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Spain is a top holiday destination for the UK.   –   Copyright  JOSEP LAGO/AFP or licensors The UK government has advised against all but essential travel to mainland Spain and told travellers they will have to self-isolate for 14 days on return home in a move to stem the rise in coronavirus cases. The UK will remove Spain from […]

File photo of the national flags of China (R) and the United States. (Xinhua/Bao Dandan) BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Saturday expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to U.S. law enforcement officers’ forced entry into the Chinese consulate general in Houston.U.S. law enforcement officers on Friday forcibly entered the premises […]

Somalia’s president has accepted the decision to remove Khaire, citing the need to preserve the unity of various arms of government [File: Feisal Omar/Reuters]    Somalia’s parliament has removed Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire by a vote of no confidence, the speaker of the house told the state news agency.Legislators voted 170-8 to remove Khaire, […]

Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2019 shows an Airbus A340 of Mahan Air approaching the Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran. (Xinhua) Iran will lodge a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization over “harassment” of its passenger plane by two U.S. fighter jets over the Syrian airspace. TEHRAN, July 24 (Xinhua) — The Civil […]

Donald Trump says Joe Biden wants to abolish the suburbs. But polls show a different truth: The suburbs want to abolish Donald Trump. If current numbers hold, the Republican Party will suffer its worst defeat in the suburbs in decades — with implications reaching far beyond November. It was in the suburbs two years ago […]

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun answers questions at the National Assembly on Friday. Yonhap The government will revise regulations to prevent foreign nationals abusing South Korea’s medical system to be treated for COVID-19 at no cost, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said Friday. Speaking at the National Assembly’s interpellation session, Chung said that he is aware of […]

U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping attend a business leaders’ event inside the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017. (AFP Photo) Four decades after the United States established diplomatic ties with Communist China, the relationship between the two is at a turning point. Tensions have reached new heights on […]

A small boy wearing a mask sits on a suitcase at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. July 24, 2020.   –   Copyright  Michael Probst/AP As several countries on the continent saw an uptick in reported cases of COVID-19, European countries moved to make mask-wearing mandatory in public spaces. UK New rules on wearing masks in England came into effect […]

A worker pushes luggage outside Beirut international airport on its re-opening day following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Beirut, Lebanon July 1, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]  BEIRUT/TEHRAN — Over 150 passengers on board an Iranian plane were evacuated on Thursday evening after its landing at People push trollies, as they head to board a plane at […]

Joe Biden | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Joe Biden is beating President Donald Trump in Rust Belt states that were critical to Trump’s victory in 2016, according to a new poll. Biden leads Trump by wide margins in both Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a Fox News poll released on Thursday evening. Fifty percent of voters […]