Getty Images The top US general has said China’s suspected hypersonic missile test is close to a Sputnik moment, referring to the Soviet satellite launch that sparked the Cold War arms race. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the Chinese military was “expanding rapidly”. […]
Continue reading …French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin looks on as the prime minister speaks to the press after a videoconference meeting on emergency measures regarding local authorities’ finances at the Hotel Matignon, in Paris, France, May 29, 2020. (AFP Photo) France announced on Tuesday its plans to close seven more mosques and associations across the country […]
Continue reading …Deposed prime minister and his wife released as UN chief calls on Security Council to act on ‘epidemic of coups’. Abdalla Hamdok and his wife were under ‘heavy security’ at their home in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, according to his office [File: Hannibal Hanschke/ Reuters] Abdalla Hamdok, the deposed prime minister of Sudan, has been […]
Continue reading …Representatives vote during a UN Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on October 15, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua) As the Chinese mainland celebrated on Mondaythe 50th anniversary of the restoration of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC’s) lawful seat in the United Nations (UN), Taiwan secessionist authorities and the US have used […]
Continue reading …Passengers and others walk at Miami International Airport (MIA) in Miami, Florida, U.S., Aug. 1, 2021. (AFP Photo) New travel requirements for people coming to the United States were outlined by the Biden administration Monday, saying that children under 18 and people from dozens of countries with a shortage of vaccines will be exempt from […]
Continue reading …US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman said he had tried and been unable to get in touch with Hamdok, with who he had three separate meetings in recent days. Thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 25, 2021. (AP) […]
Continue reading …IMAGE SOURCE,ESO / L. CALÇADA Image caption,The finding comes from observation of an X-ray binary – a neutron star or black hole pulling in gas from a companion star Astronomers have found hints of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy. Nearly 5,000 “exoplanets” – worlds orbiting stars beyond our […]
Continue reading …Somali entry “The Gravedigger’s Wife” by finish-Somali writer and director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed won the prestigious Stallion of Jenenga Best Film Award at the Pan-African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on Sunday. bottom. The bitter drama of a grave digger struggling to raise money for his wife’s surgery brought back the R528885 prize and […]
Continue reading …A boy sells food in a park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 22, 2021. (Reuters Photo) More than 22 million Afghans will suffer “acute food insecurity” this winter, U.N. agencies said Monday, warning the already unstable country faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. “This winter, millions of Afghans will be forced to choose between migration […]
Continue reading …Sudan’s information ministry says Abdalla Hamdok is under house arrest for refusing to support a military coup attempt. Protesters burn tyres to block a road in Khartoum to denounce detentions of Sudan’s government members [AFP] Sudan’s military has placed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under house arrest after moving him to an unknown location for refusing to support […]
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