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Photo: Xinhua  President Xi Jinping solemnly declared China’s “complete victory” in eradicating absolute poverty during a conference in Beijing on Thursday. The announcement of this great miracle in the human history of poverty reduction came four months before the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which leads the world’s most […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has slammed some Western countries for politicizing humanitarian issues and using the pandemic for punitive actions against ‘undesirable’ governments. /via Russian Ministry of Foreign AffairsRussia has slammed the “coercive” and “unlawful” policies adopted by “some Western countries” accusing them of using the ongoing pandemic to put additional pressures on the […]

Accounts of atrocities in Tigray, Ethiopia continue to be reported this week, as communications are slowly restored to the embattled region. The fighting between forces supporting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and forces supporting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, who long dominated Ethiopia’s government, was declared over months ago by Abiy Ahmed’s administration, but […]

Police escort a Daesh terrorist to the courtroom in Turkey’s southern Adana province on Feb. 25, 2021 (AA Photo) Turkish security forces caught a Daesh terrorist red-handed as he was secretly observing a command post in Istanbul early Thursday. Police received a tipoff that a man had climbed up a tree and was spying on […]

The vaccine roll-out in Germany has been slower than in the UK (Picture: EPA /Getty /Bild) Germany’s biggest newspaper has written an article praising the UK approach to vaccination. It starts off in letter format, with the headline saying: ‘Dear Brits, WE ENVY YOU!’ (‘Liebe Briten, WE BENEIDEN YOU!’) The article goes on to talk […]

This NASA photo released on February 24, 2021 shows images of Mars from the Perseverance rover on February 21. © Handout, AFP The US space agency NASA released a spectacular panoramic view on Wednesday of the landing site of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The panorama shows the rim of the Jezero Crater where the rover touched […]

President Joe Biden revoked a Trump-era ban on legal immigration for family members of U.S. citizensand residents, as well as diversity visa lottery recipients. | Doug Mills/Getty Images President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a Trump-era ban on legal immigration for family members of U.S. citizens and residents, as well as diversity visa lottery recipients. […]

A review by US regulators of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine has found it is safe and effective.It paves the way for it to become the third Covid-19 vaccine to be authorised in the US, possibly within days. IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES The vaccine would be a cost-effective alternative to the Pfizer and Moderna […]

Since the onset of Siad Barre’s presidency 30 years ago, Somalia has been a fragmented nation due to the various clans dividing the country into different autonomous sections, which has led to a dysfunctional centralized government and a weak cohesion among the regional states. The writer is a campaigner and community organizer who advocates for […]

February 23, 2021 (GEDAREF) – Ethiopian army-backed militias Tuesday looted the crops of Sudanese farmers and retook control of a border area recently recaptured by the Sudanese army. Ethiopian army-backed militias Tuesday looted the crops of Sudanese farmers and retook control of a border area recently recaptured by the Sudanese army. Sudan and Ethiopia now […]