The US State Department has revealed the number of nuclear weapons in the country’s arsenal for the first time since 2018 when former US President Donald Trump decided to keep the figures secret. In a recent statement, the State Department announced the number of US nuclear weapons, both active and …
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Shooting suspect in custody after fight at Texas school injures four (Videos)
Authorities arrested an 18-year-old male in connection with a Texas high school shooting that left four people injured after a fight broke out in a classroom on Wednesday morning, police said. The suspect, who fled the Timberview High School in Arlington, after the shooting, was taken into custody after a …
Read More »Amazon’s Twitch hit by data breach
Twitch, a live-streaming platform for video gamers, has suffered a data breach, the Amazon.com Inc-owned company said on Wednesday, without providing further details. “We can confirm a breach has taken place. Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon …
Read More »Dubai’s ruler ordered phones of ex-wife and lawyers to be hacked: UK court
Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum ordered the phones of his ex-wife and her lawyers to be hacked as part of a “sustained campaign of intimidation and threat” during the custody battle over their children, England’s High Court has ruled. Mohammed used the sophisticated “Pegasus” software, developed by Israeli …
Read More »PMF launch a new security operation to pursue ISIS terrorists in Diyala
The command of the Popular Mobilization forces launched today, Wednesday, a security operation to pursue the terrorist members in Diyala province. Operations Commander Talib al-Moussawi said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): “Infantry forces in brigades: 4, 23 and 24 at the PMF launched this morning …
Read More »Further 2,519 COVID cases and 20 deaths recorded in Iraq
Iraq recorded 2,519 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Wednesday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 20 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 3,225 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …
Read More »Netflix to edit ‘Squid Game’ phone number after woman inundated with calls
A South Korean woman who was deluged with thousands of prank calls and text messages after her phone number was highlighted as a key plot point in Netflix’s hit show ‘Squid Game’ may soon get some relief. Netflix and local production company Siren Pictures said on Wednesday they would edit …
Read More »Sweden halts use of Moderna vaccine for young adults
Sweden’s Public Health Agency on Wednesday recommended a temporary halt to the use of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine among young adults, citing concerns over rare side effects to the heart. It said the pause should initially be in force until December 1, explaining that it had received evidence of an …
Read More »Taliban arrest four ISIS members north of Afghanistan’s capital
The Taliban arrested four ISIS members north of the Afghan capital, the group’s chief spokesman said Wednesday, and witnesses said two Taliban fighters were shot dead in the northeast, raising the specter of all-out conflict. Zabihullah Mujahid said an operation was carried out Tuesday night by special unit forces in …
Read More »List and MacMillan win Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on ‘molecule building’
German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of asymmetric organocatalysis, a “new and ingenious tool for molecule building”. “Organic catalysts can be used to drive multitudes of chemical reactions,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement. “Using …
Read More »Azerbaijan seeks to expand natural gas supplies to Europe amid soaring demand
Azerbaijan is willing to expand its natural gas supplies to Europe, President Ilham Aliyev said Wednesday, amid the continent’s deepening energy crisis driven by soaring demand. The energy-rich Caspian nation is currently supplying 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year to Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria through the Southern …
Read More »Afghanistan asks UN mission to pay power bills before country goes dark
Afghanistan’s state power company has appealed to a United Nations-led mission to give $90 million to settle unpaid bills to Central Asian suppliers before electricity gets cut off for the country given that the three-month deadline for payments has passed. Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August, electricity …
Read More »US Supreme Court to hear Guantanamo prisoner’s state secrets case
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments about the government’s ability to keep what it says are state secrets from a man who was tortured by the CIA following 9/11 and is now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. At the center of the case being heard Wednesday …
Read More »Gunmen kill three civilians in Indian-administered Kashmir
Suspected anti-Indian gunmen killed three civilians in separate street shootings within 90 minutes of each other Tuesday in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said. Two men, one a prominent medical shop owner and the other a street hawker from the Indian state of Bihar, were killed in the space of an hour …
Read More »EU must work as one on China: Bloc’s chairman Charles Michel
European Union leaders need to show “collective intelligence” when they consider a strategy to deal with China’s rise, the crisis in Afghanistan, and issues in Europe’s neighborhood, the bloc’s chairman Charles Michel said on Tuesday. “We have all observed what happened in Afghanistan, what happened in the Indo-Pacific, what happened …
Read More »Mozambique rescues kidnapped children: UNICEF
The United Nations says Mozambique has rescued a number of children who had been abducted by the al-Shabab terrorist group to be forcefully recruited as child soldiers. Last week, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said al-Shabab had kidnapped hundreds of boys in the northeast of Mozambique and forced them to …
Read More »California lawmakers aim to ban offshore drilling after oil spill
Democratic members of Congress from California seized on the oil spill off the state’s coast to promote federal legislation to ban all offshore oil drilling, as investigators searched for what caused the pipeline to burst. About 3,000 barrels (126,000 gallons) of crude oil spilled into the Pacific Ocean, killing wildlife, …
Read More »Pictures | Believers under the Dome of Mercy in Najaf to commemorate the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Believers under the Dome of Mercy in Najaf to commemorate the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Read More »Pope Francis expresses shame for child abuses by clergy in France
The Catholic Church’s leader Pope Francis has expressed sadness and shame over the Church’s inability to deal with the sexual abuse of children by the clergy in France. Francis’ expression of regret came after an independent commission investigating sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in France published a 2,500-page …
Read More »Iraqi forces kill ISIS members south of Mosul
The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, stated that the Iraqi army forces had killed ISIS elements south of Mosul, the local capital of Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. Major General Rasool said in a statement that a force of the 16th Infantry Division …
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