Sri Lanka president’s office to reopen after crackdown
BSS/AFP :Sri Lanka’s besieged presidential office will reopen on Monday, police said, days after anti-government demonstrators were flushed out in a military crackdown that triggered...
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Malaysia reports 4,816 new COVID-19 infections, 9 new deaths
BSS/AFP :Malaysia reported 4,816 new COVID- 19 infections as of midnight Saturday, bringing the national total to 4,648,931, according to the health ministry.There are two...
2 Palestinians killed in Israeli West Bank raid: Palestinian ministry
BSS :Two Palestinians were killed overnight during an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said early Sunday.They...
Trump, Pence hold duelling rallies as rivalry intensifies
BSS :Donald Trump and his ex-wingman Mike Pence, who went from White House partners to bitter rivals, held dueling rallies Friday in Arizona, where an...
WHO to say if it will trigger highest alert on monkey pox
BSS :Faced with a surge in monkey pox cases, the head of the World Health Organization is Saturday expected to declare if the agency has...
At least 17 killed in south Iran floods
BSS :Flooding in southern Iran has killed at least 17 people, while six others went missing following heavy rainfall in the largely arid country, state...
Calls in US Congress to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism
The Voice of America :Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the forum of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives via videoconference in Moscow, July 20, 2022.As the...
California enacts gun control law inspired by Texas abortion
BSS :California’s governor signed into law Friday new gun control legislation modeled on a controversial legal approach used in Texas to curb access to abortions.Last...
Russian air strike on Syria kills seven: Monitor
BSS :A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region on Friday, a war monitor said.The Syrian Observatory...
Ukraine war must end to prevent nuclear ‘abyss’, Lukashenko
BSS :Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko Thursday said Russia, Ukraine and the West must agree to halt the Ukraine conflict to avoid the “abyss of nuclear...
EU watchdog recommends approving smallpox vaccine against monkeypox
BSS :The European Union’s drug watchdog on Friday recommended for approval the use of a smallpox vaccine to treat monkeypox, which could be classified by...
Mali army repelled ‘terrorist’ attack on key garrison town
BSS :The Malian army said that it had thwarted a”terrorist” attack on Friday on the outskirts of the capital where a key base used by...