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The African Union on Wednesday suspended troubled Sudan after the military forcibly took power and dissolved the transitional government. The decision announced by the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) means that Sudan will no longer be allowed into AU sessions or vote on crucial matters until it restores …

EU antitrust regulators opened on Wednesday a four-month-long investigation into Nvidia’s $54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM, saying the deal could lead to higher prices, less choice, and reduced innovation. The European Commission said concessions offered by the world’s biggest maker of graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) chips …

A Cambridge University college and Paris museum will on Wednesday hand back cultural artefacts that were looted from West Africa during the colonial era, setting a precedent that will pressure other institutions to return stolen works. Jesus College, Cambridge, will return a sculpture of a cockerel taken by British troops …

Four Pakistani police were killed and hundreds wounded when armed activists from a banned Islamist group clashed with security forces at an anti-blasphemy demonstration near the eastern city of Lahore, officials said. The clash broke out at a rally of the banned Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) on a highway in Sheikhupura, …

Russia, one of the hardest-hit countries, recorded 1,069 coronavirus-related fatalities on Monday, the highest single-day death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. According to Press TV, the country, which accounts for 40 percent of all new cases in eastern Europe, also reported more than 37 thousand fresh …

Myanmar’s deposed Leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has reportedly denied a charge of incitement to cause public alarm in her first court testimony since her arrest and following a February 1 military coup. Suu Kyi testified at a special court session in the capital, Naypyitaw, on Tuesday, when she denied …

A senior Pentagon official says the US intelligence community has assessed that terrorist groups in Afghanistan could attack the United States in six months if left unchecked, and that they have the intention to carry out such an assault. Colin Kahl, the US Defense Department’s Undersecretary for Policy, made the …

The US communications regulator has voted to revoke the authorization for China Telecom’s US subsidiary to operate in the United States over what it called national security concerns. The decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which came in a 4-0 vote on Tuesday, means that China Telecom Americas …

US President Joe Biden is taking on former President Donald Trump for a second time in his attempt to block documents related to the Jan. 6 insurrection by his supporters at the Capitol Hill. The billionaire businessman has been trying to withhold documents sought by lawmakers investigating the deadly storming …

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights blasts the Israeli regime’s recent “terrorist” designation of six Palestinian civil society organizations, describing the move as an attack on defenders of human rights. Israel’s Minister of War Benny Gantz said in a statement on Friday that the ministry had so designated the …

Iran has called upon the international community to hold Israel accountable for its incessant crimes and human rights violations against the Palestinian nation, emphasizing that collective action would prevent the regime from committing more war crimes and crimes against humanity. Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United …

Bahrainis have once again staged nationwide demonstrations in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom to urge the ruling Al Khalifah regime to immediately release political prisoners, after a former detainee attained martyrdom of medical complications he sustained during his time in prison. Bahrain’s main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, reported …

The Arab League has condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s declaration that it will build more than 1,300 new settler units in the occupied West Bank. According to Press TV, in a statement released on Monday, the 22-nation Arab bloc said the construction plan is part of the continuous and escalating …

Turkey has dispatched truckloads of military and logistical equipment to northern Syria, only a day after hundreds of Syrians staged a demonstration to denounce the presence of Turkish forces in their country. The Lebanon-based and Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network reported that a convoy of 100 trucks, carrying battle tanks and artillery …

US President Joe Biden’s average approval rating has declined to a new low of 43.4 percent, according to a new analysis of polling. His disapproval stood at 50.6 percent in FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls, the highest of his presidency. Recently released polls from Gallup and Grinnell College have put Biden’s approval rating even lower, …

China has urged the United States to stop sending wrong signals in any form to the so-called “independence” forces of the Chinese Taipei after Washington said it attempts to enable the self-ruled island to take part meaningfully at the United Nations. China has sovereignty over the Chinese Taipei, and under …

Protesters in Sudan remained in the streets on Tuesday, despite the violence, a day after the country’s military seized power from a transitional government in an apparent coup d’état. At least seven protesters have been killed and 140 others injured in the countrywide protests that broke out on Monday. Military …

Four people were wounded after a gas explosion destroyed part of a five-story residential building in the Russian city of Naberezhnye Chelny 930 km (580 miles) east of Moscow. More than 30 people were evacuated from the site, the emergency service said in a report. A gas explosion has ripped …

A Munich court on Monday sentenced a German woman who joined ISIS to 10 years in prison over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun. Presiding judge Reinhold Baier of the superior regional court in the southern German city handed down …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan “welcomed” statements on Monday by several Western embassies including the United States that they abide by a diplomatic convention not to interfere in a host country’s internal affairs, state-run media said. The statements were made almost simultaneously on Twitter as Erdogan entered a cabinet meeting to …