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Donald Trump speaks at press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on July 14.   –   Copyright  Evan Vucci/Associated Press  China on Wednesday threatened to retaliate with sanctions after US President Donald Trump signed an order to end preferential economic treatment for Hong Kong. “In order to safeguard its legitimate interests, China will provide the necessary […]

Beledweyne Airport An aircraft from Djibouti carrying humanitarian aid crashed at an airport in central Somalia on Tuesday, leaving a thick black smoke visible for miles. The plane crashed at Beledweyne Airport, also known as Haaji-shiekh hamud hasan Airport, in the area of Hiran. “The plane crashed just as it landed. We managed to rescue […]

US murderer Daniel Lewis Lee has been put to death, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the first executions of federal inmates in 17 years. US murderer Daniel Lewis Lee has been put to death, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the first executions of federal inmates in 17 years. Several executions were initially delayed […]

Second iteration of US-led Somalia Train and Equip mission ends: Somali National Army soldiers stand in formation during a logistics course graduation ceremony, 28 August 2018. Photo by MC2 (SW/AW) Evan Parker. This paper summarizes the US mission in Somalia, analyses how it is being implemented, and assesses whether US policy in Somalia is working. It also outlines three scenarios for future US engagement. The US has […]

President Donald Trump on Monday launched new attacks on his own administration’s public health officials, while the White House denied that it had perpetrated a smear campaign against Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the most venerated voices combating the coronavirus. As his standing in public polling sags amid record numbers of daily Covid-19 infections in […]

  A man holds a newspaper to cover his face in the absence of his face mask during the coronavirus pandemic, in Bangalore, India, July 9, 2020. (AFP Photo) India’s number of coronavirus cases jumped by another 28,000 on Tuesday and are fast approaching 1 million. The 28,498 cases reported in the past 24 hours […]

Mexico now has the fourth highest number of officially confimed COVID-19 deaths   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell  There have now been more than 13 million confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide, with 573,000 deaths, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University. And as the pandemic gets worse, with cases rising notably in the Americas, the World Health Organization […]

An engineer looks at monkey kidney cells as he make a test on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Illustrative photo: AFP) The World Health Organization has formed new partnerships aimed at ensuring that a coronavirus vaccine is distributed to low- and middle-income countries once it is developed, amid concerns that nations such as […]

KABUL: The Taliban group on Sunday rejected the call for humanitarian ceasefire and reduction in violence in a bid to start the intra-Afghan talks. “If anyone seeks ceasefire before talks then such is illogical,” Taliban Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said. In a series of tweets, he said that war is raging precisely because we have yet […]

Lockdown restrictions are continuing to ease as the European summer vacation season approaches. But as people gather on beaches and in bars, experts warn that large crowds could spark a fresh wave of infections. As European countries prepare to reopen to tourists, two leading German doctors on Sunday warned that the mass movement of holidaymakers […]