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Beijing smothered by hazardous yellow smog
Mar 15, 2021 12:13Beijing is cloaked by a thick yellow smog with pollution surging to hazardous levels as a sandstorm sweeps across China's capital.
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With full lockdown West Bank hospitals reach 100% capacity, field hospitals are in need
Mar 15, 2021 04:02Hospitals across the occupied west bank are overfull and intensive-care units operating at over 100 per cent capacity with coronavirus patients in some cities, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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Yemenis reject foreign presence in their country
Mar 15, 2021 03:03Yemen’s bloc of anti-aggression parties has held a symposium in the capital Sana’a to discuss the repercussions of the takfiri organizations' presence in the country. It comes as the army pushes its offensive to liberate the Province of Marib from terrorist groups.
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Venezuela dismisses UN rights report as politically motivated, demands revision
Mar 14, 2021 13:46Caracas has dismissed the alleged human rights violations in a report about Venezuela by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, demanding a revision.
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Major water pipeline now links Persian Gulf to Yazd central Iran
Mar 14, 2021 11:40President Hassan Rouhani has opened two more sections of a pipeline carrying Persian Gulf water to arid regions deep into the Iranian Plateau.
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US corona catastrophe marks one year anniversary
Mar 14, 2021 09:20On March 13 then US Pesident Donald Trump declared the coronavirus to be a national emergency. One year later, many believe that the world’s richest country has had the world’s worst national response to the pandemic.
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Israeli troops detain terrified Palestinian kids for picking vegetables
Mar 14, 2021 05:12Israeli forces have detained Palestinian children, who went foraging for wild vegetables in the occupied West Bank, triggering widespread condemnation.
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More than 100 million EU citizens living in poverty
Mar 13, 2021 09:00Social Rights Commissioner Nicolas Schmit has presented plans in the European Parliament to lift 15 million people, living in the 27-nation EU, out of poverty by 2030.
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Fire at clothing factory kills at least 20 people in Egypt
Mar 12, 2021 10:40Images of smoke rising from a clothing factory on the eastern outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo, after a fire killed at least 20 people and injured 24 others, medical and security sources said.
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EU accuses UK of banning coronavirus vaccine exports to bloc
Mar 12, 2021 04:21Faced with production problems with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, the European Union has blocked shipments to places like Australia amid shortages.