Al Jazeera News :Russia stopped a UN Security Council committee from blacklisting a Libyan armed group and its leader for human rights abuses because it said it wanted to see more evidence first that...
BBC Online :US President Donald Trump’s oldest son has tested positive for coronavirus, according to his spokesman.Donald Trump Jr, 42, was diagnosed at the start of this week and has been quarantining at his...
AFP :Eight people were injured in a shooting at a US mall in Wisconsin on Friday according to police, who said they were still hunting for the shooter.The FBI and the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s...
Al Jazeera News :Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed ways of enhancing ties with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in a rare phone call since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.The phone call came...
BBC Online :The launch of a travel corridor between Hong Kong and Singapore has been postponed for two weeks amid a surge of Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong.The deal was due to kick in...
Reuters, Istanbul :Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 101 people including lawyers and doctors as part of what they called terrorism-related investigations, a security source and state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Friday.Authorities...
Reuters :Mirsad Zahirovic is a university-educated journalist and activist who moonlights as a waiter because he is not a member of one of the ruling political parties, which is almost the only way to...
Al Jazeera News :Armenian Defence Minister Davit Tonoyan has tendered his resignation, an Armenian newspaper reported on Friday.The Aravot daily reported the development; Tonoyan has held the position since May 2018.His resignation comes after...
AFP :Indications that the US is considering declaring Yemen’s Huthi rebels a “terrorist organization” have alarmed humanitarian groups who say it could cripple aid delivery and tip the country into famine.The Iran-backed Huthis are...
Al Jazeera News :The United Nations’s agencies are planning for the possible arrival of 200,000 refugees in Sudan fleeing violence in Ethiopia over a six-month period, a UN refugee agency official said.“Together with all...
BBC Online :The Duke of Cambridge says a new investigation into how the BBC secured an interview with his mother in 1995 is “a step in the right direction”.The BBC has promised to “get...
BBC Online :Mexico has recorded more than 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 – the fourth country to pass the sombre milestone.According to Johns Hopkins University, the country has suffered 100,104 deaths since the pandemic began.The...
