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Clashes have erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region [Screengrab/Al Jazeera] Heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces has broken out in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with both sides blaming each other for the major flare-up in violence that led to reports of casualties. Armenia accused neighbouring Azerbaijan of attacking civilian settlements […]

Police officers gather in the area of a knife attack near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Friday Sept. 25, 2020 in Paris.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Thibault Camus  The main suspect in the knife attack that injured two outside the former Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris took responsibility for the act, according to AFP, citing an […]

A Pakistan-born teenager has admitted to stabbing two people with a meat cleaver outside the former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, investigators said Saturday, with nine people now detained over what the government condemned as “Islamist terror”. The 18-year-old said he wanted to avenge the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by the satirical […]

A building damaged during violence seen in Tripoli, Libya, July 9, 2020. (AFP Photo)  The United Nations condemned clashes between two armed groups in a residential suburb of the Libyan capital and the use of heavy weapons. The U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in a statement late Friday expressed “great concern” over the fighting […]

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after delivering remarks on healthcare in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo President Donald Trump’s surprise pledge to send $200 drug discount cards to older Americans has left even his top deputies and health officials scrambling to explain how it would all work — assuming […]

Several towns and cities are adding to the millions of people already under local lockdown (Picture: Getty Images) Towns and cities in north-west England, West Yorkshire and Wales will be the latest to face new restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. It comes after 6,874 cases were recorded across the UK, the highest […]

Mali’s Interim President Bah Ndaw (R) is seen with Interim Vice President Colonel Assimi Goita (L) during Ndaw’s inauguration ceremony in Bamako on September 25, 2020. © Michele Cattani, AFP Mali’s interim president, Bah Ndaw, chosen to head a transitional government following a coup last month, was sworn in during ceremonies in the capital Bamako on […]

Mvaccine Photo:VCG China is estimated to reach an annual production capacity of the novel coronavirus vaccine to 610 million doses by the end of 2020, and more than 1 billion by 2021, Zheng Zhongwei, director of the Development Center for Medical Science and Technology of the National Health Commission (NHC), announced at a briefing held […]

French police special forces (GSO) kit-up near the former offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an alleged attack by a man wielding a knife in Paris on September 25, 2020. © Alain Jocard, AFP French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation after at least two people were wounded in a knife attack in […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (KCNA-Yonhap) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday apologized for the developments surrounding a South Korean civil servant who was allegedly killed and incinerated by the North Korean military. The North’s Unification Front Department on Friday sent a communique addressed to Seoul’s presidential office outlining the events and including an […]