Informed Iraqi sources warned of US Special Presidential Envoy to the so-called International Coalition to Defeat ISIL Brett McGurk's meddling with the process of the formation of the new government in Iraq and his attempts to create a rift among the Shiite groups.

Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorists, accompanied by a number of foreign experts, have been involved in looting Idlib's ancient artifacts to sell them in Turkey, local sources disclosed on Sunday.

Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland, Oregon, deployed "flash bang" devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters.

Bangladesh authorities have shut down mobile internet across swathes of the country, officials and local media said Sunday, as the authorities try to quell massive student protests that have spiraled into violence.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he survived an assassination attempt involving explosive drones on Saturday thanks to God, the people and the country’s armed forces, and he blamed Colombia and the United States for what he called a right-wing plot to kill him.

Beijing announced that it will impose additional tariffs on $60 billion worth of US imports, including liquefied natural gas (LNG) and aircraft, in response to US President Donald Trump’s plan to increase duties on Chinese goods worth $200 billion.

Rapporteur of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ali Najafi Khoshroudi said given the Washington's long list of hostilities, this should be Iran and not the US that can set preconditions for any talks.

Washington has accused Tehran of terror plots and, and at the same time, pressed Europeans to push them away from Iran, but EU is resisting, wrote Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

China's state media said on Saturday the government's retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of US goods showed rational restraint and accused the United States of blackmail.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restart a program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, the second ruling blocking the administration from ending the DACA program.