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Turkey has intensified efforts to recover the crew after 15 seamen were abducted by pirates near the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe Armed pirates attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the West African coast, kidnapping 15 sailors and killing one, officials said Sunday as Turkey launched efforts to recover the captured crew. Illustration of […]

 January 24, 2020, is burned into the memory of French doctor Denis Malvy — it’s the day a man under his care tested positive for COVID-19 and became Europe’s “patient zero”.Head of tropical diseases at Pellegrin University Hospital (CHU) in Bordeaux, Professor Malvy told Euronews about how he and his team recognised the telltale symptoms […]

Russians nationwide are taking to the streets of at least 85 cities in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was jailed this week upon his defiant return to Russia. Navalny, who had been recovering in Germany from what Western scientists determined to be poisoning by the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, asked his supporters to […]

  TEHRAN – Iran has allocated funds for the payment of its dues to the UN but the United States prevented Iran from paying the money, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday. Commenting on the suspension of Iran’s voting rights at the UN over unpaid membership fees, Zarif told states news IRNA that […]

The leaders of the U.S. Senate agreed on Friday to push back former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial by two weeks, giving the chamber more time to focus on President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda and Cabinet nominees before turning to the contentious showdown over Trump. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, said the trial is set to […]

The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) contingent under African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has killed atleast 189 Al Shabaab fighters in a raid that could be the biggest ever since UPDF deployed in Somalia. According to a statement issued by the UPDF Deputy Spokesperson Lt Col Deo Akiiki on Friday, Ugandan troops raided Al […]

Four years have passed since Donald J Trump stood at the West Front of the US Capitol on a cold Friday afternoon to be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. “We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world but we do so with the understanding that it is […]

Scientists say they were ‘surprised’ to hear Boris Johnson’s grave warnings about the new strain of coronavirus because they are still ‘only around 50%’ sure it is more deadly. The Prime Minister announced to the public yesterday that the latest studies indicate the variant first found in Kent is associated with a higher death rate. […]

The site of the suicide bomb attack in a central market [Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters] The ISIL (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing – the deadliest in nearly three years – that ripped through a crowded market in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing 32 people and wounding 110 others. The first attacker drew […]