Former Iraqi President Barham Salih Elected New UN High Commissioner For Refugees

GENEVA, Dec 19 (NNN-XINHUA) – The United Nations General Assembly, yesterday, elected former Iraqi President, Barham Salih, as the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Salih, born in 1960, served as president of Iraq from 2018 to 2022. He previously held posts including deputy prime minister of Iraq and prime…

Iraq Nabs Two Wanted Suspects In NE Syria

BAGHDAD, Dec 19 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi security forces, conducted an airborne operation in north-eastern Syria, arresting two high-value suspects, wanted by the Iraqi judiciary, the Iraqi military said, yesterday. The Iraqi Falcon Intelligence Cell, operating under the Interior Ministry, conducted the operation in coordination with Syrian security forces, read a…

Joint Iraq-Iran Operation Seized 64 Kg Of Drugs

BAGHDAD, Dec 19 (NNN-NINA) – Iraq’s Interior Ministry, said yesterday that, its anti-drug forces seized 64 kg of narcotics, and nabbed a suspect in the Iranian city of Abadan, close to the Iraqi borders, in coordination with Iranian authorities. The operation was carried out by Iraq’s General Directorate of Narcotics…

US imposes sanctions on two more ICC judges for Israel probe

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States imposed sanctions on two more judges of the International Criminal Court after they rejected an attempt by Israel to end a war crimes probe in Gaza.Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had already ordered sanctions on judges and prosecutors in the case, explicitly linked the new…

UK police make arrests for alleged ‘intifada’ protest chants

LONDON, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UK police made their first arrests Wednesday since announcing officers will detain people who publicly chant pro-Palestinian calls to “globalise the intifada”, in a change prompted by Australia’s Bondi Beach attack. London’s Metropolitan Police said two people “who shouted slogans involving calls for intifada were…

Saudi Arabia Cancels Foreign Worker Levy For Licensed Industrial Facilities

RIYADH, Dec 18 (NNN-SPA) – Saudi Arabia has officially cancelled an expatriate levy on foreign workers, employed at licensed industrial facilities, a move aimed at supporting the sector’s sustainability and global competitiveness. Industry and Mineral Resources Minister, Bandar Alkhorayef, said, the decision underscored continued government support for industry, and would…

Venezuela says oil exports continue normally despite Trump ‘blockade’

CARACUS, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela struck a defiant note, insisting that crude oil exports were not impacted by US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a blockade. Trump’s announcement on Tuesday marked a new escalation in his months-long campaign of military and economic pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela, which has the…

16-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Shot Dead By Israeli Army During Military Raid

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – Israeli forces murdered a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, in the northern occupied West Bank. Mohammad Eyad Mohammad Abahra, 16, was shot and killed by Israeli forces, around 9:30 p.m. on Dec 13, in an alleyway to a main street in the Ziyoud neighbourhood in the Palestinian…

US Pres Trump adds Syria, Laos to expanded US travel ban

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump expanded a US travel ban by barring nationals of seven more countries including Syria, as well as Palestinian Authority passport holders, from entering the United States. Trump, who has long campaigned to restrict immigration and has spoken in increasingly strident terms, moved…

Egypt To Build 150-Million-USD Vaccine Plant In Suez Canal Zone

CAIRO, Dec 17 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt, yesterday, broke ground on a major vaccines and biological pharmaceuticals plant, in the Sokhna Industrial Zone, with total investments amounting to 150 million U.S. dollars, the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) said. The GENNVAX vaccines and biological pharmaceuticals project, will be established on an…
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