International

BSS :Sydney is scrapping mandatory quarantine for overseas travellers from next month, officials said Friday, signalling a faster-than-expected end to tough coronavirus restrictions. Australia’s borders have been closed for the last 19 months to...

Al Jazeera :A high-level Taliban delegation has arrived in Turkey’s capital for talks as Afghanistan’s new government continues a diplomatic push for support and recognition.Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said on Twitter...

BSS :An overnight fire tore through a building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung on Thursday, killing 46 people and injuring dozens of others in the island’s deadliest blaze in decades.The fire broke...

BSS :An army general who aligned with Venezuela’s late Hugo Chavez but later broke ranks with the socialist strongman and spent years as a prominent political prisoner has died of Covid-19 while in custody,...

BSS :The EU envoy charged with coordinating talks on reviving a troubled nuclear deal between Iran and major powers is to visit Tehran on Thursday, the Iranian foreign ministry said. Enrique Mora’s visit “is...

BSS :Two soldiers were killed when their motorcycles ran over a homemade bomb in southeast Burkina Faso on Monday, the latest attack in a region previously spared the jihadist violence of the north. The...

BSS :Two US Postal Service employees were shot dead on Tuesday in a gun attack at a Tennessee post office, authorities said. The suspected shooter opened fire at the East Lamar Carrier Annex inMemphis...

BSS :Continuous rainstorms have left 15 people dead and three others missing in north China’s Shanxi Province,according to a press conference held on Tuesday by the provincial government. From Oct. 2 to 7, Shanxi...

BSS :Thousands of health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities in US states Oregon and California gave a green light Monday to call a strike should contract talks fail. Sticking points in negotiations appeared...