Worldwide

Mary Trump Says ‘No One Is Less Equipped’ to Manage the Country’s Current Crises Than Her Uncle, President Trump President Donald Trump’s niece offered a devastating portrayal of him in a book that credits a “perfect storm of catastrophes” for exposing the president at his worst. Mary L. Trump, a …

As news reports emerged that the White House is mounting a renewed effort to smoke out internal leakers, a Republican anti-Trump campaign group has released a video telling the president that he cannot rely on anyone’s loyalty – and that even his family is “whispering” about him. Addressing the president …

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam has defended the new national security law enacted in the semi-autonomous Chinese city last week, dismissing exaggerated accounts of its implications for the city. Speaking at a regular weekly press conference on Tuesday, Lam rejected allegations that the law would stifle freedoms in Hong …

North Korea has stressed that it has no intention of holding new negotiations with the United States, following a call by South Korea for Pyongyang and Washington to hold a new summit. According to reports, Kwon Jong-gun, the director general for US affairs at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, said …

Russia says it will introduce sanctions against the United Kingdom in retaliation for British bans targeting more than two dozen Russian officials. “We can only regret such unfriendly measures,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a press conference on Tuesday, stressing that, “obviously, the principle of reciprocity will be applied.” …

Brazilian President Bolsonaro, who has sought repeatedly to minimize the coronavirus as he urges the country back to work, has tested positive for covid-19, he told reporters on Tuesday. Bolsonaro, who has been an outlier among world leaders in his skepticism of both the coronavirus and preventive measures intended to …

In Dubai’s Atlantis resort, at the head of a palm tree-shaped island, workers in face masks clean cushions, sofas, and king-size beds in luxury suites that have largely been vacant since the coronavirus pandemic. The resort and seven other hotels in the regional tourism hub contacted by Reuters are seeing …

China is forging ahead in the race to develop a vaccine to help control the COVID-19 pandemic, with Sinovac Biotech’s (SVA.O) experimental vaccine set to become the country’s second and the world’s third to enter final stage testing later this month. While a laggard in the global vaccine industry, China, …

A video of car rams past a BLM barrier in Seattle Two separate incidents on Monday saw cars deliberately driven into crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters – just as it was announced that the victim of a similar attack in Seattle has died. On Long Island in New York …

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran on Tuesday dismissed a report fabricated by the “anti-Revolutionary elements” about an explosion at a nuclear site in the country’s central province of Yazd. In a statement released on Tuesday, the AEOI categorically denied the false claim raised by the anti-Revolutionary elements in the …

Indonesia’s government and House of Representatives have denounced the Israeli regime’s plan to annex Palestinian territories. “President Joko Widodo fully supports our firm stance against the Deal of the Century, including the annexation of the West Bank by Israel,” Mardani Ali Sera, Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian Parliamentary Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation …

Saudi Arabia has issued guidelines for about 1,000 pilgrims who will be allowed to perform the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca later this month, an experience that will be unlike any before because of the coronavirus pandemic. The pilgrims will only be able to drink holy water from the Zamzam well …

An adviser to the director of Russia’s state space corporation has been detained on treason charges, the nation’s top security agency said Tuesday. Ivan Safronov, a former journalist who served as an adviser to Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin, was detained in Moscow by agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB), …

A nationwide antibody study in Spain has found that only 5.2 percent of the country’s population has been exposed to coronavirus, suggesting that herd immunity could be unachievable. The findings marked the conclusion of a three-month study into the prevalence of the virus, which involved testing almost 70,000 people across …

Britain is to resume selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite assessing that the country could be using them to commit war crimes, the government has announced. International trade secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday that the government had completed a review of how arms export licenses were granted in order …

The US drone strike that killed Iran’s top general Qasem Soleimani was “unlawful”, the United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded in a report released Tuesday. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, concluded it was an “arbitrary killing” that violated the UN charter. The …

Russia has deployed 300 fighters, in Libya. The mercenaries, report Syrian sources, came from Deir Ez-Zor in eastern Syria, and are in Libya to support renegade Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. According to Anadolu Agency, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the fighters belonged to the Fatimiyoun …

Two people were killed in an explosion in a factory in the south of Tehran, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. “Human error was the cause of the blast in a factory … Two people were killed and three others were injured,” said a local official.

The U.S. government has awarded Novavax Inc $1.6 billion to cover testing, commercialization, and manufacturing of a potential coronavirus vaccine in the United States, with the aim of delivering 100 million doses by January 2021. Novavax shares jumped 35% in premarket trade. The award is the biggest yet from “Operation …

The eurozone economy will drop deeper into recession this year and rebound less steeply in 2021 than previously thought, the European Commission forecast on Tuesday, with France, Italy, and Spain struggling the most due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The downbeat assessment of Europe’s economy comes amid concern the U.S. recovery …