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Ethnically diverse countries are hard to rule. People want to be governed by those who share their language, culture and customs and few countries know this better than Ethiopia.  In the last 100 years, it has experienced imperial rule, a brief period under Italian invaders, a Marxist-Leninist military regime and then an authoritarian federal system […]

Smoke billows from the site of an explosion in the area of Second and Commerce in Nashville. (File photo: Reuters) The 63-year-old suspect in the bombing that rocked Nashville on Christmas morning was killed in the blast that destroyed his motor home and damaged more than 40 businesses, authorities said on Sunday. For the latest […]

    Russia has sent additional military police units to the Raqqa province of northern Syria amid a flare-up in fighting between rebel groups there, the Kommersant business daily reported Monday, citing a top Russian official in Syria. Russia, a close ally of the Syrian government in Damascus, maintains a military presence in northeastern Syria.Ghaith Alsayed / AP / […]

Zhang Zhan, 37, the first such person known to have been tried, was among a handful of people whose firsthand accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets painted a more dire picture of the pandemic epicenter than the official narrative. A pro-democracy activist holds placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdown in a crisis of his own making. U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., December 23, […]

Healthcare workers across the nation are gevaccine. Pool/Getty Images To date, safety data on the vaccine has been collected from 37,586 participants enrolled in an ongoing phase 3 clinical trial.The most commonly reported side effect from the vaccine is injection site reaction.Other commonly reported side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine include fatigue, headache, and […]

BEIJING – – In a year shadowed by the onslaught of coronavirus outbreak, the world witnessed glimmers of hope in China’s unremitting efforts on rallying global consensus on COVID-19 response and charting the course for future development. President Xi Jinping addresses the Climate Ambition Summit via video link on Dec 12, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] In the […]

ROCKFORD, Ill. — A suspect was in custody Sunday following a shooting rampage at a bowling alley that left three people dead and three others wounded.Police Chief Dan O’Shea said the suspect, a 37-year-old male, was thought to be the only shooter at Don Carter Lanes. However, O’She said the investigation into Saturday’s attack was ongoing and described it as […]

 Forces loyal to Libya’s Putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar will be seen as legitimate targets if they attempt to attack Turkish troops in Libya, Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Sunday.”If they take such a step, they will be unable to find any place to flee to. Everyone should come to their senses,” he warned while […]

December 26, 2020 (GADAREF) – The Sudanese army took control of 11 settlements of Ethiopian forces and militias inside Sudanese territory, meanwhile, Eritrea moved its troops towards Sudan’s border areas. Since last November, the Sudanese army began to retake control of border areas that Ethiopian forces and militias had captured with the connivance of the […]