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Image: KCNA, Feb. 13, 2018 SHAREImage: KCNA, Feb. 13, 2018 Just when it seemed the rumor mill over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s health had stopped churning, a new set of claims appeared in various news outlets over the past week. The latest claims are that Kim Jong Un is in a coma and […]

A medical worker swabs a man during testing amid the coronavirus outbreak, at the Cleveland Clinic hospital in Abu Dhabi on April 20, 2020. (Reuters) Health ministers of the UAE and Israel discussed cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, state news agency WAM reported. UAE Minister of Health and Prevention Abdul Rahman bin […]

Photo: EU NAVFOR As informed, it was Garadfoo police that boarded the 8,100 dwt ship, not pirates. The police was sent to inspect the vessel when it was drifting off Bereeda waiting for technical assistance. On 18 August, EU NAVFOR OHQ Joint Operations Centre detected suspicious movements when Aegean II, with armed security guards on […]

Medical staff wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) in Hong Kong. File picture.   –   Copyright  MAY JAMES/AFP A man in Hong Kong who recovered from COVID-19 was reinfected with the virus four-and-a half months later in the first recorded instance of a second infection, researchers at the University of Hong Kong said on Monday. The findings suggest the disease […]

A general view of a session of the parliament in Vienna, Austria, Dec. 20, 2017. (Reuters Photo)  Vienna will expel a Russian diplomat, Austria’s foreign ministry said Monday, as media reported he had been involved in economic espionage for years. “We can confirm that a Russian diplomat will be expelled,” the ministry said in a […]

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on July 3, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] The World Health Organization says the COVID-19 pandemic can be ended within two years but has warned that […]

The heroic actions of Naeem Rashid have come to light as the court releases a summary of facts for the first time, for the sentencing of the 29-year-old Australian. He has admitted 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder and one terror charge after storming two Christchurch mosques in a hateful attack in […]

Icons for the smartphone apps TikTok and WeChat are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, in a Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 file photo   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File US-based WeChat users are suing the US government in a bid to block an executive order barring access to the Chinese instant messaging app in the country. The lawsuit was […]

Russia has announced clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine will get underway next week, involving tens of thousands of volunteers. Earlier this month President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had become the first country to register a vaccine for the novel virus, though the declaration was met with skepticism from scientists and the World Health Organization (WHO), […]

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe looks at how some Italians are revaluating their colonial past in Africa. In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe looks at how some Italians are revaluating their colonial past in Africa. Rome’s city council voted earlier this month to name a future […]