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Five Chinese frontier officers and soldiers stationed in the Karakoram Mountains have been recognized by the Central Military Commission of China for defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity in the border confrontation with India, which occurred in the Galwan Valley in June 2020, the PLA Daily reported on Friday. The Central Military Commission awarded Qi […]

From left, the flags of Britain, Scotland and European Union wave outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo)  In the midst of a dispute over a new independence referendum, Scotland has been sending a message to the British government. In addition to the Scottish flag, the European Union flag has constantly […]

It is the first measure towards lifting the Covid-19 lockdown to have been announced so far. Lateral flow testing kits are small and give fast results but are believed to be somewhat less accurate than the PCR tests notably used by NHS Test and Trace. One regular visitor per care home resident will be allowed […]

In his first big appearance on the global stage, US President Joe Biden on Friday called on fellow world leaders to come together to prove that “democracies can still deliver” as he underscored his administration’s determination to quickly turn the page on Donald Trump’s “America First” approach. US President Joe Biden adresses the Munich Security […]

The leaders of the world’s richest nations are holding virtual talks on Friday on how to speed up the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, and how to share them more fairly with the poorest countries. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a vial of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine during a visit of a coronavirus vaccination […]

The State Department said the U.S. would accept an invitation from the European Union to attend a meeting of the participants in the original agreement. The U.S. has not participated in a meeting of those participants since former President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018. The announcement followed discussions earlier Thursday between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and […]

 MOGADISHU, Feb 19 — A gunbattle erupted today in central Mogadishu as Somali government forces sealed off streets to prevent a protest over delayed elections, hours after fighters loyal to the government and to the political opposition exchanged gunfire. A Somali man walks on a street which is sealed off to prevent a protest over […]

 NASA’s science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. in this illustration made available by NASA, The […]

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) claims it has killed hundreds of government soldiers, including Eritrean troops who allegedly were involved in the fighting in Ethiopia’s northern region.TPLF, Tigray’s former governing party-turned-rebel group, said it has killed a total of 502 soldiers in a new military offence it launched last week.Ethiopian Prime Minister and Noble […]

Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Stuart Price, UN Photo via Flickr CC) By Mohamed Duale and Jabril Abdullahi Africa is a Country Jan. 26, 2021, marked 30 years since the capture of Mogadishu by opposition forces and their overthrow of the pre-war government at the dawn of Somalia’s civil war Decades of conflict have left innumerable visible and unseen scars […]