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Head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) Ali Erbaş visits Hagia Sophia Mosque as workers lay carpets in Istanbul, July 22, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  After 86 years of operating as a museum, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia will reopen on Friday as a mosque, a move that has become a cause of celebration for Muslims not only […]

The Long March 5 Y-4 rocket, carrying an unmanned Mars probe of the Tianwen-1 mission, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang, Hainan Province, China, July 23, 2020. (Reuters Photo)  China launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet on Thursday in a bold attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a […]

President Donald Trump holds up his face mask during a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House July 21, 2020. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s bet that a proven-effective coronavirus vaccine will be the October surprise to catapult him into a second term is facing increasingly long odds. […]

A staff member disinfects a waiting room of Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, capital of China, June 18, 2020. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao) BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhua) — Beijing lowered the emergency response to COVID-19 from level 2 to level 3 on Monday, setting an example of how a metropolis can contain the breakout with regular measures […]

Federal government and regional state leaders meeting in Dusamareb have reached a preliminary agreement on election matters, reports just in say. A three-item resolution statement is soon expected to be issued, sources have told Somali Affairs. They are as follows: 1- To ensure elections take place on time, no term extension for the government. 2- […]

President Xi Jinping delivers a key speech on spurring the vitality of market entities and promoting entrepreneurship as he chairs a symposium with entrepreneurs in Beijing on Tuesday. [Photo/Xinhua President calls for new development model for economy President Xi Jinping called on Tuesday for greater strides in reform and opening-up, including in science and technology, […]

WASHINGTON – While slow to take hold in Central Asia, the coronavirus is now spreading rapidly in the region, exposing weaknesses in its national health care systems and the shortcomings of its authoritarian approaches to problem-solving. Leaders claim to be doing all they can to fight the virus, yet patients, caretakers and medics tell another […]

The deputy spokesman for the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces Adam Saleh said they had intercepted and detained 160 persons on the border in northern Darfur as they were headed to Libya to work as soldiers of fortune. Saleh said, according to Sudanese News Agency, that the people who had been detained include some children and […]

https://www.facebook.com/feminicide/photos/a.2822226247788384/3475008529176816/?type=3&theater   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Thibault Camus  French lawmakers on Tuesday approved a bill to protect victims of domestic violence. The law, passed last week by the National Assembly and by the Senate on Tuesday, allows for doctors to break patient confidentiality to signal suspected case of domestic violence to the authorities.  According to government figures, 128 women and 21 […]