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People wearing a protective face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus are seen in a street of Lille, northern France, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020 Global coronavirus deaths hit the 800,000 mark on Saturday, according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, with nearly 23 million cases worldwide. The US is the […]

A picture taken on Jan. 13, 2020, during a press tour organized by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group, shows US army drones at the Ain al-Asad airbase in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. Authorities in Somalia say a U.S. drone strike on Thursday killed a high-ranking member of […]

Turkey’s drilling ship, the Fatih, sailing through the Bosphorus toward the Black Sea on May 29, 2020, Istanbul (AP Photo)  The economic value of the recently discovered natural gas reserve in the Black Sea comes to nearly $65 billion, Turkey’s energy and natural resources minister said Friday. Fatih Dönmez’s remarks came after Turkey earlier announced […]

Alexei Navalny takes part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia, Feb 29, 2020 Russian activist Alexei Navalny has arrived in Berlin on Saturday morning on a plane departing from Siberia after Russian doctors said his condition was stable enough for him to travel. News agency AP reports he’s currently being […]

Former US Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware [Kevin Lamarque/Reuters] Former US Vice President Joe Biden accepts the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination during a speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic […]

Malian Air Force deputy chief of staff and military junta spokesperson Ismael Wague speaks during a press conference in Kati on August 19, 2020, a day after the military arrested Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and he officially resigned. © Annie Risemberg, AFP Malian Air Force deputy chief of staff and military junta spokesperson Ismael Wague […]

President Farmajo signs agreement Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed along with three state leaders and the mayor of Mogadishu have reached an agreement on the country’s election model after days of talks in the central town of Dhusamareb. The election will be based on constituency caucuses, according to a communique issued after the summit in […]

vaccine Photo:VCG Cooperation between countries in public health is complex by nature and made more so by ever shifting calculations of geopolitical implications associated with the ongoing struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The geographical and demographic reach of the virus is too unprecedented to call on past examples of successful cooperation. But time has […]

The agency in charge of North Korea’s response to COVID-19 has been upgraded and reorganized as a military organization, a move that sources in the country told RFA was meant to use fear of the coronavirus as a tool to exert more control over the population. The organization, set up in January as the virus […]

In this file photo taken on May 5, 2018, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny addresses supporters during an unauthorized anti-Putin rally in Moscow, two days ahead of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a fourth Kremlin term. (AFP File Photo)  Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive […]