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 300,140 people ...
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, so it is very...
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 been the requi...
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 directing support...
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 have been reg...
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 March, million...
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 must be noted...
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, absolutely neglects f...
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 results of t...
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 economic act...
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 coronavi...
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 like the re...
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 hearing on Tuesda...
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 reduction already ...
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 to local so...
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 conference ahead of ...
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 tweet on Sunday, f...
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 sea since ...
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 can claim t...