هزت جريمة نهر دجلة، مشاعر سكان الوطن العربي والعالم أجمع، بعدما أقدمت أم عراقية على إلقاء ولديها في المجري المائي للتخلص منهم، لكن التعاطف الكبير مع هذه القضية صاحبه نشر معلومات مغلوطة.
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The US special envoy to Afghanistan warned Monday that ``distressingly high'' levels of violence threaten to derail ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
Zalmay Khalilzad's comments come as renewed fighting for days has (...)
The largely Shia-dominated Azerbaijan is backed by Turkey in its war with Armenia. The Shia Islamic Republic of Iran favours Armenia and Sunni Arab nations seem to tilt towards the mostly Christian nation in the current conflict in the Caucasus.
On (...)
China and Russia were elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, but support for Beijing dropped by more than 20 percent compared with a 2016 vote and Saudi Arabia failed in its bid to win a seat on the Geneva-based body.
The (...)
Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders were holding fresh talks Monday aimed at ending a monthslong standoff along their disputed border in the remote Ladakh region.
The talks were being held on the Indian side of the frontier in the Chushul (...)
Anti-India clashes erupted in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday following the killing of two suspected rebels in a gunfight with government forces.
Police and paramilitary soldiers on a tip launched a counterinsurgency operation (...)
Pakistan blocked the Chinese social media app TikTok, saying the company failed to fully comply with the instructions to develop an effective mechanism to control unlawful content.
In a statement, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said Friday (...)
The UN is in a pickle. It has virtually been unable to take the leadership of the pandemic world crisis. The World Health Organisation (WHO) botched it, flip-flopping constantly and António Guterres, wailing and complaining, said “We need (...)
The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 91, died in the United States on Tuesday where he was recovering from surgery he underwent two months ago.
Sheikh Sabah came to power in 2006 at the age of 77, succeeding Sheikh Saad Al-Salem (...)
Pakistan's Supreme Court was scheduled to hear an appeal Monday by the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl challenging the acquittal of a British-born Pakistani in the gruesome 2002 beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter.
The (...)
Senior Afghan peace official Abdullah Abdullah arrived in Pakistan on Monday for meetings in a country seen as vital to the success of Afghan talks aimed at ending decades of war.
During his three-day visit to Islamabad, Abdullah, a former foreign (...)
French police are studying a video in which the man suspected of attacking people with a meat cleaver on Friday says he will commit an act of "resistance" after the republication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad in a satirical magazine.
The (...)
Pakistan's military said Sunday that Indian troops opened fire across the border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, killing one soldier.
In a statement, it said Pakistani troops responded by targeting the Indian posts where the fire (...)
A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced two political party operatives to death for starting a fire at a garments factory in Karachi in 2012 that killed 260 people after the factory owners refused to pay bribes.
The court also sentenced the factory's (...)
The Afghan government and Taliban militants remain far apart on even the most basic issues a week into talks meant to end two decades of war that has killed tens of thousands of people, diplomats and negotiators say.
The chasm, not just on the (...)
India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Saturday it has arrested nine al Qaeda militants who were planning attacks in several locations including the capital New Delhi.
"The group was planning to undertake terrorist attacks at vital (...)
The 2020 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM), published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has recently been released, providing an analysis of continental and regional trends in African agricultural trade flows and (...)
Nile waters in Sudan have begun to drop to after reaching record levels, causing severe damage in several cities, the Water and Irrigation Ministry in Khartoum said Sunday.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok tweeted Sudan hasn't seen similar floods since (...)
Chinese and Russian forces will take part in joint military exercises in southern Russia later this month along with troops from Armenia, Belarus, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan and others, China's defense ministry announced Thursday.
The ``Caucuses 2020'' (...)
The defense ministers from India and China have met in the Russian capital as the two sides try to lower rising tensions along their disputed border in the eastern Ladakh region, where a June clash killed 20 Indian soldiers.
At the meeting Friday (...)
The Western media remains adamant about speaking ill of Egypt. A recent headline in the American magazine Foreign Affairs reads, “The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State,” for example, with the article below considering Egypt's, and (...)
Three suspected rebels and a counterinsurgency officer were killed in a gunbattle on the outskirts of Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city, police said Sunday.
An Indian soldier was also killed in Pakistani firing along their frontier in the (...)
Government forces on Saturday fired shotgun pellets and tear gas to disperse hundreds of Shia Muslims participating in a traditional religious procession in the Indian-controlled Kashmir, injuring scores, eyewitnesses said.
An officer at the police (...)
China has several novel coronavirus vaccine candidates in the late stage of development.
Below is a summary of its efforts to develop vaccines.
HOW MANY CHINESE VACCINES ARE IN PHASE 3?
Four of the world's seven vaccines that are in the third phase (...)
Pakistan issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban, just as the militant group is in the midst of U.S.-led peace process in the neighboring country.
The orders, which were made public late on Friday, identified dozens of (...)
