“Instead of being weakened by three years of U.S.-trade war, China’s economy has taken a step forward in comparison with the scale of the United States,” China stated. On Tuesday, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will meet China’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yang Jiechi in Zurich this week to follow …

The 2021 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists whose work laid the foundations for how we understand complex physical systems, including Earth’s climate. Syukuro Manabe, of Princeton University in New Jersey, and Klaus Hasselmann, formerly of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, …

The spokesperson for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, announced on Tuesday the arrest of nine ISIS members in separate operations. Rasool said in a statement that the Counter-Terrorism Service “had apprehended nine ISIS elements in the Governorates of Al-Anbar, Nineveh, Saladin, Baghdad, and Kirkuk.” He …

Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday’s Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearly six hours. Facebook blamed its outage, which kept its 3.5 billion users from accessing services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, …

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the US Congress on Tuesday, telling lawmakers the social media giant knew its apps were harming the mental health of some young users. “I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy,” Haugen said. “There is no …

The Indian government has pledged to pay $674 in compensation for every death caused by the COVID-19 virus, the BBC reports. India’s supreme court has approved the government’s decision following a petition by lawyers seeking compensation under the country’s disaster management laws. The south Asian nation has officially recorded more …

Taliban forces unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazaras, most of them Afghan soldiers who had surrendered to the group, a prominent rights group said Tuesday. The killings took place in the village of Kahor in Daykundi province in central Afghanistan on August 30, according to an investigation by Amnesty International. Eleven …

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that climate change activists who blocked major roads into London were ‘irresponsible crusties’ who were hindering law-abiding people from going about their business, Reuters reports. “I think they’re irresponsible crusties who are basically trying to stop people going about their day’s work …

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said the forthcoming G20 summit must send a clear message to Afghanistan’s Taliban on the conditions for international recognition. In an interview with France Inter radio station broadcast on Tuesday, Macron said those conditions must include equality for women, access to foreign humanitarian operations, and non-cooperation …

The speech of the leader of the Al-Fateh Alliance Hadi Al-Amiri at the central electoral festival The fatwa of the sufficient jihad changed the whole equation and with it, the great victory was achieved It is my great hope that we will respond to the call of the supreme religious …

Taiwan needs to be on alert for China’s “over the top” military activities which are violating regional peace, Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Tuesday, after 56 Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defense zone on Monday, the highest ever. Taiwan has reported 148 Chinese air force planes in the southern …

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he will “prepare for my defense” against an International Criminal Court probe into his deadly drug war after he retires from politics. “I will prepare for my defense in the ICC,” Duterte said in a pre-recorded speech released late Monday, in his first public …

New Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday that he received a “strong” message from President Joe Biden about the US commitment to defending the disputed East China Sea islets known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan. In phone talks on Tuesday morning that lasted roughly 20 minutes, the …

Malaysia late Monday summoned Beijing’s envoy to the Southeast Asian country in protest after Chinese vessels entered its maritime economic zone in the disputed South China Sea. Kuala Lumpur summoned Chinese ambassador Ouyang Yujing “to convey Malaysia’s position and protest against the presence and activities of Chinese vessels, including a …

Refugee admissions to the US fell to a record low during the 2021 budget year, despite President Joe Biden’s pledge to reverse the sharp cuts made by the Trump administration, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press. A total of 11,445 refugees were allowed into the US during the …

France has said it could cut power to the British Crown dependencies in the English Channel to “pressure” London in a dispute over fishing licenses for French boats. Under the 2020 UK-EU trade deal, French boats are allowed to continue catching fish in British waters if they obtain a license. …

Facebook has issued a mea culpa after disrupting the business and social interactions of millions of users as a Facebook-owned social media trio lagged for over six hours while blaming an engineering error for the web apocalypse. Facebook has confirmed that a routing problem throttled its services, bringing operations at …

At least three international advocacy organizations have called on the African Union (AU) to withdraw the Israeli regime’s observer status over its human rights violations and crimes against humanity. The US-based Democracy for Arab World Now (DAWN) together with the Legal Resource Center (LRC) in South Africa on Monday signed …

Iraq recorded 2,479 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Tuesday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 28 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 3,243 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …

The Military Intelligence Directorate of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense reported that an ISIS prominent member was arrested in Al-Qaim if Al-Anbar. The Directorate said in a statement today that the Military Intelligence Division detachments, in cooperation with ground forces from the 28th Infantry Brigade, had arrested a terrorist in …