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Researchers subpackage 2019-nCoV detection reagents at a company in Wuqing District, north China’s Tianjin Municipality, Jan. 27, 2020. Photo:Xinhua In another breakthrough, Chinese scientists have identified traces of coronavirus in patients’ urine, suggesting the virus is capable of traveling with the blood to the human body to harm multiple organs. The virus in urine also […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed late Friday the developments in war-ravaged Idlib town in northwestern Syria, which has recently seen a humanitarian disaster due to heavy bombardments by the Assad regime and its main backer Russia. In the phone call, the leaders reiterated their willingness to fully implement all […]

  TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei cast his vote early on Friday both for the 11th parliamentary elections and the mid-term election for the Assembly of Experts. Ayatollah Khamenei cast his vote at the Hussainiyeh of Imam Khomeini in Tehran, where a polling booth — ballot box 110 — […]

Germany has increased police presence across the country, and at mosques in particular, as part of efforts to counter the “very high” security threat from far-right extremists in the wake of the recent racist attack. “The security threat from right-wing extremism and racism is very high,” German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said at a press […]

Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar. (File photo: Reuters) Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar said he would be ready for a ceasefire if Turkish and Syrian mercenaries left the country and Ankara stopped supplying weapons to Libya’s UN-recognized government in Tripoli, RIA reported. The UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Fayez […]

FILE PHOTO Su-24 fighters © Sputnik / Igor Zarembo The Russian Defense Ministry says its Air Force launched strikes to repel a militant offensive against the Syrian Army in Idlib, which had sought to breach the government forces’ defensive lines with Turkey’s backing. The militants launched a “massive offensive” southeast of the city of Idlib, […]

Doctors check the CT image of a patient’s lungs at Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) Hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, Feb. 9, 2020. (Photo by Gao Xiang/Xinhua) Nearly a dozen prison and justice department officials in three Chinese provinces have been removed from their posts on Friday, after the prisons reported altogether […]

A Somali soldier patrols next to the burnt-out wreckage of a car that was used by suspected al-shabab fighters on April 16, 2017. (MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty Images) A recent UN report said that record breaking airstrikes targeting al-Shabab militants in Somalia is forcing the group to move from rural areas to urban centers to mitigate American air power. […]

German Chancellor Merkel, Russia’s Putin, Presidents Erdoğan and Macron during a press conference (Reuters File Photo) German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron told Russia’s Vladimir Putin that they want to meet him and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to defuse the crisis in Syria. In their phone call with Putin, Merkel and Macron […]