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 Associate professor Zuhal Gerçek, a chemistry expert at a Turkish university, managed to develop a new active substance that prevents the coronavirus from reproducing itself once it infects a patient Associate professor Zuhal Gerçek shows the active substance in her laboratory, in Zonguldak, northern Turkey, March 25, 2021. (DHA PHOTO) Joining a growing scientific community […]

European Union flags fly outside the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels on March 11, 2021. © Aris Oikonomou / AFP  The looming third wave of coronavirus infections and Europe’s struggle to mount a vaccination drive will dominate Thursday’s EU video summit, despite a welcome guest appearance by Joe Biden. The new US president will address the […]

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea on Thursday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, an apparent move pressing the United States as Washington prepares to announce a new policy on the North. This file photo shows a short-range missile launched by the North Korean military. […]

Khartoum- Sudan unveiled on Tuesday an Emirati initiative to end the border tensions with Ethiopia and to reach an agreement over Renaissance Dam. Also, the Ethiopian Prime Minister stated that his country does not want to go to war against Sudan. Relations between Ethiopia and Sudan are strained due to the border dispute over the […]

  Citing national security concerns, authorities in Nairobi first announced their intention to shut the Dadaab camp, which is closer to the border with Somalia than Kakuma, in 2016 [Dai Kurokawa/EPA] Kenya has ordered the closure of two sprawling camps that host hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Somalia and gave the UN refugee […]

The UAE on Wednesday lost one of its greatest statesmen, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a leader who was there when the union was established fifty years ago and steered its finance ever since. The loss is immense. Sheikh Hamdan, the Deputy Ruler of Dubai and the Minister of Finance and Industry, was 75. […]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has admitted for the first time that troops from neighbouring Eritrea entered the northern region of Tigray during the conflict that broke out five months ago, suggesting they may have been involved in abuses against civilians. Heads of nine UN agencies and other officials demanded a halt to attacks against […]

The United Kingdom, in its new defense strategy document, stressed the importance of developing unmanned vehicles in the defense industry for use on the battlefield like the unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) developed by Turkey that destroyed air defense systems in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. The Bayraktar TB2 drone at the Baykar Flight Training Center, Tekirdağ, […]

Priti Patel to announce ‘biggest overhaul of asylum system in decades’ (Image: PA) Priti Patel has said she will make ‘no apology’ for tougher immigration rules as she announces ‘the biggest overhaul of the UK’s asylum system in decades’. The Home Secretary’s new plan for immigration, which details how the Government intends to deal with people […]

(Top row, from left) Tralona Bartkowiak, 49; Kevin Mahoney, 61; Denny Stong, 20;Jody Waters,65; (Bottom row, from left) Officer Eric Talley, 51; Suzanne Fountain, 59; Rikki Olds, 25; Lynn Murray, 62. Boulder police on Tuesday identified the 10 victims of the mass shooting at the Table Mesa King Soopers. Victims ranged in age from 20 […]