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Publishedduration1 hour agomedia captionHow Mexican cartels are taking advantage of Covid-19The burnt bodies of 19 people have been found close to the Mexican border with the US, according to officials from Tamaulipas state.Police found two burnt-out vehicles on Saturday and initial findings indicate the people were shot and then set alight.Violent drug gangs operate in… […]

Indian media reports on Monday claiming Chinese and Indian troops engaged in a clash three days ago that resulted in injuries on both sides are fake, the Global Times learned from a source on Monday. There is no record of this incident in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) front line patrol logs, the Global […]

     Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.Igor Ivanko /Moskva News Agency The Kremlin on Sunday accused the United States of interfering in Russia’s domestic affairs and downplayed the scale of the weekend’s protests, when tens of thousands rallied in support of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny. More than 3,500 demonstrators were detained in protests across the country on […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Pressure is growing on Somalia´s government amid allegations that Somali soldiers have been sent to fight in neighboring Ethiopia´s deadly Tigray conflict.Mothers have held rare protests in Somalia´s capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere, demanding to know the fate of their children who originally were sent to Eritrea for military training. They fear […]

Ethiopia has suffered famines in the past. Many foreigners know this; in 1985 about one-third of the world’s population watched a pop concert to raise money for starving Ethiopians. What is less well understood is that poor harvests lead to famine only when malign rulers allow it. It was not the weather that killed perhaps 1m […]

TEHRAN – The clock is ticking on the Biden administration’s promise to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal because Iran has waited for so long to see a wise leadership taking the helm in Washington. Therefore, any procrastination on part of the United States under President Joe Biden will most likely spell the end of the […]

White House press secretary Jen Psaki committed on Wednesday to “bringing truth and transparency back to the briefing room,” in her first news briefing of Joe Biden’s presidency. “Rebuilding trust with the American people will be central to our focus in the press office and in the White House every single day,” Psaki told reporters […]

Iraqi security forces keep guard the site of a suicide attack in Baghdad. (Reuters) A twin suicide bombing killed at least 23 people and wounded more than 50 in a Baghdad market on Thursday, the first such attack in years, security and medical sources said There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Suicide bombings have […]

A doctor injects the Pfizer vaccine into a patient in London (Picture: Jed Leicester/REX) Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is likely to protect against the mutant strain of coronavirus sweeping the UK, latest lab tests have revealed. The encouraging results, using blood of participants in trials, are based on more extensive analysis than those released by the […]