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The Minister of Ports and Marine Transport, Mariam Aweis Jama, signed a 14-year Concession Agreement with the Albayrak Group from Turkey for the Rehabilitation and Operation of the Port of Mogadishu on behalf of the Federal Government of Somalia. In part as a response to the Government’s policy to review all government concession agreements which […]

  A woman walks past a house damaged by recent Armenian shelling during a military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, in the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan, Oct. 6, 2020. (Reuters Photo) With Russia’s mediation, Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh starting at noon Saturday following two weeks of heavy fighting that marked the worst […]

TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States is seeking to blow up Iran’s remaining channels to pay for food and medicine. “Amid Covid19 pandemic, U.S. regime wants to blow up our remaining channels to pay for food & medicine,” Zarif tweeted on Thursday. “Iranians WILL survive this latest of cruelties.” He […]

MIntercontinental ballistic missiles, Hwasong-15, are seen at a military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Army at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang in February 2018. (KCNA-Yonhap) North Korea is likely to hold a military parade this weekend as expected to mark the 75th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers’ Party, military […]

President Donald Trump stands on the balcony as returns to the White House on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, after leaving hospital.   –   Copyright  Alex Brandon/Associated Press  President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he is ready to resume campaign rallies and feels “perfect” one week after his diagnosis with coronavirus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans, as […]

A U.S. marine rests on a bench in a gym at Camp Bost in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. | Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday teased a complete withdrawal of U.S troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, an aggressive timeline to fulfill a campaign promise to end what he has called America’s “endless wars” that […]

Anyone caught without a mask outside will face a fine of €1,000   –   Copyright  Andrew Medichini/AP Italy has introduced a new measure to make masks compulsory when outdoors after recently passing a decree to extend the national state of emergency to January 2021. Under the new measure, Italians are required to wear a face covering at all […]

The House of Federation ‘decided the federal government should sever any kind of relationship with the Tigray regional state assembly and the region’s highest executive body’. [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters] The House of Federation ‘decided the federal government should sever any kind of relationship with the Tigray regional state assembly and the region’s highest executive body’. […]

Donald Trump said ‘we are learning to live with Covid’ as he compares it to the flu   –   Copyright  Alex Brandon/AP Top White House aide Stephen Miller has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the latest member of US President Donald Trump’s entourage to have the virus. It came as US military leaders quarantined after Coast Guard official Admiral […]

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.” © Niklas Elmehed, Comité Nobel Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and Briton Michael Houghton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery […]