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Gilead Sciences headquarters in Foster City, California.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Ben Margot The United States has bought nearly the entire world’s supply of remdesivir, one of just two drugs proven to treat COVID-19. The anti-viral drug patented by the US-based Gilead biotech firm is the only one approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to treat patients with […]

Last night we didn’t only lose #HaacaaluuHundeessaa, a husband, a father of 3, a son, & a brother; we lost the #Oromo nation’s institution of conscience; a star, who, through his music, was the melodic company of the struggles, dreams & hopes we continued to live through. R.I.P Hachalu Hundessa — famed for his political songs — had […]

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 25, 2020. (AP Photo)  The COVID-19 pandemic is not even close to being over World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing Monday. Tedros also said WHO will […]

In this March 12, 2020 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the European Union’s ambassador to leave the country, hours after the EU hit several more Venezuelan officials with sanctions. The ambassador, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, […]

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor [Photo/Xinhua] Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday said the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will not flinch from any sanctions by the US and will actively cooperate with the central government on any counterattacks if necessary. Lam was responding to US sanctions to revoke Hong Kong’s special trade status, […]

Kata’ib Hezbollah fighters light American and Israeli flags on fire upon their release. (Photo via @iraqitweet/Twitter) The Kata’ib Hezbollah fighters detained during a counterterrorism raid in south Baghdad have been released and photos circulated of the Iran-backed fighters lighting the American and Israeli flags on fire upon their release. Iraq’s Joint Operations Command announced last Friday that […]

U.S. President Donald Trump is still waiting for his two years of one-on-one diplomacy with Kim Jong Un to pay off with a deal that eliminates the threat of North Korea’s nuclear weapons. | AP ATLANTA – Like the leading character in a long-running television series, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has kicked off the […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron meet at Meseberg Castle, the German federal government’s guest house, on June 29, 2020. © REUTERS German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted French President Emmanuel Macron for talks on Monday, two days before Germany takes on the rotating presidency of the European Union with an economy mired in the […]

In this Sept. 20, 2018 file photo, a Uighur woman and children sit on a motor-tricycle after school at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China’s Xinjiang region. (AP Photo)  The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to […]

The Iranian fleet is thought to be six times the size of the Chinese tuna fleet licensed to sustainably fish Somalia’s waters. Photograph: US Navy/Getty Images A large fleet of Iranian fishing vessels has been identified operating illegally in Somalian waters for over a year, depleting fish stocks in a country where one in three people […]