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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference on September 27, 2020 in Paris. (AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday he respected Muslims who were shocked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad but that was no excuse for violence, as his officials ramped up security after a knife attack in a French […]

 2:58 PM GMT+3 Members of rescue services search in the debris of a collapsed building for survivors in Izmir, Turkey, early Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo) A6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Seferihisar district in the western province of Izmir on Friday according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). The tremors […]

A list of all the things you can and can’t do as England goes back into a coronavirus lockdown (Pictures: Getty) From midnight on Thursday. The second full nationwide shut-down of 2020 comes as the number of coronavirus cases threatens to overwhelm the NHS. A new raft of rules will be introduced across England. The […]

Sean Connery(007 James Bond) Scottish movie legend Sean Connery, who shot to international stardom as the suave, sexy and sophisticated British agent James Bond and went on to dominate the silver screen for four decades, has died aged 90, the BBC and Sky News reported on Saturday. Connery was raised in near poverty in the slums of Edinburgh and worked […]

“Although we’re still learning about the virus, what’s clear is that this is not just a virus that kills people.  To a significant number of people, this virus poses a range of serious long-term effects,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking in Geneva on Friday during the UN agency’s latest virtual press conference. “Although we’re still learning […]

The al-Shabab Islamic extremist group used what appears to be a North Korean mortar in an apparent attack against the United Nations compound in Somalia earlier this year, a UN panel has said, in a sign of possible arms deals between the two sides. The al-Qaida-linked group carried out six separate mortar attacks on the […]

People observing social distancing wait in line to be tested in a Red Cross COVID-19 test centreat Cinquantenaire park in Brussels. Monday, Oct. 19, 2020.  –   Copyright  Francisco Seco/AP Belgium has become the latest European country to announce a return to strict lockdown measures as cases of COVID-19 shot up. Non-essential businesses will close and employees must work […]

Members of rescue services search in the debris of a collapsed building for survivors in Izmir, Turkey, early Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo)  A6.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Seferihisar district in the western province of Izmir on Friday according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). The tremors occurred in the […]

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (left) chats with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a news conference following a signing ceremony in Istanbul June 26, 2012 [File: Murad Sezer/Reuters] Istanbul, Turkey – NATO, the United States, Russia, and Iran have repeatedly called for an halt to the intense fighting that broke out between Azerbaijan and Armenia […]

Archive photo of the Senegalese coast.   –   Copyright  IOM/International Organization for Migration Over 140 died last week when a migrant ship sank off the coast of Senegal, the International Office for Migration (IOM) said on Thursday. It was the deadliest shipwreck recorded in 2020, according to the UN migration agency.  Around 200 passengers set off in the vessel […]