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Germany registered a record high of 50,196 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, according to health authorities, and pressure on hospitals is building. A person walks in Görlitz, Saxony. Photo: picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild | Sebastian Kahnert It is the first time Germany has exceeded 50,000 daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic, and comes as infections […]

Stefan Löfven has handed in his resignation as Prime Minister, an expected move after he stepped down as leader of the Social Democrats last week. Television cameras filmed Löfven handing his resignation letter to the speaker of parliament, Andreas Norlén. Outgoing Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlén. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT “Well, here […]

The Swedish Public Health Agency has announced new recommendations that third vaccine doses for over-65s may now be given after five months – one month earlier than previously recommended. Over-65s no longer need to wait as long between vaccine doses. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT The reason for this change is to enable more over-65s to be […]

“Iran has repeatedly denied any involvement in the trafficking of arms to the Houthis. However, a preponderance of evidence points to Iranian state supply.” Guns supplied by Iran to its Houthi allies in Yemen are being smuggled across the Gulf of Aden to Somalia, according to a Geneva-based think tank, where al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab insurgents are battling a […]

Hadia, 10, a fourth grade primary school student attends class in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 25, 2021. (Reuters Photo)   As Afghanistan faces uncertainty, girls in the country have started receiving education at schools run by Turkey’s Maarif Foundation. Head of the foundation Birol Akgün told Anadolu Agency (AA) on Tuesday that there are no problems in […]

Hind Al Soulia – Riyadh – WASHINGTON — A federal judge will allow the US House to access hundreds of pages of documents from Donald Trump’s presidency leading up to and about the January 6 attack at the US Capitol, in a forceful rejection of Trump’s recent attempts to control information from his White House, […]

International Transport Workers Federation has reported that a bulker has been abandoned with its crew still on board while the ship is now taking on pirate-infested high-risk zones near Somalia. The vessel in question is 1977 built Haj- Abdullah (IMO 7702114, flag state: Sierra Leone) and has 11 crew members trapped on board when the vessel developed cracks […]

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Sept. 17, 2021. (Reuters Photo)  Iran said Monday that the United States should provide guarantees that it will not abandon Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers again, if talks to revive the agreement succeed. Indirect talks between […]

After the European Union imposed sanctions on Minsk last june over serious human rights violations, a new humanitarian crisis is developing at the borders of Belarus and the EU. European leaders accuse Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko’s government of retaliating by pushing thousands of migrants into neighbouring eastern European countries, which in response have sealed their […]

Washington [US], November 7 (ANI): A recent research found insomnia as the potential risk factor for a brain bleed from a ruptured aneurysm along with more well-known risk factors of smoking and high blood pressure. The study was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access journal of the American Heart Association. […]