Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned, after being detained by soldiers on Tuesday, state TV reports. In a televised address, Mr Keïta said he was also dissolving the go... Read more
The WHO wrote to every country on Tuesday urging them to quickly join its global shared vaccine programme and spelled out who would get its eventual coronavirus jabs first. The World Health... Read more
The British government was forced Monday to abandon its policy for grading exams that were cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic after protests by students and warnings that it threa... Read more
The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has postponed the country’s general election by a month amid a spike in coronavirus cases. The vote was due to take place on 19 Septe... Read more
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States reached 5,403,218 as of Monday morning, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Univer... Read more
Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have inaugurated direct telephone services between their countries following their agreement last week to normalise relations. The countries’... Read more
Global COVID-19 case count has reached 21,159,730 as of Saturday morning, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Besides, the deaths... Read more
The Israel-UAE agreement gives the United States a rare diplomatic success in the Middle East — but it is Iran which President Donald Trump has in his sights, with a strategy that has alread... Read more
Tens of thousands of Belarusians staged a wave of peaceful protests on Thursday against President Alexander Lukashenko’s disputed re-election and an ensuing brutal police crackdown. In appar... Read more
India total infections neared 2.4 million as it reported 66,999 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, said sources at India’s federal health ministry. The country has reported 66,999 new... Read more
The massive blast at Beirut port on August 4 caused more than $15 billion in damages, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said Wednesday. “Preliminary estimates of the losses suffered following t... Read more
Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko has said that the first batch of the coronavirus vaccine will be produced and ready for use in just two weeks. “Today, quality control tests ar... Read more
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia had become the first country to approve a vaccine offering “sustainable immunity” against the coronavirus and that one of his daughters has... Read more
The European Union is providing €1.65 million in humanitarian aid funding in response to severe flooding that have affected South Asia — most notably Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The support... Read more
Australia has recorded its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic amid a second wave of infections in Melbourne. Nineteen deaths were reported in Victoria – of which Melbourne is th... Read more
Lebanese environment minister, Damianos Kattar, resigned on Sunday in the wake of a powerful deadly blast in the port of Beirut, media reported. According to Al-Jadeed broadcaster, the count... Read more
Xinhua, Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that Turkey has become the third country to develop vaccines locally against COVID-19 after the US and China. Erdogan sai... Read more
India’s total Covid-19 cases rose to 2,153,010 with the death of 43,379 people, said the latest data issued by the federal health ministry on Sunday. According to the data, 64,399 new cases... Read more
International leaders will hold talks on Sunday to raise aid for Beirut after the massive explosion which devastated the Lebanese capital on Tuesday. The virtual conference – set up by... Read more
The death toll in the huge explosions that rocked Port of Beirut on Tuesday has reached 154, Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hassan announced on Friday. Hassan said that 20 percent of the 5,0... Read more
