- The United Nations reported on Thursday that the total number of refugees and displaced people who were forced to leave their homes due to wars, violence and persecution at the end of last April reached 120 million people around the world, a record number that keeps increasing and represents a “terrible indictment of the state of the world.” The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees indicated in a statement that forced displacement throughout the world rose for the twelfth year in a row to a record level, as the conflicts and wars raging in several places such as Gaza, Sudan and B ..read more

- Iraqi media reported that a massive fire broke out in an oil refinery on the Erbil-Kuir road in the northern Iraqi province, yesterday evening, Wednesday, which led to the ignition of an asphalt warehouse, while several firefighting and rescue teams worked to try to control the fire. According to what the same sources reported, the flames resulting from the fire spread to other fuel tanks, amid the absence of accurate information about the occurrence of casualties as a result of the fire, which led to the explosion of several tanks as a result of the flames reaching them. Local media rep ..read more

- Diplomats expected, yesterday, Wednesday, that the United Nations Security Council will vote, today, Thursday, on a draft resolution drafted by Britain demanding an end to the siege of the Rapid Support Forces on the city of El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. The draft resolution calls for an immediate cessation of fighting, an end to the escalation in and around the city, and the withdrawal of all fighters who threaten the safety and security of civilians, according to Reuters. Britain is demanding that the 15-member Security Council hold a vote on the project on Thursday afternoon. Approv ..read more

- Yesterday evening, Wednesday, the Ministry of the Interior in Bahrain announced that a fire had broken out in the Manama Market in the capital, while local media reported that the fire had caused injuries and consumed 25 commercial stores. The Ministry said in two posts on the “X” platform, “Civil Defense is beginning to put out a fire that broke out in a multi-storey building in Manama Market.” She confirmed that "16 vehicles and 63 officers and individuals were heading to confront the fire, while the competent authorities are undertaking their necessary procedures at the site," without ..read more

- US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made the statement today, Wednesday, during a press conference with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al Thani in Doha. That the Hamas movement "proposed amendments" to President Biden's proposal regarding reaching a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. The American minister, who arrived in Qatar from Jordan, on his last stop on a tour of the Middle East that also included Egypt and Israel, said that “some of the amendments proposed by Hamas are applicable,” adding that his country “will continue to work with mediators to fill t ..read more

At dawn today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation army stormed the city of Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, and besieged its camp amid clashes erupting with dozens of Palestinians, while the occupation forces arrested a number of Palestinians in a campaign of raids in several areas in the West Bank. Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli force stormed the city of Jenin and began searching Palestinian homes and shops, sweeping streets and property, and arrested at least one citizen, which led to clashes erupting between dozens of Palestinians who threw stones at the occupation army, while t ..read more

- The US Treasury Department reported in an official statement on Wednesday that the new US sanctions against Moscow affected more than 300 individuals and legal entities in Russia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. According to the ministry's statement, Russian factories, research institutes and non-governmental organizations were subject to US restrictions. The new sanctions list includes the National Settlement and Deposit Center, Novatek Kashira LNG, the Murmansk LNG project, Uralredmet, the heavy truck equipment company affiliated with the Uralvagonzavod plant, the Amur Metal ..read more

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- During the WWDC 2024 conference, Apple announced a new operating system that will give MacBook computers additional features. Experts at Apple indicated that the new macOS 15 Sequoia system carries with it many features that improve the performance of MacBook computers, and facilitates the process of pairing these devices with iPhone phones. Among the most prominent features provided by the new operating system is the iPhone Mirroring feature, which enables the user to display the iPhone screen on the computer screen, and this feature works if both devices are connected to the same Wi-Fi ..read more

- American planetary scientists have discovered that radar anomalies at the south pole of Mars are caused by dust, and for such anomalies to appear in the radar signal, a thin layer consisting of dust is sufficient. American planetary scientists have come to the conclusions that radar anomalies discovered in 2018 at the south pole of Mars are not caused by subglacial lakes of liquid water, but by thin layers of water ice containing a large number of dust particles.  Daniel Lalic, a researcher at Cornell University in America, explained: “For the first time, we put forward a hypothesis ..read more