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In Summary • The Court on Saturday informed the two parties that the hearings of the case would proceed as scheduled starting March 15 in a hybrid format. • Kenya last month petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to postpone the public hearings as it protested at a missing map crucial to its case. […]

 In a historic move, the U.S. Senate will begin the process of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial on Tuesday. His defense slams the case calling it a ‘brazen political act’ of retribution while Democrats argue that Trump deliberately instigated the insurrection on the Capitol on Jan. 6 U.S. President Donald Trump gives a […]

Myanmar’s web-savvy protest movement has overcome social media blocks and even a nationwide internet blackout to transmit real-time information out of the country, as the new military regime struggles to tamp down opposition to last week’s coup.After spending most of the last 60 years under the yoke of army rule, Myanmar is no stranger to […]

At least eight soldiers, including a senior intelligence commander, were killed Sunday in a roadside bombing in Somalia claimed by the Al Shabaab extremist group, military officials and witnesses told AFP.The explosion tore through a military vehicle just outside Dhusamareb, a district in central Somalia some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu.  A […]

The military authorities in charge of Myanmar broadened a ban on social media following this week’s coup, shutting access to Twitter and Instagram, while street protests continued to expand Saturday as people gathered again to show their opposition to the army takeover.Several thousand people demonstrated on Saturday in the streets of Yangon, the country’s biggest […]

A Russian medical worker, right, administers a shot of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to a patient in a vaccination center in Moscow   –   Copyright  Credit: AP Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has an efficacy of 91.6% against COVID-19, according to a study published in The Lancet. Scientists had previously been critical of the speed that the Russian jab was […]

TEHRAN – The Biden administration has now made it clear that it expects Iran to make the first move to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. On the other hand, Iran has also said that it expects Washington to break from the failed policies of the Trump administration and return to the nuclear deal. Both […]

 Ankara held consultations with the British government to purchase a new or second-hand aircraft carrier last year, a report citing sources familiar with the matter claimed Tuesday. The negotiations yielded no results, however, it said.The report by the Middle East Eye (MEE) said that the talks were on the procuring of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft […]

Medical personnel holds a vaccination certificate with a registered Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 coronavirus vaccination at the Favoriten Clinic in Vienna, Austria, on December 27, 2020. © AFP – Georg Hochmuth The EU’s police agency on Monday warned travellers to watch for organised crime gangs selling fake Covid-negative certificates at airports, sometimes for as much as 300 euros […]

Residents in areas where the South African Covid variant has been transmitted should ‘think again’ before deciding to leave the house, a minister has said. Ealing, Haringey, Mitcham, Walsall, Broxbourne, Maidstone, Woking and Southport are currently considered to be hotspots for the South African strain, which is more infectious than other variants. Speaking to Sky […]