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A Thai soldier who killed at least 26 people, most of them in a shopping mall in the northeast of the country, was angry over a land deal involving a relative of his commanding office, officials said on Sunday. Thai security forces shot and killed the rogue soldier after an overnight...
- Iraq’s Basra Oil Co will cut crude oil output at the Nahr Bin Omar field to a minimum because of pollution and gas emissions, state news agency reported on Sunday. The company’s Director General Ihsan Abduljabbar said: “Nahr Bin Omar oilfield is considered one of the most controversial...
The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 812, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) said Saturday Authorities said 37,198 confirmed cases have been reported and 89 people have died and more than 2,600 new cases have been detected in the last 24 hours....
Two American troops were killed and six others wounded when an Afghan soldier armed with a machine gun opened fire, the US military confirmed Sunday. The deaths come at a sensitive time in the 18-year-old war, with President Donald Trump eager to bring troops home and end the longest...
Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch of a new scientific observation satellite scheduled within hours, the country's telecommunications minister said. The United States has raised concerns in the past about Iran's satellite programme, describing the launch of a carrier rocket in...
Exhausted from days of driving in search of shelter in northwest Syria, 38-year-old Ghossoon has no idea where her family will go after fleeing regime and Russian bombardment. "Thank God we have this car to sleep in, even if it's not comfortable," she said, after parking the grey...
(EQTSAD)- A 65-million-euro contract with the Iranian ArdMachine company to construct five wheat flour mills in Syria, come to surface over low quality standards as first mill got out of service. The first mill in Umm al-Zaytun town in southern Sweida province was launched...
The incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is all set to sweep polls Saturday in the assembly election in India’s national capital city of Delhi, according to exit polls. The exit polls conducted by different TV channels have given clear majority to the AAP, led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,...
Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that foreign states, particularly France, had expressed a desire to help his country emerge from a severe economic crisis. As Lebanon grapples with its worst economic and financial strains in decades, foreign donors have said they will...
An army soldier in Thailand on Saturday killed at least 12 people and injured many others in a shooting spree streamed live on social media, local media reported. The incident happened at Surathampithak military camp in the northeastern Nakhon Ratchasima province when the soldier,...
South Africa aims to free up over a billion dollars in stalled weapons sales, including to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, by amending a document at the heart of an export row, a senior arms control official told Reuters. Local defence firms have lobbied the government for months to...
Turkey strongly condemned comments Saturday by the leader of breakaway northern Cyprus, Mustafa Akinci, who said the prospect of annexation by Ankara was "horrible". Akinci is president of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, only recognised by Ankara. In an interview...
Flights transporting Yemeni medical patients from rebel-held areas continued Saturday when a second plane carrying 24 patients took off from Sanaa bound for Jordan's capital, the U.N. health agency said. The U.N. flights, which began Feb. 3, are seen as a humanitarian breakthrough in...
Two schools near a French ski resort where five Britons have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus will be shut next week as authorities try to determine with whom those infected had been in contact, a regional health official said. Eleven Britons, including the five who tested positive...
Wary of a confrontation with Turkey that could suck Moscow into a military quagmire, Russia is likely to take a gradual approach to helping the Syrian government capture the last rebel bastion of Idlib, analysts and diplomats say. President Bashar al-Assad’s army, aided by heavy Russian air...
Iran is ready to help Ankara and Damascus resolve their disputes, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. In a meeting between the visiting United Nations’ special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, and Iranian officials, Tehran underlined the importance of resolving issues in Syria...
The Syrian regime army took control Saturday of the strategic northwestern crossroads town of Saraqeb in the latest gain of a weeks-long offensive against the country's last major rebel bastion of Idlib. "Army units now exercise full control over the town of Saraqeb," state television...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) has deprived dozens of displaced families from food rations after they refused to evacuate a shelter center to a refugee camp in Hasaka province, one of the dispalced told Zaman al-Wasl. Abdullah al-Hassan, 42, said that, since his...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- After Eight years of forced disappearance by the Syrian security, Naser al-Dugaim has returned to his family in Deir Ezzor province. The 43-year-old man was held in the Sednaya military prison near the capital for eight years where family and...
Iran is not posing any threat to other countries, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, according to State TV, adding that Tehran was determined to guarantee its own security. “Iran poses no threat to any other country ... Our only aim is to make sure our security...
