A shooter killed at least eight people and wounded 13 in a drive-by attack near a town close to Belgrade late Thursday, the second such mass killing in Serbia in two days, state television reported. The attacker shot randomly at people near the town o…

Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget at the US White House, warned Thursday that countries such as China and Russia would capitalize on the “chaos” that would ensue if the United States defaulted on its debt and use it as ev…

Azerbaijan and Armenia have made “tangible progress” towards reaching a consensus in talks over the past few days, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. The four-day negotiating session, hosted by Washington, did not lead to a peace a…

Hotel occupancy rates in the current weekend across Jordan topped 70 per cent, an official said Friday. The Jordan Hotels Association (JHA), spokesperson Muhammad Al Qasem, told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that occupancy rates in the Dead Sea amoun…

World Gold Council said today that demand for gold retreated in the first quarter of 2023. In its latest quarterly report on demand trends, he said that demand was 1081 tons in the first quarter of 2023, down 13 percent compared to the same period of l…

The Israeli occupation forces arrested Friday seven Palestinians from the governorates of Hebron and Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, stated that the occupation forces stormed Al-Fawar camp, south of Hebron, and arres…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow is open to any peaceful settlement in Ukraine. Lavrov was speaking on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Foreign Ministers meeting in Goa. He said that negotiations to resolve …