Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Paris court on Thursday after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid. Sarkozy, 66, is unlikely to go to jail. He decided to appeal the sentence, a move that in effect …

Israeli regime troops have martyred a young Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank district of Jenin, reports say. Alaa Nasser Zayud, 22, was martyred by the regime’s special forces during raids on houses in the village of Burkin near Jenin overnight on Thursday. During the clashes that ensued, several …

A senior Yemeni official has expressed the Ansarullah movement’s support for protests in the country’s south against the Saudi-led military occupation and its plundering of Yemeni resources. Speaking to the Lebanese al-Mayadeen television channel on Wednesday, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, described popular demonstrations in the …

As Merck & Co and Pfizer Inc prepare to report clinical trial results for experimental COVID-19 antiviral pills, rivals are lining up with what they hope will prove to be more potent and convenient oral treatments of their own. Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Pardes Biosciences, Japan’s Shionogi & Co Ltd and Novartis …

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, has called for urgent action to stave off famine in Ethipia’s war-scarred Tigray region. Griffiths warned in an interview on Tuesday that the crisis in Tigray was pushing the rebel region towards starvation and was a “stain on our conscience.” The aid chief …

A Canadian federal court has upheld a human rights tribunal compensation ruling that ordered Ottawa to pay $40,000 to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system. In 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Canada has willfully and recklessly discriminated against Indigenous children by knowingly underfunding …

North Korea warns the United States that amid the absence of all change in Washington’s hostile policy towards Pyongyang, it is sure to power through with its weapons development programs. “As the actions of the past eight months of the new US administration have clearly shown, the US military threat …

A prominent Rohingya Muslim leader has been fatally shot in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh following months of deteriorating violence in the world’s largest refugee settlement. Mohib Ullah, who was in his late 40s and led the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARPSH), died on Wednesday evening …

France has accused Britain of playing politics with post-Brexit fishing rights after London and the Channel Island of Jersey refused dozens of French fishing boats a licence to operate in their territorial waters. The disputes between the UK and France over post-Brexit fishing rights in the English Channel have flared …

The death toll from a riot at one of Ecuador’s largest prisons rose to 116, President Guillermo Lasso said on Wednesday, adding that he would send additional security forces and free up funds to avoid a repeat. Another 80 inmates were injured during the Tuesday night clashes at the Penitenciaria …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended Turkey’s right to strengthen its defense capabilities, saying the decision to purchase the Russian S-400 missile defense systems was worth the tensions with Washington. Erdogan made the remarks in an interview with the New York Times published on Wednesday, reiterating that Turkey has not …

Iraq received about a million new batches of Covid-19 vaccines. A source told Shafaq News Agency that the Iraqi Company for marketing drugs and medical appliances, affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Environment, has received new batches of vaccines, medicines, and protocols for protecting and treating the past ten …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended Turkey’s right to strengthen its defense capabilities, saying the decision to purchase the Russian S-400 missile defense systems was worth the tensions with Washington. Erdogan made the remarks in an interview with the New York Times published on Wednesday, reiterating that Turkey has not …

Iraq’s Election Supreme Security Committee released new directives related to the election day. The Committee spokesperson, Gen. Ghaleb Al-Atiya, told the Iraqi official news agency, “there will be restrictions on movement among the governorates, as well as all airports and border crossings will be closed between the October 9 and …

The US Department of Homeland Security is seeking to terminate a Trump-era migration rule, which required asylum-seeking migrants to stay in Mexico while awaiting court proceedings. The department issued a memo in June ending the program, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), but a Texas-based federal judge ruled …

Fumio Kishida, the man soon to become Japan’s prime minister, says he believes raising incomes is the only way to get the world’s third-largest economy growing again. Kishida says he wants to promote a “new capitalism” that would be more equitable, with fairer distribution of national wealth — the only …

Britain said on Thursday that a gas station crisis caused by an acute shortage of truck drivers was back under control but many pumps remained closed in London leaving motorists searching or queuing for hours to fill their tanks. In a chaotic week where fights broke out at gas stations …

New Zealand politicians on Thursday passed a law that makes plotting a terrorist attack a crime, fixing a legal loophole that was exposed earlier this month by a violent knife attack. The new law had been months in the planning but was hurried through Parliament after an extremist inspired by …

A battle between gangs in a prison in Ecuador’s coastal city of Guayaquil killed at least 100 inmates and injured 52 more in what authorities are calling the worst penitentiary massacre in the country’s history. At least five deaths were reported beheaded, officials said Wednesday. President Guillermo Lasso decreed a …

China put on an extravagant display of once-secret high-end military technology at its largest air show this week while broadcasting its growing ambitions in space exploration and for self-sufficiency in commercial aircraft. Pandemic-related travel restrictions meant Airshow China in the southern city of Zhuhai was a largely domestic affair, but …