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Veteran US diplomat Bill Burns sailed through his Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday to become the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), paving the way for a full Senate vote on his nomination.“Rarely does a nom...

The Biden administration announced sanctions on two Houthi leaders Tuesday, weeks after revoking the terror designation on the Iran-backed group.The Treasury Department said Mansour al-Saadi and Ahmad Ali Ahsan al-Hamzi were being sanctione...

The spread of highly contagious coronavirus variants is threatening to fuel a 'potential fourth surge of cases' in the US, a top health official has warned, the BBC reported. The head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD...

A court sentenced the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who served from 2007 to 2012, to three years in prison with two of them suspended over corruption charges, becoming the second French president to be indicted along with Jacque...

Washington may take “additional steps” against the Iran-backed Houthi militia over its continued attacks on Saudi Arabia, the State Department said Monday.The US will also continue its efforts to help Saudi Arabia defend itself “from extern...

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has been seen for the first time since she was detained in a military coup, after she appeared in court via video link, the BBC reported. The ousted leader appeared to be in 'good health' and asked to see her lega...

Israeli occupation bulldozers on Monday demolished a two-story house in Issawiya town in the center of occupied Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian source.In a statement, head of the local follow-up committee in the town, Muhammad Abu al-...

Syrian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 'most' of the missiles launched by Israel from the direction of the Golan Heights toward Damascus on Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.Explosions were heard in Syria’s capital Damas...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred to a penal colony outside Moscow to serve his prison sentence, a public commission said on Sunday, weeks after he returned to Russia after being poisoned.Navalny’s whereabouts had been unkn...

Police have fired on protesters in Myanmar killing at least nine, medics say, on the deadliest day since rallies against the country's coup began, the BBC reported. Deaths were reported in Yangon, Dawei and Mandalay, as police used live rou...

President Joe Biden on Saturday welcomed the overnight passage by the US House of Representatives of an enormous, $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, saying it moves the country closer to full COVID-19 vaccination and economic recover...

Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday his “initial assessment” was that Iran was responsible for an explosion on an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman.“Iran is looking to hit Israeli infrastru...

Police in Myanmar launched their most sweeping crackdown in three weeks of protests against military rule on Saturday in towns and cities across the country, with media reports of a woman shot dead and dozens of people detained, Reuters rep...

President Biden’s nominee to lead the C.I.A. pledged during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday to improve spying on China, warned of Russia’s ability to interfere with American affairs and promised to deliver apolitical intelligence to t...

The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated progressives that they’d revive their derailed drive to boost the minimum wage.The new president’s visio...

Damascus denounced on Friday Washington’s overnight strike on Iran-backed fighters in east Syria, calling it a “bad sign” from the new administration of US President Joe Biden, state media reported.Syria “strongly condemns the cowardly Amer...

The Iran-backed Houthi militia group has targeted the hotspot city of Marib with a ballistic missile, according to Yemeni reports.The reports suggested that the ballistic missile launched on Thursday had landed in a residential area of Mari...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain’s Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa on Thursday discussed Iran and the possible involvement of the Gulf state in establishing a vaccine plant in Israel, the two countries s...

Authorities in Germany and Belgium seized more than 23,000 kilograms (50,700 pounds) of cocaine, worth billions of dollars, in an international operation that resulted in one arrest, officials said Wednesday, calling it the largest amount o...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned of an attempted military coup against him on Thursday after the army demanded he and his government resign in a statement, Reuters reported. Pashinyan has faced protests and calls to resign aft...

Global airline industry body IATA warned that the outlook for airlines has been weakened recently by tightening coronavirus restrictions but said it was preparing for a travel recovery later this year and would launch a digital travel pass ...

Republican lawmakers urged US President Joe Biden on Tuesday against lifting Washington’s sanctions on Iran to resolve the standoff over reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.“Iran’s malign activities, including its nuclear program, ballistic and...

Qatari and Egyptian delegations met for the first time since the announcement of the resolution ending the Gulf dispute, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt had severed diplomatic, trade...

President Joe Biden has addressed the nation as the US passed the figure of 500,000 Covid-related deaths, the highest number of any country, the BBC reported. 'As a nation, we can't accept such a cruel fate. We have to resist becoming numb...