Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Alexander Shulgin, says Western countries are formulating a mechanism in the international body in order to discredit states which they view as unfavorable. “A mechanism for discrediting unfavorable states is being created in the OPCW by efforts of Western countries,” Shulgin told an OPCW…
An independent Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has described the rise of Takfiri terror in Iraq as an outcome of Washington’s 2003 invasion of the Arab country, saying neighboring Iran, unlike the US, gave Baghdad a helping hand in its fight against the Daesh terrorist group. In a post on his twitter account…
Seoul, South Korea – South Korea celebrated its entry into the “elite group of fighter jet producers” this month, unveiling its domestically-developed KF-21 Boramae in a blaze of lights and pop music and a glowing endorsement from President Moon Jae-in. Moon lauded the technology, economic benefits, military capabilities, and national prestige the development of the plane…
Foreign troop withdrawals have raised concerns that Afghanistan could become a fractured state, erupt in civil warA top US general said on Tuesday that he had grave doubts about the Taliban’s reliability as a negotiating partner, as the United States is set to remove all its troops from Afghanistan in the coming months and focus…
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab has called on Qatar to assist the cash-strapped Arab country to overcome its devastating economic crisis, as people are angry with the surging cost of living and what they view as the government’s mishandling of the country’s worst financial crisis in decades. Diab met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al…
Prominent Saudi female activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been awarded a high-profile European prize owing to her campaigns for women’s human rights in the ultra-conservative kingdom. Hathloul was announced on Monday as the winner of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in recognition of her fight for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, including her efforts to end…
Bahrain’s most prominent cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim says drawing up a new constitution is the only way out of the political crisis in the protest-hit kingdom, urging the regime in Manama to pursue an agreement with the Bahraini opposition instead of increasingly suppressing the dissidents. “Since the people do not find anything to persuade themselves to…
Russian aircraft target a terrorist stronghold near the western Syrian city of Palmyra, killing up to 200 terrorists and afflicting considerable material damages on them. Alexander Karpov, the deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria -- a subdivision of the Russian Armed Forces, announced the news on Monday. "After…
Mona Kandil Press TV, Ramallah The Executive committee of the Palestine Liberation organization held a meeting chaired by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and announced that it has called upon the international community to put pressure on Israel not to create obstacles on the way of Palestinian elections. The committee urged the United Nations, the…
The streaming service added just 3.98 million subscribers in the first quarter, missing Wall Street’s estimate of 6.29 million.The easing of pandemic lockdowns is taking a far more severe toll on Netflix Inc.’s growth than anticipated, sending its shares plunging as much as 13% on Tuesday. The streaming service added just 3.98 million subscribers in…
Video shows a woman in a T-shirt that says ‘The brakes don’t work’ shouting similar accusations at a Shanghai auto show.An unhappy customer who invaded the Tesla booth at the Shanghai auto show in China by clambering atop a car in protest, creating a social media stir and prompting an apology from the company, will…
Initially introduced in 2019, the non-binding Green New Deal seeks to eliminate US greenhouse gas emissions within a decade and transition the economy away from fossil fuels.Democratic United States legislators, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, reintroduced their “Green New Deal” resolution on Tuesday, a set of aggressive climate goals intended to transform…
DUBAI: Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baker has warned that many more airlines will be forced out of business by the pandemic. In an exclusive interview on CNN’s Quest Means Business, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baker gave a bleak assessment of the challenges facing the industry as it struggles to recover the collapse in global air…
JEDDAH: While consuming excessive food during the month of Ramadan goes against the purpose of the holy month, for many Saudis and people of the region, it is a time to indulge in special foods, which often leads to overeating. For years, Saudis have been facing problems with obesity, with unhealthy diets leading to a…
Some of the justices are sceptical that protected migrants who entered the US illegally should be offered legal citizenship.US Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to let people who have been allowed to stay in the United States on humanitarian grounds apply to become permanent residents if they entered the country illegally. The justices…
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says the anti-Israel struggle will continue until the full liberation of al-Aqsa Mosque from the grips of the “Zionist enemy.” In a statement on Sunday, Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, praised the “legendary steadfastness” of his fellow Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem al-Quds, saying the true inhabitants…
BERLIN: France, Germany, Italy, Britain and the US condemned attacks this week in Iraqi Kurdistan “in the strongest terms” in a joint statement on Friday. “Together, our governments will support the government of Iraq’s investigation into the attacks to ensure that those responsible will be held accountable,” they said. The Western powers said they were “united” in…
NEW YORK CITY: When Abdel Karim Ibrahim Mohammed, 23, fled the recent violence consuming Ethiopia’s Oromia region, he never imagined he would fall into the hands of Yemen’s Houthis. In fact, like many of his compatriots desperate to escape conflict-ridden Ethiopia, he had not even heard of the Iran-backed militia, which seized control of Yemen’s…
A high-ranking member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council has called on the United Nations Security Council to condemn parties involved in the massacre of innocent Yemeni people than to glorify them, terming as “useless and futile” any meeting by the world body which does not address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the impoverished Arab country.“The…
Syria has dismissed as “false and fabricated” the results of a probe by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) into an alleged chemical attack in the northwestern city of Saraqib on February 4, 2018. On Monday, the OPCW released the findings of its Investigation and Identification Team (IIT), which blamed the Saraqib…
The Yemeni military says its missile force and air force have carried out a joint operation using eleven missiles and drones against a facility belonging to Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil giant and other sensitive targets in the kingdom’s southwestern Jizan region.“Aramco and other targets were struck by seven missiles of the Sa’ir and Badr type, and…
The Iraqi Saraya Awliya al-Dam group has denied media reports that it claimed responsibility for the attack on a facility serving Israel’s Mossad spy agency in the northern Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s capital Erbil, saying it has issued no statement to that effect.On Thursday, Saraya Awliya al-Dam dismissed any link to the statement that media outlets…
The United States’ airbase in the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region’s capital Erbil has come under an “attack.” Iraq’s Sabereen News television channel and Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network reported that explosions had rung out in the city on Wednesday night. The Iraqi channel reported shortly afterwards that columns of smoke were being seen billowing from…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte must end his “policy of subservience” towards Beijing, lawmakers and foreign policy experts have said, warning that the Filipino leader’s silence is sending the wrong signal as hundreds of Chinese “maritime militia” vessels continue to congregate within Manila’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea. While several Filipino officials,…
At least eight people were killed in a late-night shooting at a FedEx facility in the US city of Indianapolis by a gunman who is believed to have then killed himself, police said. Multiple others were injured on Thursday night when gunfire erupted at the facility near Indianapolis International Airport, police spokesperson Genae Cook said.…
But quarterly comparison shows slowing momentum, with analysts forecasting levelling off in construction and exports.China’s economy posted a record growth rate in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, when the country was in the midst of a crushing lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus. But compared with the last…
India has reported a record daily increase of 217,353 COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed – the eighth record daily increase in the last nine days. Deaths from COVID-19 rose by 1,185 – the highest single-day rise in seven months – to reach a total of 174,308, the health ministry’s…
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was jailed for 12 months on Friday along with four other veteran democracy activists for helping to lead one of the city’s biggest-ever protests. Lai was among nine of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy campaigners found guilty of organising and participating in the rally. Many of them have spent…
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