Cuba had begun to progressively restore power to the capital Havana by early on Thursday, according to witnesses and official reports, but vast swaths of the Caribbean island nation still remained in the dark following the passage of Hurricane Ian. Much of the island of 11 million people was entering …

Brazil’s presidential election Sunday is being contested by 11 candidates, but only two stand a chance of reaching a runoff: former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Both are political titans, and eight of 10 Brazilians will vote for one of them, according to pollster Datafolha. …

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles in less than a week in the wake of a visit by US Vice President Kamala Harris to the troubled Korean Peninsula. The South Korean military said it had detected the launch of “two short-range ballistic missiles from the Sunchon area in South …

The Secretary-General of Badr Organization, Mr. Hadi Al-Amiri, received in his office in Baghdad today, Thursday, the President of the Republic of Iraq, Mr. Barham Salih. They discussed the general situation and the latest political developments in the country. They also stressed the need to end the political crisis and …

The Iraqi intelligence agency announced on Thursday destroying an ISIS site in Badush mountain, Nineveh. The agency said in a statement that it had provided the army’s airforces with the coordinates of the site after locating it. Iraqi F-16 aircraft carried out an attack destroying the site which was hosting …

Lionel Messi returning to Barcelona would now be ‘feasible’, the club’s financial chief has said. Messi left Barcelona for Paris St-Germain last year after the Spanish club were unable to renew his deal and stay within La Liga-imposed spending limits, with £172million required to be cut from their wage bill. …

A Palestinian boy from the central part of the occupied West Bank has lost his life after falling from a high place while running away from Israeli police forces who were chasing him, medical sources say. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, citing medical staff at Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, reported …

US Ambassador to Beijing Nicholas Burns has said that China should restore cooperation with the United States on crucial issues, such as climate change and healthcare. “Our message to the Chinese is ‘let’s talk, open these dialogues and let’s move forward,’” Burns told his audience at the Milken Institute Asia …

Russia said on Thursday that leaks spewing gas into the Baltic Sea from pipelines to Germany appeared to be the result of state-sponsored “terrorism”, as an EU official said the incident had fundamentally changed the nature of the conflict in Ukraine. The European Union is investigating the cause of the …

Sterling gained in volatile trading on Thursday, as the U.S. dollar fell against some currencies, with investors taking comfort from the Bank of England’s purchase of long-dated bonds to stabilize the market. The pound rose 1.4% to $1.1034. After hitting a fresh 37-year low of $1.0327 three days ago, sterling …

Rescue workers and residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast searched for missing people and picked up the pieces from wrecked homes on Thursday after Hurricane Ian tore through the area with howling winds, torrential rains, and raging surf and caused massive power outages. One of the mightiest storms to hit the …

Japan, the United States, and South Korea are set to hold joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan, as tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula. Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) announced in a statement on Thursday that the trilateral anti-submarine warfare exercise would be conducted on September …

The Popular Mobilization Forces – PMF, announced, on Wednesday, the implementation of a large-scale security operation to track down the remnants of the terrorist “ISIS” south of Mosul. The commission said in a statement received by Al-Ghadeer News, “The Directorate of Medicine, Military Engineering, Armor Resistance, the Intelligence and Information …

Parliament Speaker Muhammad Al-Halboosi on Wednesday called on the political forces to sit at one table to find a way out of the current political crisis. Al-Halboosi’s media office said in a statement, “Al-Halboosi stressed, during today’s parliament session, the need for a comprehensive political solution in which everyone should …

Hurricane Ian on Wednesday began lashing Florida’s Gulf Coast with powerful winds and drenching rain, prompting authorities to tell residents it was too late to evacuate as the eye of the storm inched toward shore with close to Category 5 power. At 11 a.m. ET (1500 GMT), Ian was around …

Moscow will request a meeting over suspected “sabotage” against the Nord Stream pipeline Moscow wishes to call an emergency UN Security Council session over the “provocations” at the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday in a Telegram post. Both pipelines were …

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), has been appointed the country’s prime minister in a cabinet shuffle ordered by King Salman, ahead of a civil lawsuit filed against him in the United States by Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of slain dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. …

Four Palestinians have been killed and dozens of others injured after Israeli forces carried out a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, citing security sources, reported that Israeli forces raided Jenin and its refugee camp in the early hours of …

A majority of 222 Iraqi lawmakers voted to reject the resignation of speaker Mohammad al-Halboosi, the latter’s bureau said in a brief press release on Wednesday. According to the press release, only 13 of the 235 parliamentarians, who attended the session presided by deputy speaker Shakhwan Abdullah, approved al-Halboosi’s resignation.

Three Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Wednesday while Iraq’s parliament voted to reject the resignation of speaker Mohammed Halbousi, Iraq’s military said. Seven security personnel were wounded in the attack, which took place amid a partial lockdown in the capital as parliament was convening. Security forces …