It was reported that sanctions have been imposed on South Sudanese First Vice President, Taban Deng Gai. The U.S Treasury Department stated this in a statement on Wednesday in Washington. The Treasury Department accused Taban Deng Gai of having hands in the death of Aggrey Idri Ezibon (opposition politician) and Dong Samuel Luak (human rights […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered that Filipino workers be evacuated from Iraq and Iran as the tensions between the United States and Iran have increased following the killing of a top Iranian commander (Qassem Soleimani) by the United States drone strike last week Friday in Baghdad. President Rodrigo Duterte also said that his government
The Islamist militant group, al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks on Wednesday, 7 January near the presidential palace and other government buildings in Mogadishu. According to the report Viewers Corner News team got, the blast hit Sayidka junction, a security checkpoint near the presidential palace. The bomb attacks killed three people and
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 that was flying to Kiev crashed some minutes after it took off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport on Wednesday, killing all 176 people (167 passengers and 9 crew) on board. The plane’s two black boxes (the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder) had been found. Ukrainian President
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday launched 22 missiles on Ain al-Asad air base that houses U.S.-led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and another military base in Erbil (the Iraqi Kurdish capital). According to the report our correspondent in Baghdad gathered, 17 missiles fell on Ain al-Asad air base while five missiles
Egypt’s flag carrier, EgyptAir announced on Tuesday that it will suspend its flights to Baghdad for three days starting from Wednesday, 8 January 2020 due to security problems in Iraq. The company said that the decision to suspend its flights to Iraq’s capital was taken for the safety of its passengers and planes. Meanwhile, Germany
German Defence Minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told a gathering of German conservatives in Bavaria on Tuesday that Iran has responsibility to de-escalate tensions with the United States. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer blamed Iran for increasing tensions in the region and she advised the country (Iran) to avoid escalation of tensions in the middle east after the U.S airstrike
Our (Viewers Corner News) correspondent in Islamabad reported that Pakistan military aircraft crashed on Tuesday, 7 January near an air base in Mianwali district and two pilots were killed in the crash. According to the report, the pilots killed were Haris bin Khalid (Squadron Leader) and Flying Officer Ibaad-ur-Rehman. Pakistan authority said that a board
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Iran announced that the country would no longer abide by any of the limits of the 2015 nuclear deal. The announcement was made after one of its officials said that the country would consider taking harsher steps over the U.S killing of General Qassem Soleimani. Iranian government also stated that the country will not be
The former prime minister of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic (53 years) has defeated the incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (51 years) in the run-off of Croatia’s presidential election. Mr Zoran Milanovic, the Social Democrat candidate won the presidential election with 52.7 percent of the vote while his opponent, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic got 47.3 percent of the vote. After
