Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has announced his resignation amid political impasse and large-scale protests, just two months after being restored in the post as part of a political deal with military rulers of the restive African country. According to Press TV, Hamdok announced the decision in a televised address …

A massive fire in South Africa’s houses of parliament in Cape Town has completely destroyed the National Assembly where parliamentarians sit, a spokesman said on Sunday as the blaze continued to rage. “The entire chamber where the members sit… has burned down,” Moloto Mothapo said, adding that the blaze had …

 make Iraq an arena for settling scores.  The media office of the National Security Adviser said in a statement received by Alghadeertv, that “the National Security Adviser, Qasim Al-Araji, received in his office today, Monday, the French ambassador in Baghdad, Eric Chevalier,” noting that “the two sides discussed the latest …

 The Ministry of Planning estimated the population of Iraq at the end of last year at more than 41 million. The ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that its estimates of the population in Iraq for the year 2021 amounted to (41,190,658) people, according …

The oil market kicked off 2022 on a positive note even as concerns over demand waning due to rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic limited gains. Brent crude gained 0.86 percent to $78.45 a barrel, as of 0102 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 1.02 percent to $75.98 a …

Yemen’s Army Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said the country’s forces carried out two major operations against the Saudi-led coalition and their mercenaries in 2021, liberating 12,000 square kilometers of land in five provinces. In a statement carried by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network on Sunday, the Brig. General he …

The US and its allies will “respond decisively” in the event of Russia’s military action against Ukraine, President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Sunday. In a statement, White House Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden asserted that the United States and its allies and partners will respond …

The congressional committee investigating the Capitol attack is studying whether it can issue subpoenas to Republican members of Congress to force their cooperation, according to the panel’s chairman. According to Press TV, Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday that the committee is seeking to …

Thousands of flights within the United States were delayed or canceled over the New Year weekend, adding to the travel disruptions during the holiday week due to adverse weather and rising cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant. Nearly 9,230 flights within the United States or entering or departing it were …

Two protesters have been killed and many others injured as Sudanese security forces clashed with anti-coup demonstrators in the capital Khartoum and other major cities. The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said on Sunday that the new fatalities brought to 56 the overall death toll in protests since the coup …

Three people are missing and feared dead after a wind-stoked wildfire roared through two towns in Boulder County, Colorado, prompting thousands of evacuations and destroying nearly 1,000 homes, authorities said on Saturday. Officials initially said there were no reports of fatalities or missing residents following the rare urban wildfire that …

Thousands of people in the capital of the Netherlands defied a ban and gathered Sunday for a demonstration against the Dutch government’s coronavirus lockdown measures before police pushed the crowd off an Amsterdam square. The local government had outlawed the protest, saying police had indications some demonstrators might be planning …