Italy toughens Covid restrictions, imposes Easter lockdown
Reuters :Most of Italy, including its capital Rome and its financial centre Milan, will have curbs on business and movement intensified from Monday as the...
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Bolivia political tensions reignite with arrest of ex-President Anez
Reuters :Bolivia’s socialist government arrested former interim President Jeanine Anez on Saturday over involvement in an alleged 2019 coup, reigniting political tensions after deadly protests...
India reviews AstraZeneca side effects
AFP :India will carry out a deeper review of post-vaccination side effects from the AstraZeneca shot although no cases of blood clots have been reported...
Car bomb kills 8 in western Afghanistan
AFP :A powerful car bomb in western Afghanistan killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more, authorities said Saturday, as the United Nations condemned...
Kuwait’s #MeToo moment: Women denounce harassment, violence
AP :Abrar Zenkawi was cruising toward the beach in Kuwait City when she saw a man waving and smiling in her rearview mirror.Elsewhere, this may...
Number of missing Nigerian students raised to 39 after armed raid: Kaduna state
Reuters, Kaduna :Nine more students than originally thought are missing after gunmen stormed a forestry college in northwest Nigeria earlier this week, a government official...
India sees worst single-day rise in Covid cases since December 24
Al Jazeera :India has registered its worst single-day increase in coronavirus cases since late December as the western state of Maharashtra battles a resurgence.India’s health...
Western countries call on Russia at UN rights body to release Navalny
Reuters :Dozens of countries including the United States called on Russia on Friday to release Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny saying his imprisonment was unlawful and...
Dozens of students abducted from forestry college in northwest Nigeria
Reuters :Gunmen in northwest Nigeria kidnapped around 30 students overnight from a forestry college near a military academy, three students said on Friday, in the...
US House passes two Democratic-backed gun control bills
Reuters :The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a pair of gun control bills as Democrats seized upon a shifting political landscape that they...
Turkey says first diplomatic contact with Egypt since 2013
Al Jazeera :Turkey and Egypt have had their first diplomatic contact since breaking off relations in 2013, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. “We...
China’s parliament remakes Hong Kong in its own image
BBC Online :For almost 24 years, Hong Kong has been a kind of unwitting political laboratory, the subject of an experiment centred on the defining...