Al Jazeera :The United Kingdom, which has recorded Europe’s highest coronavirus death toll, has announced no new daily COVID-19 deaths for the first time since March last year. The milestone reached on Tuesday spurred...
AFP :Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, the military and local media...
Reuters :Egypt’s intelligence chief met Hamas leaders in Gaza on Monday in an effort to bolster a ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group and Israel and to discuss reconstruction plans following the recent hostilities,...
AFP :Gunmen kidnapped scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials said, the latest in a string of such incidents plaguing the populous African nation.Some 200 children were at the school...
AFP :New Zealand’s military was deployed to evacuate hundreds of residents from flood-hit areas of the South Island on Monday as heavy rains washed away bridges and cut roads.Rivers burst their banks as a...
AP :At least 39 people have been killed in two new attacks in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, monitors said Monday, as a local official blamed a notorious group linked to the Islamic...
BBC Online :Denmark’s secret service helped the US spy on European politicians including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014, Danish media say.The Defence Intelligence Service (FE) collaborated with the US National Security...
Reuters :The 46-year-old Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled the tallest peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount...
AFP :More than 1,000 people rallied on Saturday in Washington in support of Palestinians, calling for an end to US aid to Israel.The demonstration on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial came as a...
Reuters :Brazilians staged protests against President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in at least 16 cities across the country on Saturday, carrying signs such as “Out with Bolsonaro” and “Impeachment now”.Bolsonaro’s popularity...
AFP :Mount Everest guide Buddhi Bahadur Lama has spent days isolated in a tent after testing positive for coronavirus, as an outbreak that climbers say is putting lives at risk sweeps base camp.He is...
Reuters :Hong Kong’s legislature approved the biggest overhaul of its political system in the quarter century since British rule on Thursday, in a decisive step to assert Beijing’s authority over the autonomous city.The move...
