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President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, September 23, 2020. President Donald Trump again declined to commit on Wednesday to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the upcoming US presidential election. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said at a news […]

The number of infected students at Glasgow University was ‘likely to be higher’(Picture: Getty) At least 124 students have tested positive for coronavirus in a major outbreak at Glasgow University. The university said the number of infected students was ‘likely to be higher’, with 600 people forced into isolation. The outbreak is centred on the […]

Kim Jong Un made an on-the-spot visit to the Kanggye Tractor Factory in May 2019. / Image: Rodong Sinmun Daily NK has learned that North Korea is planning to go forward with a major personnel “shakeup” in advance of the Eighth Party Congress, which is expected to be held in January 2021. The plans appear […]

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz at a virtual cabinet meeting in Neom, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 18, 2020. (SPA)Joseph Haboush, Al Arabiya EnglishWednesday 23 September 2020 Hezbollah’s hegemony over Lebanon has destroyed the country’s constitutional, state institutions and the only way to break out of this is for the Iran-backed group to be disarmed, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin […]

MActivists from the COVID Memorial Project mark the deaths of 200,000 lives lost in the US to COVID-19 after placing thousands of small American flags in Washington DC.   –   Copyright  J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press The US death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 on Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable threshold six weeks […]

Alexei Navalny Berlin’s Charite hospital has said that the Russian opposition leader has been discharged and that a complete recovery is possible. Several lab results confirm Navalny had been poisoned with a powerful nerve agent. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from Berlin’s Charite hospital on Tuesday after 32 days of treatment for “severe poisoning,” the […]

Southern Lebanon is a political stronghold of Hezbollah [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] An arms depot of the powerful Shia Muslim group Hezbollah exploded in southern Lebanon, sending a new shockwave across the country still reeling from a blast in the capital that killed almost 200 people in August. The Lebanese army said the blast occurred in a […]

Al-Shabaab ended 2019 with a truck-borne improvised explosive device (IED) attack that killed at least 82 people and wounded dozens more in Mogadishu, Somalia. It capped a decade of increasingly deadly complex suicide attacks by the Somali terrorist group that routinely involves homemade IED devices constructed from commercially imported chemical precursors. These materials transit through the same supply chains […]

People wearing face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus ride an escalator as they arrive at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 24, 2020. (AP Photo) The coronavirus pandemic appears to be accelerating worldwide, with new cases soaring last week to a new seven-day high of almost 2 […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses a high-level meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations via video on Sept. 21, 2020. (Xinhua/Ju Peng) Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarks at a high-level UN meeting on Monday, which stressed that “No country has the right to dominate global affairs, control the destiny of others, or […]