London, United Kingdom – When Ayesha Sharieff, a general practitioner in a south London surgery, administered the first COVID vaccines...
UK says leaders discussed ‘benefits of a potential free-trade deal’, but US statement makes no mention of one. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President...
Nearly 7,000 people forced from their homes and more than 130,000 hectares of crops destroyed by torrential downpours and floods. Heavy rains and flooding have forced...
Vessel was sailing from Lagos to Cape Town when it was attacked northwest of Sao Tome and Principe. Pirates attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the...
Thousands of people across Russia’s 11 time zones took to the streets on January 23 to protest against the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny,...
Ankara, Turkey – The state-run religious authority has caused alarm by proclaiming the use of talismans to ward off “the evil eye” prohibited under Islam. The...
Bogota, Colombia – More than 100 Colombian human rights associations from remote Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities have written to the new US administration to ask for...
Thanks to vagaries of the accounting world, Donald Trump’s administration had a chance in the final weeks of the presidential race to cancel more than $200...
The new measure will target two districts which cover a small, but densely populated part of the Kowloon Peninsula. Hong Kong will place tens of thousands...
Karachi, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said his country has hopes for greater engagement with the new US government and called on...
Reena* was a teenager when she became inspired by the speeches of a Maoist leader who lived in her small hamlet in Abujmad, located in the...
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Egypt’s foreign ministry said official notes had been exchanged with Qatar as both countries agreed to resume ties. Egypt has agreed to resume diplomatic relations with...
Rescuers drilled three more channels on Tuesday as they race against time to extract the 22 workers. Workers trapped in a Chinese gold mine for more...
An Indigenous man faces up to 10 years in prison over “threats” allegedly made on social media at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests...
As Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party gears up for its most important meeting in years, its leadership has presided over an intensified crackdown on dissent, according to...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has won a crucial confidence vote in Parliament’s lower house, hanging on to power after a junior partner quit his coalition...
Israeli army says it targeted Hamas sites and tunnels after rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes have targeted the southern Gaza Strip after rockets...
President Felix Tshisekedi pays tribute to firebrand political leader at a site in Kinshasa where a memorial is to be installed. The Democratic Republic of the...
For decades, Palestinians have suffered under Israeli colonial occupation backed and empowered by US political, financial, and military support. This has allowed Israel to gradually expand...
The test is a vital step in NASA’s Artemis programme to put the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024. NASA ignited...
Wendy Sherman, Joe Biden’s nominee for deputy secretary of state, was key US negotiator of 2015 Iran nuclear accord. United States President-elect Joe Biden has nominated...
The Colombia-born NASA aerospace engineer shares her journey as an immigrant and how it influences her work. Source link
A new, more transmissible variant of the coronavirus first discovered in the United Kingdom has been detected in 10 US states, the US Centers for Disease...
US Justice Department brought more than 80 criminal cases in connection with violent riots at the US Capitol on January 6. US prosecutors now believe supporters...
Brazilian Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said the hospital system in the city of Manaus is collapsing. The Brazilian state of Amazonas is running out of oxygen...
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits with states surged to 965,000 last week as soaring COVID-19 infections and measures to contain them accelerate layoffs....
The deep-sea jetty is located next to the Colombo International Container Terminal, which is 85 percent owned by China. Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced...
Advisers to United States President-elect Joe Biden believe the Trump administration is trying to make it harder for Biden’s Democratic administration to re-engage with Iran. The United...
The number of people in work slumped at the fastest rate in nearly 21 years as shops, restaurants were slammed by COVID. South Korea’s unemployment rate...
More than 170 investigative case files have been opened relating to the Capitol Hill riot in support of President Donald Trump that left five people dead...
New measures imposed as number of cases rise in UAE, a country which has become a hub for Europeans fleeing lockdowns. The United Kingdom removed the...
Big tech’s decision to ban the Parler app and block outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is stoking support for alternative social networking sites and apps that...
The United States First Lady Melania Trump on Monday broke her silence on last week’s violence in Washtington, DC, when hundreds of her husband’s supporters stormed...
Team will investigate the origins of the coronavirus, which first emerged in Wuhan late in 2019. A World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts which...
Amazon will join Apple and Google in suspending the Parler social media platform for failing to prevent incitement to violence. Amazon has announced it will suspend...
A major fault at a thermal power plant causes a countrywide blackout, plunging millions into darkness. Islamabad, Pakistan – Authorities have restored electricity supply to parts...
The announcement comes before a planned trip to Taiwan by the US ambassador to the UN that has drawn anger from China. The United States will...
Vehicles cross the Saudi Arabian border from Qatar for the first time since mid-2017. Vehicles have crossed the Saudi Arabian land border from Qatar for the...
US had also reported a new record of nearly 4,000 deaths a day earlier while some 131,000 people are currently hospitalised. The United States has hit...
Among those released was slain president’s former aide-de-camp Colonel Kapend, who has always denied any part in the plot to murder Kabila. Twenty-two men convicted over...
On January 6, Vice President Mike Pence convened the two chambers of Congress to count electoral votes and officially certify Joe Biden as the president-elect of...
Two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people in total. Boeing Co will pay over $2.5bn to resolve the United States Department of Justice...
European far-right leaders, who once threw their unwavering support behind US President Donald Trump, have condemned pro-Trump protesters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday as...
North Sumatra, Indonesia – Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the al-Qaeda-affiliated group that masterminded the Bali bombings in 2002, has found a new source of income – a...
The United States Congress will meet on Wednesday to certify the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. Some Republicans in both the Senate and House have said...
New York Stock Exchange had been planning to reverse its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms firms. The New York Stock Exchange is considering proceeding in...
Touadera was re-elected for another five-year term, but opponents say the December 27 election was flawed. Source link
Lagos, Nigeria – More than two months after she was attacked while protesting against the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos, Clara Igwe*, 23, still...
A day after a recording surfaced in which President Donald Trump was heard pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to give him the...
