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Battered Iraq to record 10 percent slide in economy this year

As authorities in Iraq continue to operate "in the eye of multiple storms", international support remains essential for resolving ongoing political, security, economic and social crises, as well as the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Security Council heard on Tuesday. UN Special Representative in Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert briefed ambassadors, at what she called "this critical juncture" in the country's modern history. "If the pan...

Israel Air Force plane crashes in southern Israel, two dead

Nov 25,2020

TEL AVIV, Israel – Two Israel Air Force personnel have been killed in a light plane crash in Southern Israel. The crash took place...

Trump administration formally begins transition process

WASHINGTON, DC – The General Services Administration has ascertained that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the November 3 election. President Donald...

Microsoft to develop 10,000m2 global hub in Ireland

DUBLIN, Ireland – Microsoft Ireland is to create 200 engineering roles to strengthen its existing Dublin-based team of over 600 engineers. The company has...

Trump appointee to run VOA News gets scathing rebuke from judge

The chief executive overseeing the Voice of America and its sister networks has acted unconstitutionally in investigating what he claimed was a deep-seated bias...

17 people dead, 25 injured in passenger truck crash in Nicaragua

Nov 24,2020

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, November 24 (ANI): At least seventeen people died and 25 others sustained injuries in a single-vehicle road collision in Nicaragua’s Montanita area,...

Probe into forced workers in textiles industry in China hampered

Investigators looking for evidence of forced labor in clothing supply chains in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang on behalf of global fashion companies...

France to begin reopening of economy from 1 December

PARIS, France – Aware that the French are becoming weary of lockdown and need to have a better sense of what the lead-up to...

U.S. no longer a party to Open Skies Treaty

Nov 23,2020

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States is no longer a party to the Open Skies Treaty. The U.S, formerly left the treaty on Sunday,...

Coronavirus cases in America pass 12 million mark

WASHINGTON, DC – The number of people to have contracted Covid-19 in the United States reached, and surpassed, 12 million on Saturday. The ominous...

Trump tweets during G20 then leaves to go golfing

WASHINGTON, DC – November 22 (ANI): U.S. President Donald Trump, who participated in his final Group of 20 summit on Saturday, skipped a special...

3 federal Death Row prisoners to be executed ahead of Trump exit

WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration is to execute three more prisoners on Death Row, prior to Mr Trump leaving office. One of the...

Coronavirus spreading around globe at faster rate than ever

Nov 22,2020

More cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the past four weeks than in the first six months of the pandemic, the UN health...

Nearly two dozen rockets rain on Afghanistan capital, at least 8 dead

KABUL, Afghanistan – At least eight people were killed Saturday when a barrage of rockets struck densely populated parts of Kabul, marking the latest...

Biden, now 78, says he works out five days a week

WASHINGTON, DC – President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the...

Indian boy attains university degrees at tender age of 14

Nov 21,2020

HYDERABAD, Telangana, India, November 21 (ANI): Fourteen-year-old Agastya Jaiswal from Hyderabad has claimed himself to be the first student in India to complete his...

World leaders, including Trump, discuss post-pandemic economic revival

Leaders from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum held a virtual meeting on Friday to discuss ways to revive their coronavirus-battered economies with U.S....

Trump’s Pompeo takes steps to further disenfranchise Palestinians

Nov 20,2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has visited an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, a first by a high-ranking U.S. official after...

Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes firmly in Joe Biden’s hands

ATLANTA, Georgia – Joe Biden has won Georgia, scoring a rare win in a Southern state that hadn’t backed a Democrat for president in...

Australia rattled by war crimes allegations against elite soldiers

CANBERRA, ACT, Australia – The inquiry into Australian Special Forces’ misconduct in Afghanistan has found evidence of war crimes involving 25 current or former...

Court hears Assange demanded redactions of Iraq, Afghanistan War logs

Witness statements towards the journalistic integrity of Julian Assange have been heard in court, debunking various myths in the process. Sara Chessa reports from...