Al Jazeera :Officials from around the Middle East began arriving in Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday ahead of a summit aiming to promote peace and reconciliation in the region, including improving ties between arch rivals...
BBC Online :A major review of vaccines suggests the AstraZeneca jab does raise the risk of blood clots and another serious condition that can cause bleeding.But the study found the risk of such problems...
AFP :At least 16 workers died and more were missing after a factory fire in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Friday, police said. More than 25 labourers were inside the small factory in a...
AFP :More than 210 people were killed over several days of ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s tense Oromia region last week, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said on Thursday.The state-affiliated but independent commission said...
AFP :Japan has decided to halt the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna’s Covid vaccine after reports of contamination in several vials, drugmaker Takeda and the health ministry said on Thursday.Takeda, which is...
BBC Online :More than half of India’s eligible population – some 473 million people – have received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, official data says.India has been ramping up its vaccination...
Reuters :Seven US Capitol Police officers on Thursday sued former President Donald Trump, alleging that he conspired with far-right extremist groups to provoke the deadly January 6 attack on the Congress.The officers in a...
Al Jazeera :President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said Turkey held its first talks with the Taliban in Kabul, adding Ankara was still assessing the armed group’s offer to assist in operating the international...
Reuters :At least 20 people have died in the western Venezuelan state of Merida following intense rains that caused mudslides and rivers to overflow. On state TV on Wednesday a ruling Socialist Party official...
Reuters :The British public’s view of the government’s management of the coronavirus crisis has turned negative for the first time since February and they are worried about the risk of a new wave of...
BBC :Several thousand anti-Taliban fighters are reported to be holding out against the Taliban in a remote valley with a narrow entrance – little more than 30 miles or so from the capital Kabul.It’s...
