Another three million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic continued to extract its terrible toll on the US jobs market. Some 33 million jobless Americans have now made claims in the past seven weeks. The...
The US is removing four Patriot missile batteries and dozens of troops deployed to Saudi Arabia amid heightened tensions with Iran, according to a report published Thursday. The military assets were sent to Saudi Arabia after an attack on oil facil...
Pro-Palestine activists in Iran and elsewhere are making plans to replace street rallies with online events to commemorate this year’s International Quds Day as a deadly coronavirus pandemic has restricted social life and mass gatherings across the g...
Saudi Arabia recorded, on Wednesday, 1687 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus. Today’s rate represents a new record for confirmed COVID-19 infections in the Kingdom. A spokesman of the Health Ministry, Mohammed Al-Aali, said in a press conference tha...
It's a year of carnage for oil nations. But at least one will emerge from the pandemic both economically and geopolitically stronger. With 4 billion people around the world under lockdown as the coronavirus pandemic grows, demand for gasoline, je...
The United Nations has expressed concern about the rapid spread of the new coronavirus in overcrowded prisons in the United States and the rest of the American continent. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Tuesda...
A Chinese coronavirus researcher who was “on the verge” of making a breakthrough in the pandemic fight has been killed in a suspected murder-suicide. The research assistant professor, identified as Bing Liu, 37, was found in his townhouse in Pennsy...
US President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday that his country will ‘definitely’ report on the origin of COVID-19 soon. “We will be reporting very definitively over a period of time,” he told reporters at the White House. Trump also said that Chi...
Canadian Anthropologica journal revealed on Monday Canada's participation in killing the Yemeni people, by selling weapons to countries of coalition waging war on Yemen over the past five years. The report, written by Jelena Golubović, deputy editor...
A newspaper report, on Sunday, revealed the long history of the UAE in support of the division of Yemen since 1994, where it worked to incite its separatist militias and finance them with money and weapons to spread chaos and sabotage to gain influe...
Norwegian journalist Helge Simonnes drew a startling parallel between US President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. In his opinion piece in the newspaper Dagsavisen, titled “A Tarzan Against Corona”, Simonnes wondered whether Americans who voted Trum...
Britain’s death toll from the coronavirus has topped 32,000, according to an updated count released on Tuesday by the Office for National Statistics. The figures pushed Britain past Italy to become the second-most affected country after the United ...
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s plan to seize Palestinian land in the area of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil. The ministry, in a statem...
A 3.2-magnitude earthquake hit on Tuesday western city of Homs in Syria. The agency quoted “SANA” from the National Center for Seismic Monitoring in Damascus as saying in a statement: The tremor occurred at two forty-five minutes local time and is 3...
US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to comment on the situation with coronavirus outbreak in California. According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of coronavirus cases in Mexico is 23,471, with 2,154 deaths. Meanwhile, in the US state...
World Health Organization director general Tedros Adhanom said Monday that the distribution of a vaccine for the COVID-19, not its development, is the key challenge in the global fight against the contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus. ...
The Iraqi Council of Representatives announced, Saturday, its intention to hold a meeting next week to vote on the government of Mustafa Al-Kazemi. The sources stated that the meeting will be to vote on Mustafa Al-Kazemi’s government, after the law’s...
Yemen’s Ambassador to Iran says his country does not need international aid and can fend for itself in case the naval and air blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition waging a bloody military onslaught against the impoverished nation is lifted. I...
Israeli enemy aircraft on Sunday flew over the Lebanese capital, Beirut and its suburbs, as well as violating the airspace of Al-Matn. The enemy aircraft also mid-air violated Jezzine. The enemy aircraft also flew at low altitude, over Nabatieh and ...
US President Donald Trump on Friday increased his estimate of possible deaths in the United States from the coronavirus, telling a White House event he hopes for less than 100,000 fatalities, a higher upper limit than the 60,000 to 70,000 deaths he ...