Al Jazeera :The United States is returning more than 17,000 ancient artifacts looted and smuggled out of Iraq after the US invasion in 2003, including a 3,500-year-old clay tablet bearing part of the Epic...
Al Jazeera :Authorities in Wuhan have announced that they will test its entire population for COVID-19 after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged reported its first local cases in more than...
Al Jazeera :The United Nations has called on Afghanistan’s warring parties to do more to protect civilians, warning that the impact of “indiscriminate” gunfire and air raids will be “catastrophic”.The Taliban ground offensive and...
BBC Online :High-ranking army and police officials have been arrested in Madagascar in connection with a failed attempt to kill the country’s president.The arrested include five generals and several active police officers, meaning 21...
Al Jazeera :Turkey’s southern coastline is burning. On the wooded hills of Antalya’s Manavgat district, plumes of thick smoke appear in the sky one after another as each time a forest fire is brought...
AFP :The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday that a planned military exercise between Seoul and Washington would “becloud” relations, state-run media reported.The warning comes amid a surprise...
Reuters :With a new wave of Covid-19 infections fuelled by the Delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest version of coronavirus is making people – mainly the...
AFP :Two states in India’s north-east have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after their long-running border dispute erupted into deadly violence last week.Last Monday clashes on the demarcation between Assam and Mizoram left...
AFP :Thousands of anti-lockdown demonstrators defied a court-ordered protest ban on Sunday (Aug 1) and gathered in the streets of Berlin, resulting in scuffles with police.Police said some protesters had “harassed and attacked” officers...
AFP :The death toll from floods in central China last month is at least 302 with dozens of people still missing, officials said on Monday, after record downpours dumped a year’s worth of rain...
AFP :Two Sumatran tigers were recovering at a Jakarta zoo after being infected with coronavirus, Indonesian officials said Sunday, as they probed how the critically endangered animals got sick.Nine-year-old Tino and 12-year-old Hari tested...
Reuters :Ismail Haniyeh has been re-elected as leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, officials said on Sunday, cementing his control of the organization which rules the Gaza Strip and has fought multiple violent conflicts...
