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Russia will begin the first mass deliveries of its vaccine this month.Mikhail Metzel / TASS Russia surpassed 1 million cases of Covid-19 nationwide on Tuesday, making it the fourth country after the United States, Brazil and India to reach the milestone. On Monday, Russia’s Health Minister announced plans to begin the first mass deliveries of its […]

Tehran, Sept 1, IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has betrayed the Islamic world, Arab states, the regional countries, and Palestine, with letting the Zionist regime into the region. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a video conference with the […]

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Strip, Palestine, Aug. 28, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the Israel-Gaza border, Gaza’s ruling Hamas and Israel said Monday. Under the deal, brokered by a Qatari envoy, Hamas would end the launching of incendiary balloons, […]

In August 23, 1996, Usama Bin Laden, a then-obscure Saudi jihadist, declared war on the United States. It would be more than a week before wire services or the U.S. press would pick up Bin Laden’s statement which came to Washington’s attention only after Al-Quds, a Palestinian newspaper published in London, reprinted some of his missives. The Clinton administration continued […]

President Donald Trump on Monday portrayed the gunman charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., as a victim, suggesting that the Illinois teenager was acting in self-defense. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested last week and charged with two counts of first-degree murder for shooting during an anti-racist protest following the police shooting of Jacob […]

Lieutenant General Fahd bin Turki bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, centre right, was the commander of the Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen [File: Fayez Nureldine/AFP] Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has sacked two royals over corruption allegations and referred them to the anti-graft watchdog for an investigation, according to state media. In a royal decree issued early on Tuesday, […]

Ethiopian migrants line up to board a small boat in the uninhabited coast outside the town of Obock, Djibouti, determined to reach oil-rich Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2019. (AP Photo)  Hundreds of African migrants have been trapped for months in “squalid” detention centers in Saudi Arabia, driving some to commit suicide while others have died […]

Joe Biden last week called for a halt to the violence, though it took him longer than many Democrats wanted. The Democratic nominee decided over the weekend that he would not travel to the pivotal battleground state on Monday ahead of Trump’s visit. Instead, the Biden campaign plans to ramp up messaging that Trump’s rhetoric […]