• Russia says ‘evidence’ links Ukraine to Moscow attack

    MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Russia said on Thursday it had evidence the perpetrators of last week's massacre at a concert hall outside Moscow were linked to "Ukrainian nationalists", a claim that the United States called nonsense. President Vladimir Putin and his security services continue to allege Kyiv and the West were involved...
  • Iran does not intend to build nuclear weapons: Raisi

    Defending his country's enrichment of uranium to 60 percent purity level, noting that it was a response to European states failing to live up to the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has categorically rejected the Western states' claim that Tehran intends to build nuclear weapons, in an interview...
  • Iran dismisses US claims on Russia’s use of Shahed drones in Ukraine war

    Tehran, Iran--Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations has rejected the claim by the United States and its allies about Russia’s use of Iranian drones in the Ukraine war. The mission in a statement on Friday said the "anti-Iran claims" are aimed to influence the six-month periodic report of UN...
  • Two Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in West Bank

    Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as the army claimed to have targeted the perpetrators of a "shooting attack". "Two martyrs, shot by the occupation (Israeli forces) arrived at Thabet Thabet government hospital," in Tulkarm, the health ministry said in a...
  • Morocco seeks to impose solution in Western Sahara conflict

    Earlier this month, Spain dramatically reversed decades of policy, backing Rabat’s 2007 ‘autonomy’ plan in what Moroccans hailed as a ‘diplomatic coup’.
  • Qatar Airways rebuffs Airbus $220m compensation claim

    Qatar Airways has denied that it owes Airbus $220 million in compensation for the rejected A350 aircraft. The Gulf carrier said that by refusing to accept two of the wide-body jets from Airbus it has in any way breached its contract with Airbus.
  • Rockets target Baghdad airport, state-owned airways’ plane damaged

    Six rockets were fired Friday at the Iraqi capital's airport, causing damage but no casualties, security sources said, the latest in a string of attacks the US blames on Iran-linked militias. The rockets hit Baghdad International Airport's runways or parking areas, a source at the interior ministry said, noting that...
  • Top 10 weather disasters cost $20bn more than last year: NGO

    Each year, UK charity Christian Aid calculates the cost of weather incidents like flooding, fires, and heat waves according to insurance claims. In 2020, it found the world's 10 costliest weather disasters caused $150 billion in damage, making this year's total an increase of 13 percent.