has received a second batch of advanced MiG-29 fighter jets from Russia as Damascus and its allies are fighting a remaining Daesh pocket in the Arab country. Syria's official news agency SANA, citing a military source, said the new fighter jet...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declined to comment on US President Donald Trump’s decision to cut US funding to the organization and cut ties with it. The CNN quoted a WHO spokesman as saying on Saturday in a statement in this regard, “We have ...
Twitter has hidden one of Donald Trump’s tweets behind a warning that it “glorifies violence”, further escalating the social media company’s row with the US president. The US president’s tweet, posted on Thursday night Washington time, warned pe...
The US Secret Service closed the White House building on Friday evening, as protests over the death of George Floyd arrived in Washington, D.C. According to USA Today, a White House spokesman said “protests over the death of American George Floyd h...
Germany on Saturday blasted US President Donald Trump’s decision to sever ties with the World Health Organization, describing it as “disappointing” and a setback for global health. The WHO “needs reform” if it is to “make any difference”, Health Mi...
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly denounces rampant bloodshed of African-Americans in the United States and the country’s suppression of the protests that have followed the recent grisly murder of a black man by a white police officer in Minn...
Rights groups have voiced concerns for the safety of a Saudi woman who was reportedly arrested after she "insulted" Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on social media. Amani Alzain, a 40-year-old Jeddah resident, was targeted by government...
A source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the killing of an an American black man by a white policeman in Minneapolis, USA. The source described in a statement that the incident confirms racism, which should be met with condemnation by t...
The US State Department has approved a possible $1.425 billion sale of Patriot air and missile defense system components and upgrades to Kuwait, the Pentagon said on Thursday after notifying Congress of the certification. According to Reuters, the P...
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says the recent heart-wrenching killing of an American black man by a white policeman that has gone viral testifies to methodical racism and white supremacy in the United States. “Brutal killing of #George Floy...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered China’s armed forces to “comprehensively” strengthen the training of troops and be prepared for war, as tensions rise between Beijing and a number of other countries. Speaking on the sidelines of the annu...
The Western countries are trying to use the COVID-19 pandemic to punish the unwanted governments of some foreign nations, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "Not everyone could resist the temptation to act on the principle of 'ever...
US President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to shutter social media platforms after Twitter for the first time acted against his false tweets, prompting the enraged Republican to double down on unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy theories. Twi...
The US military has once again accused Russian jets of conducting an "unsafe" intercept of a US Navy P-8 surveillance aircraft Tuesday while it was flying in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea. "Two Russian Su-35 aircraft unsafely...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticised Washington for meddling in China’s internal matters, stating that the American bid to “make a scandal” over Hong Kong legislation is undermining US credibility vis-a-vis other countries. “The is...
More than 350,000 deaths from the new coronavirus have been recorded worldwide since it first appeared in China in December, according to a tally compiled by AFP from official sources as of 0600 GMT. A total of 350,196 deaths have been reported, fr...
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Nasrallah saluted the Lebanese people on the anniversary of Resistance and Liberation in an interview to Al-Nour radio station. His eminence assured that the spirit of the resistance fighters that led to these vict...