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Foreign tourism to France is rebounding this summer versus last year when the pandemic shut borders, though American and Asian visitors will remain limited, Tourism Minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. France expects 50 million foreign tourists, up from 35 million last summer …

Myanmar’s military ruler Min Aung Hlaing has taken on the role of prime minister in a newly formed caretaker government, state media reported on Sunday, six months after the army seized power from a civilian government. In a speech on Sunday, Min Aung Hlaing repeated a pledge to hold elections …

France has now added Bahrain to its list of green countries, starting August 1, Bahrain state news reported on Saturday. Vaccinated Bahrain residents wishing to travel to France will need to provide proof of vaccination status, a declaration attesting that they are experiencing no COVID-19 symptoms and that they have …

A German couple has been detained in Croatia for leaving their two children and a dog in a locked car with closed windows in the sweltering heat, police said Sunday. A statement said that citizens in the northern coastal town of Porec on Friday evening alerted police after seeing the …

Albania repatriated five women and 14 children on Sunday from camps in Syria that house family members of former terrorist fighters, Prime Minister Edi Rama said. Since the March 2019 fall of the ISIS group’s last stronghold, local Kurds who led the anti-extremist fight have been calling for the repatriation …

Algeria along with several others nations has officially begun the process of forming a group of African countries to reject Tel Aviv’s observer status in the African Union (AU) in order to preserve the principles of the bloc and to support Palestine. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, quoting the London-based online …

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest carrier in Africa, on Sunday denied it was transporting weapons and soldiers to the war-torn Tigray region. Calls to boycott the state-owned airline appeared on social media over allegations it was involved in the nine-month-old conflict. “Ethiopian Airlines strongly refutes all the recent baseless and unfounded …

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un warned Sunday that next month’s annual military drills between South Korean and US troops will undermine prospects for better ties between the Koreas, just days after the rivals reopened their long-dormant communication channels. Kim Yo Jong’s statement carried by state media …

The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry says recent accusations leveled against Tehran by Israel and the United States about attacking an Israeli-owned merchant ship in the Sea of Oman are “childish” and influenced by the Zionist lobby in the United States. Saeed Khatibzadeh made the remarks in a Sunday press briefing …

Hundreds of young people in Malaysia rallied in central Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, demanding the country’s prime minister resign over what they view as his mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. Public anger has built up against Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s unelected government, which took power in March 2020, as infections …

A sheriff’s deputy in Kaufman County, Texas, has been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced showing him on top of an 18-year-old Black woman, and then arresting her mother. In the video, the woman – Nekia Trigg – being held down is heard yelling, “I can’t breathe.” According …

Former US President Donald Trump says he tried to “uphold the integrity and honesty of elections” when he pointed to voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Trump released a statement on Saturday in response to the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s latest stance towards his role in the Capitol …

Fire crews struggled to stop the spread of Dixie Fire, the largest active wildfire in California, on Saturday. According to Press TV, the US Forest Service performed a prescribed burn using incendiary balls dropped from a helicopter in Meadow Valley, as a way to control the progress of the Dixie Fire, …

A US lawmaker has described the Biden administration’s plan to evacuate Afghans, who worked with US forces in Afghanistan, a “complete disaster”. The Biden administration decided to grant special visas to Afghan interpreters, drivers, guides, and other locals after US President Joe Biden vowed to withdraw American troops from the country. …

Myanmar’s military ruler Min Aung Hlaing has promised to hold elections in two years’ time, extending the state of emergency that was imposed after the civilian government was overthrown in a military coup six months ago. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the army ousted Aung San …

A Bahraini protest movement has denounced the acquittal of a high-ranking military official and member of the kingdom’s ruling Al Khalifah regime, who has been found guilty of shooting dead a female sports journalist in front of her young son more than five years ago. The February 14 Youth Coalition — named after …

The US State Department has approved the potential sale of 18 Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters to the Israeli regime in a Foreign Military Sales deal worth about $3.4 billion amid reported demands from Tel Aviv for more American weaponry in case of a renewed US deal with Iran …

Israeli forces launch another crackdown on a demonstration staged by residents of the holy occupied city of al-Quds’ Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood against Tel Aviv’s decision to expel them from their homes there. Footage provided by the Palestinian Shehab news agency showed the forces strutting through the neighborhood and forcing one …

Sindh’s chief minister said a sudden rise in COVID-19 cases flooded hospitals in Karachi, the provincial capital. Provincial authorities have imposed a partial lockdown in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, including the commercial hub of Karachi and other urban centres, amid an alarming increase in COVID-19 cases. The lockdown began on …

An Illinois tax agency has ruled that former President Donald Trump is due a $1 million refund on the 2011 tax bill for his downtown Chicago skyscraper, but local officials are trying to block the refund.