UN, AU condemns Bah Ndaw and Moctar Ouane’s detention and call for their ‘immediate and unconditional release’. Soldiers in Mali have detained the president and prime minister of the interim government, according to the United Nations and the African Union, deepening political chaos in the country just nine months after …

Pressure mounts on Minsk as more carriers suspend flights while the journalist’s father says Protasevich has likely been beaten. More air carriers have suspended flights over Belarusian airspace in response to Minsk’s forced plane diversion, as fears grew for the journalist on board who was arrested after landing in the …

Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers forcibly detained more than 500 young men and women from four camps for displaced people in the town of Shire in the northern region of Tigray on Monday night, three aid workers, and a doctor told Reuters. The soldiers arrived at around 11 p.m. and loaded …

Rescuers have evacuated all crew from a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka as a fire onboard intensified and two people were injured, a spokesman for the Sri Lankan Navy said on Tuesday. An explosion was reported from within the vessel, Navy spokesman Indika De Silva said, adding …

This moment calls for humility – we cannot innovate ourselves out of this mess We are living through what scientists call the Anthropocene, a new geological age during which humans have become the dominant force shaping the natural environment. Many scientists date this new period to the post-second world war …

For more than a decade, Nigerian security services and their international supporters have struggled to end Boko Haram’s brutal reign of terror over northeastern Nigeria. But few observers of the conflict are celebrating – even though it appears increasingly likely that Abubakar Shekau, the Islamist extremist movement’s notoriously violent leader, …

The official coronavirus death toll in India has passed 300,000 as a devastating surge of new infections appears to be easing in big cities India crossed another grim milestone Monday with more than 300,000 people lost to the coronavirus, while a devastating surge of infections appeared to be easing in …

Algeria will impose strict health measures on passengers when it partially resumes international flights next month, the prime minister’s office said on Monday. The North African country last week said it would reopen air borders on June 1, but with only five flights a day from and to three local …

The Roads and Bridges Department in Nineveh governorate concluded on Monday a contract with an Egyptian company to reconstruct a major bridge on the Tigris River connecting both sides of Mosul. The department said in a statement that the Director-General of the Department, Hussein Jassem Kadhim, signed a contract with …

The COVID-19 pandemic is being prolonged by a “scandalous inequity” in which wealthy countries are vaccinating children and other low-risk groups at the expense of frontline health workers in poorer countries, the head of the World Health Organization has warned. “There is no diplomatic way to say it: a small …

Doctors for the first time have used a form of gene therapy to restore partial vision in a blind person, according to findings announced Monday. The research team genetically altered retinal ganglion cells to become light-sensitive in a man whose vision was destroyed by retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder that …

Dozens of US military trucks have left Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah for the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, carrying tons of grain. Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing local sources, reported that a convoy of 35 military vehicles loaded with wheat crops from silos of Tal Alou village in …

Conservative Ecuadorean president Guillermo Lasso took office on Monday promising to revive an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic and create jobs for a population weary from years of painful austerity measures. The 65-year-old former banker in April beat out socialist economist Andres Arauz, who had promised to restore the …

Ethiopia’s government protests restrictions imposed by Washington over alleged human rights abuses in the Tigray region. Ethiopia has accused the United States of meddling in its affairs after Washington announced restrictions on economic and security assistance over alleged human rights abuses during the conflict in the northern Tigray region. US …

The BBC said Monday it will review its editorial policies and governance after an independent report found one of its journalists used deception to secure a landmark interview with Princess Diana. The British broadcaster’s board said the internal probe would be conducted by a group of non-executive directors led by …

Ministry of Health and Environment – MOH detected on Monday, 4102 new cases of COVID-19. This came in a statement by MOH to Alghadeer News. “4769 recovered cases were also detected among all the provinces of the country,” the statement included. 24 death cases were also recorded where 17505 are …

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have agreed to extend by one month the agreement they had clinched for the UN nuclear agency to continue inspection of the country’s nuclear sites while the ongoing talks in Vienna on the revival of a landmark nuclear deal between Tehran and …

Bettye and Robert Freeman were sitting in their Boston living room when they heard the clamor on the street outside. After 51 years of marriage, they walked out to their stoop without saying a word. They just went. As they pushed through the heavy wooden front door, they saw the …

‘Stop fuelling Kyiv’s militaristic sentiment,’ Russia says, after Ankara’s pledge to support Ukraine in recent clash. Russia’s foreign minister on Monday warned Turkey against what he said were attempts to fuel “militaristic sentiment” in Ukraine after Ankara moved to boost cooperation with Kyiv. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month …

The Real Madrid center back won the last of his 180 caps in March this year but has endured an injury-plagued season. Spain football captain Sergio Ramos has been left out of the squad for Euro 2020 which will take place in June and July after being postponed due to …