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MINUSMA/Gema Cortes UN peacekeepers patrol the Mopti region in central Mali. Some 20 UN peacekeepers serving with the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were injured on Wednesday, after their temporary base came under attack in the restive central region of the country. In a statement, MINUSMA said that the ‘blue helmets’ under fire were able to repel the attackers, who […]

Tehran, Feb 10, IRNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said here on Wednesday that the Iranian nation presented security, rule of law and tranquility to the world by the effective role it plays in the world arena. The world owes its today security and tranquility to the Iranian nation, President Rouhani in an online speech […]

File photo, taken during a guided tour with the Saudi military on June 13, 2019, shows a worker inspecting the damage at Abha airport in Saudi Arabia, one day after a rebel missile attack. © Fayez Nureldine, AFP Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted Abha International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, causing a civilian plane on […]

  Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo addresses the 75th session of the UN General Assembly last September [File: Evan Schneider/AFP] The United Nations Security Council called on Somalia’s federal government and regional states to urgently resume talks and agree on arrangements to hold elections as soon as possible. A September agreement allows for the president […]

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the president pro tempore of the Senate, who is presiding over the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, in Washington.   –   Copyright  Senate Television via AP The US Senate voted that the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump is constitutional. The vote was 56-44 with six Republican Senators joining Democrats to […]

 TEHRAN – A Lebanese political researcher is of the opinion that the division in the American society is not a newfound phenomenon, saying it has been existing for decades. “Divisions existing for decades if not centuries in the American system,” Ali Mourad tells the Tehran Times. “Trump was a symptom, not the illness in the […]

Joan E. Donoghue, who has served as a judge on the International Court of Justice since 2010, will receive this year’s Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law.Donoghue, the third woman elected to the court, previously served as the principal deputy legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State from 2007-10, the senior career attorney at […]

UK arrivals who flout Government travel rules face up to £10,000 in fines or a decade in prison. Travellers who fail to quarantine in Government approved hotels after coming from red-list countries can be fined up to £10,000 under strict new rules. Those who attempt to hide a visit to a red-list country could be […]

Bloomberg) — The European Union accused Eritrean troops of fueling the months-long conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and echoed a U.S. call for their withdrawal. The presence of Eritrean forces is “exacerbating ethnic violence” in Tigray, the EU said in a statement Monday. Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s spokeswoman, […]