The number of US service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) stemming from Iran’s missile attack on a base in Iraq last month has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon said Monday. The department said 109 military members had been treated for mild TBI, a significant increase ... Read More »
Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim threw, on Saturday, a copy of the US’ so-called “deal of the century” in the bin, stressing that it “was born dead” and “should be thrown in the dustbin of history”. This came during Al-Ghanim’s speech before the emergency conference of the Arab Parliamentary Union, ... Read More »
The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in mainland China soared past 1,000 on Tuesday with a record daily rise in fatalities, while the prolonged disruption to factories and businesses played havoc with the world’s second-largest economy. Hundreds of Chinese firms say they will need billions of dollars in loans ... Read More »
President Rodrigo Duterte, who has openly disapproved of the military alliance, made the decision after an ally’s visa was rescinded Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, has told his foreign minister to give formal notice to the United States of his termination of a visiting forces agreement (VFA) between ... Read More »
The United States on Wednesday stepped up warnings to Russia over its Syria policy, saying Moscow was trying to challenge the U.S. presence in northeastern Syria by violating the terms of a de-confliction agreement and was also helping escalate the fighting in the northwestern province of Idlib. James Jeffrey, U.S. ... Read More »
– A Pegasus Airlines plane flying into Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport skidded off the end of a wet runway and broke into three pieces after landing on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 179, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. The three had died in hospital, with 179 of the 183 ... Read More »
President becomes third in US history to be impeached by the House and acquitted in Senate trial Donald Trump has been acquitted in his Senate trial on both of the articles of impeachment he faced, ending the threat that he would be removed from office and concluding the impeachment ... Read More »
Wuhan hospitals need more staff and supplies as residents describe increasingly desperate conditions Dozens more people have died in the city at the centre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, where hospitals are severely undersupplied and understaffed and residents have described increasingly desperate conditions. Chinese state media reported 57 new deaths ... Read More »
A Cabinet session to approve the final draft of the Cabinet’s policy statement is set to take place Thursday, Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad said Monday. “We are implementing short and medium-term plans, with clear and targeted goals,” Abdel Samad told reporters after the ministerial committee tasked with drafting the ... Read More »
Major banks in Lebanon began tightening banking controls this month, halving the amount of dollars depositors are allowed to withdraw every month, despite growing public anger. Faced with a dollar liquidity crunch, banks have imposed informal controls on dollar withdrawals and transfers abroad since September amid widespread anti-government protests and ... Read More »
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