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Trump admin imposes fresh sanctions on Iran

Trump admin imposes fresh sanctions on Iran

REUTERS 2021-01-16 12:02:04

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and on three Iranian entities...

Trump given Morocco's highest award for Middle East work

Trump given Morocco's highest award for Middle East work

REUTERS 2021-01-16 11:41:39

US President Donald Trump on Friday received Morocco’s highest award for his work in advancing a normalization deal between Israel and Morocco, a senior administration official told Reuters. In...

India's friction with US rises over likely purchase of Russian S-400 defence systems

India's friction with US rises over likely purchase of Russian S-400 defence systems

REUTERS 2021-01-16 11:35:47

The United States has told India it is unlikely to get a waiver on its planned acquisition of Russian S-400 air defence systems, raising the risk of sanctions similar to those imposed on Turkey for bu...

Hundreds of migrants detained at Guatemala border as US-bound caravan grows

Hundreds of migrants detained at Guatemala border as US-bound caravan grows

REUTERS 2021-01-16 11:14:37

The Guatemalan military has detained hundreds of migrants at its border as thousands of Hondurans, including many families with young children, continued to walk north on Friday as part of a caravan h...

Pfizer temporarily reduces European deliveries of vaccine

Pfizer temporarily reduces European deliveries of vaccine

AP 2021-01-15 22:10:38

US pharmaceutical company Pfizer confirmed Friday it will temporarily reduce deliveries to Europe of its COVID-19 vaccine while it upgrades production capacity to 2.0 billion doses per year. "This...

At least 23 die after receiving COVID-19 vaccine in Norway

At least 23 die after receiving COVID-19 vaccine in Norway

-- 2021-01-15 21:46:12

At least 23 people who received the COVID-19 vaccine developed by US firm Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech have died in Norway, with 13 of the fatalities linked to the vaccine's side effects, authorities...

Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military, cops

Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military, cops

AP 2021-01-15 21:04:58

As US President Donald Trump's supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armour trudged purposefully up the marble...

Dutch government resigns over childcare subsidies scandal

Dutch government resigns over childcare subsidies scandal

-- 2021-01-15 20:53:07

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, announced the resignation of his government on Friday, accepting responsibility for years of mismanagement of childcare subsidies, which wrongfully d...

US commission says China possibly committed 'genocide' against Xinjiang's Uighur Muslims

US commission says China possibly committed 'genocide' against Xinjiang's Uighur Muslims

Reuters 2021-01-15 20:20:59

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) said new evidence had emerged in the past year that “crimes against humanity - and possibly genocide - are occurring” in Xinjiang. It...

Australia to kill pigeon that survived 13,000km journey from US

Australia to kill pigeon that survived 13,000km journey from US

AP 2021-01-15 20:06:08

A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000km Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to reach Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it. Melbo...

46 civilians feared killed in eastern Congo attack

46 civilians feared killed in eastern Congo attack

-- 2021-01-15 19:19:57

At least 46 civilians are reported to have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a senior provincial official said on Thursday....

Nepal okays AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for emergency use

Nepal okays AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for emergency use

Hindustan Times 2021-01-15 18:15:49

Nepal on Friday gave approval for AstraZeneca's COVISHIELD vaccine against the novel coronavirus in the country. "Conditional permission has been granted for emergency use authorisation of COVISHIELD...

US adds Xiaomi to its list of ‘Communist Chinese military companies’

US adds Xiaomi to its list of ‘Communist Chinese military companies’

Hindustan Times 2021-01-15 17:49:54

The Pentagon on Thursday added Xiaomi Corporation and eight other firms to the list of companies with alleged ties to the Chinese military in line with an executive order signed by President Donald Tr...

Indonesia’s Sulawesi quake kills at least 35, injuring hundreds

Indonesia’s Sulawesi quake kills at least 35, injuring hundreds

REUTERS 2021-01-15 13:35:09

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island killed at least 35 people and injured hundreds on Friday, with the meteorological agency warning of aftershocks, possibly strong enough...

Environmental justice key to tackling climate change, campaigners tell Biden

Environmental justice key to tackling climate change, campaigners tell Biden

-- 2021-01-15 12:39:49

US President-elect Joe Biden must place environmental justice at the heart of his plans to tackle climate change by tailoring policies to address the global inequalities at the root of the crisis, gue...

