Sudan and major rebel group agree to resume peace talks
Reuters, Khartoum :Sudan’s power-sharing government and a major rebel group active in southern borderlands have agreed to hold new peace talks hosted by South Sudan,...
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Jamaica`s governing party re-elected in landslide
Al Jazeera News :Jamaica’s governing party has cruised to a landslide re-election victory marked by low turnout, prompting Prime Minister Andrew Holness to promise to...
India coronavirus infections near 4m, closes in on Brazil
AFP :India reported a daily jump of 83,341 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 3.94 million, health ministry data showed on Friday, as it closes...
Myanmar seals off capital amid virus surge
Reuters :Myanmar has imposed mandatory quarantine and coronavirus tests for visitors to its capital city after the country reported dozens more infections on Wednesday and...
Cattle ship capsizes off Japan with crew and 6,000 cows
The New York Times :As a typhoon barreled through East Asia on Thursday, the Japanese Coast Guard was searching for a livestock ship that capsized...
Slovak businessman acquitted of ordering journalist Kuciak murder
Al Jazeera News :A panel of judges in Slovakia has acquitted a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 murders of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and...
NSA’s mass surveillance programme exposed by Snowden illegal
Reuters :Seven years after former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals...
Uzbekistan stages outdoor exams for 1.4m university applicants
Reuters , Tashkent :Tens of thousands of youngsters headed to sports arenas across Uzbekistan on Wednesday to sit university entrance exams in the open air...
Coronavirus angst as Canadian schools start to open
Reuters, Ottawa :Canadian children are trickling back into classrooms, but the return is off to a rocky start with dozens of students in one province...
Spanish nursing home residents greet friends, family from behind windows
Reuters, Barcelona :From behind the large windows of Barcelona’s Centre Parc nursing home, elderly residents blow kisses, give virtual hugs and speak to loved ones...
Foreign interference main challenge facing Iraq, says France’s Macron
Reuters, Baghdad :French President Emmanuel Macron pledged support for Iraq on Wednesday and said the main challenges facing the country are Islamic State militants and...
Cambodia genocide: Khmer Rouge prison chief Comrade Duch dies
Comrade Duch, a former senior figure of the Khmer Rouge convicted of crimes against humanity in Cambodia, has died.He was serving a life term after...