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Houthis ordered operators to stop shipping oil and minerals from government-controlled regions

Saman test spacecraft was built by the country’s Space Research Center

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said yesterday they fired missiles and drones at militant targets in the Kurdish region of neighbouring northern Iraq, where authorities said 13 people were killed, Reuters reported. The strikes were reported after Iranian authorities accused armed Iranian Kurdish dissidents of involvement in unrest now shaking Iran, especially in the northwest where most of the […]

US Ambassador to Khartoum, John Godfrey, yesterday warned the Sudanese government of the repercussions of allowing Russia to build a military base in the Red Sea, the Anadolu news agency reported. In an interview with the Tayyar newspaper, Godfrey said: “There are some reports that Russia is trying to implement the agreement it signed with […]

Clashes between two Libyan armed groups in Zawiya have left five dead, including two children, sources said yesterday. The clashes, which broke out on Saturday for unknown reasons some 45 kilometres west of the capital Tripoli, came to an end yesterday. Osama Ali, spokesman of the Emergency Department in Tripoli, said that a ten-year-old boy […]

Russia’s health ministry said “14 ambulance teams” were working at the scene to help the injured

Turkiye has sold and delivered drones to the United Arab Emirates, eight months after Ankara and Abu Dhabi reconciled and restored relations, Reuters has reported. Anonymous Turkish sources have confirmed that the Baykar Company delivered twenty of its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the UAE earlier this month. There is the potential to sell even […]

Iran, Russia and China will hold joint naval exercises in the northern Indian Ocean “this autumn”, Iranian semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Mehr quoted Iranian Chief of Staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, as saying that other countries, including Oman and Pakistan, will join the drill, without giving further details. The northern Indian Ocean extends to […]

Situation requires urgent measures, assistant minister says

The $75 million target for first phase was reached when the Netherlands pitched in a second donation of $7 million