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Sat, 07 May 2022 06:31:23 +0000
Italy Seizes $700 Million Superyacht Linked to Russia's President
Italy has seized a $700 million superyacht named Scheherazade that has allegedly been tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Sat, 07 May 2022 06:25:13 +0000
Sri Lanka Declares Emergency Amid Economic Crisis
President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday declared a state of emergency once again as the nationwide protests against economic woes continued to hit the island nation...

Sat, 07 May 2022 05:52:55 +0000
Revelations! What Kind of War Trump Wanted to Start in Mexico?
Former US President Donald Trump proposed bombing cartel positions and "drug labs" in Mexico, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper reportedly says in a forthcoming memoir...

Sat, 07 May 2022 05:43:56 +0000
Zelensky Slams Russia's 'Inhuman' Treatment of Civilians in Mariupol
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday spoke via video conference with the UK-based think tank Chatham House and accused Moscow of torturing the civilian population of Ukraine's southeastern Mariupol city but also insisted that not all bri...

Fri, 06 May 2022 06:32:02 +0000
Putin Apologizes for Foreign Minister's Remarks on Jews, Hitler
The Israeli prime minister accepted the Russian president's apology over Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks on Jews, according to the Israeli government on Thursday...

Fri, 06 May 2022 06:22:38 +0000
UN: 12.8M People Displaced in Ukraine
U.N. human rights experts said Thursday they are alarmed that nearly 12.8 million people have been displaced in Ukraine since Russia launched its war in late February, most of whom have not left the country...

Thu, 05 May 2022 12:37:43 +0000
WHO: COVID Pandemic Killed 13 to 17 Million in 2020-21 (AFP)
The COVID-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated Thursday -- up to triple the number of deaths attributed directly to the disease...

Thu, 05 May 2022 12:19:39 +0000
Iraq Sandstorm Kills 1, Harms 5,000 Others (AFP)
One was killed and more than 5,000 Iraqis suffered respiratory ailments on Thursday due to a sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month, state media said...

Thu, 05 May 2022 12:18:50 +0000
Ethiopia Accused of Prolonging GERD Crisis
An Egyptian water expert at Cairo University, Abbas Sharaqy accused the Ethiopian government of prolonging the dam crisis to divert the attention of Ethiopians from internal crises...

Thu, 05 May 2022 11:32:57 +0000
Turkey Plans to Fully Normalize Ties With Armenia
Turkish and Armenian envoys for the normalisation of ties between the two countries have reaffirmed their goal of “achieving full normalisation...

Thu, 05 May 2022 11:24:23 +0000
Australia Imposes Sanctions on 110 Russians
Australia imposed sanctions against 110 Russians, mostly politicians, on Wednesday over their country's war in Ukraine...

Thu, 05 May 2022 10:57:51 +0000
UN Chief Discusses Fight Against Terrorism With Nigeria's President
Nigeria’s president and the UN Secretary-General discussed the fight against terrorism Wednesday Muhammadu Buhari and Antonio Guterres held a closed-door meeting at the Aso Rock Palace in the capital Abuja...

Thu, 05 May 2022 10:44:25 +0000
Kremlin: US, UK and NATO Prolonged Conflict with Ukraine (AFP)
The Kremlin on Thursday accused the West of preventing a "quick" end to Russia's military campaign in Ukraine by supplying weapons to the pro-Western country...

Thu, 05 May 2022 10:34:07 +0000
US Secretary of State Blinken Tests Positive for COVID-19
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the State Department announced...

Thu, 05 May 2022 09:28:11 +0000
Britons Cast Their Ballots in Local Elections
Millions of Britons are set to cast their votes in local elections across the UK today as polling stations opened bright and early...

Thu, 05 May 2022 08:22:34 +0000
Leaked Supreme Court Document Shows US Abortion Rights in Jeopardy
A leaked Supreme Court opinion draft showing that the highest court in the United States is primed to overturn the right to abortion has sparked demonstrations across the country and sent pro-abortion politicians into a frenzy...

Thu, 05 May 2022 06:43:11 +0000
Israeli Violations Continue at Al-Aqsa Mosque Despite Hamas Warnings
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned the Tel Aviv regime against crossing “red lines” at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of Al-Quds, as Israeli military forces and settlers press ahead with their acts of aggre...

Thu, 05 May 2022 06:25:20 +0000
Lebanon to Hold First Parliamentary Election Since 2019 Uprising
On May 15, Lebanon will go to the polls for the first time since it sank into one of the world’s worst economic crises after the 2019 uprising and the Beirut port explosion...

Thu, 05 May 2022 06:08:16 +0000
Israeli President Seeks Apology Over Russian ‘Anti-Semitic Lies’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Russia’s foreign minister Wednesday to apologize for his “anti-Semitic lies” following the latter’s claim that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood...

Thu, 05 May 2022 06:03:35 +0000
EU Proposes Complete Ban on Russian Oil
The head of the European Union on Wednesday proposed to member states a complete ban on Russian oil as part of the bloc's sixth sanctions package to be levied against Russia over its war in Ukraine...



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