President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party have been aggressively fundraising since Election Day, and it has paid off to the tune of $207.5m. That total, which is unprecedented in the immediate days following a presidential election, is the result of weeks of Trump and […]
Firefighters battled to tame a wildfire on hillsides southeast of Los Angeles on Friday, after it broke out in a wooded canyon, apparently triggered by a faulty domestic generator. The fire, which forced the evacuation of 25,000 people, was 10 percent contained but still burning […]
Spain’s armed forces chief has dismissed as “not representative” leaked chats by retired military officers allegedly talking about shooting political adversaries and praising late dictator Francisco Franco. In a statement on Friday, Air Force General Miguel Villarroya Vilalta also said the remarks by the retired […]
Lebanese authorities have arrested a Lebanese French businessman who allegedly funnelled millions of euros from former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy during the latter’s 2007 election campaign, a judicial source said. Ziad Takiedinne was arrested by Lebanon’s elite Information Branch […]
The United Nations has said that ongoing fighting “in many parts” of Ethiopia’s Tigray is complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite a deal granting the UN access to territory under federal control. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced military operations in the northern region […]
The Republican Party’s only hope for maintaining a majority in the United States Senate in the first years of Joe Biden’s presidency rests on Georgia runoff elections next month. But a vocal group within the party is undermining that effort by casting doubt on the […]
The United States economy added only 245,000 jobs in November, the US Department of Labor said on Friday, in the latest warning sign that the nation’s labour market recovery is slowing sharply and leaving millions of out-of-work Americans behind. The crucial snapshot of the US […]
London, United Kingdom – The UK’s approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use was greeted with glee this week by government ministers, public health experts and Britons. But in the days since, calls for caution against so-called vaccine nationalism have grown. “We will remember […]
Nairobi, Kenya – Before the sun peaks over the horizon, Margaret Wambui is hard at work, trudging over hills of rancid waste at the Dandora landfill on the eastern outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. She digs through freshly discarded refuse, meticulously segregating plastic bottles and […]
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has held a rare meeting with his Israeli counterpart to press for the restart of stalled negotiations between the Palestinians and the Jewish state. Thursday’s meeting came days after Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas visited Jordan as part of an […]
