AFP :Russia and Belarus kickstarted massive joint military drills on the EU’s border on Friday, closely monitored by NATO as tensions between Belarus and its western neighbours rise.The Zapad-2021 military exercises by the armies...
Reuters :Political detainees in Sri Lanka are being tortured while in police and military custody, a human rights lawyer who wrote a report on alleged abuses says, days before a United Nations human rights...
Al Jazeera :Prime Minister Najib Mikati and President Michel Aoun have signed a decree forming a new government in the presence of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, the Lebanese presidency said in a statement.Lebanon had...
AFP :UN chief Antonio Guterres pleaded for nations to continue dialogue with the Taliban, during an interview with AFP Thursday, as he expressed fears that the hardline Islamists’ return to power in Afghanistan could...
AFP :A 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck near Mexico’s Pacific resort city of Acapulco left at least one person dead and damaged hospitals, homes, shops and hotels, authorities said Wednesday. More than 200 aftershocks were...
AFP :At least 125 villagers were massacred in Ethiopia’s Amhara region earlier this month, doctors and local officials toldAFP on Wednesday, but rebels from neighbouring Tigray rejected claims they were responsible. It was the...
TASS :The death toll from a household gas explosion in a residential building in Noginsk near Moscow has grown to five people, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Moscow...
AFP :The Biden administration said Wednesday the United States should aim to garner nearly 50 percent of its electric supply from solar energy by mid-century, unveiling the latest component of its climate change strategy....
AFP :Tropical Storm Mindy made landfall in northwest Florida Wednesday packing 45 mph (75 kph) winds, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm first hit land on the island of St. Vincent, which is...
AFP :As a nurse at one of Kabul’s main hospitals, Latifa Alizada was the breadwinner for her family, providing for her three young boys and unemployed husband. Now-since the Taliban rolled into Afghanistan’s capital-she...
AFP :A group of Malaysian mothers won a landmark legal challenge Thursday, overturning what they described as discriminatory citizenship rules affecting women who gave birth overseas. The rules had meant a woman with a...
AFP :At least one person died and 17 others weremissing after a storm dumped heavy rain and caused flooding in the Philippines, authorities said on Thursday, as a powerful typhoon barrelled towards the country....
