Ethiopia PM at ‘battlefield’ front to fight rebels: state media
BSS :Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday reportedly joined the front line where government forces are battling rebels from the Tigray region, prompting US-led...
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Five killed in car bombing in Somalia capital: Security official
BSS :Five people were killed and over a dozen injured in a car bombing near a school in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a security...
Covid mortality by 50 times higher than that of swine flu – expert
BSS :COVID-19 mortality is 50 times as high as that of swine flu, deputy director of the Gamaleya National Research Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology,...
US to resume talks with Taliban in Qatar: State Department
Al Jazeera : The United States is set to resume talks with the Taliban next week in Qatar, discussing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and...
Mexico offers migrants permits to disband new caravan
BSS : Mexican immigration authorities said on Tuesday that they had offered temporary residency permits on humanitarian grounds to 2,500 US-bound migrants who set off...
Sweden’s Andersson elected nation’s first woman PM
BSS : Sweden’s Parliament on Wednesday elected Social Democratic party leader and current Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as the country’s first woman prime minister, after...
US, Australia, UK sign key deal in nuclear sub alliance
AFPAustralia formally embarked on Monday on a hotly-contested program to equip its navy with nuclear-powered submarines in a new defence alliance with Britain and the...
Chileans to elect new president in fast-changing political landscape
BSS :Chileans head to the ballot box for the fourth time in 18 months Sunday, this time to elect a new president on whose watch...
Palestinian, Israeli settler killed in Jerusalem shooting
Al Jazeera :Israeli occupation forces shot dead a Palestinian man after he carried out a shooting and stabbing attack that killed an Israeli settler and...
Sudan military to reinstate PM Hamdok in new deal: Mediators
Al Jazeera :Thousands of protesters marched towards the presidential palace in Sudan’s capital Khartoum ahead of an expected meeting between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan...
Active Covid-19 cases in country decline to 1,22,714 in India
BSS :India logged 10,488 new coronavirus infections taking the country’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,10,413, while the active cases declined to 1,22,714, the...
Somalia faces ‘rapidly worsening’ drought: UN
BSS :Somalia’s “rapidly worsening” drought has left more than two million people facing severe food and water shortages, the United Nations said, warning of a...