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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stepped up a wide range of efforts to strengthen his grip on power, as the reclusive state’s current unfavorable conditions, dented by COVID-19 and its bleak economy, are feared to pose a threat to the regime’s survival. The totalitarian state recently passed new laws, including those on foreign culture […]

The explosion occurred in the Spin Kalai Square of the 5th fifth police district and was heard in nearby areas. A statement from the ministry said the explosion damaged nearby houses and injured children, women and the elderly. KABUL (Pajhwok): Parliamentarian Khan Mohammad Wardak was wounded in a car bombing in Kabul on Sunday morning, the […]

Londoners have been banned from leaving the city and may even risk being arrested if they try to travel to other parts of the country for Christmas. The strict new travel rules come into place after midnight as the capital and South East England are plunged into a tier four lockdown. Londoners who attempt to […]

The Sudanese army declared on Friday that the international borders with Ethiopia are clear and indisputable and that they “will not give up one inch” of their country’s territory. This came in a statement issued by the Sudanese Armed Forces’ (SAF) account on Facebook, two days after confrontations with an Ethiopian armed militia on the borders […]

Russia was “pretty clearly” behind a devastating cyber attack on several US government agencies that also hit targets worldwide, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.Microsoft said late Thursday that it had notified more than 40 customers hit by the malware, which security experts say could allow attackers unfettered network access to key government systems and […]

As Sweden’s government further tightened its coronavirus recommendations to control rising infection rates, The Local spoke to the country’s Health Minister Lena Hallengren.When my colleague at The Local interviewed you in May, you said that you wouldn’t have wanted to have imposed a lockdown, even if you could have done. I wondered if that’s still the […]

Security personnel stand in front of the SANKO University Hospital following a fire, in Gaziantep, Dec. 19, 2020. (AA Photo)  Eight people were killed Saturday in a fire at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southeastern Turkey. The fire started when an oxygen cylinder exploded at the privately-run Sanko University Hospital unit in […]

Italy will be placed under nationwide measures from Monday, December 21st, prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Friday night, amid fears of a coronavirus ‘third wave’. The whole country will be placed under additional nationwide restrictions for the entire Christmas period, from December 21st until Epiphany on January 6th, Conte announced. talian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gives […]

More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped last week in an attack on their school in northwest Nigeria have arrived in the capital of Katsina state amid celebrations of their release.Television pictures on Friday showed the boys, many of them wearing light green uniforms and clutching blankets, arriving on buses, looking weary but otherwise well.   Freed […]

Deb Haaland could become the first Native American to lead a US governmental department after she was nominated for interior secretary on Thursday by President-elect Joe Biden.Haaland, 60, is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna and, as she likes to say, a 35th-generation resident of New Mexico. In this March 5, 2020, file photo […]