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Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has held talks with his Qatari counterpart, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, over the phone, Qatari official sources reported on Monday evening. According to the report, bilateral cooperation between the two countries and the latest developments in the region have been discussed by the two sides. This telephone conversation coincided with US Special Representative for Iran’s Affairs Robert Malley’s visit to the region.source : mehrnews.com

Russia is looking forward to exchanging views and resuming the dialogue between the parties at the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. “[Moscow expects] the resumption of the dialogue, sharing views, comparing positions [in order to] realize how the situation in Afghanistan will be developing amid all the well-known parameters,” the Kremlin spokesman noted. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that, during the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan, the sides would discuss the prospects for the development of the Afghan military-political situation and the global community’s efforts to prevent a humanitarian crisis. The meeting…

Russia’s COVID-19 daily cases climbed by 33,740 to 8,060,752, the anti-coronavirus crisis center stated on Tuesday. In relative terms, the COVID-19 incidence increased by 0.42% in the past 24 hours. In particular, over the past day, some 3,220 COVID-19 cases were registered in St. Petersburg, as many as 921 cases of the infection were recorded in the Samara Region, 715 – in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, 689 – in the Voronezh Region, 664 – in Bashkortostan and 604 – in Crimea. The number of so-called active cases, the patients who are currently receiving treatment, surged to 794,946, the crisis center…

Do you know that the first musical composition in history was discovered in Syria? The first musical composition in history was discovered in the ancient city of Ugarit, Lattakia coastal province. These musical notes were engraved on clay tablets (cuneiform) and they date back to 1400 BC. They were discovered in 1950 and decoded by the writer Richard Dumbrell, author of the book “The Effects of Music Science in the Ancient Near East.” According to the studies carried out, this composition includes a musical collection of 36 songs called “Hurrian Songs”, recorded in cuneiform script on clay tablets. Those songs…

The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries of terrorist organizations have renewed the attacks on safe villages and towns in the vicinity of Tal Tamir and Ras al-Ayn areas, Hasaka northwestern countryside. The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries have fired several artillery and rocket shells that fell on al-Dardara village, north of Tal Tamir, Hasaka countryside, causing material damages to the infrastructure and the property, according to local sources. The sources added that some of the areas where the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries are stationed in Hasaka northern countryside have been witnessing the arrival of reinforcements coming from the bases…

A senior Lebanese journalist has identified a US embassy employee as one of the snipers who opened fire at supporters of Hezbollah and Amal movements who were marching peacefully towards the Palace of Justice in central Beirut. In a post on his twitter account, Hosein Mortada released a photo of Shukri Abu Saab, a member of the Lebanese security forces and a US embassy employee, and said he had been one of the snipers involved in the recent deaths in Beirut. On Thursday, at least seven people were killed and 60 others injured after unknown gunmen attacked Hezbollah and Amal supporters…

By Julie Gordon and Fergal Smith Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new government is set to impose higher taxes on Canadians, which will help fund some campaign promises but are not broad enough to also start paying down the country’s record levels of debt, leaving Canada vulnerable to the next economic crisis, analysts say. This could be a risky strategy for the country, which piled on new debt at a faster pace than any of its Group of Seven peers during the pandemic. The high level of indebtedness could limit Canada’s ability to manage long-term challenges that require massive government funding, like transitioning from…

China said Monday its launch of a new spacecraft in August was merely a test to see whether the vehicle could be re-used, denying a Financial Times report that they had tested a rocket carrying a hypersonic missile, as the US expressed concern about hypersonic missile technology and its potential military applications by China and Russia. China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Monday the August launch involved a spacecraft rather than a missile and was of “great significance for reducing the use-cost of spacecraft and could provide a convenient and affordable way to make a round trip for mankind’s peaceful use of…

“The real endgame of the Lebanese Forces is to ignite a civil war that would lead to demographic change.” This is what the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, revealed in his speech on the recent developments in Lebanon after the Tayouneh ambush. Sayyed Nasrallah confirmed the desire of a party [The Lebanese Forces] to make “our people in Ain al-Remmaneh and Furn El Chebbak believe that” their surrounding neighbors in the Southern Suburbs are their enemies, decrying the labeling of the murder of demonstrators as “an act of resistance” by some of the LF’s officials. The Secretary-General pointed out that…

In October, French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly confirmed that “14 Rafale aircraft of the French Air Force are tightly nailed to the ground because they are simply disassembled for spare parts.” According to data revealed in 2020 , the French Air Force have 102 Rafale fighter jets in service. It turned out that at least 14 of them cannot be used for flights. They were partially disassembled to maintain the other aircraft of this type. Such a practice is widely used by military forces with insufficient funding. This ineffectiveness was the result of the 2009-2014 Law on…