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Baghdad, Aug 23 (AFP/APP):Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr held a sit-in outside the top judicial body for several hours on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions in a showdown with a rival Shiite alliance. Caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi cut short a visit to Egypt […]

Washington, Aug 22 (AFP/APP): Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert who became the face of America’s fight against Covid-19, announced Monday that he will leave government service after more than 50 years in December, stepping down as advisor to President Joe Biden. In the […]

WASHINGTON / SEOUL – August 22 (ONLINE) South Korea and the United States have launched their largest joint military drills in years, officials said, as the allies seek to tighten readiness over North Korea’s potential weapons tests. The annual summertime exercises in Korea, renamed Ulchi […]

KYIV – August 21 (ONLINE) President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged vigilance ahead of Wednesday’s celebrations of 31 years of Ukraine’s independence from Soviet rule, as shells rained down near Europe’s biggest nuclear plant and Russian forces struck in the south and east. Ukrainians must not allow […]

MOSCOW – August 21 (ONLINE) The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow, Russian state investigators said on Sunday. Darya Dugina, daughter of prominent ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday […]

Karbala, Iraq, Aug 21 (AFP/APP):Iraqi rescue workers were Sunday battling to free at least six pilgrims trapped under rubble after a landslide hit a shrine in the central province of Karbala. It was feared that “between six and eight people are still caught” under the […]

HELSINKI, Finland – August 19 (ONLINE) Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s videos while ‘partying’ have gone viral which showed Marin, Finland’s 36-year-old leader, dancing with friends in a private setting. Reacting to the development, Marin has acknowledged partying “in a boisterous way” after the release […]

DAMASCUS – August 19 (ONLINE) Nine people were killed including at least five children in a rocket attack on a market in the northern Syrian city of Al-Bab on Friday, according to emergency responders working in rebel-held areas. The White Helmets, a rescue group working […]

Odessa, Ukraine, Aug 19 (AFP/APP): Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed for a team of independent inspectors to travel to the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant via Ukraine, the French presidency said on Friday. The apparent resolution of a dispute over whether inspectors travel to the […]

Tokyo, Aug 17 (AFP/APP): A board member for the Tokyo Olympics was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of taking bribes, prosecutors said, along with three other men connected to the scandal. Haruyuki Takahashi allegedly received $380,000 from high-street business-suit retailer Aoki Holdings, an official partner of […]