ADDIS ABABA, November 7 (Reuters): Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed further air strikes after jets bombed the northern Tigray region on Friday amid reports that Tigrayan forces had seized control
BEIRUT, November 7 (Reuters): President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that Lebanon would seek evidence and documents from the United States that led Washington to impose sanctions on his son-in-law Gebran B
MEXICO CITY, NOVEMBER 7 (IANS): Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains have left at least 19 people dead and more than 900 houses damaged in Mexico's Chiapas state, authorities said.
So far, 20 muni
ABIDJAN, November 7 (Reuters): Ivory Coast opposition leader and former prime minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan was under arrest on Saturday for creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouatta
London, November 7 (IANS): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he believed that there was "a deal to be done" on the post-Brexit trade with the European Union (EU), adding he "very much hopes&qu
London, November 7 (IANS): The UK has imposed an immediate for all travellers from Denmark amid concerns of a mutated Covid-19 strain found in minks that has been transmitted to over 210 people in the Scandinav
MOSCOW, November 7 (Reuters): Scientists in northern Russia have discovered a huge walrus haulout on the shores of the Kara Sea where their habitat is under threat from shrinking ice and human activity.
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Washington, November 7 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped the 49 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,241,360, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Washington, November 7 (IANS): White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, an official has confirmed.
Meadows is the latest high-ranking White official to be infect
WILMINGTON, Delaware, November 7 (Reuters): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed on Friday the vote count would continue as he took the lead in several battleground states and appeared poised
VIENNA, November 6 (Reuters): Austria on Friday admitted "intolerable mistakes" in the handling of intelligence on the jihadist who killed four people in Vienna on Monday, saying it could have co
ADDIS ABABA, November 6 (Reuters): Ethiopia's leader justified his decision to launch a war in the north of the country, saying on Friday it was necessary to disarm a powerful ethnic faction that had o
WASHINGTON, November 6 (Reuters): The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil, the son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, accusing him of corruption, the Trea
MADRID, November 6 (Reuters): Prosecutors at Spain's Supreme Court said on Friday they had opened a new preliminary investigation into former king Juan Carlos' business dealings following a re
MOSCOW, November 6 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering the Russian government to work towards meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement to fight climate change, but disappointed activis
TEGUCIGALPA/GUATEMALA CITY, November 6 (Reuters): The remains of Hurricane Eta dumped more torrential rain across large parts of Central America early on Friday after days of devastating floods and landsli
THE HAGUE, November 6 (Reuters): Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who suddenly resigned and was taken into the custody of a war crimes tribunal on Thursday, will face a judge for the first time on Mon
WASHINGTON, November 6 (Reuters): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia for the first time on Friday,
BOGOTA, November 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Armed with tablets, dozens of indigenous and Venezuelan migrant children in Colombia's northern desert region are learning at home while the coronavirus
LONDON, November 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): England's month-long coronavirus lockdown will hinder efforts to spot and support children trafficked by drug gangs, researchers said on Friday, warning