EU imposes sanctions on elite Iran commander over 2019 protests
BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union has imposed sanctions on eight Iranian militia commanders and police chiefs, including the head of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
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Myanmar’s ambassador to UK locked out of London embassy
LONDON, UK: Myanmar’s ambassador to the UK has said he has been locked out of the London embassy in what he described as another “coup”...
France opens archives on Rwanda genocide
PARIS, France: President Emmanuel Macron opened the national archives on Wednesday as part of a pledge to examine France’s role in the 1990s genocide in...
Child jabs trial halted as adult clot link probed in UK
LONDON, UK: A trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine on children has stopped giving out jabs while the UK’s medicines regulator investigates a possible link...
Lack of influence and power: WHO report on Covid’s origin raises concerns
GENEVA, Switzerland: A group of 14 countries has raised concerns over a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the origin of the...
UN raises $6.4 billion for Syrians amid worsening humanitarian crisis
NEW YORK, USA: International donors have pledged $6.4 billion in humanitarian aid to help Syrians fleeing a decade of civil war, but short of a...
World leaders call for international treaty to fight future pandemics
LONDON, UK: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has joined more than 20 world leaders in calling for a new global settlement to help the world...
EU halts plans to blacklist Turkey oil executives
BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union has halted plans to blacklist more senior executives at Turkey’s state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO), four diplomats said. European Union...
‘People see their own traits in others’: Putin mocks Biden over ‘killer’ remark
MOSCOW, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked his US counterpart Joe Biden, escalating a war of words between the two world leaders. Putin...
Paris to go into month-long lockdown as France fears third wave of coronavirus pandemic
PARIS, France: The French capital is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave. Some 21 million people...