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The US federal government has the power to enforce adherence to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for reopening schools, akin to the coronavirus measures taken by some state governors, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said. A national strategy on mitigation efforts has been called for by critics of …

Dozens of people have been wounded in a car bomb blast followed by a shooting attack near an office of the Afghan intelligence agency in the northern province of Samangan. Clashes broke out between Afghan security forces and unknown gunmen on Monday following the bomb attack that targeted a government …

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden weighed in about Trump’s decision on Stone sentence without mentioning Stone by name. “I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in modern American history. Every day that he remains in office, he further threatens the future …

TEHRAN: The deputy Iranian Minister of Science, Research, and Technology for International Affairs and a number of representatives of the DAAD have held a virtual meeting. According to reports, the virtual meeting was held with the attending of Hossein Salar Amoli, the Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology for International …

Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration disclose the details of side deals connected with U.S. arms exports to Saudi Arabia, Foreign Policy has learned, maintaining that the so-called offsets undercut the financial benefits of weapons sales touted by the White House. The push by six House Democrats …

US President Donald Trump must leave in place the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protects young immigrants from deportation, demands a group of prominent business leaders. In a letter, members of the Coalition for the American Dream, an alliance of business and industry leaders, warned that ending …

On the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the only declared genocide in Europe since World War II, Iran’s Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted Europe for failing to meet its duties to prevent the tragedy. In a post on his Twitter account on Saturday, Zarif paid tribute to …

North Korea says the United Kingdom will “pay the price” for the imposition of new sanctions on Pyongyang. The UK on Monday announced sanctions against North Korea’s Ministry of State Security Bureau 7 and the Ministry of People’s Security Correctional Bureau, which have responsibility for running detention facilities. On Saturday, …

A US military convoy carrying logistic supplies has been attacked in Iraq on the road between Samawah and Diwaniyah, south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, local media reports say. At least three vehicles of the convoy were reportedly destroyed or damaged in the attack which occurred at 10 pm …

The contacts made by the Russian forces operating in Syria with the American and Turkish parties led to the return of drinking water to Al-Hasakah after the latter shut it off to more than one million people in the governorate. The Director General of the State Water Corporation in Al-Hasakah …