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Members of Amhara regional militias, allied with the Ethiopian federal government, ride on their truckas they head to face the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).  © Tiksa Negeri, REUTERS Aid agencies are unable to restock food, health and other emergency supplies in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, where federal troops are fighting with local forces, the United Nations […]

A nurse prepares to inject flu vaccine Jacopo Leoni at the Museum of science and technology in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 The EU’s first vaccinations against COVID-19 could take place in the first quarter of 2021, according to a European health chief. Andrea Ammon, director of the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC), […]

WASHINGTON – President Trump has made wholesale changes in the Pentagon’s top civilian leadership, a purge that began with the firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and continued Tuesday through the senior ranks. Three top senior officials resigned on Tuesday, including the under secretaries for policy and intelligence. Esper’s chief of staff also resigned. The moves sparked concern on Capitol […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at a news conference alongside President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House, Nov. 13, 2019. (AP Photo)  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday sent a message of thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump who is expected to hand over the White House to President-elect Joe Biden […]

Bahrain’s Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa. (Screengrab) Bahrain’s Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa has died at the age of 84, the royal palace announced on Wednesday on Twitter. Prince Khalifa, who was one of the world’s longest-standing prime ministers, had been receiving treatment at a Mayo Clinic hospital in the […]

M  Map of the regions of Ethiopia, showing the boundary between the Tigray region (in dark pink) and neighbouring countries. As tensions remain high between Ethiopia’s federal government and local leaders in the northern region of Tigray, thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes and seek refuge in neighboring Sudan. Thousands of […]

US Attorney General William Barr leaves the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Susan Walsh The United States’ top prosecutor for election crimes resigned on Monday evening after Attorney General William Barr authorised federal prosecutors to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities, if […]

People broke into a government building protesting an agreement to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in Yerevan, Armenia, Nov. 10, 2020. (AP Photo) Chaotic scenes erupted inside Armenia’s parliament in the early hours of Tuesday as protesters angry at the Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal with Azerbaijan seized control of its chamber to denounce the country’s […]

Ethiopia is a sovereign nation and its government will ultimately make decisions,’ Abiy Ahmed’s spokeswoman said [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters] The state media announcement on Tuesday about the capture of the airport, 67km (42 miles) south of Humera, came as fighting continued with reports of Ethiopian government forces capturing territory.   KEEP READING Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict […]

This May 4, 2020, photo from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer’s COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial.  A potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech has been found to be more than 90% effective. The vaccine has been tested on more than 43,500 participants during […]