Trump aides struggle to contain an angry, isolated president

Trump aides struggle to contain an angry, isolated president

-- 2021-01-15 12:31:43

“We are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue,” President Donald Trump exhorted his screaming supporters before they marched on the US Capitol last week, saying he’d go with them. H...

Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Indonesia, killing seven

Magnitude 6.2 quake hits Indonesia, killing seven

Reuters 2021-01-15 09:37:25

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island killed at least seven people, injured hundreds and damaged many buildings on Friday, the country’s disaster mitigation agency said...

US tops 10m COVID vaccinations as California expands eligibility for shots

US tops 10m COVID vaccinations as California expands eligibility for shots

Reuters 2021-01-14 19:53:35

More than 10 million Americans had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Wednesday, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the year-old pandemic roared on u...

WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic’s origin

WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic’s origin

AP 2021-01-14 16:58:40

A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty a...

What happens next now that Trump is impeached a second time?

What happens next now that Trump is impeached a second time?

REUTERS 2021-01-14 14:16:04

The House of Representatives on Wednesday made Donald Trump the first US president to be impeached twice, formally charging him with inciting an insurrection just a week after a violent mob of his sup...

Facebook tracking violent rhetoric ahead of US presidential inauguration

Facebook tracking violent rhetoric ahead of US presidential inauguration

-- 2021-01-14 11:49:10

Facebook Inc has seen an increase in signals indicating potential future acts of violence associated with efforts to contest the result of the US presidential election since the Capitol siege last wee...

Mexico seeks to ensure US vaccines for illegal migrants

Mexico seeks to ensure US vaccines for illegal migrants

REUTERS 2021-01-14 11:48:08

Mexico will invoke labour provisions in the new North American trade pact in a bid to ensure that illegal migrants in the United States receive coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top diplomat s...

Brazil's Bolsonaro sabotaged anti-Covid-19 efforts: HRW

Brazil's Bolsonaro sabotaged anti-Covid-19 efforts: HRW

-- 2021-01-14 11:44:26

Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has tried to sabotage efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in his country and pursued policies that undermine the rights of Brazilian...

Uganda orders indefinite internet blackout

Uganda orders indefinite internet blackout

-- 2021-01-14 11:26:02

Uganda’s communications regulator ordered telecoms operators in the country to suspend all internet gateways from Wednesday evening until further notice, South African telecoms company MTN Gro...

Public trust crumbles worldwide under Covid-19, fake news

Public trust crumbles worldwide under Covid-19, fake news

-- 2021-01-14 11:12:32

Trust in governments, business chiefs and media is crumbling amid a perceived mishandling by leaders of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and a widespread feeling among ordinary citizens that they a...

Frenchwoman says she's alive, justice system claims she has died

Frenchwoman says she's alive, justice system claims she has died

REUTERS 2021-01-14 11:02:07

Sitting in her kitchen in France, Jeanne Pouchain remembers the day she discovered that she was dead. It was when she read an official letter from the court of appeal in the nearby city of Lyon stati...

US House impeaches Trump again

US House impeaches Trump again

Reuters 2021-01-14 08:42:03

Donald Trump on Wednesday became the first president in US history to be impeached twice, as 10 of his fellow Republicans joined Democrats in the House of Representatives to charge him with inciting a...

US House begins debate on impeaching Trump

US House begins debate on impeaching Trump

Reuters 2021-01-13 22:33:48

A week after President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol, the House of Representatives began debate on Wednesday as lawmakers considered impeaching him for his role in an assault on Ame...

Pompeo says Iran new home base for Al Qaeda, Tehran denies

Pompeo says Iran new home base for Al Qaeda, Tehran denies

-- 2021-01-13 19:40:07

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, without providing hard evidence, that al Qaeda had established a new home base in Iran. The US top diplomat told at a news conference at the Nationa...

Indian farmers burn legislation in show of defiance

Indian farmers burn legislation in show of defiance

Reuters 2021-01-13 19:15:22

Indian farmers burnt copies of the government’s new agricultural laws on Wednesday, pressing on with their protest against the reforms despite a decision by the Supreme Court to postpone impleme...