Iraqi lawmakers on Thursday voted to approve a bill banning relations with ‘Israel’. In a statement, the Parliament’s media office said the assembly passed a bill “criminalizing the normalization of ties with the Zionist entity.” According to the state news agency INA, the bill was passed unanimously during Thursday’s session. …

A team of researchers led by astronomers in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Physics & Astronomy has found a previously overlooked treasure trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies.

A vast majority of Americans in a new poll support background checks on all gun sales, one day after the mass shooting at an elementary school in the US state of Texas.

Soaring inflation across the UK has caused “acute distress” to Britons, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has said, stressing that the Bank of England must take “decisive action” to get prices back under control. Addressing the House of Commons on Thursday, Sunak was at pains to say that “the high inflation …

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says it is still possible for parties to the 2015 Iran deal to reach an agreement if the American side proves capable of making a realistic decision. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Thursday address to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of …

Local media in Iraq have reported an attack on the US troops in Saladin province in central Iraq on Thursday. Sources in Iraq told Sabereen News telegram channel that a US military logistics convoy was targeted in Iraq. The report said that a US Army logistics convoy was targeted in …

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck the Tirapata region of southern Peru on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

An appeals court Thursday rejected an effort by Donald Trump and two of his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, to avoid being deposed as part of a civil fraud investigation conducted by the New York attorney general’s office. New York’s Appellate Division, First Judicial Department found that a …

Josep Borrell claims the bloc’s armies would “run out of ammo in two weeks” if confronted with a conflict such as in Ukraine

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday, the arrest of 13 prominent terrorists in three provinces. The ministry said, in a statement received by (Al-Ghadeer), that “the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency in the Ministry of Interior carried out qualitative operations characterized by accuracy in the performance of duty …

The UAE’s Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday the first case of monkeypox, becoming the first Gulf country to detect a case of the disease. The patient is a 29-year-old visitor from a West African country and she is receiving the required medical care in the UAE, WAM added. Monkeypox …

Delegations from Armenia and Azerbaijan met on their international border on Tuesday in a choreographed step toward ending a 30-year dispute over the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and agreed on two further meetings. The leaders of both countries agreed in Brussels on Sunday to work on a peace plan, …

Russian forces were conducting an all-out assault on Tuesday to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin cities straddling a river in eastern Ukraine, a battle that could determine the success or failure of Moscow’s main campaign in the east. Exactly three months after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces into Ukraine, …

Eleven people were shot dead in a slum on the north side of Rio de Janeiro early on Tuesday during a police raid to capture heads of a drug-trafficking organization, police said. The deaths included a woman who was hit in the exchange of gunfire between gang members and police …

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) members re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director-General by a strong majority for another five years, the president of the World Health Assembly said on Tuesday. The vote by secret ballot, announced by Ahmed Robleh Abdilleh from Djibouti at a major annual meeting, was seen as …

At least 17 Rohingya refugees, including children, have been reported dead after their boat capsized in bad weather off the Myanmar coast.

The administration of US President Joe Biden is secretly mediating negotiations among Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel as part of efforts aimed at normalizing ties between Riyadh and the occupying Tel Aviv regime, according to a report. Citing five American and Israeli sources, the Axios news website reported on Tuesday …

Media sources on Monday reported a terrorist attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The suicide attack took place in an educational institute in western Kabul. Several teachers were killed and wounded during the attack, according to the reports. Further information has not been published yet. The news comes as …

Chinese and Russian fighter jets carried out joint flights near Japan on Tuesday during the last day of Joe Biden’s visit to the region. South Korea’s military said it intercepts fighter jets after at least four Chinese and four Russian warplanes entered its air defense zone on Tuesday. The Russian …

Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm — the ninth since mid-April — hit the country.