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A picture taken on July 4, 2021 in Paris shows a mobile phone whose screen bears a EU Digital Covid certificate. © Olivier Morin, AFP The French parliament approved a bill early Monday that will require a health pass for access to restaurants, bars, trains and planes from the beginning of August. All venues accommodating more than 50 […]

Sir Richard Branson holds up photos that he brought with him into space, as he speaks after flying into space aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel, a voyage he described as the “experience of a lifetime” — and one he hopes will usher in an era of lucrative space tourism at Spaceport America, near Truth and […]

KABUL: A top U.S. official has warned that Afghanistan will be an isolated nation if the Taliban take power by force. This comes amid rapid advances by the Taliban. The group has overrun many towns and key transit ports and trade corridors and heavy fighting is threatening to throw the country out of gears, and […]

Turkish forces and members of the Free Syrian Army are seen at the al Baza’a village on the outskirts of al-Bab town in Syria, Feb. 4, 2017. (Reuters Photo)  An attack on a Turkish military transport vehicle in Syria’s El Bab region left two soldiers martyred, two others injured, and appropriate retaliation has been shown […]

Police clashed with protesters in Australia on Saturday   –   Copyright  AuBC/CH9/CH7  Thousands of people took to the streets of cities in Australia on Saturday to protest against lockdown restrictions, amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Police made several arrests in Sydney and other cities after crowds broke through barriers and threw plastic bottles and plants. The unmasked participants […]

Thirty-one of the country’s 34 provinces to be under 10pm to 4am curfew, the interior ministry announces. The curfew will be effective between 10pm and 4am local time [File: Mohammad Ismail/Reuters] Thirty-one of the country’s 34 provinces to be under 10pm to 4am curfew, the interior ministry announces. Afghanistan’s government has imposed a night-time curfew […]

[Photo/VCG] Beijing has imposed sanctions on seven US individuals and entities, including former US secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross, for Washington’s recent erroneous moves related to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The countermeasure by China is based on the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, according to a press release by the foreign ministry on Friday. The rest of those […]

The cargo included food, personal protective equipment and more than 1 million medical masksTASS / EFE Russia dispatched nearly 100 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba, the Defense Ministry said Saturday, following unprecedented street protests over the communist country’s worst economic crisis in decades. The delivery was directly ordered by President Vladimir Putin, it said. […]

 File photo of Al Shabaab fighters Somalia. Photo: AFP The US military conducted an air strike against Al-Qaeda affiliated Al Shabaab jihadists in Somalia on Tuesday, the first since President Joe Biden took office, the Pentagon said. The US military command for Africa (AFRICOM), in coordination with the Somali government, “conducted one airstrike in the vicinity of […]

Protesters angry over water shortages marched through streets late Thursday in an oil-rich, restive province in southwestern Iran. (Twitter)  One person was shot dead when rioting erupted in western Iran late Thursday in sympathy with the drought-hit province of Khuzestan which has seen a week of protests, state television reported. Two people also suffered gunshot wounds in […]