Al Jazeera News :Lawyers for Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) filed a motion on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit against him, saying there is no evidence to support claims he ordered a...
Reuters, Dubai :Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah reappointed Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah as prime minister on Tuesday following parliamentary polls in the Gulf Arab state, which faces its worst economic crisis in decades.Sheikh...
Reuters, Kathmandu :Mount Everest is higher than previously thought, Nepal and China said on Tuesday, settling a long-running conflict over the height of the world’s tallest peak that straddles their shared border.Kathmandu and Beijing...
AP, Rabat :Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month that’s relying initially on a Chinese vaccine that has...
Reuters, Lucknow :Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the “Love Jihad” law, officials said...
Al Jazeera News :United States President Donald Trump has tweeted that Rudy Giulani, his personal lawyer who has been leading legal efforts to overturn his election defeat last month to Joe Biden, has tested...
Reuters, Rio De Janeiro :Brazil’s leader Jair Bolsonaro is moving to assert control of the nation’s independent health regulator, Anvisa, a move some health experts fear will politicize the agency and give the president,...
The Guardian :A historic church in lower Manhattan that houses New York’s Liberty Bell and whose congregation dates to the city’s earliest days was gutted early on Saturday by a massive fire that sent...
AFP :Indonesia’s social affairs minister was arrested on Sunday for allegedly taking $1.2 million in bribes linked to food aid for those hit by the coronavirus pandemic.Juliari Batubara was named as a suspect after...
Reuters, Tokyo :Japan, France, and the United States will hold joint military drills on land and sea for the first time in May next year as the Chinese military steps up activity in the...
AFP :Venezuelans vote on Sunday in legislative elections set to tighten President Nicolas Maduro’s grip on power and further weaken his US-backed opposition rival Juan Guaido, who is leading a boycott of the polls...
