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Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi makes a speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 15, 2020.(Xinhua/Lu Yang) “We hope the U.S. as a superpower would not lose too much self-confidence or reason,” says Wang Yi, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister. MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) — […]

Celeste Barber’s bushfire relief campaign drew support from celebs far and wide. Now it’s hit a hurdle. Photo: TND Comedian Celeste Barber’s mammoth $52 million bushfire relief fundraising effort has been stalled by red tape and regulations. Barber’s online appeal garnered international attention last month, drawing donations to help bushfire affected communities of New South Wales. […]

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director and Acting Chair The Executive Boards of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank met, on February 12 and 13, respectively, to consider Somalia’s eligibility for debt relief under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. The Executive Boards commended the authorities’ sustained commitment to economic and institutional reforms […]

A Saudi Tornado warplane flies over the Gulf during a training mission [File: Hassan Ammar/AFP] A Saudi fighter jet has crashed in conflict-torn Yemen, the Riyadh-led military coalition, which has been fighting Houthi rebels in the country, said on Saturday. The Tornado aircraft came down in northern al-Jawf province during an operation to support Yemeni […]

Turkish soldiers fire a missile at Syrian regime position in the province of Idlib, Syria, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. (AP Photo) Turkey is ready to retaliate against any attack on its forces in Syria, Vice President Fuat Oktay reiterated on Saturday. “The (Bashar Assad) regime must know this: if attacks on our military continue, Turkey […]

Tokyo (AFP) Americans will be removed from a cruise ship quarantined off Japan and flown home, the US embassy said Saturday as dozens more cases of the new coronavirus were diagnosed on board. At least 285 people on the Diamond Princess have contracted the illness but hundreds of passengers and crew have not yet been […]

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved–Michel Euler France has this morning announced the first COVID-19 coronavirus death in Europe. An 80-year-old Chinese tourist, from Hubei province, died on Friday evening in a Paris hospital, said France’s health minister, Agnès Buzyn. “I was informed yesterday night of the death of a Chinese tourist aged […]

President Daniel arap Moi sees off his Somali counterpart Siad Barre at an airport in Nairobi in this undated picture. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP  was during a mid-morning burial service at Tribun in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, that I laid eyes on the former Vice President of Kenya, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. On […]

Displaced Syrians flee the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib provinces towards Syria’s northwestern Afrin district near the border with Turkey Feb. 13, 2020. (AFP Photo) The Assad regime’s horrific attacks targeting civilians in northwestern Syria’s Idlib continue, with nearly 140,000 more civilians displaced over the last three days alone due to ongoing violence. Idlib is […]