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China will overtake the US to become the world’s biggest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a report has found. A woman wearing a mask labors in a garment factory in Donghai county in east China’s Jiangsu province Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.   – Copyright  Chinatopix Via AP The Centre for […]

The state of Saxony-Anhalt has begun administering the first coronavirus vaccines. Health Minister Jens Spahn has called for a “major national effort” ahead of the largest vaccination campaign in German history. The state of Saxony-Anhalt has begun administering the first coronavirus vaccines. Health Minister Jens Spahn has called for a “major national effort” ahead of […]

 Three new variants of COVID-19 have been detected in recent weeks, leading to increased vigilance across the world as officials say a variant found in the United Kingdom could be up to 70 percent more transmissible. French authorities confirmed the country’s first case of the virus variant that prompted strict new lockdown measures in the […]

Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, the electoral board said on Friday, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed seeks to quell political and ethnic violence in several regions. Voter registration for the June vote would take place from March 1 to 30, the electoral board said. Abiy’s Prosperity Party, a pan-Ethiopian movement he […]

China will launch the core module of the country’s first space station in the first half of 2021, Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China’s manned space project, said on Friday. Zhang Xiaoguang, an astronaut on the 2013 flight of Shenzhou X, unveiled the mission’s reentry capsule at a ceremony in Shaoshan, Hunan province, at which […]

 The fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by police in Columbus, Ohio – the U.S. city’s second such killing this month – sparked a fresh wave of protests on Thursday against racial injustice and police brutality in the country A participant reacts during a protest outside the home where Andre Maurice Hill, 47, was […]

People carry an Ethiopian national flag in the streets after a national call to stand in honour of the Ethiopian National Defence Forces, in Addis Ababa, on November 17, 2020. © Eduardo Soteras, AFP People carry an Ethiopian national flag in the streets after a national call to stand in honour of the Ethiopian National Defence […]

France detected the country’s first case of the new coronavirus strain that prompted fresh lockdown measures in Britain and global travel bans, health authorities said Friday. FILE PHOTO – A nurse prepares an antigen speed test in a nursing home in Ammerschwihr, eastern France, Monday, Nov.9, 2020.   –   Copyright  Jean-Francois Badias/Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved […]

Turkey has not fully cut off its relations with Israel and continues to cooperate with the country in the intelligence field, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday. “The main problem right now is about individuals at the top,” Erdoğan told reporters following Friday prayers. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at the joint opening ceremony of […]

 Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cissé has died of coronavirus aged 71, his family and party said Friday, just two months after he was released by jihadist militants in a prisoner swap.Cissé “died in France, where he had been taken for Covid-19 care”, a member of his family told AFP. Soumaila Cissé pictured greeting a relative at […]