Biden is expected to welcome Hamdok at the White House in the “near future,” according to Friday’s statement. US President Joe Biden is dispatching his envoy to the Horn of Africa to reaffirm Washington’s support for Sudan, the White House announced Friday. National Security Advisor Sullivan informed Sudanese PM Abdalla …

The mobile phones of at least five French ministers and a diplomatic adviser to President Emmanuel Macron were infected by the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware, sources told AFP on Friday, confirming a report by the Mediapart investigative website. French security services detected the software while inspecting the phones, with the intrusions …

Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico’s frontier with Guatemala to request asylum, even as discontent grows over the treatment meted out to the beleaguered migrants. Up to 14,000 mostly Haitians were camped just north …

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday France would continue to support Lebanon, adding the country’s new government needed to take urgent reform measures. “Lebanon can count on France,” Macron said during a news conference held after a meeting with Lebanese new Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

Yemeni forces have fired a domestically-designed ballistic missile at a position of Saudi militants loyal to the resigned Yemeni president in the country’s central province of Ma’rib. Military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Yemen News Portal website that massive explosions were heard Thursday evening as the missile …

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Iran is ready to resume talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal but the administration of US President Joe Biden is sending a “negative sign” by keeping illegal sanctions on Tehran. Amir-Abdollahian made the remark in an interview with NBC News on Thursday, saying Iran …

Exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has been arrested in Italy on Thursday, his lawyer and an aide say, four years after fleeing following an independence referendum that Madrid ruled unconstitutional. The European MEP was expected to appear in court on Friday at a hearing that could see him extradited …

FIFA’s plans for a biennial World Cup would lead to a “direct and destructive impact on the club game”, Europe’s top club’s organization said on Friday. The European Club Association (ECA) said FIFA’s approach to the reforms of the international match calendar was in “direct and unilateral breach of certain …

China intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrency trading on Friday, vowing to root out “illegal” activity and banning crypto mining nationwide, hitting bitcoin and other major coins, and pressuring crypto and blockchain-related stocks. Ten Chinese government agencies, including the central bank as well as banking, securities, and foreign exchange regulators, said …

Teaching assistant Georgina was settling into a new life in the shipbuilding town of Cherbourg with her Australian husband when Canberra revealed it was scrapping the $40 billion submarine order that he had been sent to France to work on. Ten months after the couple arrived in France, Georgina was …

The President of Iraq, Barham Salih, affirmed that achieving peace in the region will not occur without a secure and stable Iraq. In a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Salih said that Iraq must “restore its pivotal role in the region,” noting that this needs “regional and international …

A 3,500-year-old tablet recounting the epic of Gilgamesh was returned to Iraq Thursday after being stolen three decades ago and illegally imported to the United States. Iraqi Cultural Minister Hassan Nazim accepted the tablet during a ceremony in Washington. “To me, it means restituting self-esteem and the confidence in Iraqi …

An official security source reported that a 45-year-old civilian was wounded by Turkish army artillery shelling on the Kani Masi district, north of Duhok governorate. On Wednesday, Iraqi Kurdistan Coordinator for International Advocacy, Dindar Zebari, announced that more than 800 villages were evacuated due to the ongoing conflict between the …

Under fire from human rights groups and some progressive Democrats, the administration of US President Joe Biden has temporarily suspended the use of horse patrols in Del Rio, Texas. “We have ceased the use of the horse patrol in Del Rio temporarily,” a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told …

A gun battle left seven soldiers and five militants dead in Pakistan’s restive northwestern tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, the military said on Wednesday. The fighting took place during an intelligence-based operation in the country’s South Waziristan region, the site of several military operations and US drone strikes targeting homegrown and …

The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader has criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in and threatened a “complete destruction” of relations hours after Moon said South Korea’s growing missile capabilities will serve as a “sure deterrence” against North Korean provocations. Moon made the comments after South Korea’s first successful test …

A group of Afghan diplomats from Kabul’s deposed government issued on Wednesday a joint statement calling on the leaders of the international community to deny the Taliban formal recognition and blames them for leaving a nation “at the mercy of a terrorist group.” The statement was signed by 24 officials …

China wrapped up the country’s first multinational peacekeeping exercise on Wednesday, demonstrating the extent of its military might on a huge training ground ringed by mountains. China’s defense spending is the second-largest in the world after the US, and tensions have dramatically increased between rival powers as Beijing has poured …

National Security Adviser Qassem Al-Araji receives the Head of the European Union Mission in Iraq The National Security Adviser, Mr. Qassem Al-Araji, received in his office today, Wednesday, the Head of the European Union Consultative Mission in Iraq, Mr. Christoph Bueck, and his accompanying delegation, in the presence of Ms. …

The National Security Adviser, Qassim Al-Araji, confirmed on Wednesday, that the government supports Iraqi military industrialization. Al-Araji, received in his office, the South Korean military attache in Iraq, Hanso Park, said the media office of the National Security Adviser in a statement received by alghadeertv During the meeting, both discussed …