Reuters :Polls have opened in Catalonia for an election overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic and which Madrid hopes will unseat the region’s governing separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break...
Reuters :Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq killed 13 Turkish civilians as military operations against the group began last week, Turkey’s military chief said.Turkish forces completed a military operation in the area with 48 Kurdish...
AP :The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain’s pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster...
Al JazeeraThe White House has denied that US President Joe Biden was intentionally snubbing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by failing to include him so far in an early round of phone calls to...
BBC :The ex-head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has been sworn-in as Italy’s next prime minister.Mr Draghi put together a unity government of the main political parties, following the collapse of the...
VOA :A suicide car bombing killed at least one civilian and wounded at least seven in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu early Saturday morning. The explosion near a security checkpoint also caused damagedat least a dozen...
Reuters :The White House said on Friday it temporarily suspended a press aide after he reportedly threatened a reporter who was working on a story about his romantic relationship with another journalist.Vanity Fair reported...
Xinhua :Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera on Friday received the first dose of the CoronaVac vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac against the novel coronavirus disease, along with those aged 71 and over.While visiting...
AFP :”Those who are away from their duties are requested to return to their duties immediately for the interests of the country,” he said, in a speech reported by state media.Ahead of another day...
Reuters :More children could be pushed into joining armed groups in conflict zones as families face increasing poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a top United Nations official has warned.The exact number of child...
AFP :Saudi Arabia on Thursday intercepted a ballistic missile and two drones fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a Riyadh-led coalition said, as Western powers denounced a strike on an airport a day earlier.The Iran-backed...
Reuters :Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is ready to sever ties with the European Union if the bloc hits it with painful economic sanctions, according to extracts of an interview posted...
