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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G network on Tuesday, angering China but delighting U.S. President Donald Trump by signaling that the world’s biggest telecoms equipment maker is no longer welcome in the West. The United States has pushed Johnson to reverse his January decision …

A blaze has broken out in one of the World Trade Center’s towers in the capital city of Nigeria, Abuja. Footage from the scene shows a large plume of smoke billowing from the building’s top floors. The fire ignited at the massive tower, which is still under construction, on Monday. …

 In a tweet, the Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, named Iran-China 25-year cooperation roadmap as a termination to what she called Iran’s global isolation. “The partnership … would vastly expand Chinese presence in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways, and dozens of other projects,” she claimed. In a meeting …

US President Donald Trump has urged police officers across the country to fight back against the “disrespect” coming from the “Radical” Democrats running major cities. What exactly he meant was open to interpretation, as usual. “Never in history have Police been treated so badly as they are in Democrat run …

A new name must still be selected for one of the oldest and most storied teams in the National Football League, and it was unclear how soon that will happen. But for now, arguably the most polarizing name in North American professional sports is gone at a time of reckoning …

A staff member involved in the preparation of the first executions of US federal prisoners in 17 years has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the Bureau of Prisons said on Sunday. In a court filing, the bureau said the employee based at the Justice Department’s execution chamber in Terre …

Britain is providing more than a dozen repressive regimes around the world with wiretaps, spyware and other telecommunications interception equipment likely to be used to spy on dissidents, according to public records. The rules are quite clear on this. The UK should not export security goods to countries that might …

Yemeni forces have carried out a major military operation against military and strategic positions in southwestern Saudi Arabia, a military spokesman says. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, said in a statement on Monday that many drones and high-precision ballistic missiles were used in the operation. …

Dozens of people have been wounded in a car bomb blast followed by a shooting attack near an office of the Afghan intelligence agency in the northern province of Samangan. Clashes broke out between Afghan security forces and unknown gunmen on Monday following the bomb attack that targeted a government …

A move by Donald Trump’s administration to discredit the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, by accusing him of being frequently “wrong” about the coronavirus pandemic has been derided as “atrocious” by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. The Democrat told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer the smear “is so …

Firefighters on land, in the air and on the water on Monday were still battling a blaze on a Navy ship that injured at least 21 people and sent smoke billowing over San Diego. The fire began Sunday morning in a vehicle storage area aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, according …

The federal government is set to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Monday, over the objection of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings over the coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to die by lethal …

Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other Monday for skirmishes on their volatile border that have left four Azerbaijani soldiers dead and several troops wounded on both sides. The two neighbors in the South Caucasus have been locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of Azerbaijan that has been under the …

The imf’s energy producers are expected to earn $270 billion less in oil revenue compared to last year as the region’s economic heavyweight, Saudi Arabia, sinks deeper into recession amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund’s outlook released Monday. The international lender expects an overall economic contraction …

China announced “corresponding sanctions” against the United States on Monday after Washington penalised senior Chinese officials over the treatment of minority Uighur Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang. China’s move comes as relations between the world’s two biggest economic powerhouses have slumped over disagreements on issues including the coronavirus …

A Russian research center says it has successfully completed the clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on humans, and scientists in China and Thailand are also racing to start new phases in developing their own potential vaccines for COVID-19. There are no approved vaccines for the disease from …

A fire broke out at a facility belonging to the Shahid Tondgooyan Petrochemical Company in southwest Iran but was quickly contained, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday, citing a local official. The fire was caused by an oil leak but did not lead to any casualties or financial …

Thousands of people have flocked to the streets in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia and several other major cities, calling for the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and the country’s chief prosecutor over corruption charges. The demonstrators protested on Saturday for a third consecutive day and …

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has agreed to provide the United Nations with access to an abandoned oil tanker that risks causing environmental disaster off the western coast of the country. Two unnamed UN sources, familiar with the matter, announced the news in interviews with Reuters on Sunday, a few days …

Nearly a dozen civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed when Saudi military aircraft struck a residential area in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor. Saudi fighter jets carried out an airstrike on a neighborhood in …