Jordan will hold parliamentary elections on November 10, the state-run Petra news agency reported on Wednesday. The date was set hours after King Abdullah issued a royal decree ordering the parliamentary elections to be held. […]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the visiting Russia’s special envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, discussed on Wednesday the upcoming meeting of the Syrian constitutional committee, according to the state news agency SANA. Assad and Lavrentiev […]
Five people were injured on Thursday in an explosion in a perfume factory northeast of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, the National News Agency (NNA) reported. The explosion caused heavy fires that extended to nearby forests, NNA […]
From next week the word “Eskimo” will be removed from an Artic exhibition that has been in place at the National Museum of Denmark since 1992, according to Danish media reports on Thursday. The decision […]
Israel’s hi-tech industries’ exports rose by 16.2 percent in the first five months of 2020 despite the COVID-19 crisis, according to a report released by the state’s Central Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. According to […]
Russia did not send people to Belarus to destabilize the situation there ahead of the presidential election, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday. “Belarus and Russia are the Union State. It is an ally, the […]
The U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter amid mounting COVID-19 fallout, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Thursday. The decrease in real gross domestic product (GDP) reflected decreases […]
NASA launched its Mars rover Perseverance Thursday morning in a bid to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. The rover lifted off at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT) on a United […]
Italy will donate 1.2 million U.S. dollars to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to support Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on […]
Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 278 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 51,809. Of the new cases, four are imported cases, four are community cases and […]
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