Passengers leave Covid-hit cruise ship after 5 days stuck in Lisbon
Reuters :Disconsolate passengers stuck on a cruise ship moored in Lisbon’s port for five days due to a Covid-19 outbreak began disembarking early on Monday,...
International
Iran calls for UN action on US over killing of Qassem Soleimani
Al Jazeera :Iran has called on the United Nations to take formal action against the United States for the assassination of its top general two...
Tutu’s ashes buried in Cape Town cathedral
BSS :South Africa’s spiritual father Archbishop Desmond Tutu, hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, was laid to rest at dawn on Sunday in the Cape Town...
Twenty-two injured in southwest China quake
BSS :Twenty-two people were injured when a shallow earthquake hit southwestern China on Sunday afternoon and shook the popular tourist city of Lijiang, local authorities...
Senegal accuse Watford of blocking Sarr’s AFCON participation
Al Jazeera :Senegal’s football authorities are accusing English club Watford of refusing to release Ismaila Sarr for this month’s Africa Cup of Nations and will...
Israel strikes Gaza after rocket attacks: Army
BSS :Israel targeted Hamas positions in southern Gaza on ate Saturday night after rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave, security sources and the army...
South Korean enters North Korea in rare defection
Al Jazeera :A South Korean person crossed the heavily fortified border into North Korea on New Year’s Day, the South’s military said,South Korea’s Joint Chiefs...
Taiwan urges China to curb its ‘military adventurism’
Al Jazeera :Taiwan’s president has urged China to curb its “military adventurism” as tensions between the two sides reach their highest level in years.Beijing has...
China welcomes 2022 with worst Covid week since taming virus
Al Jazeera :China has started 2022 with its biggest tally of local corona virus cases for any seven-day period since subduing the country’s first epidemic...
N Korea’s Kim Jong Un talks food, not nuclear arsenal
Al Jazeera :North Korean leader Kim Jong Un capped off his 10th year in power with a speech that made more mention of tractor factories...
Omicron is now the main corona virus variant in France: Official
BSS :Omicron has become the main corona virus strain in France where the number of infections saw a big increase in the last few days,...
Nyiragongo volcano claimed 32 lives in DR Congo
Agency :Vulcanologists in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday reported “intense activity” at the active Nyiragongo volcano in the country’s east, where a May...