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At least 41 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, after a small boat which had set off from Sfax in Tunisia capsized and sank in the Strait of Sicily. Four people who survived the shipwreck told rescuers that they were on a boat that …

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned that the United States will cease to exist if ex-president Donald Trump — who is way ahead of his rival in polls — is reelected to the top executive office in the 2024 presidential election. The US will cease to exist if …

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has made an urgent call on the United States to provide his country with long-range missiles to be used in the war with Russia. The Ukrainian foreign minister made the request in a phone conversation with his American counterpart, Antony Blinken, during which he demanded ATACMS …

France has reportedly made good its vow of supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine that can hit targets deep into Russia, with Kiev publishing footage of an undated video showing the Ukrainian president putting his signature on one of the missiles mounted on a bomber. The SCALP-EG, which is the French …

Two people are reported dead in Okinawa, state broadcaster NHK says, as slow-moving Typhoon Khanun continues to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to southern Japan, prolonging the potential damage of the storm. A total of 41 people in Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures were injured, according to the Fire and …

n Thursday, Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, accused certain entities and countries of being “deviant” and complicit in the genocide committed against the Yazidis in Sinjar, following ISIS’s invasion of Nineveh in 2014. Al-Sudani presided over an event held in Baghdad to commemorate the …

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has warned of a plan by the illegal Israeli settler groups to demolish al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied al-Quds and build a Jewish temple there instead. Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanu made the warning in a statement on Wednesday, rejecting the plan as a “dangerous and …

Iraq’s top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for preserving Interfaith “tolerance and coexistence”, and “family values” in a correspondence he sent to Pope Francis earlier today, Wednesday. The letter, dated July 3, 2023, came in response to a letter by Pope Francis on the anniversary of their historic meeting …

Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Wednesday said that Iraq should mobilize diplomatic endeavors in order to resolve water disputes with neighboring countries. Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani presided over the third meeting of the Supreme Water Committee, where he attended a review of the country’s strategic water reserves, release …

Iraqi Interior Minister, Abdul Amir al-Shamri, announced on Wednesday the formation of a joint committee with Pakistan to combat terrorism and regulate the entry of visitors during the Arbaeen pilgrimage. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Federal Police and was attended by his Pakistani counterpart, Rana Thanallah, …

More acts of sacrilege against the Holy Qur’an have taken place in Sweden and Denmark even as the two Nordic countries have said they are exploring ways to legally limit such actions to de-escalate growing tensions with Muslim countries. Several incidents have occurred in recent weeks that featured the desecration of the Holy …

Niger’s junta, which has seized power in the West African country through a coup against its civilian rulers, has accused France of planning military intervention to return the deposed president to power. The junta took aim at Paris on Monday, saying, “In its search for ways and means to intervene …

Russia declares its air defenses have again thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” against its capital Moscow using drones, reporting no casualties or significant damages in the aftermath. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that three Ukrainian drones were involved in the attack that took place in the early …

Senior Taliban representatives and a delegation of US officials discussed the economic stability and drug trafficking in two-day talks in the Qatari capital of Doha two years after the Taliban swept back to power. The two sides discussed confidence-building measures during the two-day talks, including the lifting of sanctions and …

Pope Francis has denounced as “barbaric” the recent Qur’an burning in Sweden and Denmark, saying such blasphemous moves prevent dialog among nations. The pontiff made the remarks in a letter on Tuesday, in response to Argentinian Shia Muslim scholar Abdul Karim Paz, representative of Argentina’s Islamic foundation. Last week, Abdul …

The US military has separately used dozens of tankers and trucks to smuggle crude oil and crops from the country’s northeastern Province of Hasakah to bases in neighboring Iraq, amid Washington’s attempts to further plunder natural resources in war-ravaged Syria. Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing local sources in al-Ya’rubiyah …

Members of the far-right Israeli regime led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they will not make any concession to the Palestinians as part of a potential deal for normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia. “I can say that Israel will not give in to anything that will erode its …

The illegal Zionist settlers have once again intruded into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces in the latest act of provocation against the sacred site. Palestine’s official WAFA news agency reported that scores of the illegal settlers, escorted by military forces, broke into the compound through …

The Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Hadi Al-Amiri, received in his office in Baghdad today, Tuesday, the head of the New Generation Movement,  Shaswar Abdel-Wahed. Al-Amiri’s office stated in a statement received by (Al-Ghadeer) that the two sides discussed the overall political situation in the country, including the elections for …

The Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources is set to implement a comprehensive plan to construct multiple dams to store rainwater and address water scarcity in several governorates and regions, particularly in the Kurdistan Region. Basem Majeed, an expert in the ministry and former director of Diyala resources, told Shafaq News …