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240 Bahraini Muslim scholars have strongly condemned Israeli foreign minister’s visit to Manama and rejected all forms of normalization with Tel Aviv.

A research has concluded it was "probable" a U.K. intelligence headquarters was used to assist the U.S. in the assassination of Iran's top anti-terror commander lieutenant general Qassem Soleimani. Tehran has stressed determination to take revenge from the assassins of the late commander.

The Iraqi president says good progress has been made with negotiations between Iran Saudi Arabia, but that some challenges still remain.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested upon his return from exile in Ukraine.

Dropping a plan to run for vice president in 2022 election, Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte announced he will retire from politics after his term ends. The controversial leader has faced backlash during the recent years over his bloody war on drugs.

Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the coup leader in Guinea, is sworn in as interim president for a transition period of unspecified length. Former President Alpha Conde was toppled in a September coup.

Some 15 millions of customers in Britain are facing higher bills for gas and electricity since Friday as the energy price cap has increased.

The deposed leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, appeared in a court on Friday in Nay Pyi Taw for trial on corruption charges.

A data review of nearly four decades in the US shows thousands of fatal U.S. police encounters have been misclassified or unreported, a new study reveals.

A UK official has warned fuel shortage and long queues at petrol stations across the country could last for weeks. Some 26 percent of filling stations in the U.K. are dry and the British Army is to start delivering fuel to pumps next week, according to reports.

Trade talks between Australia and the European Union (EU) have been delayed over Canberra’s decision to cancel a multibillion-euro submarine deal with France, EU and Australian officials said Friday.

Presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during a meeting in Sochi, have discussed setting up two nuclear power plants in Turkey, according to the Kremlin.

Majority of Muslims living in the United States have faced Islamophobia at least once in their life, according to a study by the University of California, Berkeley.

Iran’s foreign minister has lashed out at the Bahraini government for having normalized its relations with Tel Aviv and hosting the Israeli foreign minister.

Americans' confidence in President Joe Biden’s capability to handle several important issues in the United States, including the coronavirus pandemic and economy, is falling, a new poll shows.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has condemned Bahrain’s move to divulge its relationship with the Zionist regime and to let the regime’s foreign minister visit the Persian Gulf country as self-deprecating.

North Korea said on Thursday it has test-fired a newly developed anti-aircraft missile. This comes two days after Pyongyang announced testing of a new hypersonic missile and one day after its leader Kim Jung Un snubbed US offer for talks due to continuing US “hostile policy”.

Despite widespread opposition of the Bahrainis, Israel officially inaugurated its diplomatic mission in the capital Manama. Before the ceremony, Bahrainis staged rally in Manama to condemn normalization of relations with Israel. Iran has called Bahrain welcoming Israel’s foreign minister as humiliating.

The US House and Senate passed a funding measure on Thursday to avert government shutdown. And hours before the midnight deadline, President Joe Biden signed the stopgap bill.

A court in Paris found former French President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty for breaking election rules. The court has handed the ex-leader one year in prison, with the judge saying Sarkozy could serve the sentence at home with an electronic tag.

Almost 77 percent of Venezuelans are now living in extreme poverty, according to a new study. Caracas has blamed Washington for keeping up its harsh sanctions against the Latin American nation which has been in political and economic turmoil.

The Central Bank of Afghanistan had drained most of its cash reserves, weeks before the Taliban seized power in the war-ravaged country, according to a report seen by Reuters.

General Mark Milley, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has warned of a “real possibility” that al-Qaeda or Daesh could rebuild in Afghanistan as early as spring 2022 in the wake of the U.S. military withdrawal.

Demonstrators have poured into the streets of Manama, the capital city of Bahrain, to protest the Israeli foreign minister’s visit to the tiny Persian Gulf country.

Israeli soldiers have shot dead a young Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. Later, the Israeli forces gunned down a woman in the Old City of Jerusalem and a bird hunter east of Gaza border.