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Five women were killed when a projectile exploded at a New Year’s Day wedding party in Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hodeida, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. Yemen has been torn apart by years of civil war; here a fighter loyal to the government battles with Huthi rebel forces in a November 2020 […]

  The year 2020 was undoubtedly dominated by one singularity – COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak killed nearly 1.8 million people, turned countless lives upside down and, perhaps, changed the world forever. However, along with the coronavirus outbreak many other consequential events unfolded this year, and below we listed some of them. 1. COVID-19 reaches Turkey After […]

A C-2 Greyhound, from the “Providers” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 30, launches off the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz Dec. 9. Photo by Greg Hall/U.S. Navy Dec. 31 (UPI) — The USS Nimitz has left for its home port following a 10-month deployment, the Pentagon announced Thursday.In a press release from the Department of Defense, Jonathan […]

 Global crude oil markets have lost about a fifth of their value in 2020 as strict coronavirus lockdowns paralyzed much of the global economy, but prices have rebounded strongly from their lows as governments rolled out stimulus. On Thursday, the last trading day of 2020, Brent was down 8 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $51.55 […]

December 31, 2020 (KHARTOUM) – President of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan who is Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces stated that the Sudanese army had been redeployed along the Sudanese side in the border Ethiopia. The Sudanese armed forces “have not and will not cross international borders or attack neighbouring Ethiopia,” al-Burhan stressed in […]

The UK’s daily COVID-19 death toll hit 981 on Wednesday, as the country continued to grapple with a new variant of the virus. This is the country’s highest number of recorded deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test since April. One region of the country has declared a “major incident” due to the pressure on […]

TEHRAN – The Legal Department of the President’s Office on Wednesday passed a bill to pay $150,000 to each of the bereaved families of the victims of the Ukrainian plane which was downed in an accident earlier this year. “The Ministry of Transport and Urban Development has been instructed to arrange for the payment of […]

   President Vladimir Putin has exhausted his political agenda. Even his recent referendum to “reset” the political clock hasn’t helped. Putin might physically remain in power for some time, but he has already become a “lame duck” president in the eyes of many people, a leader on his way out the door. Nobody — not […]

A North Korean soldier deployed to the Sino-North Korean border as part of efforts to seal the border against COVID-19 recently defected across the border with his weapon and ammo, Daily NK has learned. In a phone conversation with Daily NK on Tuesday, a source in Yanggang Province said a soldier with the Seventh Corps […]

 At least 26 people were killed and 60 more wounded in an attack on Aden International Airport, shortly after a plane carrying a newly formed government for Yemen arrived from Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, a Yemeni health official said. Dust rises after explosions hit Aden International Airport shortly after the arrival of the newly formed […]