Iraq recorded 1846 new cases of Covid-19 to bring its total to 2,043,963, the health ministry said. It reported 26 deaths to take its coronavirus death toll to 22,901. It also reported 2669 recoveries to bring its total to 1,982,232 (97 %). The COVID-19 intensive care patients count to 225. …

The president of the unrecognized state of Kosovo accused Russia of exerting “malign influence in order to wreck Pristina’s, as well as the US’, NATO’s, and European Union’s achievements” Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu has declared two Russian diplomats personae non grata. According to Osmani, she issued a request to the …

Authorities are still trying to ascertain the number of displaced and the full extent of damage in the wake of this week’s heavy rains, floods, and landslides in the Himalayan nation. Nepalese authorities have been searching for dozens of people missing in this week’s heavy rains, floods, and landslides, as …

Saad Rizvi, the head of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party, was arrested last year amid demonstrations against France over publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. Thousands of supporters of a far-right religious party have launched their “long march” from the eastern city of Lahore toward Pakistan’s capital, demanding that the government …

European Union leaders made a fresh effort on Friday to overcome their differences on how to handle immigrants, but disagreed on the best way forward, with the head of the bloc’s executive saying there would be no EU funds for ‘barbed wire and walls’. While total immigration numbers are low …

The Israeli regime is to approve next week the construction of 3,000 new settler units in the occupied West Bank as Tel Aviv continues to press ahead with its settlement expansion across the Palestinian territories. Citing the regime sources, Israeli media said on Friday the new units would be distributed …

The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has condemned the US atrocities against the Afghan people over the past 20 years, and going on, urging Washington to compensate for its acts of brutality. “There is no point in all this. It is not the first time America has brutally killed the Afghan …

US officials are issuing new warnings about China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could eventually give Beijing a decisive military edge and possible dominance over health care and other essential sectors in America. The warnings include a renewed effort to inform business executives, academics, …

The Group of Seven wealthy nations agreed on a joint set of principles to govern cross-border data use and digital trade, Britain said in what was described as a breakthrough that could liberalise hundreds of billions of pounds of trade. Trade ministers from the G7 reached an agreement at a …

The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed 90.7% efficacy against the coronavirus in a clinical trial of children 5 to 11 years old, the U.S. drugmaker said on Friday. Sixteen children in the trial who had received a placebo got COVID-19, compared with 3 who were vaccinated, Pfizer said in briefing documents …

Large crowds protesting election fraud heads to the Green Zone in Baghdad

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the US has not achieved any of its goals during 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. “For two decades, the most powerful country in the world has been waging military campaigns in two countries that cannot be compared in any way. It was forced …

The Iraqi military intelligence agency announced arresting the person responsible for smuggling ISIS families from al-Hol camp to Iraq. The agency said in a statement that the Intelligence Division of the 20th Division in West Nineveh Operations Command confirmed the presence of a wanted man in the Al-Jaghifi complex area …

European leaders paid warm tributes to Angela Merkel on Friday as they wound up an EU summit, her 107th as Germany’s chancellor over nearly 16 years and probably her last, with one hailing her as a “haven of calm” in the maelstrom of EU diplomacy. Before the leaders of the …

The United States would come to Taiwan’s defense and has a commitment to defend the island China claims as its own, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday, though the White House said later there was no change in policy towards the island. “Yes, we have a commitment to do …

An Ethiopian government air strike hit a university in the Tigray regional capital on Friday, rebellious Tigrayan forces and humanitarian sources said, as thousands of people fled fighting further south. The government said its strike targeted a base formerly belonging to the military and now being used by the Tigray …

Sixteen people were killed in an explosion and fire at a gunpowder and chemicals plant in Russia’s western Ryazan province on Friday, Russian state TV said, and one man was taken to hospital with serious burns. The disaster wiped out practically the entire shift of 17 workers who were on-site …

The US has already slipped into a recession that could be as bad as the 2007-08 meltdown, according to new research that punctures holes in media reports about the booming stock market and low unemployment. David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, and Alex …

Turkish media reports claim that the country’s intelligence forces have apprehended at least 15 people on charges of working for the Israeli Mossad spy agency. According to a report published by the Daily Sabah newspaper, a 200-strong team from the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) tracked the network, which consisted of …

At least one person has been killed and three others wounded when Saudi fighter jets struck pharmaceutical warehouses in Yemen’s capital province of Sana’a. They bombarded the facilities in the Saawan neighborhood on Thursday, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported, citing local sources. Saudi military spokesman Turki al-Maliki confirmed the …