Trump says he thinks Israel should ‘hit’ Iran nuclear facilities
The former president, speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina, referred to a question posed to Democratic President Joe...Geostrategy
Regional Updates: Iran “not looking for war” but will retaliate fiercely to any Israeli attack
Iranian leadership vows strong retaliation if Israel attacks Iran as Hezbollah kills eight Israeli soldiers and destroys 3 tanks while...Geostrategy
Pandemic ‘far from over’, but ‘let’s end it together’, says UN chief
The UN chief said countries need to fulfil and accelerate dose-sharing and donation commitments in order to reach the billions...Antonio Guterres said the spread of Omicron was “a startling reminder of how quickly COVID-19 can mutate and spread
The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is now surging in the form of the BA2 variant in many parts of the world
Famine-threatened Yemen fears impact of Ukraine war
Across the MENA region, people are struggling to secure even the most basic staples in view of soaring food and...More than 17 million people in Yemen face high levels of food insecurity
Famine conditions already afflict more than 30,000 Yemenis, UN agencies said
Civilians flee east Ukraine as Boris Johnson visits Kyiv
Evacuations resumed on Saturday from Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, where a missile strike killed 52 people at a railway station...US President Joe Biden accused Russia of being behind a "horrific atrocity" in Kramatorsk, and France also condemned the strike
Moscow denied responsibility for the rocket attack on the station, which also wounded 109 people, according to the latest official count
Ukraine invasion places sharp new focus on calls for UN reform
Experts say the chances of reforms will remain slim so long as the permanent members refuse to accept any dilution...UN members look for major reforms, including the veto power
South African President said that Security Council need to 'democratized'
Iraq warns of threat from Syrian camp for displaced people
The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is a jihadist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security..."Each day that passes with the camp still there, hate grows and terrorism thrives," Iraq's national security adviser, Qassem al-Araji, told an international conference
The overcrowded camp is controlled by the autonomous Kurdish administration and lies less than 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Iraqi border
US to keep Quds Force of Iran on terror list
The United States insisted Friday on keeping the elite Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps on its designated list...The Guards as a whole, as well as the Quds Force in particular, were blacklisted under former US President Donald Trump
Tehran is demanding that the Guards be removed from the blacklist which has sparked outrage from some US politicians
Ukraine calls for ‘global response’ as train station attack kills 52
Russia denied being behind the missile strike, which came even as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU...A missile strike killed 52 people at a train station in eastern Ukraine where civilians had gathered to flee the area fearing a Russian offensive
The regional government said there were five children among the deceased, while Zelensky reported at least 300 were wounded
US-led forces shoot down armed drone in Iraq
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq said it shot down Friday an armed drone that targeted..."US air defense systems shot down an armed unmanned aerial system entering Al Asad Air Base" early Friday morning, the coalition said in a statement
In early January, coalition forces in Iraq said they shot down two armed drones targeting the Ain Al-Asad base
Vaccine supply outstrips demand, inequity remains
Many richer nations are now approaching oversupply. European Union and G7 countries had a surplus of 497 million doses at...More than 13 billion doses have been produced since the pandemic, 11 billion of which have been administered.
Countries like South Africa and India have long called for the WTO to suspend intellectual property rights for vaccines and anti-Covid treatments, so they can boost production.
Iran buries second cleric killed in shrine stabbing attack
Iran on Friday buried a second Shiite Muslim cleric killed in a suspected jihadist attack at a revered shrine in...Sadegh Darai, a middle-ranking cleric, died Thursday from wounds sustained in the stabbing attack earlier this week in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city
Another cleric, Mohammad Aslani, also died in the knife attack, while a third, Mohsen Pakdaman, is in a stable condition in hospital
