Reuters, Bangui :Security forces in Central African Republic repelled an attack today by armed groups seeking to seize the capital Bangui, athorities said, in a marked escalation of fighting with rebels opposed to the...
AFP :The United States has endured its worst day of the pandemic, with three Americans dying every minute, as China took decisive steps on Wednesday to stamp out a tiny coronavirus outbreak.Global infections have...
AP, Jakarta :Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received the first shot of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine after Indonesia approved it for emergency use and began efforts to vaccine millions of people in the...
Reuters :Iran’s military launched a short-range naval missile drill on Wednesday, Iranian state TV reported, at a time of high tension between arch foes Tehran and Washington.Iran has one of the biggest missile programs...
Reuters, Kuala Lumpur :Malaysia’s king declared a nationwide state of emergency on Tuesday to curb the spread of COVID-19, a move that the opposition decried as an attempt by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to...
AFP :A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called “kittens” to more than 1,000 years in jail for sex crimes.Adnan Oktar preached creationism and...
Xinhua :At least 13 people died and around 250 were injured as record snowfall blanketed regions along the Sea of Japan coast, according to the latest report by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.According...
AP, Chicago :A man has killed three people and wounded four others in a series of dramatic shootings that started on Chicago’s South Side and ended with the gunman’s death in a shootout with...
Al Jazeera News :Ethiopia’s military has said it killed 15 members of the Tigray region’s former ruling party and captured eight others.Citing a brigadier-general from Ethiopia’s National Defense Force, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation...
AP :A persistent blizzard blanketed large parts of Spain with an unusual amount of snow on Saturday, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or at train stations and airports...
Reuters, Moscow :Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, said he expects U.S. President-elect Joe Biden to extend the last major nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington when it expires next month, but...
Reuters :The United States plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization, three sources familiar with the matter said.Diplomats and aid groups worry that the move could threaten peace talks and...
